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Former Gush Katif settlers' committee chairman, Doron Ben-Shlomi, is the ILA chairman's new assistant.
Expect other appointments to reflect settler interests. Expect construction to continue unabated. Expect it perhaps to accelerate. Expect greater than ever occupation harshness.
Expect peace talks to be pushed to the sidelines. They don't matter. Longstanding hypocrisy remains policy. Israel's new government is dismissive. It doesn't care. It chooses conflict over diplomatic resolution.
Land for peace is dead. Most Israelis are likeminded. They care more about quality of life, economic well-being and security than international politics and peace talks.
Israeli hardliners call occupation permanent. They spurn peace. They prioritize land theft, Palestinian displacement, settlement construction, Jerusalem as Israel's exclusive capital and unchallenged dominance.
They want all valued Judea and Samaria areas Judaized. Apartheid is policy. So is ethnic cleansing. They want settler numbers increased exponentially.
They're hawkish on Iran. New Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon calls Tehran's "nuclear threat" a sword at Israel's throat.
If forced to choose between bombing Iran and letting it develop nuclear weapons, he opts for the former, he says.
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