“We have only just begun,” veteran settler leader and Nahala co-chair Daniella Weiss told reporters.
The Palestinians believe that all of Area C, where the Israeli settlements are located, must be part of the final borders of their state.
Yamina MK Idit Silman, who resigned from the coalition, is stuck between a rock and hard place regarding Monday's seminal bill.
Failure to pass the bill by the end of June could bring civilian life in the settlements to a grinding halt.
They spoke out amid a government crisis, in which Silman’s resignation from the coalition has brought its membership down from 61 to 60, in a 120-member parliament.
"This mistake came about because of policy. Specifically, the Trump administration policy which erased the Green Line," wrote the Americans for Peace Now CEO.
An initial list of 112 such companies was published in 2020. The mandate to make changes to that database on an annual basis, however, has been unfilled due to lack of funds.
Biden is not the only president to hold an anti-settlement stance. All American presidents since 1967, save for former US President Donald Trump, have disapproved of the idea.
A letter from Democratic congresspeople to President Joe Biden urged him to overturn Trump presidency policies.
In Efrat, where I have served as mayor since 2008, we have pioneered the bottom-up model of diplomacy by engaging with our Palestinian neighbors.
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