How Israel is expanding settlements in drive to reshape West Bank
Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images It was during a ceremony at a settlement in the occupied West Bank last September that Israel's prime minister made his intentions clear. "We are going to fulfill our promise that there will be no Palestinian state," said Benjamin Netanyahu. "This place belongs to us." He was signing an agreement to push ahead with the expansion of a settlement in an area known as E1, just to the east of Jerusalem. In recent days, the opening up of tenders for the...