(14 Aug 2025)
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Maale Adumim, West Bank – 14 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister:
"Today, we are finally fulfilling the promise and connecting Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem, our one and only capital, in a strategic, security, and demographic connection that ensures our capital remains united for generations to come. I want to first and foremost thank President (Donald) Trump and his team, and Ambassador (to Israel Mike) Huckabee, true friends of Israel like we have never had in the world."
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ARCHIVE: Mishor Adumim, West Bank – 24 June 2021
2. Pan left on Mishor Adumim, near E1
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Maale Adumim, West Bank – 14 August 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister:
"Anyone who tries today in the world to recognize a Palestinian state will receive an answer from us on the ground. Not in documents, not in decisions or declarations, but in facts. In the facts of houses, in the facts of neighborhoods, roads, and more and more Jewish families will build lives. They will talk about the false Palestinian dream. We will continue to build a fulfilling Jewish reality. This reality ultimately buries the idea of a Palestinian state. Simply because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize."
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ARCHIVE: Mishor Adumim, West Bank – 24 June 2021
4. Wide of settlement
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Maale Adumim, West Bank – 14 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister:
"I call from here on this important day to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The time has come to integrate the Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria fully, to permanently remove the idea of dividing the land from the agenda, and to ensure that by September, the hypocritical leaders in Europe simply have nothing to recognize."
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ARCHIVE: Maale Adumim, West Bank – 24 June 2020
6. Aerial of settlement ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Israel’s far-right finance minister announced a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday which Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts.
The announcement comes as many countries said they would recognize a Palestinian state in September.
“This reality finally buries the idea of a Palestinian state, because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“Anyone in the world who tries today to recognize a Palestinian state – will receive an answer from us on the ground,” he added.
Development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.
On Thursday, Smotrich praised President Donald Trump and U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee as “true friends of Israel as we have never had before.”
The E1 plan has not yet received its final approval, which is expected next week.
The plan includes around 3,500 apartments to expand the settlement of Maale Adumim, Smotrich said.
While some bureaucratic steps remain, if the process moves quickly, infrastructure work could begin in the next few months and construction of homes could start in around a year.
Rights groups swiftly condemned the plan.
Peace Now called it “deadly for the future of Israel and for any chance of achieving a peaceful two-state solution” which is “guaranteeing many more years of bloodshed.”
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