The Israeli project to divide the West Bank dates back to the 1990s, but no government had dared to approve it due to international pressure. This place is ours.”Israel has been promoting the creation of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank since capturing them in the 1967 Six-Day War. It is its third-largest settlement in the West Bank and a sort of commuter town for Jerusalem. “We de facto buried the idea of a Palestinian state,” said Smotrich, “through actions, not slogans.”Bezalel Smotrich, left, holds a map showing the E1 area last August in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. It shows this in its policies.”Benjamin Netanyahu on September 15 in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank.