Minister of Settlement Affairs Tzachi Hanegbi.
Tensions are running high in Israelâs settlement movement as Joe Biden enters the White House. For several weeks, anticipating that the new president will take a firm stance against any settlement expansion in Judea and Samaria, Yesha leaders have demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu legalize 70 small communities whose status has been in legal limbo for the past 30 years.
Built without fully-sanctioned government approval, these settlements â along with their 25,000 residents â are susceptible to court-ordered evacuation and demolition. Many of them are not even connected to standard water and electricity infrastructures because of their status.
Follow RT on Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has said Joe Biden should keep US attorneys in place currently investigating his son Hunter, otherwise he will signal that “from the beginning, this is not going to be an honest administration.”
One of Joe Biden’s first decisions as president could be deciding what to do about an investigation into his son Hunter’s
“tax affairs” out of the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware.
“If Biden wants us to believe that this is going to be a fair, honest investigation into his son,” Paul told Newsmax,
“he should leave that US Attorney in place and let them complete the investigation.”