The map charted by @shaulari shows (in blue and purple dots) the 147 "informal" settlement outposts and satellite neighborhoods that #Israeli minsiter #Smotrich has been empowered to foramalise, and where an additional 500K settlers will be transfered to, bringing their number to 1.35 million.

The map shows the fiction of #Israeli internal law imposed on occupied #Palestinian territory, with a distinction between settlement outposts on "state land" (in blue), and "privately owned" Palestinian land (in purple). Under international law, an occupying power is precluded from making final determination as to ownership claims as it deemed likely to acquire the land for itself. In practice, much of "state land" is also privately owned by Palestinians, whose claims Israel arbitrarily rejected.

That said, the "judicial overhaul" promoted by settlers political representation is meant to remove the last of this protection on - what is recognized as privately owned Palestinian land - and allow the acquisition of that territory without judicial scrutiny.

This plan - and its adverse normative, humanitarian and political impact - must not be dismissed as an aberration of the current, extreme, Israeli government. It is firmly rooted in the 1978 plan for settlement establishment and annexation laid out by the (relatively unknown) Matityahu Drobles of Likud. In 1981 Drobles - known for his violent vitriol as a member of Knesset - set out a goal of 1 million Israeli settlers in occupied Palestinian territory by 2011.

Drobles, himself a survivor of the Jewish holocaust in Poland, knew in 1978 that settlements are absolutely prohibited under international law. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention precludes the transfer of nationals of the occupant to occupied territory in order to "prevent a practice adopted during the Second World War by certain Powers, which transferred portions of their own population to occupied territory for political and racial reasons or in order, as they claimed, to colonize those territories. Such transfers worsened the economic situation of the native population and endangered their separate existence as a race."

Looking up from my desk I can see the top secret memorandum peened by his contemporary, Theodor Meron, which in September 1967 was legal advisor of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, reading: "I conclude that civilian settlements in occupied territory contravenes the absolute provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention." When juxtaposed, Meron's legal advice was disregarded while Drobles's vision of territorial acquisition fully realized.