Excellent and accurate comments by r.cummings and CJ. All these settlements are land theft and illegal, especially Har Homa. If Israel is claiming land belonging the Jewish owners -(a tiny percent less than 5% of original Mandate Palestine) it must then surrender the 93% of land that was owned by Palestinians, that was sequestrated (stolen) by the new Israeli state and the JNF-KKL. The Balfour Declaration specifically said that the rights of the existing indigenous population (the Palestinians) should be respected. A Jewish Homeland was not intended to be a Jewish State under the Balfour declaration, which has no basis in international law. The PLO accepted the 22% of original Palestine, under the OSLO agreement in 1993, but Israel since 1967, against international law, has now built and grabbed over 12% of that, leaving a shredded and totally fragmented remnant for the Palestinians. So Israel is delegitimising itself by these actions. Only strong sanctions or UN action will end this.