One of the most significant steps taken in recent years to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Land of Israel has just been announced: the tentative approval of the E1 plan for the establishment of a new Jewish town between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim.

It is to be called Mevaseret Adumim—”heralding” Jerusalem from the Adumim bloc to the east, just as Mevaseret Zion heralds the holy city from the west—and will see the construction of 3,400 housing units .

Nearly 150 recognized Jewish communities have been built in Judea and Samaria over the past several decades; what makes this one such a game-changer? For starters, the E1 plan was first initiated by the late prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, back in 1994—and yet it has taken until now, 31 years later, to brave all the o

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