One has to go back in time a bit to understand the force of the slap in the face that Israel delivered to the international community in general and to Britain in particular on Feb. 6.
Six weeks before the ruling coalition orchestrated Knesset approval of the so-called Regularization law, which essentially allows the state to expropriate private Palestinian land and hand it over to Jews, the UN Security Council had condemned Israel for expropriating land on the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, in violation of international humanitarian law. Resolution 2334, adopted unanimously on Dec. 23 by 14 Security Council members, with the United States abstaining, demanded that Israel respect the road map that the Middle East Quartet adopted in 2003 in Security Council Resolution 1515, including a total freeze of settlement activity.
