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> Sure the settlements suck, hut that's not the state of Israel's doing.

When illegal settlements start being built, and complaints are raised/filed against it, I imagine that it takes quite some time for the settlement building projects to finish. I also imagine that there are laborers and companies involved who execute the building project over a certain period of time. - During that whole time from the start of the settlement being built, to its completion, the state of Israel simply does not notice it happening (despite filed complaints) and is unable to do anything about it? - Israel cannot arrest those people and suspend the license of the company building the illegal settlement that is complicit in the illegal action? - Israel cannot put repeat offenders in prison for a very long time? - Even if a settlement is somehow built without the knowledge of the Israeli government (impossible for a building poject), Israel cannot simply demolish it and heavily fine everyone involved?

You don't sneak a building project behind the government's back, especially when it's built on land that belongs to other people who will surely report it. Either Israeli government is absolutely incapable of doing basic government things, or there is no political will to stop such illegal settlements from being built and the Israeli government does not actually mind them, even though it publicly says that it does.

So yes, the settlements are absolutely the doing of the state of Israel if it is doing nothing to prevent them from being built.