By BADIL
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights releases its latest position paper, entitled “The Decisive Plan: The Israeli Regime’s Blueprint for Colonial Expansion and Palestinian Subjugation.” Analyzing both its ideological and practical elements, the paper exposes how Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan,” presented in 2017, has been institutionalized by the Israeli regime as its operative strategy to impose full “sovereignty” over the West Bank and consolidate colonial domination across all of Mandatory Palestine.
Since the formation of the current Israeli coalition in late 2022, and especially following 7 October 2023, the regime has been implementing the Decisive Plan’s framework through the intensification of existing policies and the creation of new facts, legislation, military and administrative measures on the ground. These include the formal expansion of colonies, the creation of a special ministerial portfolio for Smotrich, the destruction of refugee camps, mass arrests, displacement and the systematic suppression of Palestinian political and economic life. Together, these actions reflect a coordinated effort to entrench Israeli control, erase Palestinian presence, and impose a new colonial status quo.
Far from being a marginal or fringe view, the Decisive Plan represents the direct continuation of Zionist doctrine since its earliest formulations. At its core, the paper demonstrates that the Decisive Plan is the culmination of the Israeli regime’s long-standing colonial objective: maximum amount of land with the minimum number of Palestinians. The Plan’s enforcement is facilitated through the regime’s structural pillars of forced displacement, colonization, and apartheid, which together sustain a system of total domination and denial of Palestinian self-determination. The Decisive Plan outlines three coercive “options” for Palestinians—subjugation, expulsion, or annihilation— mirroring the policies of colony expansion and isolation of Palestinian communities enforced throughout the West Bank. It further highlights how this enforcement parallels the genocide being carried out in the Gaza Strip, revealing a unified strategy of domination across all Mandatory Palestine.
Moreover, the paper underscores the enabling role of Western, colonial states—particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France—whose political, military, and financial support has allowed the Israeli regime to pursue these crimes with impunity. This complicity has entrenched a global order where genocide, apartheid, and colonial domination are enabled and legitimized.
BADIL calls upon states to fulfill their obligations under international law to end all complicity and co-perpetration of Israeli crimes. This requires the adoption of immediate and concrete measures, including political, economic, and military sanctions against the Israeli regime, as well as the protection and continued operation of UN agencies, particularly UNRWA, in Palestine. Anything less constitutes a greenlight for the continuation of genocide and the complete imposition of Israeli colonial domination.
17 October 2025
Source: badil.org