Israel's international allies are growing larger as they condemn their war on Gaza and continue to build illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
UN experts, human rights groups and legal scholars have previously told Al Jazeera that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and committing abuses that may constitute West Bank war crimes and crimes against humanity.
However, less than two weeks after a harsh warning from its Western allies, Israel approved 22 illegal settlements in the West Bank, the largest land grab since Israel and Palestinian leaders.
"It's all about Israel to show (the world) who calls them. They say...you can condemn everything we want, but in the end you will succumb to us, not the other way around." Diana Buttu, a legal scholar and political analyst, focuses on Israel and Palestine.
The Oslo Agreement was ostensibly intended to establish a Palestinian state, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with the occupied East Jerusalem as its capital.
But, in reality, Israel continues to expand illegal settlements, making a two-state solution impossible.
Israel often announces the establishment of new illegal settlements in response to signals of support from the United Nations or its allies for the Palestinian state.
After Israel approved 3,000 new settler houses to occupy the West Bank in 2012, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was an entity created in the Oslo Agreement to manage the West Bank provinces - granted non-member observer status for the United Nations General Assembly.
Last year, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned that a new illegal reconciliation would be established for every country that recognizes the Palestinian state.
The news comes after symbolic steps taken by Spain, Norway and Ireland in May 2024.
“I certainly think there is a model to deal with the pressure of their careers by announcing settler expansion,” said Omar Rahman, a professional expert, an expert on the Israeli and Palestinian Council on Global Affairs.
“We see this pattern repeating over and over again,” he told Al Jazeera.
Israel continues to test the patience of its allies as global pressures oppose Israel’s war on Gaza.
On May 21, Israeli troops fired warning shots at a group of European, Asian and Arab diplomats who were formally tasked to assess the humanitarian crisis in the Jenning refugee camp, and since the beginning of the year, the Israeli army has been attacked and siegeed by Israeli troops for a month.
"I don't know where the red line is. Obviously, there is no red line," Batu said.
Zionist militias racially cleaned about 750,000 Palestinians and made room for the Israeli state in 1948, an incident known as "Nakbar" or disaster - Israel increasingly annexed and occupied the remains of Palestinian land.
Khaled Elgindy, a visiting scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, said in recent years, the annexation of the West Bank has accelerated in recent years due to far-right settlers occupying Israeli government positions.
He believes that Israel always plans to approve 22 illegal settlements, not related to the joint statement issued by France, the United Kingdom and Canada, as it meets the state's ultimate goal of expanding its occupation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
"No one can really think that if these countries didn't issue an announcement that wouldn't have happened if (further) annexation was made. Of course, that would have happened."
Rahman from the Middle East Council believes that Israel’s strategy to announce pre-planned settlement expansion in the face of Western pressure is only intended to prevent its allies from taking concrete actions.
He doubted that Canada, Britain and France might not be targeted sanctions as they were threatened by Israeli officials, but instead exploit the argument that any action against Israel would lead to strong opposition to the Palestinians.
"(Canada, Britain and France) may say they are taking any steps to protect the two-state solution to preserve the two-state solution," Rahman told Al Jazeera.
Analysts believe that sanctions on Israel will be the only way to save the two-state solution and end the Israeli war on Gaza, but accepting full sanctions on Israeli states remains unlikely to be at this stage.
Instead, Western countries such as Canada, France and the United Kingdom may target far-right ministers most linked to pro-committee policies, Smotrich and National Security Minister Itama Ben-Gvir.
“These people… are trying to block everything they can do now because they know there is no guarantee that they will maintain their position of power indefinitely,” Elgindy told Al Jazeera.
Buttu is concerned that European countries will only take more symbolic measures, such as “knowing Palestine,” which will have little impact on the ground.
“When everyone recognizes Palestine, there is no land (for the Palestinians),” she told Al Jazeera.