While Netanyahu pledged a few days before the election to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements, Bennett — who has long been the Israeli politician most identified with the idea of West Bank annexation — did not vocally advocate for such a move. . ..…
Several days before the election, Netanyahu said he would annex more of West Bank, where more than 2.5 Palestinians under regime that treats them separately from unequally to Jewish Israelis living beside them in illegal settlements violates their rights.. ... Moshe Ya'alon,..…
Dianne Feinstein, surely the most principled of Democrats, said yesterday that Israel cannot maintain its military occupation of West Bank in perpetuity.. After asking multiple times, @SecPompeo refused to tell me if United States would oppose @ Netanyahu's plan to annex all or..…
That explains his comments in the last days of the campaign, in which he promised to annex swaths of the West Bank where the settlements are located. . As Netanyahu’s hold on power became clear on Tuesday, he made a speech encapsulating his style of speaking with a forked tongue. ..…
If Netanyahu fulfills his vow of annexing the West Bank settlements, thus squashing any hope of a two-state solution, world Jewry will be unable to defend such a move — especially if it means the end of a democratic Jewish state. . ..…
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