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...because that would mean granting Israeli citizenship, and voting rights, to Palestinians.
Instead, what he will do is start off by annexing settlement blocs, then any empty land where no Palestinian towns/cities exist. Those remaining towns and cities will remain "occupied territory," but will be merely tiny disconnected dots in the midst of "greater Israel," cut off from each other and with no means to become a Palestinian state. In other words, they'll be similar to the Bantustans of apartheid South Africa or Native American reservations here (with the key exception that Native Americans have full U.S. citizenship; Palestinians will never have citizenship of any kind).
The only thing keeping Israel from doing so in the past has been disapproval from the U.S., plus fear that it might spark another war. However, with Trump giving it the thumbs-up, and Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt firmly in his corner, such obstacles are now gone. Israel could conduct an all-out ethnic cleansing campaign, and the world wouldn't even blink.
