Netanyahu pledges to annex occupied Jordan Valley
Source: BBC
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to annex part of the occupied West Bank on the border with Jordan if he is voted back into office next week.
Mr Netanyahu said he would apply "Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea".
Such a move would be popular with right-wing parties which he would have to depend upon to form a coalition but fiercely opposed by Palestinians.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 but stopped short of annexation.
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pecosbob
(7,511 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)by the time a sane, competent administration with the will to stop Likud is in DC, it will be too late.
what's next on the slippery slope?
Sudsy
(58 posts)there will be a sane, competent administration in Israel anytime soon.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)but yeah...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,157 posts)What Netanyahu actually said, in public - see reply #6.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)burrowowl
(17,607 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,157 posts)Link to tweet
The salamander in the middle of it is Jericho; I'm guessing they don't want that amount of Arabs suddenly becoming Israeli citizens, so they get the West Berlin treatment. Or 'Bantustan', if you will.
I am waiting to do this in maximum coordination with [Donald] Trump, he said in a speech broadcast live on Israeli television.
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This map defines our eastern frontier. We havent had this kind of opportunity since the [1967] six-day war, and may not have it again for another 50 years. His comment referred to the war in which Israel captured the land.
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J Street, a liberal pro-Israel lobby in the US, said Netanyahus annexation plan would destroy Israeli democracy and constitute a flagrant violation of international law.
Well, yes; they won't have such a right wing US government again for another 50 years.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Netanyahu will do anything to remain in power, in Israel.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Lebensraum at last....