Aiming to undercut the US offer to take military control of a future Palestine-Jordan border, Likud Party leaders are pushing a bill through the Knesset that would annex the Jordan Valley, meaning Palestine would have no external borders with anyone but Israel.
Miri Regev, the author of the bill, claims support from every Likud cabinet minister except Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and says he has enough votes to push the annexation through.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is expected to try to block the bill from coming up for a vote, since the annexation would deal another potentially mortal blow to peace talks she is in charge of negotiating.
Israel has only a handful of settlements in the Jordan Valley, but Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has argued in favor of keeping them in place as a way to maintain some military claims over the border. Israel has ruled out allowing any Palestinian state having any control over any of its own borders.
Encircle and then crush…and then sweep the evidence under the carpet.
A recipe for regional war.
Israel has always intended the South African solution of Bantustans. This is just one more step on the well established path. We ought to stop pretending it is something else, or that they will ever agree to anything else.
Israel has always intended the South African solution of Bantustans. This is just one more step on the well established path. We ought to stop pretending it is something else, or that they will ever agree to anything else.
if you look at a map it already is done.
aside from Jericho between the dead sea and the golan there are only israeli settlements and military outposts
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace…
as of 2005 twenty seven settlements and and five military outpost, sorry could not find anything a bit more recent or impartial.
Can't imagine the Israelis have given up any of their conquests…and far as being impartial goes, as Sgt. Friday was wont to say, "Just the facts, Mamm."
For 45 years now, the Jordan Valley has almost only Jewish villages in it.