Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to score political
points on the far right with talk of annexing parts of the occupied West
Bank. He doubled down in comments today, as elections loom, saying if he wins he’ll annex the Jordan Valley.
The Jordan Valley is a long narrow valley along the West Bank’s border
with Jordan, and Netanyahu had long insisted even in the event of a
peace deal Israel would always keep it to ensure the Palestinians didn’t
have a border with anyone else.
Netanyahu has long since disavowed a two-state solution now, and sees
this as just another annexation to promise to try to get the last few
seats he needs to stay in office. Annexation is a popular stance among
Israel’s far-right voters.
The Palestinian Authority, however, are warning against any such move
going forward, saying that annexations would have major international
consequences. PA PM Mohammed Shtayyeh said Netanyahu might win a few votes in the short term, but that he’d be a loser in the long term.
Those old chestnuts again: We can only stay safe by seizing other peoples’ lands, they will inevitably attack us so we must strike back first, the only way to be popular domestically is to be a pariah internationally.
Today – the Jordan Valley; Tomorrow – the Suedtenland!
LOL!! That’s a funny one;D Seriously, Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo vows to annex the Jordan Valley and the West Bank, should he be re-elected. I sincerely hope that doesn’t happen .. Most Israelis cannot stand him; so, I doubt he’ll win this time around. He’s the most corrupt PM Israel’s ever had, as well as being a total psychopath.
“Most Israelis cannot stand him”
And yet he’s been prime minister four times. Are the Israelis who can’t stand him just not bothering to vote or something?
When he looks at what Putin did with the Crimea he must conclude “they are not going to stop me.”
Only, 97% of the electorate in Crimea voted in a referendum to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Mother Russia, Dieter .. You forgot that part of the story wherein the late USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev – a Ukrainian – annexed Crimea to Ukraine back in 1954. It took 60 years for the Crimean people to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia, FYI.
What Israeli PM Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo vows to do (if he’s re-elected) is to annex the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. I sincerely hope Israel’s electorate votes for Benny Gantz instead. Nutty&Yahoo’s a complete psychopath and the most corrupt PM the Zionist Entity ever had.
Hey man ! Why did the Crimean population not revolt against “Russian annexation” whereas in the Donbas the Russian speaking population revolted against Kiev occupation??? Oppressed, occupied people wherever in the world always resist occupations. The Palestinians have done so for the last 70 years and still.going……
Hey man ! Why did the Crimean population not revolt against “Russian annexation” whereas in the Donbas the Russian speaking population revolted against Kiev occupation??? Oppressed, occupied people wherever in the world always resist occupations. The Palestinians have done so for the last 70 years and still.going……
Israel better consider the consequences if they reelect this genocidal, sadistic monster. The world opinion should turn against this country after their ill-advised reelection of Netanyahu. Does ANYBODY care about the rights of the Palestinian people and the continuing slaughter of their unarmed children by the Israeli armed forces under the disguise of “self protection”, which is a obscene lie and distortion of the truth? Does the world continue to ignore the fact that Israel keeps destroying Palestinian homes, destroying their farms and olive groves and stealing their real estate by illegally building new “settlements”? Have we turned our backs on genocide? Where is our conscience?