Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock has said she’s working to ensure Israel can annex as much land in the West Bank as possible during the incoming Trump administration but said the Palestinians that live there don’t have rights to the land and shouldn’t have the right to vote.
“My office is working at full throttle to ensure that if sovereignty [annexation] is applied, it will cover the maximum area possible,” Strook told the Israeli media, according to Middle East Eye.
When asked what will happen to the Palestinians who live in the occupied territory, Strock said, “All people have human rights, though the national right over the land belongs solely to the people of Israel. They can stay here, as human beings, of course, and to be a Jewish state, we should grant them full human rights, in my view.”
When asked to clarify what rights the Palestinians would have, she said, “national rights over this land belong only to the Jewish people. I think a model needs to be found, but they shouldn’t be able to vote for the Knesset [Israeli parliament], right?”
The Times of Israel reported this week that Trump aides have cautioned Israeli ministers in recent months not to assume the president-elect will back Israel supporting the West Bank. However, Trump’s appointment of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel signals the administration will back annexation.
Huckabee is an Evangelical Christian who believes God gave historic Palestine to the modern state of Israel. He denies Israel is occupying the West Bank, which he called “Judea and Samaria,” and has previously claimed that there’s “no such thing as a Palestinian” and argued the Palestinians should be expelled to other Arab states.
In Huckabee’s first interview with Israeli media after Trump announced he would be the envoy to Israel, the former governor was asked if the administration would support annexation of the West Bank. He said, “Of course … There has never been an American president that has been more helpful in securing an understanding of the sovereignty of Israel… and I fully expect that will continue.”
I'm bookmarking this article for every future argument that Israel is somehow not an apartheid regime.
Ironically, he’s probably one of the most empathetic. The big issue is nutrition though. You can’t eat a promise of “human rights.”
Apartheid refers to legal distinctions of citizens of a country based on race. But people in the West Bank are not Israeli citizens and living in the West Bank is not a race.
So, where did you go to college – Columbia or Harvard?
Apartheid and genocide terms are tossed around at will. Kill a group Palestinians terrorists and you are committee genocide because you target Palestinians.
Did you actually read the article or just the comments? The person quoted in the article was approving "annexing the West Bank" and, at the same time, not giving the new residents of Israel (who have just been annexed in) citizenship rights. This is textbook apartheid.
What godforsaken school did you graduate from?
Wrong Ivy, I have a degree in Comparative and Developmental Politics from Penn, CAS '92. I usually don't lord that over people, but if you're going to sarcastically refer to my Ivy League education I feel it's necessary to respond that I have one. Which Ivy did you attend?
Isn't it gorgeous to cite direct articles to dipwads claiming facts aren't facts? Then you get to hear their fumbly apologetics, "Well, the Prime Minister of Israel says it's not apartheid, so…"
Audacious!…
So much for any efforts at dumbacracy!
[Ghetto]…ah, remember that one kiddies? Who knows where that word came from?
One word explains this whole thing….
"Yes, the word "ghetto" comes from the Italian dialect word ghèto, which means "foundry". The word's origins are tied to the history of the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy, which was established in 1516:
The word "ghetto" comes from the Italian word gettare, which means "to cast" or "to throw".
The word was originally used to refer to the Venetian government's copper foundry, il ghetto, where cannon balls were cast.
The island where the foundry was located was eventually used to store waste products from the ghetto, and became known as the Ghetto Nuovo, which means "the new foundry".
In 1516, the Venetian Senate and Doge Leonardo Loredan decreed that all Jews in Venice must live in the segregated Ghetto. "
The idea that Trump would approve Israel annexing of some or even all of the West Bank was known before the election. Americans have decided by voting for trump that it is OK for Israel to do that. As I pointed out before the elections that trump will not be good for Palestinians.
You're hoping. We know.
You ascribe too much intellectual bandwidth to Trump's 'GISS Army' followers.
Many of them are single-issue obsessives. "Fight China !" "Get me a great paying job with no education !" "Enshrine my version of Christianity as the State religion!" "Do more for White people and keep out The Ethnics" "Validate my overinflated sense of Nationalism because I have no other identity !"
You might be right about assigning too much intellectual bandwidth.
Are you paying attention? Why would you think Harris would have stopped them? Is there anything worse than allowing people to starve to death? That's what the Biden/Harris team just did. Demanded 350 trucks per day and got 37 and said Israel can carry on. Do you think Trump can kill them with more brutality than starvation?
Simple question, Will Palestinians be better off with Trump as the President in the future?
Same: Zio-genocide is a bipartisan issue. Don't aid the Twin Party Regime! Demand true democracy!
The only difference between Biden and Trump is that Biden gave red lines that he had no intention of enforcing whereas Trump wouldn't have given any red lines. So, there will be no change for the Palestinians.
He’ll be good if he finds a new place for them and a future for them.
Most Americans are focused on the other issues. Kamala signaled she was for responsible Neocon empire. Trump seems to just be for Israel.
I still disagree with Trump in wanting the US to be powerful. Many Dems and GOP agree with me.
If the entire defence budget and the entire state budget were all cut, I want to say we still have a deficit. So, it would seem cutting those two should be a start. Later, $50b or $100b could be allocated back after other cuts. Social security isn’t going away, sadly.
Destroying everything America supposedly stood for in the world at the behest of their AIPAC Pay Masters. Thanks for nothing Kamala- Biden and our shameless congress.
Aside from any claims made by the 2004 movie on the topic, is there ACTUALLY anyone out there in America who hearts Huckabee ?
Israel’s only right to Palestinians is the right to die. Unfortunately.
Genocidal neo-nazism is what Zionism is. Free Palestine from the river to the sea!
You know Maju, I agree yet, Israel needs to be freed as well. Zionism has Israel by the mass cajones!
The liberation of “Israel” is turning it into secularist non-racist Palestine, just as South Africa. If they want a racist state, let them carve it out of Germany, Britain or the USA, who support them in their madness.
Would very much like to see you write some articles on all of this. Your own commentary would speak volumes.
I still have one semi-active blog in Spanish language but I’m not really writing almost anymore. I’ve been thinking on writing something specifically about this conflict… but in the end I always end up stressed by real life, being too lazy or even uncertain about how to focus this multifacetic conflict, which rather seems to require a whole encyclopedia than just a mere article.
Also often times I just find easier to speak my mind when I think there’s someone on the other side. Writing per se doesn’t get an audience, especially not on this days when even hyperlinks are banned in some spaces, let alone antiZio commentary of any sort
Thanks for the compliment anyhow.
If you tell anyone what Orit Strock, minister of settlements in Israel, is thinking, you're anti-Semitic!
If you support Russia's invasion and annexation of Ukraine, you have zero business commenting on your opposition to Israel annexing parts of Palestine, China annexing Taiwan, Venezuela annexing Guyana and so on.
But something is telling me, the only annexation you are against, is Israel's.
The rest of the world's dictators can annex anything they want as long as they are US adversaries.
Am I correct?
Our government ( the USA) does not send billions in weapons to Russia so they can annex Ukraine. It is not the same.
We , the USA, are complicit in the clearest case of genocide in the 21st century.
This is what people here are against : America waging wars that are not in self defense. The site is called *anti war * for a reason.
Palestine should have the same rights and mobility as other countries in the region, indeed the free world!
Does that include Ukraine?
Does Ukraine have the same rights and mobility as other countries in the region? Indeed the free world.
Or is this different because is Ukraine?
Does not Russia have the same rights of sovereignty, safety from possible war?
I know that you know the history of Clinton, and other presidents, to increase NATO, including all of the former Warsaw countries, to be launching posts for American rockets and missiles aimed at Russia.
A grand opportunity existed with the end of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany. What Gorbachev wanted in exchange was a guarantee of peace, and to become a member of the Western Alliance.
To both, the grandly stupid U.S. leaders said no, then abrogated the agreement that NATO forces would not move "one inch East".
Really, really stupid. And dishonest.
Russian Settlement Minister wants eastern border annexation, No voting or land rights for Ukrainians.
Russian official said, 'national rights over this land belong only to the Russian people.'
Don't be mad at Israel, they are just learning from Russia and you have been supporting the same agenda Russia has with Ukraine.
The people living there ARE Ukrainians. Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
The AGENDA for Russia was to protect those people who were shelled by the Kiev regime for 8 years, killing 14,000 UKRAINIAN citizens.
Jump to 18:40 on the video to hear Donald Trump in December 2015 frankly declaring that one side in the Israel-Palestine conflict may not actually desire peace. Trump understands what's going on:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwrAYaBPJB
There were Jews who were aware and issued a warning in the form of a open letter to the New York Times. One of the signatories was Albert Einstein.
The letter: https://ia800704.us.archive.org/5/items/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948/Einstein_Letter_NYT_4_Dec_1948_text.pdf