Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will cancel all agreements with Israel and the United States if the planned Israeli annexation of the West Bank goes forward. Under a government deal, Israel is expected to start the annexation on July 1.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made the annexation of Palestine a key political position, arguing that President Trump’s endorsement of the past annexation of part of Syria makes this an opportune time to try to take over much of the occupied West Bank on a more permanent basis.
Israel occupied all of Palestinian territory in 1967, and would formally end the question of a two-state solution by annexing the West Bank. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US views the question of occupying Palestine to be entirely up to Israel.
Yet it is unfair to suggest the US isn’t playing a big role in this annexation, particularly with President Trump’s peace plan serving as the basis for these new territorial claims. It was this plan that finally did away with the pretense that a two-state solution was still on the horizon.
And while Abbas would be cancelling many smaller agreements too, the biggest one is the Oslo Accords. This cancellation all but goes without saying at the point of annexation, as Oslo was meant to clarify what would happen during the occupation and leading to the peace deal. With the peace never to come, Oslo doesn’t make sense to maintain anymore.
What is he waiting for? There is NO DEAL just a surrender of ALL Palestinian Land to Israel.
Germany’s choice: Decide to live in peace even though that means giving up 25% of its land or fight the occupation. Germany decided to live in peace & has had 70 years of peace & prosperity. Palestinians’ choice: the Clinton Parameters giving up 3% or fight. Palestinians chose to fight & have war & poverty. Who chose more wisely?
Abbas is 100% right, True Sense. It was Abbas who helped draw up those accords with the US and Israel that left the West Bank to the PLO leadership to run it.
These accords were drawn up and enacted before Bibi Nutty&Yahoo became Israel’s Prime Minister .. And, now he wants to annex this territory, The voting citizens of Israel sorely need to stand up to this dictator and tell him in unison: ENOUGH!
“Israel occupied all of Palestinian territory in 1967”
Well, except for the 90% of it that’s been occupied since 1921 by Jordan.
Yes–but only under the “auspices” of the British Mandate for Palestine.
I had to vote you down not because I disagree but because the infantry MOS hasbara voted you up.
What kind of citizen are these occupied people in the state of Jordan ?
Anything that Quisling Abu Mazen says means squat.
When was the last election held? This ma has been holding office for years and doing the dirty jobs that Israel and zionized US want . People inebriated with the words of democracy out of the lips of the political leaders castigate NK and Iran Venejuala and Putin . They have been in power for a shorter period than this guy has been .
It does not matter. Two states has been dead for decades. It is all a smokescreen, just gaslighting.