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I just listened to Netanyahu's "annexation" interview. My sense is that the media makes of it more than it is.
Here is my reading: Netanyahu did not want to say more than he usually says (I won't evacuate a single settler or withdraw the army, etc). 1/
Here is my reading: Netanyahu did not want to say more than he usually says (I won't evacuate a single settler or withdraw the army, etc). 1/
After repeatedly pushed whether he'll annex Gush Etzion he said he'll "apply sovereignty gradually" in all West Bank settlements, not only the blocks but also isolated settlements 2/
Netanyahu avoided the term "annexation" ("sipuach"), and used instead a phrase ("hachalat ribonut behadragatiut") which could mean gradually applying Israeli laws to the settlements. I underline "gradual". 3/
I suggest not to take this as a clear cut promise to annex but as an electoral statement - he won't be the first leader to break one - which may at most be applying another Israeli labor law to settlements. This would be much less dramatic than full annexation. 4/
The full interview (Hebrew): mako.co.il/news-israel-el…
