"Israel’s stampede to annex areas in the West Bank on July 1 is testament to Benjamin Netanyahu’s absolute rule. Annexation is, after all, a one-man show: Netanyahu is the sole visionary, entrepreneur, engineer + contractor of the controversial project." haaretz.com/opinion/.premi…
"If Netanyahu hadn’t maneuvered Donald Trump to present his 'deal of the century' + to include a map of division and annexation that conforms with his outlook – and if he hadn’t reached the conclusion, for his own reasons, that if not now, then when – no one in their right mind..
"...would think that this is the best time to take a fateful + irreversible step": @ChemiShalev writes...
"Virtual legal ownership of the Jordan Valley + Jewish settlements – or parts thereof – and the elimination of any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state that amounts to anything more than a Bantustan-style autonomy.
This is Netanyahu’s vision of a permanent solution...
This is Netanyahu’s vision of a permanent solution...
"...which most of the world views as unvarnished apartheid. The costs and risks of annexation, on the other hand, are unquantifiable, allowing Netanyahu + his aides to peddle a rose-tinted version based on nothing more than wishful thinking + irrelevant precedent."
Annexation "is a belligerent, unilateral action that would upend the status quo + introduce widespread instability.
No one, not even Netanyahu, can foresee the full scope
of its unintended consequences."
No one, not even Netanyahu, can foresee the full scope
of its unintended consequences."
"In September of 1996, the last time hubris went to Netanyahu’s head +the bells of the coming Messiah were ringing in his ears, Netanyahu ignored warnings of potential bloodshed+mayhem + ordered the opening of the Western Wall tunnel, or 'the rock of our existence'...[his words],
