Annexation

Israel must annex the West Bank to prevent the next war - opinion

Recent polls from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research show that even today, a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank, 59%, still believe Hamas’s October 7 massacre was right.

Israeli forces demolish a home in Tarqumiya, in the West Bank on February 1, 2026.
Israeli security forces near the scene where two Israelis were killed in a terror shooting attack at Allenby bridge, a crossing between West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025.

Various foreign ministers condemn Israel’s West Bank measures as unlawful expansion

A Ukrainian serviceman of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion prepares to fire a howitzer towards Russian troops at a position in a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 20, 2025.

What are the regions Ukraine could lose under the US-backed plan? - explainer

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives before President Donald Trump speaks to the Knesset, Monday, October 13, 2025, in Jerusalem; illustrative.

Rubio: Knesset approval of Israeli sovereignty in West Bank threatens Gaza deal


It is unacceptable for the ICJ to deliver opinion on Israel, West Bank - opinion

It is unacceptable for the ICJ to deliver an opinion on this seminal issue reached in private and without the benefit of representations.

 Palestinian Authority and Israeli flags (illustrative)

Letters to the Editor November 14, 2022: Obstacles in the path

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Palestinians push for ICJ to rule ‘Israel occupation’ is annexation

Palestinian representatives to the UN pushed a resolution that argues the continuing nature of the “Israeli occupation” is de facto annexation.

SCALES OF JUSTICE decorate the International Criminal Court building in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2019.

Russia tells people in occupied Kherson to 'save your lives' and leave

Russia's proxies in the southern region are trying to evacuate up to 60,000 people who live on the western bank of the Dnipro river.

 Civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson walk from a ferry to board a bus heading to Crimea, in the town of Oleshky, Kherson region, Russian-controlled Ukraine October 23, 2022.

Kremlin: Annexed Ukrainian lands protected by Russian nuclear weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow was ready to use nuclear weapons if necessary to defend the "territorial integrity" of Russia.

Smoke rises over the city after Russian missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine, October 10, 2022.

14 Days: UN Speech

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks at the UN General Assembly in 2022.

The UN condemned Russia – is Moscow’s war finally losing international impunity?

Only four countries voted to support Russia's actions at the latest UN assembly.

 Monitors at the United Nations General Assembly hall display the results of a vote on a resolution condemning the annexation of parts of Ukraine by Russia, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, October 12, 2022

Czech Republic hold mock referendum, say they now control Russia's Kaliningrad

Social network users announced that 97.9% of Kaliningrad residents supported joining the Czech Republic, changing the name of the region to Královec.

 A view shows an embankment of the Pregolya River in Kaliningrad

Putin complains of Western aggression, tragic fall of USSR during speech

Moscow, Putin stressed, will defend its new territories "with all available forces and means," and that the West has no moral right to challenge the results of the referenda.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Vladimir Saldo, Yevgeny Balitsky, who are the Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, attend a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories

Over 96% said to favor joining Russia in first vote results from occupied Ukraine regions

RIA said the initial counts showed majorities ranging from 96.97% in the Kherson region, based on 14% of votes counted, to 98.19% in Zaporizhzhia, based on 18% of the count.

 Members of an electoral commission wait for voters near a destroyed residential building on the third day of a referendum on the joining of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) to Russia, in Mariupol, Ukraine