Israeli Annexation

Gov't wishes to expand West Bank annexation with minimal responsibility for Palestinians - opinion

This sharply contrasts with international law and the precedents set by the High Court over many decades.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich and Settlements Minister Orit Struck hold a Religious Zionist Party meeting at Givat Harel, a previously illegal West Bank settlement outpost authorized by the security cabinet, in February.
 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

Nides: US will fight against Israeli annexation attempts

 JARED KUSHNER appears in the White House with then-US president Donald Trump and then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2019.

Does Israel's Netanyahu have a Donald Trump problem?

 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands with US President Donald Trump after signing the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and some of its Middle East neighbors, in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran, on the South Lawn of the White House i

Behind scenes of Abraham Accords: Israeli annexation halted day before deadline


UN Security Council to hold open-door discussion on annexation

The meeting was initially set to take place in a closed-door setting; Danon: “Just as any other country cannot annex its own land, Israel cannot annex land that already belongs to her.”

The United Nations Security Council, February 28, 2020

My Word: Normalization and gifts with strings attached

Just as nobody who has lived through the coronavirus crisis of 2020 will ever forget it, so too did the summer of 2014 become etched into Israeli collective memory.

A HAMAS CIVIL servant in Gaza displays US dollar banknotes after receiving her salary paid by Qatar, in December 2018.

Borrell: Annexation to have ‘significant consequences’ for EU-Israel ties

Borrell added that he is using all of the EU’s “diplomatic capacities in order to put pressure for that not to happen.”

Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 10, 2020.

Why is Netanyahu risking annexation with his trial on the horizon?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: There are more questions than answers if the prime minister is pushing sovereignty for his legacy or trying to deflect attention from his trial.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu – is annexation more a political interest than a legacy issue?

The settler leader who became an advocate for Trump’s peace plan

ANNEXATION AFFAIRS: Efrat Council head Oded Revivi says US vision would eliminate possibility of Palestinian terrorist state

ODED REVIVI: In the Trump deal, there are things that are hard to swallow. There are things that are against what we wanted. But let us give it at least a chance.

The importance of bipartisan support for annexation

But there’s no doubt that not only is internal support needed for this move, but also external.

Signs abour annexation with pictures of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are displayed in Israel

With or without annexation, it's time to build like crazy – opinion

Netanyahu can’t blame anyone but himself for delays in moving forward

HOUSES in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem, near Givat Hamatos.

Don’t be fooled – American Jews support sovereignty – opinion

Despite the noise, empirical evidence does not support the premise that engaged American Jewry opposes Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. In fact, the exact opposite is the case.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington in 2015.

The last chance for a viable two-state solution – opinion

Annexation would precipitate major adversarial repercussions for Israel, but none of that will deter Netanyahu.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Jordan Valley community of Mevo’ot Yericho in February 2020

Why is Germany criticizing Israel? – opinion

Should Israel thank the Germans very much for generously withholding coercive consequences thus far? Or better, should it question the credibility of a doubtful tutor in international politics?

FOREIGN MINISTER Gabi Ashkenazi meets with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem last week.