Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future

Displaced people use animal-drawn carts for transportation in Deir al-Balah on the central Gaza Strip on November 20. / Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images.

Israel, fortified by bombs and funding from the Biden administration, is escalating the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands from the north of Gaza to the south, amid fierce bombing and the deprivation of food and water for those who stay behind. This is continuing amid marches and other demonstrations sponsored by the religious right in Israel whose leadership also is calling for north Gaza to be turned over to Israeli settlers. What was a worrisome rumor in Gaza more and more seems like a reality.

Control over all of Gaza and the West Bank is the core demand of the religious right in Israel that now dominates the government. I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future—perhaps in two weeks—in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza. Arab communities in the West Bank have been under increasingly violent pressure from Israeli police and armed settler attacks have become a sad staple of life.

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Truth in Tension
Truth in Tension
2 hours ago

This is happening because the new Trump administration is the Israel First Administration. The majority of his cabinet pricks are jewish and hard core zionist. This will not end well. Who is $ John Galt?

Jane Tzilvelis
Jane Tzilvelis
1 hour ago

Will not end well.