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6. none of this makes any sense
Sat Jul 29, 2023, 03:48 AM
Jul 2023

dont they know who they are dealing with ???

Not a hope in hell with this Gov .

You can annex the West Bank, or you can have peace with Saudi Arabia and the whole Muslim world, but you can’t have both, so which will it be?


They are already planning to annex the West Bank !!!!!

While Israelis were in the streets, Smotrich unveiled his annexation plans

As protests escalated last week over the judicial overhaul, Israel's finance minister declared the end of the Oslo Accords in all but name.
By Roni Pelli July 27, 2023

Bezalel Smotrich is a polished political strategist who knew how to avoid the mistake made by his coalition colleague, Justice Minister Yariv Levin. Unlike Levin, Smotrich, who is both Israel’s finance minister and head of the Defense Ministry’s new Settlements Administration — which grants him enforcement powers over Palestinian construction, settlement planning, and land allocation in the West Bank — did not call a press conference to announce a massive judicial overhaul that has faced widespread resistance by large swathes of the Israeli public.

Nor did he proclaim, in his most militant tone, that he would be crushing Israeli democracy. Smotrich seems to understand that effective action, particularly when it comes to the settlement enterprise, is done quietly and behind the scenes.

Last Wednesday, during a discussion in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he unveiled his annexing revolution in the occupied West Bank. As he was doing this, his friend, MK Simcha Rothman, was leading a tempestuous and highly-publicized discussion in the Constitution Committee on the controversial reasonableness clause, just a few days before it passed in the Knesset.

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Thus, when the public’s attention was focused on Rothman’s judicial revolution just two meeting rooms away, Smotrich announced his plan to annex the entire West Bank without granting civil status to the Palestinian residents in the area, as well as the cancellation of key parts of the Oslo Accords. This revolution will not be anchored in law. It will be submitted to the cabinet in about a month, after which it will be approved by the defense minister and the prime minister, the latter of which, according to Smotrich, is very involved in and committed to it.

Source : https://www.972mag.com/bezalel-smotrich-annexation-revolution/





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