US smooths the Nazi regime path to annexing West Bank
NOVANEWS
US smooths Israel’s path to annexing West Bank
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Seemingly unrelated events all point to a tectonic shift in which Israel has begun preparing the ground to annex the occupied Palestinian territories.
Last week, during an address to students in New York, Israel’s education minister, Naftali Bennett, publicly disavowed even the notion of a Palestinian state. “We are done with that,” he said. “They have a Palestinian state in Gaza.”
Later in Washington, Bennett, who heads Israel’s settler movement, said Israel would manage the fallout from annexing the West Bank, just as it had with its annexation of the Syrian Golan in 1980.
Israel has effectively expanded its civilian sovereignty into the West Bank. It is a covert but tangible first step towards annexa...