Now That He Can Annex West Bank Land, Will Netanyahu Do It?
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks beside a map of the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements, in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 10.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been promising for more than a year to annex West Bank land the Palestinians want for a state. With Donald Trump in the White House, he’s now got the backing he needs to turn that pipedream of the Israeli right and nightmare of the Palestinians into reality. The economic carnage of the coronavirus has cast a shadow on Trump’s re-election prospects, however, and Netanyahu has to move fast if he wants to be assured of getting this done under the aegis of the U.S. president’s Middle East peace plan.
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