Zionist Regime Begins Mapping West Bank Annexations
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the occupying regime has started drawing up maps of the occupied West Bank areas that it wants to annex under U.S. President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed "deal of the century” for the Middle East.
"We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of... Israel. It won’t take too long,” he said at an election campaign rally in the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near al-Quds.
Netanyahu also stressed that the area the Zionist regime plans to annex would include all West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley.
He had already pledged to swiftly bring the annexation of the aforesaid areas to a cabinet vote following the publication of the U.S. scheme.
However, after Netanyahu’s pledge, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington expected the Zionist regime to wait until after the March 2 general elections before making any moves toward annexation.
It would likely take "a couple of months” to complete work on detailed West Bank maps before the regime will be able to annex settlements and the Jordan Valley, Kushner said.
Netanyahu stressed that the Trump administration would back his annexation plans. He further claimed that only he could secure American recognition for the regime’s "sovereignty” over West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley.
"I don’t trust [Blue and White party chairman] Benny Gantz,” he said, referring to his chief political rival.
Netanyahu also hailed a series of pro-Zionist measures taken by the Trump administration, including the recognition of al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s so-called "capital,” the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city, the recognition of Israeli "sovereignty” over Syria’s Golan Heights and the "legalization” of Zionist regime’s settlements.
Trump released his contentious deal during an event at the White House alongside Netanyahu in Washington on January 28.
The so-called ‘Vision for Peace’ — which all Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected — largely meets the occupying regime’s demands in the decades-old conflict while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders.
"We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of... Israel. It won’t take too long,” he said at an election campaign rally in the Ma’ale Adumim settlement near al-Quds.
Netanyahu also stressed that the area the Zionist regime plans to annex would include all West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley.
He had already pledged to swiftly bring the annexation of the aforesaid areas to a cabinet vote following the publication of the U.S. scheme.
However, after Netanyahu’s pledge, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington expected the Zionist regime to wait until after the March 2 general elections before making any moves toward annexation.
It would likely take "a couple of months” to complete work on detailed West Bank maps before the regime will be able to annex settlements and the Jordan Valley, Kushner said.
Netanyahu stressed that the Trump administration would back his annexation plans. He further claimed that only he could secure American recognition for the regime’s "sovereignty” over West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley.
"I don’t trust [Blue and White party chairman] Benny Gantz,” he said, referring to his chief political rival.
Netanyahu also hailed a series of pro-Zionist measures taken by the Trump administration, including the recognition of al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s so-called "capital,” the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city, the recognition of Israeli "sovereignty” over Syria’s Golan Heights and the "legalization” of Zionist regime’s settlements.
Trump released his contentious deal during an event at the White House alongside Netanyahu in Washington on January 28.
The so-called ‘Vision for Peace’ — which all Palestinian groups have unanimously rejected — largely meets the occupying regime’s demands in the decades-old conflict while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders.