from Daily Sabah
Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich pledged on Monday to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025, calling the return of Donald Trump to power in the United States "an important opportunity."
"The year 2025 will be, with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria," he said, referring to the occupied Palestinian territory.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Palestinians claim the territory as part of a future independent state, and have repeatedly warned that Israeli settlements there are an obstacle to peace.
Smotrich, whose ministerial portfolio also includes some areas of the defense ministry's work, said he had ordered preparations for "applying sovereignty" over Israeli settlements.
Speaking at a meeting in parliament, he said he had "instructed the director of settlement affairs in the defense ministry and the Civil Administration... to prepare the necessary infrastructure for applying sovereignty."
Smotrich congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on his "incredible and sweeping victory", which the far-right politician said "also brings an important opportunity for the State of Israel."...
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Note saved from 20 years ago saw on some forum about those 3
ReplyDelete"settled" areas.
USS LIBERTY JUNE 8 MULTIPLY- ATTACKED BY ISRAEL EASTERN MED SEA DURING 6-DAY WAR JUN 5- 10 1967.427- .440;
I remember the 1967 war. The Golan Heights was in Syria, Gaza was in Egypt and the West Bank was in Jordan... The Israeli government said to the surrounding Arab states, You have land. You give the Palestinians land" After the 67 war Israeli's occupied those very lands and began resettlement..
And LO! it did come to pass.