JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he would transfer Sunday to use Israeli sovereignty to the strategically very important Jordan
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he would transfer Sunday to use Israeli sovereignty to the strategically very important Jordan Valley and to all Jewish settlements on the West Financial institution.
The transfer, which was blessed by President Trump and administration officers on Tuesday, is tantamount to annexation.
It might apply to as much as 30 p.c of the West Financial institution, occupied territory that Israel seized from Jordan within the 1967 battle that Palestinians wished for his or her future state.
Mr. Netanyahu instructed Israeli reporters in Washington that his cupboard would vote on the measure on Sunday. The choice might nonetheless be topic to authorized challenges as a result of the present cupboard is an interim authorities.
The inexperienced gentle from the White Home outraged Israeli supporters of a extra beneficiant lodging with the Palestinians and alarmed those that have warned that any annexation might set off a harmful chain response resulting in renewed violence.
“It’s worse than any of us might anticipate,” stated Nimrod Novik, a longtime Israeli peace negotiator and former aide to Shimon Peres.