Posts Tagged ‘annexing’

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 […]

Likud convenes to urge annexing occupied West Bank to Israel

Israeli ruling Likud party is to convene on Sunday to vote on urging party’s leaders to formally annex occupied West Bank to Israel, allow unlimited construction in illegal Jewish settlements. A number of party heavyweights have released statements or online videos expressing support for the vote, which will take place at the Avenue Conference Centre, […]

‘One step further into the annexation of the West Bank’: Israeli cabinet to vote on annexing West Bank settlements into Jerusalem

Israeli cabinet members on Sunday will vote on a bill seeking to annex large swaths of land into the Jerusalem municipality. The bill, coined the “Greater Jerusalem Bill,” will go to Knesset vote after what is expected to be an approval by the cabinet, however moving through the Knesset could prove difficult, as religious hardliners […]

Huffpo writer expresses bigotry against Palestinians by equating battle for equal rights and anti-Semitism

Jennifer Sabin has an article at Huffington Post titled, “The Ugly Reality of American Anti-Semitism.” A lot of what she talks about unquestionably is anti-semitism and deserves condemnation, notably a range of attacks on Jewish journalists in recent weeks for being Jewish. But as usual with this sort of confused liberal commentary, Sabin brings in Palestinian […]

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