Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank (www.foreignaffairs.com)
from supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:30
https://sopuli.xyz/post/41040322

Israel’s far right seems to believe that destroying Palestinian governance will afford Israel more strength. On the contrary—it is a mistake that will become expensive, bloody, and self-destructive as it accelerates the cycles of resentment and violence. And Washington, too, stands to lose a great deal by turning a blind eye to the West Bank: the PA’s collapse will remove any plausible path toward the kind of regional stabilization and effective postwar settlement on which the Trump administration has staked much of its foreign policy legacy.

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EvilBit@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:46 next collapse

The only thing quiet about it has been the avoidance of the word “annex”.

bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Feb 06:07 next collapse

To be fair, it helps to have 20th century global power history knowledge to appreciate the word “annex”. Most of their readership still isn’t appreciating the moment.

roguetrick@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 06:21 collapse

And even that hasn’t been too quiet since it’s election campaign season.

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com on 12 Feb 06:03 next collapse

Watching this shit unfold is like the “shhh” scene from Saving Private Ryan, with the rest of the world sitting in the corner doing absolutely fuck-all to stop it.

20cello@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 06:05 next collapse

Quietly? Palestinians are screaming but they’re too poor to be heard.

mrdown@piefed.social on 12 Feb 15:24 collapse

Not quitely would mean that Israel would announce publicly sovereignity on the whole west bank and dismantle the PA

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz on 12 Feb 17:40 collapse

Palestine should have sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza. Too bad the Oslo Accords fell apart.

mrdown@piefed.social on 12 Feb 18:33 collapse

Actually the Oslo Accords were not a failure it worked as intended. It was a temporary plan to ease up Palestinians anger and be easier to control Palestinians. Area C is the part where the most valuable resources are so they focused on this part so it is fully under Israel control while the rest is partially controlled by the Palestinians authority that will serve as a security force to protect Israel and the colonies and settler terrorists .

Rabin himself said he will not give a fully independent Palestinian sate , he never planed to give back all Palestinians rights that international laws give them . Palestinians should get back all of the west bank , all of Gaza and east Jerusalem. It didn’t include Palestinians right to an army to defend itself and not even full control of .

We view the permanent solution… alongside [the State of Israel] a Palestinian entity * which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an * entity which is less than a state , and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority

In the Oslo II Accord documents

Article V of Annex I: ** This explicitly states that Israel retains the “overriding responsibility for security” and for the external borders, including the border with Jordan and Egypt.

At crossings like the Allenby Bridge (to Jordan), Palestinian travelers had to pass through an Israeli-controlled security layer. Even today, the Palestinian Authority has no authority to stamp a passport and grant entry to a foreigner without Israeli systems being involved.

**Article XIII of Annex I: This section states that Israel retains exclusive control over all airspace in the West Bank and Gaza.

https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/24965/yitzhaq-rabin%E2%80%99s-address-knesset-after-israeli-palestinian-agreement

The reality on the ground today match the plan

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz on 12 Feb 18:41 collapse

Well hopefully the Likud lose power this year so that a better deal can be worked out and implemented

mrdown@piefed.social on 12 Feb 18:46 collapse

Yitzhak Rabin was not from the likud party. The likud party is not even the most extreme party Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are not from the likud party.

Zionism is the real problem, the ideology behind the colonization

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 12 Feb 08:27 next collapse

“Quietly” meaning that Western media are currently tired of the conflict and busy with something else. A cycle that has repeated countless times.

it is a mistake that will become expensive, bloody, and self-destructive as it accelerates the cycles of resentment and violence

Totally agree. Look back at the past 8 decades of this conflict and all the other horrors unleashed at least partly through America’s attempts to “stabilize” the area. The only thing they seem to have learned is “we need more guns”.

PS: “Quietly” also means that most Palestinian journalists are - dead.

bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Feb 08:40 collapse

July 2028 Summer Olympics in LA are likely going to be extra strained, assuming they happen.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 08:44 collapse

quietly??

Skua@kbin.earth on 12 Feb 10:34 collapse

"Quietly" as in it's being done with far fewer bombs and bullets than Gaza