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Israel to annex West Bank – reports

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The barren hills of the West Bank near Jericho.

The move will be aimed at preventing a two-state solution, according to the US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government intends to announce the formal annexation of the West Bank in the coming weeks, a source has told the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh.

According to Hersh, Israel has been “fortified by bombs and funding” from Washington and is ramping up the expulsion of Palestinians from northern Gaza to the south of the enclave. Meanwhile, the religious parties that “dominate” Netanyahu’s cabinet are demanding full control over both occupied Palestinian territories.

“I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future – perhaps in two weeks – in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza,” Hersh wrote in an article on his Substack on Wednesday.

If true, the move would coincide with the last few weeks of US President Joe Biden’s administration and create a new “reality on the ground” by the time President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. During his first term in the White House, Trump recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Israel declared war on Gaza-based Hamas last October, following a series of deadly raids by the Palestinian militants into Israeli territory. Around 1,100 Israelis died in the October 7 assault, while an estimated 250 were taken captive.

Almost 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israeli military operation, while another 104,000 more have been injured, according to local authorities.

The Israeli military and police have also cracked down on Palestinians in the West Bank, which is run by Fatah, a Palestinian faction at odds with Hamas.

The West Bank and Gaza were annexed by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, after the 1949 conflict that ended with the newly formed State of Israel in control of most of the Mandate for Palestine territory. Israel captured both in the 1967 war. International law considers the West Bank and Gaza to be occupied territories, and multiple UN resolutions have called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in those territories.

Hersh is an internationally renowned investigative reporter who earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up by the US military during the Vietnam War. He has also reported on the abuses of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the CIA’s domestic spying operations. More recently, Hersh has blamed the US for the September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, an allegation that Washington has denied.

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  1. Israel is legally entitled to the 1947 UN borders. Anything more is occupied territory as bad as Russia annexing Ukrainian territory!

    • The Jews stole Palestine off the Palestinians
      The genocide behind the facade of the False Flag Attack on Oct 7th when the IDF was stood down and the doubtful capture of hostages didn’t start recently
      Who have been presiding in that erets since at least 1200BC
      Most probably remnants including taht of the sea peoples – Peleset – Phillistines
      Have no right whatsoever to be occupying that land under the guise and ruse of being the Biblical Israelites
      No Khazar AshkeNAZI Jews or any of their enthicity would ever have set foot in Palestine
      Palestine was given to the Jews in receipt of the Balfour Contract in return for getting the US into the war against Germany even though the Lusitania had been sunk several years earlier
      The UN ‘the Palace of Strangers’ ‘the Confederation of Nations’ against YAHWAH God and His Kingdom in earth is a communist pagan heathen entity full of mainly non white paid off irrelevant black countries
      Russia was forced to move into Ukraine after having been betrayed by the Minsk Agreements which were to preclude the cessation of indiscriminate shelling of Russian Cities in the Donbass namely Luhansk and Donetsk who had suffered over 14,000 civilian casualties since 2014
      A fact that is very seldom reported nor reflected upon
      The Bible says that the Jews the tares that grow amoung the wheat
      The stalk that is used to grow the fruit that is now matured and has no further intrinsic use
      Who are now blocking out the light
      Who are responsible for all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the righteous Abel
      Are gone at
      Obadiah 1-18
      Matthew 13:30
      Who are especially cursed by YAHWAH God for among other things attacking the Israelites for no apparent reason when they were traversing lands of the Edomites adjacent Petra Mount Seir (Rugged) which they were unprepared for being at that stage a new non organized militaristic Nation
      Edomite Jews exist in modern Jewry – Jewish Encyclopedia
      The remnants of the seven Canaanite tribes the Israelites were told to completely annihilate upon entering Canaan which they did not that they become thorns in Your sides and briers in Your eyes if not through miscegenation adultery race mixing
      Dead trees that produce no good fruit only more bad fruit that are hewed out by the root and cast into the fire
      The Beast of Revelation 13:1 World Governments non House of Israel humanity – the sea
      Which is exactly what has happened
      Everything is a demonstration
      The Bible is no holocaust bedtime story told under a tattooed skin lamp but is factual pre written history – which will come to pass
      Gods Vengeance Upon Edom
      https://archive.org/details/BertrandComparetDSCI_audio_teachingsPT2/Gods_Vengeance_Upon_Edom-a.mp3

    • Israel is not legally entitled to the 1947 UN borders while it remains in breach of the conditions of it’s founding resolutions, 181 (29 November 1948: Recommending partition of the British Mandate for Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, and international status for the City of Jerusalem) and 194 (11 December 1948: Establishes Conciliation Commission; protection of and free access to Jerusalem and other Holy Places; Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible

  2. Netanyahu the mad deranged AshkeNAZI Khazar jew
    The result of drunken Temple of Ishtar camel drivers syphilis and gonorrhea left untreated over many generations is fighting for his political existence and for this pariah state in the middle east interloping and having usurped the Name Israel
    Which is to call Jesus YAHWASUA and more importantly YAHWAH God a liar
    Which will not be forgiven in this world or the next
    Is intent and focused to get the head of this abomination cursed by YAHWAH God into a noose and to Iskra WW3
    A Gordian knot that only intervention by the US has any hope if any of unraveling
    But more likely put to the sword

  3. Israhell and USA deep state = global criminals
    Mossad & CIA = global terrorists
    Internatjonal bankster cabal = global financier and extortionist

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