The Objections Dont Stop The Annexation

Mohamad Alsahli

Normally, Netanyahu government worries about the escalating European objections on the annexation plan, and the warnings it received from the European Union through the German Foreign Minister who visited Israel recently. It is also worried about statements by responsible figures in the American Democratic Party that reject the annexation and consider it harmful to American interests, and the worry turns into obsession with the demonstrations taking place in the United States on the background of killing the black citizen George Floyd at the hands of the police, and the possibility of Trump's loss in the upcoming presidential elections. In addition to the above, the mass demonstration that Tel Aviv witnessed recently, which refused the annexation decision.

For Netanyahu, this means only one thing: speeding up the implementation of the plan, and dedicating it to a reality that imposes itself on the ground and on the positions of others, in a frantic race with any developments that could put obstacles in the way of his project.

It can be said that highlighting the positions of the European Union on the issue of annexation, and the statements of the American “Democratic” about it were contradicted with Netanyahu's estimates that the international and regional Preoccupation with the repercussions of the Coronavirus outbreak will facilitate the passage of the implementation steps for annexation. With the expansion of the positions rejecting this plan, Netanyahu adopted a number of integrated methods to continue the implementation of his colonial project:

Resorting to maneuver by adopting a misleading letter that attempts to camouflage the actual annexation map, which are messages that are contradict in its content according to whom they are directed. The Israeli media published statements by Likud officials saying that “Netanyahu will announce the annexation of the major cities (settlements), Ma’aleh Adumim and Ariel, and the Gush Etzion region, but he will waive the imposition of sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the rest of Judea and Samaria (the occupied West Bank),” and this means that it is a message to the international community and those who reject the annexation from the region.

While Netanyahu sent a message to the settlers through statements made by Likud poles, they exclude that “the annexation plan will be implemented if a recognition of a Palestinian state needed. And that the talk in the Knesset and the government “is not about the establishment of a Palestinian state but only on the imposition of Israeli sovereignty.” These statements coincide with the continuation of the settlement council heads' opposition to the deal.

In this regard, the Trump administration is stepping into the line from the point of view of using the title of the "International Quartet" and the UN Security Council in the context of its recent call to resume negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, but on the basis of the "deal". It is here trying to shuffle the cards, giving Netanyahu government more time, and easing the pressures on it to continue the annexation measures. In any way, it is a call with a hidden meaning to agree to the "deal" as a basis for the "solution.