JERUSALEM– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would move Sunday to apply Israeli sovereignty to the strategically crucial Jordan Valley and to all Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
The relocation, which was blessed by President Trump and administration officials on Tuesday, amounts annexation.
It might apply to up to 30 percent of the West Bank, occupied area that Israel took from Jordan in the 1967 war that Palestinians wanted for their future state.
Mr. Netanyahu told Israeli reporters in Washington that his cabinet would vote on the step on Sunday. The choice might still go through legal challenges because the current cabinet is an interim government.
The thumbs-up from the White House outraged Israeli advocates of a more generous accommodation with the Palestinians and alarmed those who have actually warned that any annexation could set off an unsafe domino effect leading to restored violence.
“It’s even worse than any of us could anticipate,” stated Nimrod Novik, a long time Israeli peace arbitrator and previous aide to Shimon Peres.
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