BREAKING: Netanyahu says will begin annexing West Bank if re-elected prime minister https://t.co/atr9tp89nR
BREAKING: Netanyahu says will begin annexing West Bank if re-elected prime minister.
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JERUSALEM — History seemed to be closing in on Benjamin Netanyahu.
Even as he neared the mark set by Israel’s founding leader, David Ben-Gurion, as the longest-serving prime minister, an array of new enemies was rising up around him. He faced an unexpectedly stiff challenge from Benny Gantz, a 6-foot-4 former army chief and career soldier who could credibly offset Mr. Netanyahu’s marquee credential as Israel’s “Mr. Security.”
The attorney general wanted to indict him on corruption charges, accusing him of trading lucrative government favors for positive news coverage. A new scandal bubbled up when he revealed that he had secretly approved the sale of advanced submarines to Egypt then lied about it. Even his right-wing base was growing weary of his self-obsession.
Yet, if the election on Tuesday was to be a referendum on Mr. Netanyahu’s record, he was happy to run on it.
He has been on a roll, opening ties with Muslim countries in Africa, thawing relations with Sunni Arab leaders, lining up allies in Eastern Europe and forging trade ties in Latin America and Asia. He pocketed President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and, just two weeks ago, of its sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
On Thursday, he capitalized on his rapport with President Vladimir V. Putin by drawing on Russia’s help to bring home the remains of an Israeli soldierkilled in Lebanon nearly 37 years ago.
Mr. Gantz has asked voters to focus instead on the corruption, self-dealing and arrogance that have tarnished Mr. Netanyahu’s achievements. Against Mr. Netanyahu’s potent politics of division — pitting right against left, Jew against Arab, religious against secular, working-class against rich, peripheral towns against Tel Aviv, those whose grandparents fled Arab lands against those whose grandparents were kibbutznik pioneers — Mr. Gantz has offered a message of unity and healing, of putting “Israel before all.”
Neither man has said much about policy. The result is that one of Israel’s most consequential elections has been one of its ugliest and shallowest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/world/middleeast/elections-in-israel.html#
Even as he neared the mark set by Israel’s founding leader, David Ben-Gurion, as the longest-serving prime minister, an array of new enemies was rising up around him. He faced an unexpectedly stiff challenge from Benny Gantz, a 6-foot-4 former army chief and career soldier who could credibly offset Mr. Netanyahu’s marquee credential as Israel’s “Mr. Security.”
The attorney general wanted to indict him on corruption charges, accusing him of trading lucrative government favors for positive news coverage. A new scandal bubbled up when he revealed that he had secretly approved the sale of advanced submarines to Egypt then lied about it. Even his right-wing base was growing weary of his self-obsession.
Yet, if the election on Tuesday was to be a referendum on Mr. Netanyahu’s record, he was happy to run on it.
He has been on a roll, opening ties with Muslim countries in Africa, thawing relations with Sunni Arab leaders, lining up allies in Eastern Europe and forging trade ties in Latin America and Asia. He pocketed President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and, just two weeks ago, of its sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
On Thursday, he capitalized on his rapport with President Vladimir V. Putin by drawing on Russia’s help to bring home the remains of an Israeli soldierkilled in Lebanon nearly 37 years ago.
Mr. Gantz has asked voters to focus instead on the corruption, self-dealing and arrogance that have tarnished Mr. Netanyahu’s achievements. Against Mr. Netanyahu’s potent politics of division — pitting right against left, Jew against Arab, religious against secular, working-class against rich, peripheral towns against Tel Aviv, those whose grandparents fled Arab lands against those whose grandparents were kibbutznik pioneers — Mr. Gantz has offered a message of unity and healing, of putting “Israel before all.”
Neither man has said much about policy. The result is that one of Israel’s most consequential elections has been one of its ugliest and shallowest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/world/middleeast/elections-in-israel.html#
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Arab Israelis already makeup 18% of the voting Israeli bloc, I don't think Israelis would like that number to increase. Palestinians will be emasculated and enslaved subjects of the sinister Zionist government If Israel manages to conquer the West Bank. I don't think other Arab countries, specially the wicked Khalijis, have the energy to even lift a finger against this harrowing scene.
They are an apartheid state
Annexing unarmed poverty stricken region is self defense?! C'moon honey.
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If Israel annexes West Bank, then they will have no choice but to give those 1.6 million Palestinians an Israeli citizenship.
Netanyahu is just vying for the far right vote by making empty election promises.
Samira
Illuminated Xalimo
And they have the right to defend themselves as such, and defend their conquered territory. This is part of the beloved freedom Allah has given to them and you.
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Samira
Illuminated Xalimo
Naa what does freedom have to do with them being an apartheid state?
They have the freedom to oppress people. Anyone does, as long as they have the power to get away with it. Why shouldn't the Israelis do it when countless have before them and will do after them, when the wind blows over the empty plains of Megiddo? This is why Allah created humans, so that they can do whatever they wanted
Your Statement makes no sense. What do you mean by "defend their conquered territory"?! As If they had the right to annex it first. You're an Ex Muslim, doesn't mean you have to hate the oppressed innocent Muslims.
He created them to worship him and to always do the right thing.
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