Trump wants to stop Israel’s annexation plans in the West Bank

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Trump wants to stop Israel’s annexation plans in the West Bank

700,000 settlers are already living in the occupied Palestinian area, now Netanyahus is thinking about an official incorporation. But the US President says: “It is enough”.

President Donald Trump makes a clear announcement to his close ally before the awaited speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly. “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” said the Republican in the White House. “It’s enough. It’s time to stop.”

Netanyahu wants to speak before the UN General Assembly in New York today. Right -wing extremist ministers of his government had recently pushed massively on the annexation of the West Bank, which they regard as part of the biblical Israel – in response to the recognition of a Palestinian state by several important western countries.

According to media reports, the Israeli head of government only wants to make a final decision after his meeting with Trump planned for Monday. “The answer to the recent attempt to force us to impose a terrorist in the middle of our country is given after my return from the USA,” it said from his office.

Many of Netanyahu still expect a tough response to the recent wave of Palestine’s recognitions in his speech in the UNplenum. According to diplomats, it is also expected that numerous representatives of countries will be left in protest because of the Israeli warfare in Gaza.

The British Vice Prime Minister David Lammy also warned Israel in his speech to the UN Generalbatte about incorporating Palestinian areas. Annexions would have to be prevented, Lammy said before the United Nations’ largest committee in New York.

The US broadcaster CNN had recently reported that Netanyahu was considering gradually annexation to cushion international criticism-and to keep open, in return for the normalization of relationships with Saudi Arabia that is aiming for Israel, to refrain from annexation of the entire area.

Netanyahu’s right-back government is steadily driving the settlement expansion in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. In 1967 Israel had conquered the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where today more than 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the middle of around three million Palestinians. The Palestinians claim the areas for their own state.

The Federal Government, the other countries in the recognition of a Palestinian state did not follow this week, calls these areas – as well as the Gaza Strip – “occupied areas” and does not recognize any changes to the borders before 1967 that have not been agreed between the conflict parties. The Federal Government evaluates Israeli settlements in the occupied areas as contrary to international law, an obstacle to peace and a danger to the basics of the two -state solution, as can be read on the side of the Federal Foreign Office.