As annexation looms, the PA and international community plan is more futile rhetoric
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / June 18, 2020
Rhetorical opposition to Israel’s annexation plans has gained a rather futile momentum. The clearest example of this came at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from Adalah, Al-Haw, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid...
Former IDF commanders turn down annexation supervision role
Middle East Monitor / June 18, 2020
Retired senior officers of the Israel Defence Forces have apparently rejected the role of supervising Israel’s annexation of large swathes of the occupied West Bank. The job was offered by Defence Minister Benny Gantz to former IDF Major Generals Roni Numa, Avi Mizrahi...
Israel rubberstamps 50 years of land theft
Aseel AlBajeh
The Electronic Intifada / June 18, 2020
The year 2020 is set to mark yet another reverse for Palestinian hopes of self-determination and freedom from oppression.
From a US “Vision for Peace” in January offering Israel large parts of the occupied West Bank to an Israeli unity government in May promising to proceed with...
On eve of annexation, European Parliament consent to EU-Israel aviation agreement reeks of hypocrisy
European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) / June 18, 2020
The European Parliament turned empty the EU’s words of condemnation against Israel’s imminent annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank by voting to give consent to the ratification of the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement.
While the EU ostensibly...
The Jewish left is recognizing that apartheid is here
Meron Rapoport
+ 972 Magazine / June 9, 2020
Israel's Jewish left is abandoning the term 'occupation' and adopting the word 'apartheid' to describe the reality on the ground.
The Israeli right is concerned. Ever since Saturday night’s mass demonstration against the Israeli government’s plans to annex large areas of the West Bank, the...
EU encourages ‘credible, meaningful political process’ to solve Israel-Palestine conflict
Middle East Monitor / June 17, 2020
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Monday that European countries “encourage the Israelis and the Palestinians to engage in a credible and meaningful political process.”
In a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
Europeans tell Israel that annexation could cost it EU funding
Ivan Levingston
Bloomberg / June 15, 2020
European officials have warned Israel that unilateral annexation of West Bank land may cost it lucrative European Union science research grants, according to Minister of Science and Technology Izhar Shay.
Annexation, scheduled to begin next month, could endanger Israel’s continued participation in the EU’s Horizon...
