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Annexation in limbo after PM’s aide says US has lost interest

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Published: 17 July 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin privately acknowledged that Washington is paying no attention; observers say plan could backfire and turn into a diplomatic fiasco

Netanyahu aide said to admit US in no mood for annexation, so PM won’t go ahead (Times of Israel)
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin has acknowledged in private conversations that no attention is currently being given in Washington to Israeli plans to annex up to 30 percent of the West Bank, according to a Tuesday Army Radio report

BEN CASPIT: Netanyahu's annexation plan turning into fiasco (Al-Monitor)
With the Americans losing interest and on the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, the West Bank annexation plan of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to turn into his greatest diplomatic fiasco

Moshe Ya’alon: Israel should stop talking about annexation (Jerusalem Post)
Ya’alon explained that Trump didn’t even allow Israel to move forward on sovereignty in January, when he unveiled his peace plan in Washington and published a map of what could be annexed

EU builds for Palestinians in Area C, foreign ministers speak against annexation (Jerusalem Post)
Trump administration still looking to approve sovereignty moves this month, despite COVID-related delays

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Israel pushing massive tree planting in Negev to deny lands to Bedouin (Haaretz)
The planting, which the Jewish National Fund is in charge of, is planned across 40,000 dunams (10,000 acres) and focuses on areas around the Bedouin communities of Segev Shalom and Abu Talul.

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