Published: 8 May 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
US ambassador says Washington ‘ready to recognise annexation’ within weeks (Times of Israel)
David Friedman tells newspaper that applying sovereignty in parts of West Bank is up to Israel, as long as it’s done within framework of Trump peace plan
Pompeo to visit Israel as West Bank annexation looms, report says (Haaretz)
US envoy to Israel David Friedman says the Trump administration is ready to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank ‘within weeks’
Majority of Israel's Jews oppose West Bank annexation, survey says (Ynet)
According to Commanders for Israel's Security movement's poll, only quarter of all respondents support the move, while only third of Likud voters in favour of the initiative; 40% prefer a permanent two-state solution with the Palestinians
Former US national security officials urge Dems to oppose annexation in platform (Times of Israel)
In letter to DNC, more than 30 Democratic foreign policy veterans push for 2020 document to take strong stance against Israel extending sovereignty over West Bank territories
There will be lots of annexation talk from Netanyahu, but no action (Haaretz)
ANSHEL PFEFFER: Netanyahu has worked for decades to achieve the current status quo whereby the Palestinian issue has all but disappeared from the global agenda. Why jeopardise that by pursuing actual annexation?
Does Israel want to be a Jewish state or a democratic state? (Jerusalem Post)
GERSHON BASKIN: It seems that the main division lines appear to be on the question of Israel as a Jewish state or Israel as a democratic state
Photo: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (2nd-L) at the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel on February 24 (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)
