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2020-07-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu ally says US not keen on annexation in West Bank right now — report

[IsraelTimes] Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, a Likud party ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has told associates the Trump administration isn’t interested in Israel moving forward with annexation of West Bank lands right now, according to Army Radio.

The reports says Netanyahu will not move forward without US backing and quotes Levin’s "circle" saying the premier and his allies have stressed from the get-go that the move must be supported by the White House. These sources add that Israel is now waiting for an answer.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-15 02:26|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 An the risk of being accused of cynicism, I'd say Bibi's not sure Trump is going to be reelected. Or, maybe, I'm just projecting.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-15 03:27|| 2020-07-15 03:27|| Front Page Top

#2 we weren't so sure Bibi would be reelected either, g(r)om.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-07-15 07:47|| 2020-07-15 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 So now seems very timely.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-15 09:14|| 2020-07-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 On the contrary. If Trump reelected*, we can annex - after 2000 years, what are a few months?
But if we annex and Biden's choice for vice (which would be a black women D - you know how they like Israel) is the boss, she could use it to either force Israel into humiliating retraction, or use it to break special relations.

*Bibi is the son of one of Israel's most prominent historians (and the only one not left-wing) and historically literate himself (one of the reasons he's so successful, IMO). He knows what usually happens when a country is hit with plague - no matter the facts, the leader at the time gets blamed and replaced.
**Incidentally, now that I think about it, this could explain some conservatives' irrational reaction to Covid 19. They are, subconsciously, aware of the above political rule and cope by denying pandemic's very existence.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-15 10:12|| 2020-07-15 10:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Not denying, just not rolling around in it like a dog with a skunk's corpse, like some, you know?

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-15 10:16|| 2020-07-15 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 No. I don't know Frank. To me neither the frenzied repetition of long disproved covid-"facts" - probably, originally, spread by China, nor the ad hominem argument - reminiscent of the debating style of the left; make any sense. Finally, your proud refusal to adopt minimal anti-viral precautions (for the sake of other people if not yourself) remind me of shrine-licking Shiites.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-15 10:34|| 2020-07-15 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Since you have absolutely NO IDEA what precautions I take (yes, I wear a mask and more), FUCK off

Posted by Frank G 2020-07-15 10:37|| 2020-07-15 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Fuch binne decan kuchine (Romanian: I do OK when I've somebody to do it with)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-15 10:49|| 2020-07-15 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 But if we annex and Biden's choice for vice (which would be a black women D - you know how they like Israel) is the boss, she could use it to either force Israel into humiliating retraction, or use it to break special relations.

Or Israel could act like a self-determining state without a bully big brother.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-15 18:45|| 2020-07-15 18:45|| Front Page Top

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