Israel Will Annex the West Bank in Coming Weeks: Seymour Hersh
Donald Trump has named a Cabinet that could have been hand-picked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel will formally annex the West Bank in the “very near future – perhaps in two weeks” to kill any talk of a two-state solution and “convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza,” Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist posted on his Substack, citing a “well-informed Washington official.”
Top Israeli officials have celebrated Donald Trump’s election in the U.S. and see their best possibility ever in annexing the occupied West Bank, which has long been the goal of the Israeli government.
Trump, who billed himself during the entire campaign as a savior for Israel, has compiled a Cabinet and staff filled with pro-Israel religious extremists.
Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
He named Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, as his ambassador to Israel. Huckabee, a former pastor, once told an Israeli news outlet that annexing the West Bank is possible, but the policy hasn’t been set.
He has also said Israel has a “title deed” over all its land that is “God-given,” and that “No American president should ever put the pressure on Israel to give up land that God gave them the title deed to.”
Huckabee has also spoken out against any call for a two-state solution.
“I consider [the two-state solution] no solution whatsoever,” he told the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington in 2015. He continued, “The United States needs to finally make a definitive statement … [that] we know who our peace partner in the Middle East is, and it is Israel.”
He also said there is no such thing as an occupation.
“There is no such thing as settlements…they’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There is no such thing as an occupation,” he said.
The International Court of Justice ruled last month that Israel’s continued occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a “de facto annexation” enforced through “systemic discrimination, segregation, and apartheid.”
The court called on Israel to mandate the “evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements and the dismantling of the parts of the wall constructed by Israel that are situated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as allowing all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their original place of residence.”
Netanyahu responded to the ruling, stating that the “Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land, including in our eternal capital Jerusalem nor in Judea and Samaria, our historical homeland.”
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister and top settler (land-stealer), told reporters that Trump’s win opens the door for a lot of possibilities.
“2025 [is] the year of sovereignty in ‘Judea and Samaria’,” referencing the West Bank. “I have instructed the Settlement Division in the Ministry of Defense and the Civil Administration to begin professional and comprehensive work to prepare the necessary infrastructure for applying sovereignty.”
Trump also tapped Fox News’ weekend host Pete Hegseth, a Christian fundamentalist, to head the Defense Department; Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to head the State Department; and Steve Witkoff, an American-Jewish real estate mogul, who will take the role as Middle East envoy.
“The Israeli right is thinking of moving Independence Day to November 13,” Nadav Shtrauchler, a political strategist who has worked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told the Financial Times. “They could not have dreamt of appointments like these… it’s a major blessing.”
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, told Israeli Army Radio that the appointments project “strength, determination, and this is a good thing for the U.S. but also good for us.”
“This doesn’t mean that everything we want they’ll say yes, but I think the attitude will be that of someone who understands,” he said.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, criticized Smotrich’s comments and said they appear to be a “clear step towards illegal annexation,” according to the Financial Times.
Even Israel’s closest allies in the region like the UAE and Saudi Arabia have expressed doubts about normalization if Israel rejects a two-state solution in favor of a land grab.
The WSJ, citing the Saudi Foreign Ministry, noted that Riyad said any statements about annexing the West Bank “undermines peace efforts.”
Matt Brooks, the chief executive of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called Trump’s picks for his Cabinet—including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for secretary of state, “a true dream team for those who care about a strong, vibrant, unshakable U.S.-Israel relationship,” according to The New York Times.
Layla Elabed, a founder of Uncommitted, a group that abandoned Kamala Harris over the Biden administration’s support for genocide, told the paper that Trump made overtures to the Arab community in the U.S., but it seems as though it was just an act.
“Trump’s team lied to a community in anger and despair? Isn’t that his whole thing?” she asked.
Kind of totally correct what I wrote before.
The Jewish War against the World
With love from Satan we shall inherit the Earth
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-jewish-war-against-the-world
When do you realize that what I am telling you for years...
What the Jews do to this world they have done 100 years ago to Germany.
To the letter!
They might as well. They control everything that goes on it there As the jewish supremacists expand their power, they'll come for America's assets.