Pompeo travels to Israel to give U.S. blessing to annexation of West Bank land

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo headed to Jerusalem on Tuesday to bolster besieged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bestow a U.S. blessing on his country’s proposed de facto annexation of West Bank land claimed by Palestinians.

To avoid what would have been the fourth national election in a little over a year, Netanyahu and his chief rival, retired army Gen. Benny Gantz, agreed to share power for the next several years. The agreement could clear the way for the new government to extend Israeli sovereignty over large parts of the occupied West Bank, which Palestinians want for a future independent state.

The Trump administration, reversing decades of U.S. foreign policy, is ready to welcome Israel’s unilateral annexation of the Jewish settlements, despite fierce opposition by Palestinians, senior U.S. officials said. Pompeo’s visit seems designed to give that approval.“There’s always a lot to talk about with the Israelis,” assistant secretary of State for the Near East, David Schenker, said when asked about the timing of the trip.

It could also undermine the already-weak Palestinian Authority, the leadership of West Bank Palestinians that has refused to even speak to the Trump administration after its various pro-Israel moves, including the transfer of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a city also claimed by the Palestinians as their capital.The Trump plan would leave a Swiss-cheese patchwork of Palestinian villages that most experts say could not form a viable state.

“Israel can do almost everything it wants,” said Arieli, also a senior advisor to two-state advocate Israel Policy Forum. “Only the U.S. has leverage on Israel, and if they are on [Israel’s] side, the right wing can do everything it wants to cancel the viability of a two-state solution.”The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has said that the U.S. would recognize annexation “within weeks.”

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The United States did not give the Boers blessings to: • take indigenous lands • pass apartheid laws President BarackObama did not give the Israelis blessings to: • take indigenous Palestine lands • pass apartheid laws making Israel for Jews only

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