10 September 2019 - 19:01Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, September 10 2019. He has pledged to apply Israeli sovereignty over West Bank's Jordan Valley if re-elected. Picture: MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
The Trump administration will unveil its plan for Middle East peace days after Israel’s September 17 election, and that presents Israel with “a historic, onetime chance to extend Israeli sovereignty over our settlements in Judea and Samaria, and also to other areas important to our security, our heritage, and our future”, he said.
More than 400,000 Israelis live in more than 120 settlements, which together with roads and other support systems account for about 60% of the West Bank. Annexation would deal a body blow to the Palestinians’ dreams of establishing an independent state with the West Bank as its heartland. “If Prime Minister Netanyahu is allowed to implement his plans of annexation, he would have succeeded in burying even any chance of peace between Palestinians and Israelis,” said Saeb Erekat, a peace negotiator and now secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. “The Israeli, the international community must stop such madness. We need to end the conflict and not to keep it for another 100 years.
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