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Ran Halévi: "Israel: why the Jordan annexation project was abandoned"

2020-07-15T19:35:08.510Z


TRIBUNE - The curious project to annex the Jordan Valley and the enclaves in the West Bank, finally abandoned by Netanyahu, appeared to contradict the policy hitherto followed by the Israeli state, analyzes the historian *.


No annexation, therefore, by Israel of the Jordan Valley and the enclaves in the West Bank. The plan to extend Israeli sovereignty over these territories from July 1 had agitated chancelleries, the media, Israeli opinion and subscribers of anti-Zionism for months. The mountain ended up giving birth to a mouse. Rarely has a non-event caused such uproar before it did not occur and disappear from the conversations.

Curious debate, since neither the details nor the details of this phantom annexation were known: no card was presented to the Knesset, the army, even the government. On the eve of the fateful date, we still did not know what to expect. Finally, July 1 came, then went away, as if nothing had happened. And not a word of official explanation, no declaration, the page was turned. And then the Israelis had their heads elsewhere with the explosion, uncontrollable, of a second wave of the epidemic

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Source: lefigaro

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