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07/07/2020
| | Annexation: What happened (and didn’t) on July 1? Amjad Iraqi - +972 - In a +972 webinar, experts Diana Buttu and Emily Schaeffer
Omer-Man shared key lessons and ways forward in the fight against Israeli
annexation [ry] | | | Israel Announces 164 New Illegal Settlement Units in Bethlehem IMEMC Staff - “Israel has officially postponed the annexation of nearly 30 percent
of the occupied West Bank, given Palestinian, Arab and international pressure.
Yet, Israeli officials have signaled their determination to go ahead with the
annexation plan” [ry] | | | Palestine in Pictures: June 2020 EI - “Two dozen Palestinians have died by Israeli fire so far this year. One Israeli,
a soldier, was killed in the context of the occupation during the same period” [ry] | | | In Israeli settlements, money is on annexation real estate boom Alexandra Vardi and Claire Gounon - AFP News - Yahoo! news - "It`s gonna be a
big market, we`ll need to get ready, work hard for this opportunity" [ry] | | | Area C, the chunk of the West Bank the Israeli right has long coveted Marc Daou - France24 - Encouraged by US President Donald Trump’s so-called
“deal of the century”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in a
position to start his controversial West Bank annexation plan since July 1. The
prime, fertile Jordan Valley, located in the West Bank’s Area C are in the Israeli
leader’s sights and have long been coveted by his hard-right supporters [ry] | | | Israel Is Trying To Provoke Iran To Start a War Muhammad Sahimi - AntiWar - "The net result of Israel’s efforts to provoke a
war with Iran is that the Iranian people must constantly wage battle in multiple
fronts: against Iran’s hardliners; against the destructive effect of the US illegal
sanctions and their effect on Iran’s economy and their daily lives, and against
the threat of a war with Israel and/or the United States that no one in Iran, even
the hardliners, want" [ry] | | | Palestinians protest against Israel’s planned annexation Adam Adada - Al Jazeera - "Palestinians took to the streets to protest against
Israel`s declared intention to annex parts of the already illegally occupied West
Bank, a move that was said to begin on July 1" [ry] | | | Biden’s toothless position on Israeli annexation: another Middle East mistake? Henry Siegman - Responsible Statecraft - Chemi Shalev, who has been
regaling his readership in Haaretz with his excellent reporting on
Israel’s and America’s political realities, recently warned Israelis
that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden just fired
“an annexation warning shot across Bibi’s bow.” It was “a bolt from
the blue,” Shalev wrote, that may herald a new American determination
to preserve the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Shalev was referring to Biden’s criticism, in a speech he
made to a group of Jewish Democratic donors, of Netanyahu’s
determination to annex not only the illegal Jewish settlements, but
larger parts of the West Bank that would deny Palestinians statehood
and national self-determination. Unfortunately, Shalev could not have
been more mistaken. Biden’s statement that elicited Shalev’s optimism
was anything but a “warning shot.” It was his assurance to his
contributors that nothing will change. For Biden explicitly ruled out
denying Israel’s government the vast financial aid it receives from
the United States, not only for its security needs but also for
securing its occupation and disenfranchisement of the Palestinians.
(rh)
| | | US Jews will ‘pay a special price’ for annexation as ‘we are held responsible for Israeli policies’ — Greenblatt PHILIP WEISS - Mondoweiss - American Jews will “pay a special price”
for Israeli annexation of occupied lands because we “are held
responsible” for Israel’s actions, Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-
Defamation League, warned on Tuesday. Greenblatt spoke in a forum
opposing annexation because it forecloses negotiations for a
Palestinian state. He said that annexation “will absolutely create
challenges and tensions as it relates to the different segments of
the Jewish population here in the United States and I think across
the diaspora." (rh) | | | Black Lives Matter and lessons from Palestine Yoav Litvin - Aljazeera - On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man,
was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Floyd`s murder was the latest in a normalised history of
police abuse of Black, brown, Native American, immigrant and other
marginalised communities, carried out with impunity and encouraged by
the racist incitement of United States President Donald Trump and his
white supremacist administration. In response to the murder, people
took to the streets against endemic police brutality, which enforces
the systemic white supremacist subjugation of Black Americans.
Solidarity protests were held across the world, including in the
United Kingdom, Denmark, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Palestine,
Greece, Germany and elsewhere. As these spontaneous, grassroots
protests were met with savage, occupation-style crackdowns by police
- and as military forces and the mainstream media and political
elites tried to smear protesters as "looters" and "thugs", it was
difficult not to draw parallels between this fight against anti-Black
racism and the Palestinian struggle. (rh)
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