Days before Israelis head to vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if victorious, he will extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, a demand long sought by Israel’s extreme right-wing settler movement.
The Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov, foreground, in east Jerusalem and Israel's barrier separating the Palestinian neighborhood of al-Ram, background, in the West Bank.
Following the end of the British Mandate, Jordan won the West Bank during the 1948 war that saw the founding of Israel. Its annexation of the land in 1950 was recognized only by Iraq, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. “If we learned anything,” he said, in a reference to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, after which it was violently overtaken by the Islamist paramilitary group Hamas in 2007, “it is that if you abandon territory, extremist radical Islam and Iran step in, and I am not about to hand over the heart of Israel.”
But the Palestinians, buffeted by two years of disintegrating relations with the Trump administration, which recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital with no mention of their claims to a future capital in East Jerusalem, and the complete severance of traditional American financial support, were quick to condemn Netanyahu’s vow.
In its most recent report, released in March, days ahead of Trump’s surprise recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the State Department referred to it as “Israeli-controlled.” While Trump hobnobbed in Las Vegas, Netanyahu, in the television interview, recalled the same event somewhat differently.
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