World should not be silent on Israeli annexation
17-06-2020 17:06
Nine years ago, Ehud Barak, then Israel’s defence minister, warned that the Jewish state faced a “diplomatic tsunami” if it did not come up with an initiative to move the Arab-Israeli peace process forward.
Under Benjamin Netanyahu’s 11-year watch the opposite has happened. As the prime minister has steered Israeli politics ever further to the right, he has championed Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, demonised Palestinians and successfully buried mainstream Israeli debate about the concept of land for peace — for decades the internationally accepted foundation on which a lasting resolution to the conflict was supposed to be built.
