Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that “the time has come” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

He made the comment a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that he has spoken three times with Trump since the election and that they “see eye to eye on the Iranian threat.

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we're about to see something really shocking and ugly aren't we. more so than usual I mean

No, I've been told a Trump victory couldn't make anything worse for Palestine. This should just be status quo stuff here.

Indeed, because "Genocide Joe" and so on, argle bargle. The voters that sat out because of this, or worse, outright voted for donvict will have a lot to answer for. I mean, if they actually give a shit about Palestinians and didn't really just want to be Above It All (TM).

I like argle bargle. I shall use it

I mean it is the status quo. Israel's current move will only make the "facts on the ground" official.