Even though Trump has said he is ‘against annexation,’ the Israeli right will not stop until it has claimed sovereignty over what was affectionately known as an ‘occupation,’ but is in reality a mass expulsion
Israel’s government has managed to extract official opposition to annexation from U.S. President Donald Trump. “I am against annexation,” the U.S. president told the Israeli journalist Barak Ravid in an interview, adding: “We have enough things to think about now. We don’t need to be dealing with the West Bank.”