Could Israel be so reckless to scupper such a momentous deal as its own normalisation with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco?
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As far as cunning plans go, Israel’s claim that it will annex 80 percent of the West Bank is as bold and as whacky as it gets. But will it work? And perhaps more to the point, is it a threat that they intend to go through with, or is it simply a bluff?
The West Bank often is underreported and rarely gets the media oxygen it deserves. Some might be forgiven that this latest announcement of Israel’s extreme right ministers of intending to annex the West Bank is out of the blue. In fact, the Israelis have been considering the plan for quite some time. If it weren’t for the Hamas attack of October 7th 2023, a longer, more measured policy of allowing settlers to do it for them – with the occasional days of military intervention – might have done the job. Some might even argue that the land grabs and the dirty work of armed settlers there stealing houses and land played a key role in the Hamas attack. But the truth is that the idea is nothing new and that Israel has wanted all along to take more land and control of West Bank and now it has the perfect pretext to do it.
The timing of this announcement is worth a second look. If we are to consider that Israel has made many victorious moves in recent months – decapitating Hezbollah in Lebanon, inheriting Syria and carrying out what some western analysts consider to be a successful strike against Iran – then it is fair to say that the confidence level of Netanyahu and his cronies is at an all time high. The hardcore fanatics on the right will be pushing for him to go ‘all out’ with both Gaza and the West Bank, given that they have Trump in the White House and they might consider anything is possible, given his ignorance and servitude. Let’s take West Bank.
Yet it’s the recent move by a number of EU countries to recognize Palestine which is the driving force behind the stunt. Even though the votes at the UN will be unprecedented as France, the UK, Portugal, Canada and Australia push for the recognition of Palestine, the move will still be blocked by the U.S. – yet the symbolism will still mean something in Palestine’s long road towards having its own state. Israel must teach the Europeans a lesson and the West Bank plan, although quite crude, will be effective in doing that: you push for a Palestinian state, we’ll create our own state in West Bank.
The Israelis probably believe that all it will take is for one of these western countries to retract their zealous plan to support the Palestinian statehood idea and it will fall like a house of cards. They might well be banking on the UK being the weakest link here as even Keir Starmer’s most ardent supporters are doubtful whether he will even stick with his so-called threat of supporting the vote for Palestinian statehood. His record of flip-flopping is unprecedented after all.
Perhaps this is the thinking of sending Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to visit Starmer in London on the coming days.
Yet like nearly everything that Israel does, there appears to be no long-term strategizing. As always, the Zionist entity works on a day-to-day basis and takes each day as it comes. For just as they figure that the West has its weak point – West Bank annexation – they too have their own Achilles heel which the UAE elite know only too well. Just as quickly as the plan was announced in western media, UAE officials were quick to warn that this would be a ‘red line’, hinting that the present Abraham Accords which Abu Dhabi signed up to, would be in tatters if they were to go ahead with it. Could Israel be so reckless to scupper such a momentous deal as its own normalisation with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco – while Saudi Arabia and consider joining also – for a token victory over a handful of EU countries and their disingenuous political posturing? Unlikely.
The reality is that the scam which Israeli is trying to pull off is a massive bluff which can easily backfire. While it has won the ‘war’ in Gaza on many levels and is achieving its objectives in West Bank it has lost the media war as hundreds of millions of people around the world simply cannot accept the level of biblical depravity the savages in power in Israel have sunk to with the genocide and ethnic cleansing which is going on in both Gaza and West Bank. An entire generation which has seen the Hollywood portrayal of the Holocaust in such films as Schindler’s List and believe they got their heads around what the Nazis did in WWII cannot understand the horrors of bombing women and children in tents or starving them to death. It simply goes over a line of rationale comprehension and has shown the world what Israel is actually capable of and the West Bank ruse is really an example of how poorly attuned Netanyahu and his cabal are to how the world sees them and how western media no longer has the power that it had twenty years ago when Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip.
