Former Knesset speaker says Trump stopped West Bank annexation plan

Former Knesset speaker says Trump stopped West Bank annexation plan

News July 6, 2020
Former Knesset speaker says Trump stopped West Bank annexation plan
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- US President Donald Trump has stopped the implementation of the Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley, the former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Abraham Borg, said according to Anadolu. During an interview with Italian daily "Il Fatto Quotidiano", Borg said that Trump stopped the implementation of the annexation plan as he doesn’t have enough time to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in implementing the annexation of the West Bank and Jordan Valley." Borg described both Netanyahu and Trump as suffering from a narcissistic paranoia, with no scrupulous ethics who are ready to roll over anyone to save themselves and remain in power. Answering a question about another expected date for the implementation of the annexation plan, Borg said "it is very difficult, if not impossible, to set expectations to the annexation, because there is no transparency in this plan and no one knows its details." Netanyahu announced that the occupation state would start annexing parts of the West Bank and Jordan valley to Israel as of July 1. Although of the Israeli unspoken implementation of the plan on the ground, it was met by an international rejection. International law considers both the West Bank and East Jerusalem as occupied territories and all Israeli settlement-building activity there as illegal.

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