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Bibi Renews Pledge to Annex WB Settlements

Bibi Renews Pledge to Annex WB Settlements
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By Staff, Agencies

The “Israeli” entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday renewed his pledge to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank as he sought to shore up right-wing support ahead of a September 17 election.

Netanyahu and his Likud party have been working to maximize turnout and wrest votes from other right-wing parties close to the influential settlement movement.

"With the help of God we will apply Jewish sovereignty to all communities, as part of the [biblical] Land of ‘Israel’, and as part of the state of ‘Israel’," he told an audience at the West Bank settlement of Elkana.

He made the same promise ahead of the last election in April, but the results left him unable to form a viable governing coalition and he opted for a fresh poll for September 17.

“Israeli” settlements are viewed as illegal under international law and as major obstacles to the “Israeli”-Palestinian resolution since they lie on land the Palestinians see as part of their future state.

Annexation on a large-scale could prove to be the death knell for their statehood ambitions.

Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called on the international community to take action after Netanyahu's comments.

"Those who claim concern after every ‘Israeli’ settlement announcement should face reality: ‘Israel's’ PM is announcing further annexation of occupied territory," he wrote on Twitter.

"Enough impunity: There’s an international responsibility to impose sanctions on ‘Israel’ after decades of systematic crimes."

The settlers are a major plank of support for Netanyahu's government, viewed as the most right-wing in the entity’s history.

More than 400,000 “Israeli” settlers live in West Bank settlements, while a further 200,000 live in settlements in occupied east al-Quds [Jerusalem] over which the “Israeli” entity has already unilaterally imposed full sovereignty.

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