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Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank (www.foreignaffairs.com)
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Israel’s far right seems to believe that destroying Palestinian governance will afford Israel more strength. On the contrary—it is a mistake that will become expensive, bloody, and self-destructive as it accelerates the cycles of resentment and violence. And Washington, too, stands to lose a great deal by turning a blind eye to the West Bank: the PA’s collapse will remove any plausible path toward the kind of regional stabilization and effective postwar settlement on which the Trump administration has staked much of its foreign policy legacy.

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[–] 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

"Quietly" meaning that Western media are currently tired of the conflict and busy with something else. A cycle that has repeated countless times.

it is a mistake that will become expensive, bloody, and self-destructive as it accelerates the cycles of resentment and violence

Totally agree. Look back at the past 8 decades of this conflict and all the other horrors unleashed at least partly through America's attempts to "stabilize" the area. The only thing they seem to have learned is "we need more guns".

PS: "Quietly" also means that most Palestinian journalists are - dead.

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