LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday his country has the “full right” to annex the Jordan Valley, despite a warning from the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor against the move.
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Netanyahu said his proposal to annex the strategic part of the occupied West Bank was discussed during a late-night meeting in Lisbon, Portugal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
In a report Thursday, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said her office was following “with concern” the Israeli proposal. But Netanyahu told reporters it was Israel’s “full right to do so, if we choose so.”
Netanyahu also said that during his meeting with Pompeo they agreed to move forward with plans for a joint defense treaty.
Netanyahu, beleaguered by a corruption indictment and political instability at home, is promoting the two initiatives as a rationale for his staying in office.
The Trump administration has already delivered a number of landmark victories to Netanyahu, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights.
Just like how the US said that Iraqi soldiers were killing babies in incubators under Geoege H. W. Bush and how Saddam had weapons of mass destruction under George W. Bush. Both of which were lies.
It looks like Trump is going to continue to lie the US into war just like the last two Republican presidents.
Will this annexation happen in time for all the new Israeli citizens can vote in the next election?
PM Netanyahu does not need to annex anything. Israel is already the only legal sovereign to all land west of the Jordan River, including Gaza. See Legal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine under International Law, by the late legal scholar, Howard Grief, obm at http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/02-issue/grief-2.htm