Israel's Smotrich Rejects Saudi Normalization

@Northwest Thugs who attack West Bank Palestinians are a tiny percentage of all settlers. You also have to be careful of your sources. Some of these attacks are instigated by Palestinians, who only start filming after the settlers retaliate.

Annexing the West Bank would put the entire area under Israeli control. Israel currently controls only Area C, with Area B jointly administered by the PA and Israel, and with Area A exclusively under PA control, per the Oslo Accords. Annexation would end this and amount to an enormous undertaking on Israel's part that its population and military are unprepared to take on.

The amount of predictions in this war has been unprecedented, and Trump's statements haven't helped (for example, that he will expel everyone from Gaza and turn it into a resort).

@LeopoldBloom My people don't interact much with the Likudniks, but nevertheless the reality today, is the Knesset, with its two procedural votes yesterday, paved 50% of the way toward annexation of the West Bank. And that's the only thing that counts.

@Northwest Let's wait and see if it actually happens.

@jshm2 MBS can complain when he washes Jamal Khashoggi's blood stains off his white robe.

@jshm2 And yet Israel and Saudi have been collaborating behind the scenes for years.