As NBC News reports,Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in the Israeli elections — which marks his fifth term as prime minister — means that a two-state solution might not be as feasible. Specifically, most of the lawmakers in Netanyahu’s government oppose the removal of Jewish settlements on the land that Palestinians want to consume for a future state.
Not only that, or but Netanyahu announced that he would annex settlements in the West Bank which Israel captured in 1967 — just days before the elections.
Hady Amr,a former deputy head for the Middle East at the U.
S. Agency for International Development, believes this is a big deal.“Although it may just be campaign sloganeering, and we all need to be clear that Israeli sovereignty over all the Israeli settlements would earn it impossible to create a Palestinian state.” “The difficulty of separation — and the likelihood of annexation — is growing stronger by day,” he added.
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Source: inquisitr.com