The Implications of Israel Annexation Plan of Jordan Valley

May 30, 2020 | Ayman Matar
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revived an old Zionist ambition to annex Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Jordan Valley region, planned by the Israeli general Yigal Allon one year after the 1967 war, with the false assumptions of providing security to the already nuclear power Israel. This move is in clear violation of UN Resolutions 242, 338 and other international laws. 

In January 2020, US President Donald Trump unveiled his fully biased Israel-Palestine peace plan (Deal of the Century) which proposed that Israel annex parts of the West Bank in exchange for the recognition of a fragmented Palestinian state with no control over its borders or airspace. Both Netanyahu and his coalition partner Bennie Gantz have pledged to annex the Jordan Valley region if they are able to form government, this issue is hugely popular with the Israeli right-wing, which views the territory as rightfully belonging to the Jewish people on religious and historic grounds, regardless of its implications on Israel’s future as a Jewish democracy.