In the lead-up to Israel’s national elections last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, publicly floated the idea of annexation of the biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria — or what most of the “international community” refers to as the “West Bank.” At the time, some believed that Netanyahu, who had sometimes previously spoken of annexation but had never taken meaningful steps to act upon it, simply needed to court staunchly right-wing votes for his Likud Party and hemorrhage as few votes as possible to smaller parties aligned further to the right of Likud.
Jewish Telegraph Agency analyzed Netanyahu’s flirtation with annexing large swaths of Judea and Samaria, finding a logical comparison to the United States’ recent formal recognition of Israeli control of the strategic Golan Heights border region:
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