By Tsionizm Staff | May 16, 2020
With Washington’s backing, Israel is planning to move forward [2] on controversial plans to annex a broad swath of the West Bank, particularly the Jordan Valley, as early as this summer. PM Netanyahu last month issued a likely time table [3] of “within two months”.
Arab nations, especially in the gulf, have remained uncharacteristically mum about the whole thing as they focus on countering Iran (which has, it should be noted, actually brought Saudi Arabia into a quiet ‘covert’ intelligence sharing relationship [4] with Israel over the past couple years).
But Jordan on Friday finally went on the offensive, with King Abdullah telling the German magazine Der Spiegel [5] that Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank “will lead to a massive conflict with Jordan”…
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