Netanyahu Party's 'Trolling' Claims: Annexation is Only Bad When Rivals Do It
Bloomberg reports that Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is rebuffing a West Bank annexation bill as 'trolling' from rivals. Apparently, annexing Palestinian land, a policy championed by Netanyahu's governments for decades—from expanding settlements to declaring sovereignty over the Golan Heights in 1981 (reaffirmed under Trump's 2019 declaration)—is only problematic when someone else proposes it.
This alleged 'trolling' by his rivals (who likely received similar funding from groups like AIPAC, which spent $1.9 million influencing elections in 2022, according to OpenSecrets.org) It's almost as if the only issue isn't the illegal annexation itself, but who gets credit for it. The US State Department, which offers 'remonstration' while sending billions in aid, seems to play along with this
performative outrage. How many "peace plans" must be sabotaged by endless settlement expansion and legislative grandstanding before the media acknowledges the 'trolling' is, in fact, the policy?