Rubio Warns Against Annexing West Bank, Preserving Trump's 'Plan'
Rubio, ever the voice of strategic profundity, voiced alarm over Israel's Knesset advancing a bill to apply Israeli law to the occupied West Bank. His concern? That this might upset Trump's vision for the region, a vision which, for a Palestinian, largely involved land grabs and the effective erasure of their sovereignty. Meanwhile, the Independent reports on the “potential damage” this annexation
could inflict on a “long-shot US diplomatic effort.” For context, Rubio has received over $100,000 from pro-Israel PACs over his career, including $39,700 from NORPAC and $16,700 from Pro-Israel America, according to OpenSecrets.org data up to 2022. One might charitably infer his priorities are less about Palestinian rights and more about maintaining a particular diplomatic chessboard arrangement
palatable to certain donors. The sheer audacity of fretting about a 'Trump plan' while the West Bank is fragmented daily by settlements is a geopolitical masterclass in misdirection. How many times must land be 'annexed' or 'settled' before the 'peace process' alarm bells cease being mere fashion accessories? It appears the 'risk' here isn't to human rights or international law, but to the optics
of a 'deal' that was never designed for anything beyond further dispossession.