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Germany accuses Israel of annexation

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Germany sharply criticized Israel's measures extending control over the West Bank, calling them a "de facto annexation," after Israel moved to tighten oversight of West Bank archaeological sites.

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Every single president of the United States since Lyndon Baines Johnson has expressed public and private opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, but every single president since LBJ has also greenlit unconditional support while Israel annexes it anyway.
Exclusive: Trump says he opposes Israeli annexation steps in West Bank
"We have enough things to think about now. We don't need to be dealing with the West Bank."
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February 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM

by Tim Stephens

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“The Albanese government has condemned Israel’s move to expand settlement construction in the West Bank.”

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Australia condemns Israeli settlements as Herzog arrives in Canberra
The Israeli security cabinet agreed over the weekend make it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land and extend Israeli control in the occupied West Bank.
www.smh.com.au
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM

by Edward Witten

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘A step in the wrong direction’: Israel’s West Bank plans prompt global backlash
US, Britain, EU and Arab nations condemn plans that Israeli ministers say will ‘kill the idea of a Palestinian state’
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February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM

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Reposted by Karen O’Leary

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Sophie Scamps MP:
"At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."
February 11, 2026 at 3:08 AM

by Edward Witten

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www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
Israeli minister calls West Bank measures 'de facto sovereignty,' says no to future Palestinian state
The steps “actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state,” Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel’s Army Radio.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM

by Joanna Bryson

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Agree Germany’s unquestioning support of Israel is now problematic, but it’s also to some extent literally in their / our constitution, due to the Holocaust. But so are prohibitions against war crimes, for the same reason. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/09/wort...
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February 11, 2026 at 5:29 AM

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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The exact thing that antizionist/non-Zionist Jews have been warning would happen, is happening — thanks to the Israeli government's insistence that Israel, by definition, speaks for world Jewry and that any criticism of Israeli's policies is antisemitism.

This inevitably LEADS to antisemitism.
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 AM

Reposted by Judea Pearl

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