cover image: November 2020 - Discussing Annexation Scenarios: A Regional Perspective Zoom conference, September 16, 2020

November 2020 - Discussing Annexation Scenarios: A Regional Perspective Zoom conference, September 16, 2020

17 Nov 2020

Eventually, these considering that instead of building trust between the efforts led to the signing of the ‘Abraham Accords’ conflict parties it continues to deepen disputes and and the normalization of diplomatic and economic allows Israel to establish facts on the ground, while relations between Israel on the one hand and the completely ignoring Palestinian demands. [...] However, given a strong of the Israeli European Policy Network (IEPN) and support for Israel by the core Republican constituency co-organised by the European Institute of the and the Zionist evangelical forces, the cornerstone of Mediterranean on September 16th, 2020, focused on Trump’s electoral base, it is unlikely that the window the probability of annexation in light of recent events. [...] In all probability, some form of small and lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, all slow action is more conceivable- continuing with the the efforts and investment conducted by European deepening of the overarching control of Israel over partners to support the two state solution, the Palestinian lives under a growingly dysfunctional existence of the Authority and the welfare of Pale. [...] In 2018, The GDP occupation and the EU taking on large parts of the per capita in the West Bank is only 12.1% of the GDP costs of this occupation. [...] However, the In the case where the Palestinian Authority collapses potential leverage of the Palestinians is virtually non- in response to an Israeli decision to annex some parts existent since the accords symbolize the demise of the of the West Bank, the economic costs for Israel would Arab Peace Initiative- no to peace or normalization until amount to 52 billion NIS per year.
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