Trump May Recognise West Bank as Israeli Land After Jerusalem & Golan – Analyst

• Trump May Recognise West Bank as Israeli Land After Jerusalem & Golan – Analyst
  by Ekaterina Blinova, https://sputniknews.com/
  The Israeli elections on 9 April resulted in the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu, who was officially appointed as the country’s prime minister on 17 April. Speaking to Sputnik, Israeli publicist Avigdor Eskin shared his opinion on what to expect from the Netanyahu cabinet in the near future.
  –
  Avigdor Eskin, an Israeli political analyst and publicist who predicted Netanyahu’s victory back in November 2018, believes that Washington and Tel Aviv will continue to strengthen Israel’s positions in the region following the de facto recognition of Jerusalem on 14 May 2018 and Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights on 25 March 2019.
  –
  “I anticipate Israeli official recognition of towns and villages on the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) as a part of the state and I also anticipate US recognition. We will also see the attempts to negotiate with Gaza. Egypt will play an important role”, the Israeli publicist foresees.
  –
  The West Bank and the Gaza Strip have remained disputed lands along with the Golan Heights since the Six-Day War of 1967. The United Nations and the EU view the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza as “occupied Palestinian territories”. For the last two decades, the international community supported the establishment of a Palestinian state as the way to solve the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  –
  However, earlier, commenting on a long-anticipated Trump “peace plan”, American Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt dismissed the use of the term “two-state solution” in the upcoming talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, saying that each side understood it differently.
  –
  read more.

end