Trump likely to back selective annexation of West Bank colonies, historian says • FRANCE 24

Israel's far-right finance minister has vowed to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025. Bezalel Smotrich, who is in charge of settlements, said he would push the Israeli government to work with the incoming Trump administration on the matter. FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade is joined by Lorenzo Kamel, Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Turin. He says indications suggest Trump will fully back the selective annexation of West Bank settlements.
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[@ryanwalters6184]

This is not correct. Trump's going to be in favor of all the land not just select areas.

[@comrade9374]

Trump 1st term awarded Israel Jerusalem as capital city so nothing will change

[@Respector-wx9gb]

Good

[@creamofcardstv]

Good luck with implementing that without being labelled a G word state. Be nightmare turning the West Bank into Gaza with all those settlers scattered all over it. Are you going to evacuate them and their families first? World community won't do trade with them for decades after so it will be interesting seeing how the economy does.

[@samisuleiman8071]

@@Respector-wx9gbwhy is that?

[@7ElevenTruther]

His son in law really wants a crack at that mediterranean beach front property on the cheap.

[@nancycole-auguste6614]

This is so wrong. So unjust. Crimes against humanity with big puffed up pride.

[@kennedybarasa6342]

Can you say that to Russia??

[@nageshsharalaya2806]

Same with the pisstine ... They also have a pride with their support to hamas. Let them have it .... Even west bank people have it

[@Respector-wx9gb]

Israel has been jews land for 5000 years... "palestine" is just a 70 years old word... so what do you mean by "unjust" ? palestine as a country, religion doesn't exists and never did. it is a word invented by the british to name the people of the area, nothing more.

[@creamofcardstv]

@@kennedybarasa6342 We're not funding Russia

[@creamofcardstv]

@@Respector-wx9gb yes bot :D

[@NWer-c5u]

By helping elect Trump, this seems to be the future Jill Stein secretly wants, lol.

[@BashirAhmed-wr7lf]

That will aggravate the problem.

[@thor.halsli]

No one cares anymore. The victim card is expired. Move to Jordan

[@MrBoliao98]

No, why should Jordanian Citizens be sitting in the West Bank, it's no longer sovereign Jordanian territory. Those who are aggressive and doing something with their life would have moved to Amman a long time ago. There's a reason the West Bank population of Arabs is so controlled.

[@tamayaytam]

No it won't. Problem will be solved. Go play on the sand.

[@lolabunny9013]

Oh well that’s what people voted for , Muslims in Michigan ,Uncommitted voters and non voters got what they wanted. No Harris /Biden. Now just deal with a Trump presidency. Blame people like Mayor Amer Ghalib who stood beside Trump and happily endorsed him. He essentially signed his own people’s demise. Let them figure it out.

[@Alchemy_life]

​@@MrBoliao98 the next day China will annex Taiwan. The world follow international law, not Trump's circus.

[@Gaurav-jw5je]

Hypocrite west😅

[@az-rule84]

There will be no peace if this happen

[@brentderkson6858]

Irans about to get toasted...Then what will you do

[@appletree6741]

I think there would be no peace if ceasefires were implemented as UN and Guterres wanted. Just another round of battle coming

[@babosing]

Do you not realize they do not want peace?

[@igaltalianski1976]

Whats your plan for peace

[@az-rule84]

@igaltalianski1976 abandon zionst project and live side bybside with everyone with equal rights. Juat like a multicultural and multi ethnic in Malaysia.

[@jeanyvestheriault8362]

Never forget money is power, so nothing is surprising at the moment, very sad tho!

[@wahdbz5036]

Trump doesn't have the right to give anything he doesn't own to anybody.

[@abahfelix4782]

Annex the land from which country? From Jordan?

[@appletree6741]

Jordan has more than 50% Palestinian population - they already have a state

[@RZakelis]

@@appletree6741 who the heck those Palestinians?The same Arabs as in Jordan.

[@gertstraatenvander4684]

Hate speech. Denyoing the existence of an entire people is the first stage in genocide.

[@NubiansNapata]

​@@RZakelistechnically Jordanians Lebanese Palestinians all descendants of bronze age levantine. That means they're more native to the land all whyt European and American combine 😂. Palestinian and Jordanians are what Whyt jews from Europe and America wish they were. Native levantine people. Literally Europeans larping as middle Easterners

[@traccas01]

The comment made by Sabri Saidman at approx 1:10 could just as easily been said by Israel about Palestinians and their "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." message. The situation here is a lot more complex than a lot of people realise, and stretches back for thousands of years.

[@andrewnielsen6498]

France's opinion is inconsequential.

[@Jouantiese]

Wholly so..

[@HenryAndersen]

Shame.

[@wahdbz5036]

He who doesn't own the land wants to give it to who he doesn't deserve.

[@lv3609]

I will have to review my popcorn budget for 2 months + 2025 🤔 🤣🤣🤣

[@islandgirl101]

Hmmm...Ocr 7th only looked good in theory, huh?

[@creamofcardstv]

Netanyahu knew about it more than a year in advance. He doesn't care much about his people. I wouldn't trust him :D

[@JacobRashap]

Judea and Samaria* Returning home*

[@SGOV86]

Exactly!👏🏾

[@mohamedhiddou1612]

Keep dreaming bot

[@olgakessel4101]

@@mohamedhiddou1612 Jews occupying Judea this is laughable

[@NubiansNapata]

Returning to whyt Jews from Europe and America. 😂😂 What a joke. They're nothing but Europeans larping as middle Easterners. Even netanyahu is polish

[@quinhaz7692]

No way in hell!!! That WILL ignite a regional war in the Middle East/West Asia. I don't think Trump is that stupid.

[@wahdbz5036]

Mahmoud abbas has to go. He's doing nothing for the Palestinians.

[@contra18765]

France talking about colonisation while having so many colonies in many parts of the world is quite laughable 😅

[@khairulhelmihashim2510]

all French colonies residents able to elect and send their representative to French assembly. In West Bank, Palestinians have no say in Israel Knesset despite total border control by Israel.

[@MarincaGheorghe]

Where exactly do they maintain "colonies". Your friend poopin is the only one actively trying that now.

[@appletree6741]

Especially since unlike France the jews actually have a historical connection to their land

[@contra18765]

@@khairulhelmihashim2510 so what exactly is PLA and Hamas?

[@keepsauce]

atleast they don't expel them from their house.

[@Krack2805]

"selective"? what lol

[@JohnOmbiah-vn7qf]

It is called Yudea and Samaria, not West Bank, and belongs to the nation of Israel

[@bogumilaskowron2680]

No ot is called West Bank and belong to the Palestinans

[@JohnOmbiah-vn7qf]

@bogumilaskowron2680 is nothing like Palestinians.. there are Arabs, Palestinian is a toxic ideology to rob Israelis of their land. Why West Bank, western bank of which river and why in named in English not Arabic?

[@JohnOmbiah-vn7qf]

@bogumilaskowron2680 There are no Palestinians, only tribal Arabs from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc

[@bogumilaskowron2680]

@ No liar,there are Palestinans but there are not israelis only invaders from eu and usa

[@JohnOmbiah-vn7qf]

@@bogumilaskowron2680 Palestinian is a toxic ideology not real

[@FalconfromRF]

And so there should be same peace in Ukraine, too.

[@deshaun9473]

Literally only one person in the government has said this, and he doesn't speak for the whole cabinet, government, or people of Israel.

[@happymelon7129]

😂 but accuse other of human rights

[@mobilariorayos8067]

does this mean all voters should blame themselves for not backing Cornel West?

[@Paul-qg3iw]

Buckle up and bring the pop corn, this new Administration is going to be a ride....

[@TheCaniblcat]

@@lu544 got my crash helmet.

[@cesaralexander7311]

Hamas started it, According to islam itself spoils of war like land , women, gold all belong to the victorious.

[@CosmaFlorian-f9z]

according to those that didn't know about Israel and Palestine before 7th October

[@keepsauce]

🤖 here we go one more zionist bot🤖

[@Valkyri3Z]

you gotta ask yourself why you were kicked out from every country ..what is it about you that makes everyone so against you ? LOL I think everyone knows why.

[@olgakessel4101]

@@Valkyri3Z I think everyone know now that you antisemit, and have low education because people who is not like anyone else always be persecuted, gypsies for example

[@AbaddonianG]

What's this " International community " people keep referring to ?

[@creamofcardstv]

Simples, if no one trades with you then goodbye economy. Good luck with foraging in a desert :D

[@tamayaytam]

A group of whining arabs.

[@Commander99ash]

YOOOO WOW

[@salliewhite-bishton5394]

If course Trumpy will support any annexation. His son-in-law some time ago was flaunting his desires of creating a resort by the sea in Gaza.

[@Ddy-ks6iw]

As an African I 100% stand with Israel, enough Islamic expansion! That land was called Judea & Samaria before the Arabs invaded & evicted the Jews.

[@adamharris1406]

You are a witness to that?

[@martillodelajusticia7211]

Arabization doesn't mean everyone is arab, was a process as there is as much conextion for palestiniams genetecally to that land as some were cannanites or comverted chritians and muslims or othr groups near the region, as miszrahi jews probably

[@manchesterunitedfirst8274]

@Ddy-ks6iw, you sound like an extremist.

[@NubiansNapata]

As an African u are daft

[@musakazir5496]

Brainwashed African you can not think for himself but always follow the narrative his slave master. The germans are still paying reparations to isreal but the Africans who were brutally colonized are told to forgive and forget. People like you ate the ones that make africans submissive to the narrative of the Europeans all the time

[@politicas3361]

It's too late. Judea and Samaria are now a defacto part of Israel.

[@musakazir5496]

Keep dreaming😂😂😂

[@barcode6495]

Sunshine who ever you are. Had Israel lost the 6 day war they would have nothing. That is war land of a war Israel did not start. That land is Israel. You studied history. Where bro. Where??? Let me know where you studied history not to go there

[@creamofcardstv]

One celled organisms were there billions of years before

[@hourbee5535]

Judea and Samaria. Get it correct.

[@joexavier4070]

No,westbank as per Wikipedia and un

[@thor.halsli]

​@@joexavier4070It's all Israel. They can move to Jordan

[@appletree6741]

@@AndreasNeumann-xz6jd*owned 2000 ys ago and now own again

[@joexavier4070]

@@appletree6741 if that is true then africa owns whole world 🌎

[@creamofcardstv]

@@appletree6741 One celled organisms were there before you and probably more peaceful. Perhaps we should hand them the keys :D

[@MrBoliao98]

They can rid the West Bank, most of the people there are Jordanian Citizens. Did you not wonder why Gaza has 2.4million while the West Bank has just 2 Million Arabs, it's because most are in Amman.

[@JaysonEagle-l5p]

And we civilised people can obey international law And won't have to spend money on the military industrial complexes

[@Jouantiese]

Without the military industrial complexes your life would be everything but civilised, regardless of your imaginary ' international law ' .

[@YahuahChild777]

israel will be the great empire all will bow before us

[@AndreasNeumann-xz6jd]

History has a habit of repeating itself... Don't be so sure...

[@appletree6741]

You’re not a Jew

[@creamofcardstv]

Empires are getting shorter and shorter :D Yours will be less than a century

[@YahuahChild777]

@@appletree6741 l oke you denied yahusha but you are german dude

[@sb2406]

That region it's called Judea & Samaria since 3500 years, not West Bank neither of course Palestine.