Still Waiting for The Next Annexation Ball to Drop

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jul 7, 2020 at 14:49

It appears now that greater complexities to annexation have been hiding behind the map as was proposed by the American Administration of President Trump; further the antagonisms now being manifest are really the same old hatreds of Israel's long list of enemies, only now updated to enhance the hatred most of Israel's enemies have already harbored against the American President.
The earlier prognostications by this observer actually have stabilized in the sense that the more that things seem to change, provoking yet another round of invectives against Israel and the support for Israel provided by President Trump, the more agitated the antagonism is refreshed and already flaring tempers get even more heated - remember the peat fires.
It now appears to this observer the circumstance of coincidence between the annexation and the COVID-19 outbreak is no longer thought to be mere coincidence. The annexation issue is definitely one that has potential for catastrophic implications for not just Israel, the 'Palestinian' representation (Hamas, Fatah, Muslim proxies of Iran), but of the whole world. There are little place left to hide where someone has not heard of the imminent repercussion due Israel if somehow they unleash themselves in unmitigated temerity to actually move to annex even one hectare of the Jordan Valley, Judea, or Samaria.
Did COVID-19 provide that space between the tragic loss of lives by war; or did it merely give pause, that like the flu epidemic of the early 20th century, people need to count the actual cost of being deadly wrong.
In any eventuality, annexation is in the wings, and in the winds, as scientist say is the pestilence that is the novel corona. The next marker is Tisha Ba'v; what is next?

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