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         Israel, a terrorist state and an illegal annexation           Last May, Benjamin Netanyahu warned: the time has come for Israel "to write a new glorious chapter in the history of Zionism". The Prime Minister of Israel intends to proceed with the annexation of a large part of the West Bank, according to the terms of the American plan for peace, which provides for the "incorporation" of Israeli settlements, considered illegal by the community international, and the Jordan Valley.            This plan of the Trump administration, rejected by the Palestinians, indicated at the end of January that Israel "would not have to withdraw from implantation, and will incorporate the great majority of the implantations in the territory of Israel. The Israeli enclaves inside the Palestinian territory will be part of the State of Israel and will be connected to it with an efficient transport system. ” ...

                     SOUTH KOREA DISAGREE WITH BOLTON'BOOK  Accounts by former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton of discussions between leaders of the United States and the two Koreas in his upcoming book are inaccurate and distorted, South Korea said on Monday. Bolton gives details in the book of conversations before and after three meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including how their second summit in Vietnam fell apart. The book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”, is scheduled for publication on Tuesday but media outlets have released excerpts. Reports have cited Bolton as writing that Moon, who is keen to improve relations with North Korea, had raised unrealistic expectations with both Kim and Trump for his own “unification” agenda. “It does not reflect accurate facts and substantially distorts facts,” South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eu...

Normalization with Israel would not survive a unilateral land grab at the Palestinians’ expense. In a watershed article in a leading Israeli newspaper, a top diplomat from the United Arab Emirates warned the Israeli public on Friday that unilateral annexation of West Bank territory would endanger Israel’s warming ties with Arab countries. Writing in Friday’s Yediot Ahronot , Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirates’ ambassador to the United States, appealed directly to Israelis in Hebrew to deter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from following through on his promise to annex occupied territory as early as next month. “It’s Either Annexation or Normalization,” the headline over his op-ed declared. The article rebutted an argument by Mr. Netanyahu that  annexing West Bank land  that the Palestinians have counted on for a state would not imperil Israel’s chances of forging deeper relations with countries like the Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Netanyahu has vowed to pu...