After delaying a bill at the Knesset calling for annexing the West Bank illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim to Occupied Jerusalem until the new US administration assumes office right-wing Israeli lawmakers intend on Sunday to table it again.
According to Haaretz newspaper the Ma’ale Adumim annexation bill will be introduced at the Knesset’s ministerial committee for legislation on Sunday by members of the Knesset Yoav Kish (Likud) and Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home).
Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish home) is a keen advocate of the bill.
Recently Bennett asserted that the arrival of Trump’s administration would see a shift in Israel’s West Bank settlement activities including the annexation of Ma’ale Adumim a massive settlement with some 40000 Jewish residents.
Introducers and sponsors of the bill intend for the legislation to not only annex Ma’ale Adumim under Israel’s sovereignty but also the surrounding E1 area (occupied in the 1967 war) where Israel has launched a vicious demolition campaign against Bedouin Palestinian communities over the past year.
