Annexation

President Donald Trump returned to needling former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and talked about annexing Canada in his “100 Days” interview with Time magazine, which was posted online Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump said during a preview of policies for his second administration on Tuesday that he would not rule out the use of economic pressure, or even military force, to obtain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal. 

The government of Guyana condemned neighboring Venezuela on Wednesday for having passed a law that “creates” a new state out of two-thirds of Guyana’s territory in an effort to annex the historically contested Essequibo region.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) conducted joint military flight drill operations with Guyana on Thursday, the first such operations since socialist Venezuela declared it would annex most of Guyana.

Russia’s state-run Tass news service on Wednesday reported that the breakaway areas of Kherson in Ukraine and South Ossetia in Georgia will ask to be incorporated into Russia.

TEL AVIV — The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, Hassan Nasrallah, on Tuesday vowed to “do anything” to prevent Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of the West Bank.

TEL AVIV — Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan warned Israel on Tuesday against its plan to annex parts of the West Bank, saying that doing so could damage bilateral relations.

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Israeli consulate Wednesday to demonstrate against the possible extension of Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria.

TEL AVIV — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are among four House progressives calling for the U.S. to cut aid to Israel over its plan to apply sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.

TEL AVIV — A fountain in Donald Trump Square in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva was turned red on Monday, after anti-sovereignty activists dyed the water with food coloring and graffitied the words “annexation will cost us blood” at the site.

TEL AVIV — Only 200 Palestinians showed up for what was supposed to be a massive demonstration in Ramallah against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, AFP reported Monday. The Palestinian Authority invested a lot of resources

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) affirmed on Sunday that the State of Israel is well within its rights to annex settlements within Judea and Samaria — otherwise known as the West Bank — and that doing so would not be illegal under international law.

Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin urged President Donald Trump to allow Israel to proceed with the terms of the peace plan he unveiled earlier this year, and stop “dithering” that allows opposition to the plan to build.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration on Monday issued a flat denial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the U.S. and Israel were in discussions regarding the annexation of West Bank settlements, prompting the Israeli leader to walk back his remarks.

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. into pressuring Israel to delay the “Greater Jerusalem” bill that would see the connection of satellite settlements to the capital, the Hebrew news site Ynet reported Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – U.S. pressure on Israel resulted in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponing an initial vote on a bill that would annex 19 settlements surrounding Jerusalem to the capital.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s moral claim to the land comes from the Bible, not Google, an Israeli minister said in Washington on Tuesday at an event marking 50 years since the 1967 Six Day War.

TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Monday said he supports the full annexation of the West Bank so long as Palestinians residing there are granted equal rights and Israeli citizenship.

TEL AVIV – A new bill to annex the settlements around Jerusalem will be submitted to the Knesset this week, The Jerusalem Post reported.

MAALE ADUMIM – Israel “would only be acting on the property it already owns” if it annexed the West Bank, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said.

TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians – 54% – believe that Israel is bent on extending its borders to include all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea as well as planning a campaign of ethnic cleansing to expel them, a new poll found.

TEL AVIV – The rightwing Knesset Land of Israel caucus announced its intention to draw up a bill for the annexation of Ma’aleh Adumim, citing a poll showing that 78 percent of Israelis are in favor of full Israeli sovereignty over the settlement.

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly furious on Monday over indications that an agreement intended to bring peace to Syria might specify that the Golan Heights, including the part held by Israel, is Syrian land.

South Ossetia President Leonid Tibilov announced he is ready to unify the Georgian breakaway region with Russia.