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Today on Tablet, Tal Kra-Oz on calls to annex the West Bank

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January 07, 2013

With weeks to go before the Israeli elections, an unprecedented political push for Israel to annex the West Bank has taken hold.

Not five years ago, annexation of the West Bank—the expansion of Israeli sovereignty that would ensure a Jewish state on both sides of the 1967 “green line”—was a radical idea even among the Israeli right. The conventional wisdom was that the continued occupation of the West Bank would quickly result in Jews outnumbered by Arabs between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and Israel would be forced to choose between being a democratic state or a Jewish one. No longer. Annexation is quickly gaining steam among powerful precincts of the Israeli right, including high-ranking members of the Knesset who see no contradiction between Israel formally applying its sovereignty over millions of Arabs and remaining a democracy.

But will it catch on? And what are the ramifications? Check out the rest of this important read.

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