Jewish Bubba: Why Trump Promises About Not Annexing West Bank

Friday, September 26, 2025

Why Trump Promises About Not Annexing West Bank

Nadene Goldfoot

September 16, 2025 with reporters on another subject

Trump promising Arab, and other Muslim leaders on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, a week later, he's saying that he won't let Israel annex the West Bank. He was talking the UAE leader ;about the Abraham Accords. They will pull out if Netanyahu annexes the West Bank. They should be talking about it on Monday. What a day that should be.

President Trump told reporters yesterday, “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen. Whether I spoke with Bibi or not — and I did — I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. The president’s pledge came in a closed-door meeting at the UN. 6 people heard this and two of those people said that Trump was firm on the topic and that the president promised that Israel would not be allowed to absorb the West Bank, which is governed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), not Hamas.

Special envoy for peace missions Steve Witkoff provided some details on the proposal on Wednesday. “We presented what we call the Trump 21-point-plan for peace in the Mideast in Gaza,” he said at the Concordia summit in New York. “I think it addresses Israeli concerns and as well, the concerns of all the neighbors in the in the region.” Witkoff did not mention any comments about the West Bank.Trump's PEACE PLAN is another subject.

Judea and Samaria (so-called West Bank) are under the Oslo Accords and it is already divided into A, B, and C areas;

The Oslo Accords, signed in the early 1990s, divided the West Bank into three administrative zones: Area A (18%), under full Palestinian control; Area B (22%), under shared Palestinian civil control and Israeli security control; and Area C (60%), under full Israeli civil and security control, encompassing all Israeli settlements. The goal was a temporary arrangement for eventual negotiations toward a final peace agreement, but the process stalled, leaving these divisions in place and hindering Palestinian self-governance. That was in 1995; 30 years ago and the Palestinians have broken the law by building in the other areas and refusing to work with Israel for a final peace agreement.

Jonathan Conricus has consistently expressed views that areskeptical of a Palestinian state and critical of terrorism from the West Bank. While not a professor, the Swedish-Israeli media commentator and retired Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Lieutenant Colonel is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a conservative US-based think

tank. He was also the IDF's international spokesperson in 2023.

Oslo II 1995 intended for the divisions to be temporary, with full jurisdiction of all three areas gradually transferred to the Palestinian Authority over time. Instead, the divisions persist, with Area A administered by the Palestinian Authority, Area C by Israel, and Area B under joint control.

What caused Trump's comment was : JERUSALEM, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement on Thursday to push ahead with a controversial settlement expansion plan that would cut across land that the Palestinians seek for a state.

"There will never be a Palestinian state. This place is ours," Netanyahu said during a visit to the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank where thousands of new housing units would be added.

"That’s enough. It’s time to stop now.” Trump made the statement just minutes after updating that he had spoken with Netanyahu.

He also said he had met in New York with his son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff.

“Israeli settlements in the West Bank do not violate international law,” according to Professor Eugene Kontorovich, expert on International law who lives today on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Eugene Kontorovich is an Israeli legal scholar, specializing in constitutional and international law. He served as the head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, and is a professor at George Mason Law School, as well as a Senior Researcher at the Heritage Foundation
Professor Alan Morton Dershowitz, born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. Dershowitz has been referred to as “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender—the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He graduated from Brooklyn College and then attended Yale Law School. He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Huffington Post, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post and Ha’aretz. He is the author of 30 fiction and non-fiction works including “The Case for Israel” and “The Case for Peace.” What he wrote about the West Bank below must have been in the days of possibilities, and now we know that time has past. That was a long time ago.

"The precise borders of a Palestinian State should be decided by a combination of factors. First and foremost, must be Israel’s security needs. After all, it was Israel that was threatened with annihilation in 1948, 1967, and 1973. Israel poses no threat to its neighbors if it is not attacked. Fortunately, Israel’s reasonable security needs can now be met without significant effect on Palestinian population centers. In addition to these minor security changes, there will have to be some border adjustments that recognize the new residential realities on the ground with Israel maintaining major settlement blocks (Gilo, Ma’ale Adumim) in exchange for land. " Dershowitz

Trump's statement could have been made to take pressure off of Netanyahu by coalition partners pressing him to annex.

Based on recent reports in September 2025, the UAE has warned that any Israeli annexation of the West Bank would be a "red line" that would jeopardize the Abraham Accords and damage diplomatic relations. This is the strongest warning from the UAE since the accords were signed in 2020 and follows renewed debate within Israel on annexing West Bank territory.

Red line" for annexation: UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly that annexing the West Bank could harm the Abraham Accords. He explicitly stated that such a move would cross a "red line" for the UAE.
Undermining the two-state solution: According to CNN, Lana Nusseibeh, an assistant minister in the UAE's foreign ministry, said annexation would "severely undermine the vision and spirit" of the accords and "end the pursuit of regional integration".