Trump on Israeli annexation of West Bank: ‘It won’t happen’
The US president, in an interview with Time Magazine, reiterated what Vice President JD Vance said a short while ago, that the US’s firm policy is against Israeli annexation.
“It won’t happen. It won’t happen. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can’t do that now”, Trump told Time. “We’ve had great Arab support. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. It will not happen. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened”.
The US president told the publication that he had to stop Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from continuing the assault on Gaza. “I stopped him, because he would have just kept going. It could have gone on for years”, Trump said. “And I said to Bibi [a commonly used nickname for Netanyahu], ‘Bibi, you can’t fight the world. You can fight individual battles, but the world’s against you. And Israel is a very small place compared to the world.’”
He also said that Israel’s attack on a Hamas delegation in Qatar was a “tactical mistake”, suggesting that this was the event that brought pressure on Israel sufficient to get them to agree to a ceasefire. “I actually told the emir [of Qatar], this was one of the things that brought us all together, because it was so out of joint that it sort of got everybody to do what they have to do.”
On the question of Palestinian leadership post-war, Trump waffled on the future of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, and also said he would be “making a decision” on whether or not to pressure Israel to release Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned by Israel since the early 2000s.
Finally, Trump also said he plans on visiting the Gaza Strip at some point in the future, and that he believes that Saudi Arabia will join the Abraham Accords by the end of the year.
It's all about the money for Trump, salivating at the deals he can make with the Abraham accords.
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-and-saudi-construct-first-high-speed-rail-link
https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2025/05/26/egypt-israel-iraq-want-to-tap-into-asia-europe-trade-via-rail/
https://thesecretariat.in/article/the-new-silk-road-us-india-saudis-want-to-build
The new silk route via rail through the Middle East is the big carrot that led to the 'peace' plan.
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In a roundabout way, China-Iran relations pressured Trump into 'ending' the Gaza genocide to get in on the new trade route linking China to Africa / Europe via the Middle East. Hence Trump keeps going on about his Arab partners to maintain the 'ceasefire'.
