Weekly Commentary: Snap Annexation Via Government Decision As Response To
ICC
Dr. Aaron Lerner 21 November 2024

There are politicians calling for the extension of Israeli law to areas of
Judea and Samaria (aka annexation) as a response to the ICC arrest warrants
for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former DM Gallant.

There are two ways to annex: legislation and a Government decision.

Here is the full text of the law that relating to annexation via Government
decision:

Ordinance Law and Administration, 1948
...
11B The law, jurisdiction and administration of the State shall apply to any
area of the Land of Israel that the Government sets in an order.

That's right. All it takes is a map and a vote of the Cabinet.

The same action via legislation opens a huge window of opportunity for
massive pressure to come to bear before the third and final vote is cast to
approve the action.

In the case of a Government decision, in the worst case it is published as
being on the agenda 48 hours (including the Sabbath) before the vote.

But 48 hours, or for that matter, any amount of time before the ministers
sit in a room without their mobile phones, is too much time.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has the option, as prime minister, to introduce the
move to a vote without it having been on the agenda and dismiss, on the
spot, any minister who objects to the snap vote taking place.

That makes a lot more sense.

And it would leverage the ICC action today into a blessing.

What about the Saudis and others?

Even if we were to annex all of Area C plus Jericho, the rest of the Jordan
Valley and Kalkilya to smooth out the line, the Saudis and the others could
argue that they are progressing with relations with the Jewish State to
prevent us from annexing even more territory!

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