Is Israel Preparing to Annex Most of West Bank?

Under international law, Israel’s rule in the West Bank and Gaza is considered "belligerent occupation" and, therefore, its actions must be justified by military necessity only. If there is no occupation, Israel has no military grounds to hold on to the territories. In that case, it must either return the land to the Palestinians, and move out the settlers, or defy international law by annexing the territories, as it did earlier with East Jerusalem, and establish a state of Greater Israel.

Annexation, however, poses its own dangers. Israel must either offer the Palestinians citizenship and wait for a non-Jewish majority to emerge in Greater Israel; or deny them citizenship and face pariah status as an apartheid state.

Just such concerns were raised recently by forty Jewish leaders in the United States, who called on Netanyahu to reject Levy’s "legal maneuverings" that, they said, threatened Israel’s "future as a Jewish and democratic state." .... http://uruknet.info