West Bank on the Brink: Israel’s Annexation Playbook and the Looming Explosion

By Ramzy Baroud  

Those in the West who preach hollow calls for calm and de-escalation must understand the region is hurtling towards the brink.

Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil) municipality of its administrative powers over the…