Israel doesn’t need ‘advice’ against annexation — it needs consequences – +972 Magazine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the King David hotel in Jerusalem on February 25, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Half a century of occupation is ample time for powerful states like Germany to learn that rhetoric without action simply reinforces Israeli impunity.

Israel doesn’t need ‘advice’ against annexation — it needs consequences – +972 Magazine