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Palestinian demonstrators hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest of Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank in village of Kufr Qaddumm on July 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

The West Bank’s fate is unknown as Netanyahu stalls on annexation

Philip Leech-Ngo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to start the annexation of the West Bank by July 1. It hasn’t happened. Why?
Queen Elizabeth II with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia during his state visit in 2007. John Stillwell/PA Archive/PA Images

Pity the Queen – she has to have Donald Trump to stay

Sean Lang, Anglia Ruskin University

It looks as if a state visit from the US president is on the cards. But the Queen is a veteran at hosting unwanted guests.
When not employing the description ‘death cult’, Prime Minister Tony Abbott prefers to use the name Da'esh because the group ‘hates being referred to by this term’. AAP/Lukas Coch

Explainer: ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State or Da'esh?

Denis Dragovic, The University of Melbourne

The terrorist group now calls itself Islamic State, but the many names by which it is known reflect both its own evolution and the deliberate choices others make in how they refer to it.

Related Topics

  1. Benny Gantz
  2. Donald Trump
  3. Iraq
  4. ISIL
  5. Islamic State
  6. Israel
  7. Israel-Palestine conflict
  8. Syria
  9. UK politics
  10. West Bank annexation threat

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