Ayman Mohyeldin

We're going to do the quartet.

We're going to do whatever that we can keep the international community believing that we're committed to a two-state solution.

But in reality, we determine what happens on the ground.

And what happens on the ground

is that we can build settlements, we can build roads, we can create apartheid-like systems.

We control the lives of the millions of Palestinians who live in the West Bank, in East Jerusalem, and, of course, the Gaza Strip.

So what you're seeing now is the kind of...

The veil has been lifted, and now the state is now embarking on this annexation process.

And they're kind of doing it piecemeal just to see to what extent the international community is going to speak up or try to do something about it.

And they realize that Donald Trump is spread thin.

In fact, Donald Trump, who is openly against annexation, has said –

look, we've got so much going on right now, we don't have time to think about the West Bank.

And that is exactly what the Israelis wanted to hear.

They wanted to hear an American president say, because they don't care about whether he likes annexation or not.

They just wanted to hear him say, I've got so much on my plate right now, I can't even deal about the West Bank.

Because then...

in their minds are like, this is the perfect time.

Let's go ahead and start this process of annexing the West Bank and making Israel completely sovereign, take over the complete territory of the West Bank and making it part of Israeli sovereignty.

And look, I think as somebody who believes in a one democratic state,

that incorporates all of the Palestinians and Jews that live from the river to the sea and have equal rights and the ability to vote.