The debate over the introduction of Israeli sovereignty over areas in Judea, Samaria and the entire Jordan Valley is heating up.
In both the left and right camps, there are critics who are against applying Israeli law in the aforementioned areas.
Some right-wing politicians in Israel are opposed to the part of the plan of the US President Donald J. Trump because it ultimately provides for the formation of a Palestinian state in the areas now controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and in 70 percent of the so-called Area-C, the landmass that came under full Israeli control under the Oslo Accords.
These politicians say that the formation of such a Palestinian state will ultimately threaten the security of the state of Israel just as it did after the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
Barely two years after this withdrawal, Hamas violently took power from the PA in Gaza and started to wage a war of attrition against Israel on the false pretext that Israel maintained a blockade against the enclave in the south of Israel.
It has become clear in recent days that Hamas wants to continue this war of attrition after a break of a few months. Hamas leaders in Gaza say there is only one answer to the US-Israel plan to introduce Israeli law in 30 percent of Area C and all of the Jordan Valley in July: a third Intifada.
To bolster its words, Hamas has resumed the so-called ‘Kite and Balloon Jihad’ and is again sending balloons with explosives and combustible materials into southern Israel, while on Monday evening a mortar shell from Gaza exploded in the Eshkol region in southern Israel.
The Palestinian Authority is also threatening a new "Intifada" if Israel continues to introduce its sovereignty in Area C and the Jordan Valley, saying it will end any cooperation with Israel, including in the area of security.
In the left-wing camp in Israel, these threats are used to portray the Netanyahu government's plan as a threat to peace in The Middle East.
Eli Podeh, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for example, thinks that the international pressure (read European pressure) of Israel's “friends like Germany” will cause the government of Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to eventually back out of the plan.
Podeh warned in an opinion article for The Jerusalem Post that "the small folly" (of the annexation as he calls the introduction of Israeli law) will not prevent the "larger one" of continued "occupation" and compared Trump's plan to the ‘Palestine’ partition plan of the so-called Peel commission that proposed in 1937 to give only 15 percent of the British Mandate territory to the Jewish people to form their own state.
The Peel plan went nowhere after both sides in the conflict rejected the proposal, sparking more Arab violence against the Jewish community in what the British called "Palestine."
Clearly pro-Arab, the Peel commission also restricted Jewish immigration to the land of Israel, closing an escape route for Jews from Europe seeking to escape the impending danger of Hitler's Nazi regime.
It is clear that President Trump's current US administration is pro-Israel, but that is not to say that every Palestinian Arab is against the plan to officially add parts of Area C and the Jordan Valley to Israel.
On the contrary, a large majority of the 120,000 Palestinian Arabs living in the Area C and the Jordan Valley is in favor of introducing Israeli sovereignty over these areas.
This has been proven by Israeli Middle East expert Tzvi Yechezkieli who speaks fluent Arabic and is known for his investigative journalism.
Yechezkieli decided to speak to ordinary Palestinian Arabs who would be "affected" by the Israeli American plan and used a camera hidden in his glasses.
These are 120,000 Palestinian Arabs living in the Area C, and Yechezkieli discovered that a large majority of them want to live under Israeli rule.
An Arab leader in the Jordan Valley even said that if elections were held in which PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu were participating, "Bibi" (the nickname of the Israeli Prime Minister) would win.
This was confirmed by a village elder in the Palestinian village of Hussein who said that 100 percent of the residents there are interested in an Israeli ID that would allow them to travel freely through Israel.
Other Palestinian Arabs told Yechezkieli that the PA had destroyed their lives and that they prefer to live under the “boots” of the Israeli army and not under the corrupt regime of Abbas.
"We don't want a state, we want money and normal life," said one of them. "The PA is made up of thieves who stole our money," added the man. Another Palestinian Arab working for the PA said that if you don't have "protection" from someone within the PA, your life will turn into "manure".
"Abu Mazen (a nickname for Abbas) called on us to take to the streets against the Deal of the Century (Trump's peace plan) but no one listened to him," said the same man.
"Our people used to listen to Arafat (the deceased first PA President) but now we know better. The PA has devoured the people, they are thieves and traitors," said the PA employee.
Yechezkieli then went to talk to Palestinian Arabs in the small village of Jaba near the Elah Valley in Israel, where everyone was willing to speak openly for the camera.
Everyone who the Israeli journalist interviewed in Jaba said that they would like to remain under the administration of Israel and that they feared Abbas.
Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, on the other hand went to talk to Palestinian leaders in the area now controlled by the PA and showed its leadership is engaged in doublespeak when it comes to another Palestinian uprising against Israel.
The incitement against the Trump plan and Israel has been intensified and the PA has ordered Palestinian intelligence agencies to hide thousands of files in preparation for a new Intifada.
Palestinian leaders told Toameh that they do not expect the people to be ready to start another rebellion against Israel because they are more interested in improving their lives.
Toameh also reported that the PA officially says that no “anarchy and lawlessness” will be allowed after the introduction of Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley but that it won’t prevent mass demonstrations from taking place.
At the same time, however, there is increasing cooperation between the PA and the armed terrorist groups in the area. Toameh previously reported that there has been a revival of cooperation between the PA and the Tanzim and Al-Aqsa militias belonging to the Fatah organization, which is also headed by Abbas.