What exactly does sovereignty entail, and why is everyone so passionate about it?
Are the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bluffing when they say an Israeli declaration of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is a “red line” that would cause them to reconsider their participation in the Abraham Accords?
Even if they’re serious, how much weight should Israel give to the UAE, when compared with the economic and security benefits sovereignty could bring to the more than 700,000 Jews who live over the “Green Line”?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apparently can’t answer that question, or doesn’t want to yet, as he has called a timeout, temporarily removing the sovereignty proposal from a cabinet meeting agenda, despite vigorous counter-pressure from Likud and Religious Zionist cabinet members to approve it.
Considering that nearly everything Israel does agitates one nation or another, and sometimes many at once, Netanyahu must constantly juggle domestic and foreign policy concerns.
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