PLO's @ErakatSaeb says Israel applying sovereignty to settlements will be the end of the world as we know it. (I feel fine.)

Hyperbole from Palestinian officials is a given, but this one seems to be a new record.

In Elkana, Bibi Netanyahu made a vague campaign promise:

Israel will apply sovereignty to all West Bank settlements, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday morning as he celebrated the first day of school with first graders in the Elkana settlement.

"There won't be any more uprooting [of settlements]," Netanyahu said. "With God's help, we'll apply Jewish sovereignty on all the settlements, as part of the land of Israel and as part of the State of Israel."

He's said this before, also in context of a political campaign. No timeframe or details are given.

Saeb Erekat's response is classic, though:

Erekat considered that Netanyahu's public statement of annexation of all settlements on the West Bank posed not only a threat to the Palestinian people but a threat to the entire international system. And it would open the horizons in alliance with the Trump administration to completely overthrow the international system and create a system of power and hegemony.

Locusts and pestilence can't be far behind.

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