Despite calls from the United States, Israel will insist on maintaining security control over the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip in the future after the war. Israel will not agree to the rule of the Palestinian Authority, states Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This is a mandatory condition, and it contradicts the idea of sovereignty. Every piece of territory we leave becomes a place from which to launch terrible terrorism against us,” said Netanyahu to journalists during a briefing on Thursday, January 18. The Prime Minister informed the United States of his po…