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https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-trump-rejects-west-bank-annexation-right-wing-mks-urge-pm-to-do-it-anyway/
Right-wing figures in Israel rejected US President Donald Trump’s declaration Thursday that Israeli annexation of the West Bank is “not going to happen,” and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the step anyway.
The premier’s allies, many of whom have long supported annexing the West Bank, have pushed him in recent weeks to declare Israeli sovereignty over parts of the territory as a response to the wave of Western nations announcing their recognition of a Palestinian state.
“The Jewish people’s sovereignty over the Jewish homeland does not depend on any external source. Even one as loving and friendly as can be,” MK Zvi Sukkot, of the far-right Religious Zionism party, wrote on X, without mentioning Trump by name.
“Faced with European countries’ insane recognition of a Palestinian terror state, we must apply sovereignty [over the West Bank] already during this term,” he added.
Likud MK Dan Ilouz said the matter “is solely the decision of the Jewish people.”
Right-wing figures in Israel rejected US President Donald Trump’s declaration Thursday that Israeli annexation of the West Bank is “not going to happen,” and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the step anyway.
The premier’s allies, many of whom have long supported annexing the West Bank, have pushed him in recent weeks to declare Israeli sovereignty over parts of the territory as a response to the wave of Western nations announcing their recognition of a Palestinian state.
“The Jewish people’s sovereignty over the Jewish homeland does not depend on any external source. Even one as loving and friendly as can be,” MK Zvi Sukkot, of the far-right Religious Zionism party, wrote on X, without mentioning Trump by name.
“Faced with European countries’ insane recognition of a Palestinian terror state, we must apply sovereignty [over the West Bank] already during this term,” he added.
Likud MK Dan Ilouz said the matter “is solely the decision of the Jewish people.”
