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Likud dismisses annexation vote as ‘trolling’ meant to damage relations with the US
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party dismisses the Knesset’s preliminary approval of a bill to annex the West Bank as “trolling… aimed at damaging our relations with the US and Israel’s great achievements in the campaign” in Gaza.
“We strengthen settlements every day with actions, budgets, construction, industry, and not with words,” the party says, insisting that “true sovereignty will be achieved not with a show-off law for the protocol, but by working properly on the ground and creating the political conditions appropriate for the recognition of our sovereignty, as was done in the Golan Heights and in Jerusalem.”
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