Senior Likud lawmakers are pushing for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the West Bank before the end of the Knesset’s summer session on July 27, claiming that he must ride the “historic achievements” of the war against Iran and do so.
In a letter signed by all Likud ministers currently in government and by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, the lawmakers declare that ‘after the State of Israel’s historic achievements in the face of Iran’s axis of evil and its sympathizers, the task must be completed and the existential threat from within must be eliminated, to prevent another massacre in the heart of the country.”
“The strategic partnership, backing and support of the US and President Donald Trump have made it a propitious time to move forward with it now, and ensure Israel’s security for generations,” the ministers argue.
The letter is praised by far-right Religious Zionism chair Bezalel Smotrich, who is a minister within the Defense Ministry.
He says that as soon as the prime minister “gives the order,” he will be ready to implement Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank “immediately.”
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