From Likud MK says ‘de facto annexation’ would be excellent
MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Likud MK Amichai Chikli says that calling the expanded powers of expecting incoming minister Bezalel Smotrich “de facto annexation” sounds good to him.
In an interview with Army Radio, Chikli is asked about the demand by Smotrich to shift control of COGAT — the body that controls activity in the West Bank — as well as the Civil Administration, which deals with settlement issues, to his control, and whether it would constitute “de facto annexation.”
“The Civil Administration is a very problematic body and it is biased against Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria,” says Chikli. “De facto annexation is excellent. I don’t have any problem with that.”
