Ministers and MKs at ultranationalist confab urge annexation of West Bank and Gaza

A series of cabinet ministers and coalition MKs vow to annex the West Bank and Gaza at a conference of the ultranationalist Sovereignty Movement’s youth chapter, Noar Ribonut, in the city of Sderot.

“The time has come for sovereignty, and for us to impose it right now,” says Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har Melech, a long-time proponent of annexing the West Bank.

“Sderot has suffered the price for not applying sovereignty, for abandoning the Gaza Strip,” she continues in reference to the thousands of rockets fired by Palestinian terror groups from Gaza, which have hit the city over the last 25 years.

“The price for not imposing sovereignty is soaked in blood. If we don’t learn this lesson, we will pay the price in blood again. Those who live in Sderot understand the price of hesitation, weakness and, retreat.

“We are not waiting for the non-Jews, sovereignty is the only way to ensure security,” insists the MK.

Speaking in a video message to the conference, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich lauds his own efforts for asserting ever greater control over the West Bank, stating that “we are applying de facto sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,” and expressed the hope that formal annexation could be achieved soon with the support of the Trump administration.

And Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi extols his efforts in upgrading internet connectivity in the West Bank, saying that bringing infrastructure in the territory up to the same standard as within the pre-1967 lines is a key component of formally annexing the West Bank.

“Our right to the Land of Israel wasn’t born in the UN, it was born in Jerusalem, in Beit El, in Shiloh, in Hebron, this is our land by right and not by kindness,” he insists.

“Together we will establish sovereignty from Judea and Samaria to Gaza.”