Netanyahu ally says US not keen on annexation in West Bank right now — report

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, a Likud party ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has told associates the Trump administration isn’t interested in Israel moving forward with annexation of West Bank lands right now, according to Army Radio.

The reports says Netanyahu will not move forward without US backing and quotes Levin’s “circle” saying the premier and his allies have stressed from the get-go that the move must be supported by the White House. These sources add that Israel is now waiting for an answer.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

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