Yossi Dagan, the head of the Samaria Regional Council, urges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to defy Washington and annex the West Bank, after US President Donald Trump said that he will “not allow” Israel to do so.
“Netanyahu must tell Trump: ‘We will not arrive at October 7, 2025 — I am applying sovereignty,'” says Dagan, in comments quoted by Ynet.
He claims that “the ball is always in Netanyahu’s court” and that there’s no reason he shouldn’t be able to convince a “sympathetic US administration” to come around to his point of view.
His call to defy Trump on the issue has been echoed by others, including MK Avi Maoz, the only Noam party lawmaker in the Knesset, who says that “with all due respect” to the US, “the decision to apply sovereignty lies with the Israeli government and Knesset.”
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