Transportation Minister Miri Regev says that while US President Donald Trump slammed the brakes on the Israeli right’s plans to formally annex the West Bank, her office is advancing its de facto implementation on the ground in the West Bank.
“I believe that at the end of the day, there will be [Israeli] sovereignty” in the West Bank, Regev tells Channel 12.
“The American administration also understands that there’s no other way,” she claims after Trump has repeatedly asserted that he opposes Israel annexing the West Bank.
“Unfortunately, it’s not the time, but it’ll happen. And by the way, we in the Transportation Ministry are doing de facto sovereignty in Judea and Samaria anyway. If you look over there, you’ll see the number of roads and bypass roads [for settlers] and lighting that we’re building there,” she says.
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