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URWP demands full West Bank annexation, in exchange for law granting PM immunity

22 April 2019, 8:49 pm
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The Union of Right-Wing Parties will officially enter coalition negotiations next week with a long list of demands, including a guarantee from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he will annex all Israeli settlements in the West Bank in exchange for the party’s advancement of legislation that would offer the premier immunity from prosecution.

The right-wing slate’s list of demands confirmed by a party spokesman will include the passing of a law barring the High Court of Justice from overriding Knesset legislation in addition to the reducing of the authority of the attorney general and the state comptroller.

Left, Bezalel Smotrich after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)

— Jacob Magid

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