After Trump rejects West Bank annexation, right-wing MKs urge PM to do it anyway
Snippet of Article: "“We love and appreciate President Trump for standing alongside Israel over the years,” Ilouz tweeted. “But the State of Israel is a sovereign country.”...“No international figure, even a great and beloved friend, can dictate to us how to relate to our land,” he said.
MK Avi Maoz, the only lawmaker in the Knesset from the far-right, anti-gay Noam party, said that “with all due respect” to the US, “the decision to apply sovereignty lies with the Israeli government and Knesset.”...Dagan insisted that, after the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the nation will not give up on annexing the West Bank, in order to prevent a Palestinian state that he has said would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.
“Only sovereignty over all the open areas and settlements will prevent a terror state in the heart of Israel,” Dagan said.
Most proposals for West Bank annexation — including those that would see Israel claim a large majority of the territory’s area and prevent any contiguous Palestinian state — avoid major Palestinian population centers."
Source: www.timesofisrael.com
