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US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday ruled out Israel’s annexation of the West Bank, calling a Knesset vote for annexing the occupied territory “a stupid political stunt,” Anadolu reports. “If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it. The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel,” Vance told reporters in Tel Aviv. “The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. That will continue to be our policy,” he added. Vance said that he was told that the Knesset voting was “a symbolic vote.” “If people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that. But we […]
