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Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says

www.washingtonpost.com /world/2024/11/11/israel-iran-war-news-gaza-palestine-lebanon/

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that “the time has come” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

He made the comment a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that he has spoken three times with Trump since the election and that they “see eye to eye on the Iranian threat.

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