Israeli Ruling Party Votes to Annex West Bank and Seize Last Palestinian Lands
- Israeli Ruling Party Votes to Annex West Bank and Seize Last Palestinian Lands
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“This is a historic event that we have been waiting for,” an extremist member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party said.
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The latest radical move by hardline Zionists in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party could see Israel´s government annex all of the occupied West Bank, incorporating most of historic Palestine into the Israeli state.
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The central committee of the right-wing party overwhelmingly voted on Sunday for a resolution urging Likud parliamentarians to push for the annexation of the territories that are already illegally-held.
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The non-binding vote by the party’s decision-making committee also called on its MPs “to spread Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (the West Bank),” the biblical terms used by Jewish radical settlers to refer to the occupied Palestinian regions. “This is a historic event that we have been waiting for,” Likud extremist Natan Engelsman told Focus Information Agency.
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“If the president of the United States believes Jerusalem is ours, there is no reason why a right-wing party and coalition cannot. It’s important for us to show Trump what the ruling party in Israel wants, and since he loves the Jewish people, sooner or later, he will come to the same conclusion,” the activist added. Netanyahu, a member of the central committee, was not present for the vote.
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