The Prime Minister’s Office published a sharply worded statement in English on Thursday regarding the vote in the Knesset to apply sovereignty over Yehudah and Shomron.
President Trump and Vice President Vance both harshly condemned the vote.
“The Knesset vote on annexation was a deliberate political provocation by the opposition to sow discord during Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Israel,” the statement said.
“The two bills were sponsored by opposition members of the Knesset.”
“The Likud party and the religious parties (the principal coalition members) did not vote for these bills, except for one disgruntled Likud member who was recently fired from the chairmanship of a Knesset committee. Without Likud support, these bills are unlikely to go anywhere.”
The disgruntled Likud member was Yuli Edelstein, who was removed from his position as the head of the prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee after he refused to cooperate with the Chareidi MKs on a Chareidi draft bill.
Following Edelstein’s vote for the annexation bill [which was boycotted by the Likud party], the party decided to strip him of his membership from the Foreign Affairs committee.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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The Zionists provocatively held their vote on annexing the West Bank when VP Vance was visiting. In response, VP Vance stated that it was stupid and that he was insulted by that. So the Zionist leader had to apologize to him by issuing this statement. That’s their “am chafshi”. Zionism is such a pathetic idol.
Hey Baby Netanyahu, why don’t you pull strings to stop the provocation against the Olam HaTorah? Maybe the opposition will give you a break? Go on, give it a try! We will applaud you for it. C’mon man, you can do it. If you can stand up to the rest of the world you can stand up to the opposition in the knesset.
There is nobody that has done more for Israel and the Jewish people with hashem’s help than Netanyahu in the last two years taking out all our enemies and getting all the hostages back and they still don’t give him any credit and harass him to death day and night. Tell me which other prime minister was going to do even half of what I just listed? None of them even have the experience or the guts. And he did it despite all the arrest warrants and reputation killing that it cost him. Now these disgusting opposition idiots want to throw a wrench at US relations with these stupid political tactics that mean nothing in reality. Shame on them