Donald Trump has threatened to cut Israel adrift if they annex the West Bank in an extraordinary escalation as the President demands peace in the Middle East.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oppose annexation – but right-wing factions in Jerusalem see an invasion of the territory as a means to blocking Palestinian statehood.
‘Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened,’ Trump told Time Magazine for a cover story released Thursday following the President’s historic peace deal in Gaza.
‘It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries.’
JD Vance – who rushed to Israel this week amid renewed bombing of the Gaza Strip – rebuked the Israeli parliament today accusing it of a ‘personal insult’ after it voted for annexing the West Bank.
Speaking at Tel Aviv’s airport before departing, the vice-president called the vote a ‘very stupid political stunt’.
‘I personally take some insult to it,’ Vance added. ‘The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel.’
Trump threatens to cut all support for Israel in extraordinary escalation after JD Vance ‘personal insult’
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