Rubio warns against West Bank annexation after Israel's parliament advances move - The Ghanaian Chronicle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : " The Palestinians claim the West Bank - occupied by Israel since 1967 - as part of a hoped-for independent state.
46% : In an apparent attempt to embarrass Israel's prime minister, far-right politicians took the symbolic step of giving preliminary approval to a bill granting Israel authority to annex the West Bank.
45% : Ultra-nationalists in Netanyahu's governing coalition have repeatedly called for Israel to annex the West Bank outright, though the bill was put forward by MPs outside the government.
41% : The US secretary of state has said a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank would threaten Washington's plan to end the conflict in Gaza.
41% : " "The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel.
34% : "That's not something we can be supportive of right now," Marco Rubio said before leaving for Israel as part of US efforts to shore up a fragile ceasefire deal.
31% : At the end of his own trip to Israel, US Vice-President JD Vance said: "If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt and I personally take some insult.
30% : The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel," he told reporters at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Thursday.
29% : Last year, the International Court of Justice - the UN's top court - said Israel's occupation was illegal under international law.
26% : Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously spoken in support of annexing West Bank land but has not advanced this due to the risk of alienating the US - Israel's most important ally - and Arab countries which have built relations with Israel after decades of enmity.

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