In the context of Donald Trump's return to the White House, Finance Minister and head of the Hatzionout Hadatit party, Betsalel Smotrich, called for Israeli sovereignty to be applied throughout Judea and Samaria.
While speaking to the Knesset during his party's meeting, Smotrich welcomed Trump's election: “I congratulate President-elect Donald Trump on his tremendous landslide victory in the United States elections against media predictions , elites and polls. I wish him great success in his role. After years during which, to my great regret, the current administration chose to interfere in Israeli democracy and not cooperate personally with me as Minister of Finance, I express the wish for cooperation with the elected government, working together with a strengthening of our economic and commercial ties”.
He then affirmed that Donald Trump's return to the White House was an opportunity to complete what had been started just before he left in 2020: Israel's sovereignty over Judea and Samaria: “There exists today a consensus within the coalition and the opposition around the refusal of the creation of a Palestinian state which would threaten the existence of the State of Israel. 2025 will be the year of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria”.
The minister added: “I have instructed the ityashvut administration within the Ministry of Defense and the civil administration to begin work to prepare the necessary basis for the application of sovereignty. Subsequently, I intend to initiate a government decision which will charge the Israeli government to act in the face of the new American administration of President Trump and in the face of the international community to apply this sovereignty and have it recognized by the UNITED STATES”.
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