US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday he did not believe that Israel would annex the West Bank, playing down this week’s Knesset vote to advance two bills.
Rubio said Israeli lawmakers had held the vote as a political stunt to embarrass US Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Suffice it to say we don’t think it’s going to happen,” he told reporters during a visit to the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre in southwestern Israel.
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