Vance says he was insulted by Israel’s “politically stupid” law enforcement officials at the West Bank Convention
The Vice President of JD VAMES criticized on Thursday a Vote by the Israeli Parliament To advance the bill on the proposed decoration of the bank of the West, calling it “stupid stupidity.”
“I was really shocked,” said Ben Ben Gurion Airport as he left the country after his visit. “The West Bank will not be inspected by Israel. The policy of the Trump Administration is that the West Bank will not be inspected by Israel. And if the people want to take that.”
Preliminary Vote Wednesday to support Israel’s occupation of the West Bank passed 25 votes to 24, during the vence visit.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also condemned the vote on that bill and another small piece of legislation, calling them “a deliberate political provocation against the visit of the JD Vence President to Israel.”
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Netanyahu’s office noted that without the support of his party in the Israeli Parliament, the Knusset, “this bill could have gone anywhere.”
The prime minister is facing a domestic political battle to get the country’s early elections, with some members of his right-wing coalition government unhappy over the US-blocred Reservire Resermire in Gaza, which held despite significant challenges over the weekend, and both sides suspect one of the weekend’s violations.
Although many members of Netanyahu’s coalition support Israel’s freeze on the West Bank, they have scaled back their public bills because President Trump spoke out against the idea last month.
The comprehensive annexation bill can become law only after receiving two more rounds of voting in Israel’s 120-seat Parliament, which may not survive.
Vance said they hope that the security forces will do the work to eliminate Hamas, Israel and Mr. Trump has wanted to be the next key to the peace process. He also hoped that the reconstruction of areas in Gaza where Hamas is no longer active could happen “soon.”
“It’s all very early, but that’s the basic concept,” Vance said Thursday. “Take the places where hamas is not working, start building quickly, start bringing Gazans so they can live there, so they can have good jobs and hopefully, again, very quickly.”
Vance said he hoped the town south of Rafa was rebuilt in two to three years.
