Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has pledged to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025, saying that he had already begun laying the groundwork for such a step. Smotrich said he hoped the new administration of US President-elect Trump would support his plans.
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00:00The year 2025 will, with God's help, be the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
00:06The only way to remove the threat of a terrorist Palestinian state from the agenda is to implement
00:13Israeli sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria's settlements.
00:19I intend, God willing, to subsequently lead a government decision stating that the government
00:23of Israel will work with the new U.S. president, with the new administration of President Trump,
00:29and with the international community to implement Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria
00:34with American and international recognition, thus ending the Israeli-Arab conflict in the
00:39Middle East.