Trump brushes off efforts by some Israel lawmakers to annex West Bank

U.S. President Donald Trump connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) dismissed an effort by immoderate Israeli lawmakers to annex the West Bank, saying Israel is “not going to bash thing with the West Bank.”

A measure applying Israeli instrumentality to the West Bank, a determination tantamount to annexation of a territory that Palestinians question for portion of a aboriginal autarkic state, won preliminary support from Israeli lawmakers connected Wednesday (October 22).

“Don’t interest astir the West Bank,” Mr. Trump told reporters astatine the White House. “Israel is not going to bash thing with the West Bank.”