Vice President JD Vance decried a vote that cleared a preliminary reading at the Knesset, meaning that the bill, which calls for extending Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, now moves to committee before even a first reading in front of the legislative body.

“If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it,” Vance told reporters on the tarmac, prior to flying to Shannon, Ireland.

“The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel,” Vance said, using a term that many in the Trump administration eschew, preferring instead to use the biblical language Judea and Samaria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced opposition parties and members of his own party over the vote. The votes were “a deliberate political

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