President Donald Trump reiterated his supposed opposition to the idea of Israel annexing the occupied West Bank on Thursday, with the president threatening to withhold aid — while ignoring Israel’s ongoing de facto annexation campaign and his vast role in enabling it.

In response to a question on Israeli annexation in an interview with Time Magazine , Trump said five times that “it won’t happen.”

“It won’t happen. It won’t happen. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can’t do that now. We’ve had great Arab support. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. It will not happen,” he said.

“Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened,” Trump went on.

However, a wide variety of experts and analysts

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