Settler leaders to Benjamin Netanyahu: Don't give up annexation!
Leaders of settlers in Judea and Samaria have sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu beseeching him not to give up on annexation of the region in his meeting with President Trump.


Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to meet President Donald Trump for a crucial meeting, settler leaders published a letter to the Prime Minister today (Tuesday) asking him not to give up on the goal of annexing Judea and Samaria.
In the letter, the leaders say that they support Prime Minister Netanyahu's standing firm on Israeli interests. However, media reports that Netanyahu was preparing to forgo annexation of Judea and Samaria as a policy request - a report which his spokesperson called "fake news" - have them concerned.
The said that "Israeli sovereignty" in Judea and Samaria "is not a luxury but a duty meant to prevent the establishment of an Arab terror state in the heart of the land and it is part of absolute victory!
"Complete Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria is not only the realization of our natural right in our land, but it is also the only way to ensure that the horrors of October 7 will not be repeated in Afula, Hadera, Kfar Saba, Modi'in, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva."
The signatories also expressed their hope that Netanyahu ensure Trump recognize Israeli control of Judea and Samaria in the same way he recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in his first term in the White House.
Some in Netanyahu's entourage and among more hawkish elements in his government did start to prepare or think about annexing part or all of Judea and Samaria following Donald Trump's victory in the elections, though Netanyahu himself has not spoken out in favor or against the idea.
However, before Trump's inauguration, both he and senior Republicans played down the idea, saying that the time was not ripe for such an idea, given Israel's international position.