{"id":55895,"date":"2025-10-23T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/stupid-political-stunt-vance-criticises-knesset-vote-to-annex-west-bank-video\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:56:26","slug":"stupid-political-stunt-vance-criticises-knesset-vote-to-annex-west-bank-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/stupid-political-stunt-vance-criticises-knesset-vote-to-annex-west-bank-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stupid political stunt&#8217;: Vance criticises Knesset vote to annex West Bank \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US vice-president has criticised Israel\u2019s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, calling the move a &#8216;stupid political stunt&#8217; after a bill applying Israeli law to the occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/west-bank\">West Bank<\/a>, a move tantamount to the annexation of land Palestinians want for a state, won preliminary approval from Israel\u2019s parliament on Wednesday. Speaking on the tarmac of Tel Aviv\u2019s international airport before departing at the end of his visit to Israel, JD Vance insisted that &#8216;the policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel. That will continue to be our policy. And if people want to take symbolic votes, they can do that but we certainly weren&#8217;t happy about it,&#8217; adding:&#8217;I personally take some insult to it&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/23\/marco-rubio-warning-israel-west-bank-donald-trump\">Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2025\/oct\/23\/stupid-political-stunt-vance-criticises-knesset-vote-to-annex-west-bank-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US vice-president has criticised Israel\u2019s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, calling the move a &#8216;stupid political stunt&#8217; after a bill applying Israeli law to the occupied West Bank, a move tantamount to the annexation of land Palestinians want for a state, won preliminary approval from Israel\u2019s parliament on Wednesday. Speaking on the tarmac of &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Stupid political stunt&#8217;: Vance criticises Knesset vote to annex West Bank \u2013\u00a0video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/stupid-political-stunt-vance-criticises-knesset-vote-to-annex-west-bank-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Stupid political stunt&#8217;: Vance criticises Knesset vote to annex West Bank \u2013\u00a0video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}