The Knesset, Israel s parliament, passed a resolution on Wednesday calling for Judea and Samaria internationally known as the West Bank to be annexed and made an inseparable part of the State of

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According to Israeli law, the current status of the territories it captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War, save for east Jerusalem, is that of a “temporary belligerent occupation. ” Following a long debate in the plenum,