JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized on Thursday Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying the move was an “insult.”

Speaking on the tarmac of Tel Aviv’s international airport before departing at the end of his visit to Israel this week, Vance said that if the vote was a “political stunt, then it is a very stupid political stunt.”

"I personally take some insult to it," Vance said about the Knesset vote. "The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel.”

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