Vice President Vance said on Thursday before leaving Israel that he was "insulted" by the Knesset vote on annexing the occupied West Bank, which took place while he was visiting the country this week.

Why it matters: Netanyahu has control over the majority in the Knesset and could have stopped the vote by taking it off the agenda or ordering the members of his party to vote against it. He chose not to in order to avoid a confrontation with his ultranationalist coalition partners.

Driving the news: The Knesset voted on Wednesday in a preliminary reading on two bills that focused on annexation. • One bill that was put forward by a member of the coalition called for annexation of the entire West Bank. The other was put forward by the opposition and called for annexation of one of the bigg

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