Reports are swirling that Israel may try to annex the West Bank, but Fred Fleitz, a former National Security Council chief of staff, said Sunday on Newsmax he thinks Israel is focusing more on the relationship it will have with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump and his appointees. 

“I think right now Israel is focusing on this new relationship it will have with the United States with Mike Huckabee and especially with Steve Witkoff,” Fleitz told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”

Trump has picked Huckabee as the U.S. ambassador to Israel and Witkoff as his special envoy to the Middle East.

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