Trump's advisor receives Israeli settler leader advocating for West Bank annexation

US President Donald Trump’s adviser, Massad Boulos, met with the far-right head of the Israeli settler organisation the Shomron Regional Council, Yossi Dagan; an advocate of annexing the occupied West Bank, Ynet News reported yesterday.

The site said the meeting took place at Boulos’s house in Washington, as settler leaders are holding a series of discussions in Washington to build coalitions in support of annexing the occupied West Bank and expanding illegal settlements there.

According to the site, Boulos expressed his gratitude and conveyed his appreciation “to the people of the West Bank through you. To my brothers and sisters in Israel and Lebanon, we look forward to peace and yearn for it, and with God’s help, we hope it will come soon.”

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Dagan responded saying “the Creator has sent us to work together for the future of the Middle East and the world” and conveyed a message of appreciation to Trump.

Following Trump’s inauguration, Dagan established a Congressional caucus in Washington, which includes over 20 members of Congress, to promote annexation of the occupied West Bank.

According to Ynet, the caucus’s first initiative was a bill, introduced by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, its chair, declaring that official US documents should no longer refer to the area as the “West Bank” but instead call it by its biblical name “Judea and Samaria”.

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