President Donald Trump privately assured Arab and Muslim leaders during a meeting in New York that he would pressure Israel not to annex the West Bank, a move long floated since the Jewish state captured the territory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Trump made the vow during a closed-door meeting in New York on Tuesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. It came days after France, Great Britain, Canada and Australia announced they were recognizing a Palestinian state.
The recognitions raised concerns that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government would respond by formally annexing all or large parts of the West Bank, which has been controlled by the Palestinian Authority since the 1994 Oslo peace accords.
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