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Israeli media highlighted the steps following the Knesset's preliminary approval of the 'Annexation of the West Bank' law, indicating that the prevailing perception is that the implementation of the annexation step is not imminent, whether regarding the settlement of 'Ma'ale Adumim' or the northern Jordan Valley.

Yuval Karni, a writer for Yedioth Ahronoth, mentioned that 'the joy of coalition and opposition members (each for their own reasons) over the approval of annexation laws is considered premature, whether due to the proposal by Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of the opposition Yisrael Beiteinu party, regarding a partial annexation of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement or the Jordan Valley, and certainly not comprehensive sovereignty over the entire West Bank, as proposed by Knesset member Rabbi Avi Maoz from the far-right in the ruling coalition, which heads the religious 'Noam' party.'

He added in an article translated by 'Arabi21' that 'considering this joy as premature is due to the fact that it is a preliminary reading, and the path to the law's approval in the second and third readings is very long, and the coalition can spoil the progress of the law and obstruct the legislative process. But more importantly, there will be no annexation of the West Bank for one main reason: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to this step in the face of the entire world, and contrary to the position of the U.S. administration, which forced him to swallow the bitter pill of opposing the law, after he promised right-wing voters in every election to announce the annexation.'

He clarified that 'Netanyahu is embarrassed because he knows that the whole world is pressuring him, and I might well remember the 'dramatic' press conference on the eve of the 2019 elections when he announced that he 'would annex the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea,' but it was a promise that remained ink on paper, which raises questions about what happened in the first winter session of the Knesset with the approval of this law in a preliminary reading, as events revealed that there was an unofficial alliance between wide sectors of the coalition and opposition members aimed at embarrassing Netanyahu during an important diplomatic visit by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.'

He pointed out that 'Lieberman presented the bill to corner Netanyahu from the right, and the result is that a number of coalition members supported the bill as an expression of their lack of confidence in him regarding the annexation, and they no longer trust his promises about annexation every time, especially on the eve of elections, even though the Likud's announcement of support for the opposition to the annexation laws appeared ironic when it accused them of leading a campaign aimed at harming our relations with the United States.'

He added that 'the problem is not with the opposition, but with the fact that Netanyahu does not control his coalition and his far-right partners, and therefore I do not think that Likud voters take the claim of blaming the opposition seriously, despite his claims that he will achieve annexation through actions, not words, and through appropriate fieldwork and creating the right political conditions for recognition of that, as happened in the Golan Heights and Jerusalem, even though the last annexation taken by Menachem Begin of the Golan was in 1981, and 44 years have passed, most of which were under Likud leadership, and during Netanyahu's tenure, he has done nothing.