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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is a sovereign state and will determine its own security policy and which foreign powers it will accept to cooperate with it.
"In the last month, we have witnessed ridiculous claims regarding the relationship between the United States and Israel. When I was in Washington, they said that I control the American government, that I dictate its security policy. Now they claim the opposite, that the American government controls me and dictates Israel's security policy," Netanyahu said.
According to him, none of this is true.
"None of this is true. Israel is an independent country. The United States is an independent country. Our relationship is a relationship of partners.
"We do not seek anyone's approval for what we do. We control our own security and we have also made it clear, with regard to international forces, that Israel will decide which forces are unacceptable to us. That is how we act and that is how we will continue to act," Netanyahu stressed at the start of the cabinet meeting.
US President Donald Trump is warning Israel that it could lose the historic support of the United States if it annexes the West Bank, the White House chief of staff said in an interview with TIME magazine.
"This will not happen, because I gave the word to the Arab countries. Israel will lose all support from the United States if that happens."
Trump confirmed to reporters at his cabinet meeting in Washington that Israel will not take this step.
Interest was high, after the Israeli parliament approved on Wednesday the passage for discussion in parliamentary committees of a draft law to extend the jurisdiction of the laws of the state of Israel to the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
The bill is an initiative of several ultranationalist MPs who are not part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition, but was also supported by nationalist cabinet ministers such as Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
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