Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday before leaving Israel that he was "insulted" by the Knesset vote on annexing the occupied West Bank, which took place while he was visiting the country this week.
Why it matters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has control over the majority in the Knesset and could have stopped the vote by taking it off the agenda or ordering the members of his party to vote against it. He chose not to in order to avoid a confrontation with his ultranationalist coalition partners.
