Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that “the time has come” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

He made the comment a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that he has spoken three times with Trump since the election and that they “see eye to eye on the Iranian threat.

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    Because we voted to stop trump. That’s how it works, and that is what they failed to understand in the months leading up to the election:

    Our votes were cast to stand in his way. Their decision to do nothing, let him walk right past us all.

    This is on the protest voters/third party voters and there is no other way to see it.