President Johnson paid a historic visit to the West Bank in Dine with Netanyahu

First on Fox: Chamber Mike Johnson dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Judea and Samaria on Monday, during a visit that marked the most senior visit of an American civil servant to what is still internationally considered as the occupied West Bank, but which has become a highly divisor subject in the United States

Although the discussion of the dinner has largely focused on the current war in Gaza and how to better secure aid deliveries while Hamas continues to destroy itself on access to food, Fox News Digital has confirmed Heather Johnston, the founder of the US Israel Education Association – whose organization has planned Johnson’s trip – that he and his delegation will also meet Palestinian leaders during his visit to the Middle East.

Johnson, whose visit is considered a “private” trip and not an official state visit because it was organized by the association, also met Israeli officials of the city of Ariel Ealalier on Tuesday – to just over 10 miles from the green line, the Green line Armistice line marking the boundaries between Israel and the disputed Palestinian territories.

Although it is not unusual for the members of the Congress to go to Israel by private means, including the previous speakers of the Chamber like Kevin McCarthy who also met Netanyahu in 2023, the location of the Johnson-Nentanyahu dinner is important.

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The president of the American room Mike Johnson, a republican of Louisiana, on the right, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, Shoot hand at a meeting at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, United States, Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty Images)

The Republicans of the Congress have introduced legislation which would oblige all the American documents to use the name “Judea and Samaria” rather than the West Bank, which, according to her, has become a “highly divisor label”.

Judea and Samaria refer to the historical and religious ties that Israel has in an area which is internationally recognized as the West BankAnd that Israel captured in Jordan during the 1967 war after Amman seized the territory of compulsory Palestine, now nicknamed the West Bank, during the 1948 Israel War.

He has since been deemed illegally occupied by the UN and the international community, although the United States has fluctuated by his opinions on the status of the occupation since President Donald Trump came into office for the first time in 2017.

An Israeli soldier is seen during a demonstration in the city of Beita, in the West Bank on July 26, 2024. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh / Images from the Middle East / AFP via Getty Images)

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Asset Elected questions Earlier this year to find out if he would support the annexation by Israel of parts of the West Bank despite his solid support in Jerusalem.

But it does not matter that he has the support of the chief ally of Israel, the senior officials of the administration of Netanyahu clearly indicated that they intended to officially annex the territory and less than two weeks ago, the Israeli government adopted a Non -binding resolution That said, Jerusalem should “apply Israeli sovereignty, law, judgment and administration” to the West Bank.

Johnson’s office did not immediately answer Fox News Digital questions about the importance of his visit.

Although this may suggest that American legislators could play a more decisive role in supporting the expansionist plans of Israel while the Trump administration seeks to end the War of Israel in Gaza while opposing the increased thrust of the European and Arabic nation to an independent state of Palestine.

The Minister of Finance of Israel (L to R), Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Justice Yariv Levin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, and the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Eli Cohen applauded during a session of June 11-2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty Images)

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The times of Israel too reported last week Whether the Minister of Justice Yariv Levin and the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, the latter of whom Johnson met on Sunday, believe that “at the moment, there is a moment of opportunity which should not miss” to implement “Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria”.

The report did not confirm why this time in time is so important.