Israel will lose US support if it annexes West Bank: Trump

His warning comes as Israeli lawmakers advance Bills paving way for annexation

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President Donald Trump said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the US if it annexes the occupied West Bank, ina Time magazine interview published on Oct 23.

Mr Trump’s comments, which Time said were made by telephone on Oct 15, were published as both Vice-President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned against any annexation.

“It won't happen. It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. And you can’t do that now. We’ve had great Arab support,’ Mr Trump said, when asked what the consequences would be for Israel if it did so.

“Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”

Mr Trump also told Time he believed Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham Accords, which normalise relations between Israel and Arab states, by the end of the year.

“Yes, I do. I do” he said when asked if he thought Riyadh would join in that timeframe.

“See they had a problem. They had a Gaza problem and they had an Iran problem. Now they don’t have those two problems,” he said, referring to Israel’s war in Gaza and Iran’s nuclear programme, which US airstrikes targeted earlier in 2025.

Mr Trump then said that he would be “making a decision” on whether Israel should release high-profile Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti as part of peace moves.