US Issues Ultra-Rare Rebuke Of Israeli Top Minister: “Repugnant & Disgusting” — “The Palestinian Village of Hawara Should be Wiped Out of the Earth. The Israeli Government Needs to Do It And Not Private Citizens”
BREAKING: Israeli minister of finance Bezalel Smotrich: “The Palestinian village of Hawara should be wiped out of the earth. The Israeli government needs to do it and not private citizens” https://t.co/0yvEl6Q2We
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- US Issues Ultra-Rare Rebuke Of Israeli Top Minister: “Repugnant & Disgusting”
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
The Biden administration this week issued a very rare rebuke directed at close US ally Israel, which receives billions in foreign aid annually, following controversial remarks by far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
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State Department spokesman Ned Price called statements by Smotrich “irresponsible, repugnant and disgusting” in what was probably the most strongly worded condemnation directed at a top Israeli minister in recent history.
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Smotrich earlier in the week called on Israelis to “wipe out” the Palestinian village of Hawara, a West Bank town which recently saw a wave of settler violence which left at least one Palestinian dead and injured over 100 others, amid a scene of torched homes and cars.
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Price emphasized this week that the Biden administration condemns Smotrich’s comments and considers them as an “incitement to violence”. He then said the US calls on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to publicly disavow Smotrich’s comments and to urge the opposite, for the sake of peace. According to The Times of Israel:
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