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Ambassador: US backs Israel’s Barring of House Reps. Omar and Tlaib
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By JNS August 18, 2019 , 3:21 pm
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cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Yarden Deuteronomy
3:25 (The Israel Bible™)
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during an
American Independence Day celebration. (Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in a
statement on Thursday that the United States “supports and respects” Israel’s
decision to deny entry to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib
(D-Mich.)
“The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
against Israel is not free speech. Rather, it is no less than economic warfare
designed to delegitimize and ultimately destroy the Jewish state,” said the
statement.
Friedman stated that Israel “has every right to protect
its borders against those activists in the same manner as it would bar entrants
with more conventional weapons.”
Israel blocked entry to the congresswomen earlier on
Thursday.
Friedman pointed out that the itinerary of the Tlaib and
Omar leaves no doubt as to their motives. “In contrast to the nearly 70
freshmen members of Congress who just recently completed, or who are currently
pursuing, a balanced visit to Israel that includes meetings with both Israeli
and Palestinian leaders, the Tlaib-Omar delegation has limited its exposure to
tours organized by the most strident of BDS activists.”
He went on to add, “This trip, pure and simple, is
nothing more than an effort to fuel the BDS engine that Congresswomen Tlaib and
Omar so vigorously support.”
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