“As Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich heads to Washington today, his statements in support of “erasing” the Palestinian village of Hawara still echo off the walls of the State Department and numerous Jewish organizations, all of whom have made it clear that they will not meet with him during his visit.
Even the right-leaning AIPAC will not greet Israel’s finance minister. His awkward and halfhearted attempts to backtrack only cemented that this Israeli government is – and America’s reception of it – is like none we have ever seen.”
Read the full op-ed in Haaretz
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