Great Idea: Netanyahu Tweets in Support of Trump Border Wall Plan
Source: Mediaite
by Josh Feldman | 11:50 am, January 28th, 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted this morning that President Trump is right to want to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border:
Benjamin Netanyahu ✔
@netanyahu
President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea 🇮🇱🇺🇸
10:55 AM - 28 Jan 2017
8,000 Retweets 12,244 likes
And as Haaretz points out, Trump invoked Israel in speaking with Sean Hannity about his plan:
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still_one
(92,216 posts)tenorly
(2,037 posts)Bibi does, don'tchaknow.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Thanks for making this point, which is too often forgotten.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Despite Netanyahu being an asshole, it is just as disgusting to see anti-Semitic rhetoric crop up anytime he is mentioned, such as "Netanyahu speaks for America." Some people are obsessed with the anti-Semitic trope of "Jews running America" and I fail to see how they are any less bigoted than assholes like the current "president" who wants to "make America great again" at the expense of minorities and the poor.
elmac
(4,642 posts)sniffles is soooooooooooooo easy
MattP
(3,304 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Except we decided to kill or evict all the native people living there and steal a massive amount of land for ourselves.
You don't really hear a lot of people calling for us to return Texas, New Mexico, and California for some reason.
Incidentally, the US killed more people in a year and half of that conflict than Israel has in its entire 60+ year existence.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)This should certainly cause Mexico to reassess its diplomatic ties with Israel.