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Thursday, May 9, 2024
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
Far-right minister likens Biden’s threat to Britain’s Munich pact with Nazi Germany
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu attends the funeral of Israeli soldier Moshe Yedidia Leiter, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party reacts to US President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold relevant arms if Israel assaults Rafah, likening it to former UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany.
“Joe Biden can be [Winston] Churchill but he is choosing to be Chamberlain, he chooses dishonour and will get both dishonour and war,” Eliyahu tweets, quoting Churchill’s famous critique of Chamberlain.
Meanwhile, Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman reposts Mitt Romney’s statement that “Biden’s dithering on Israel weapons is bad policy and a terrible message to Israel, our allies, and the world.”
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