Israel’s ambassador to Mexico ‘invited’ to rebuke this evening

Israel’s ambassador to Mexico has been “invited” and not “summoned” for a meeting with the country’s foreign minister over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent support for US President Donald Trump’s border wall, the Israel Foreign Ministry says.

Jonathan Peled will meet with Luis Videgaray Caso at 9 p.m. Israel time, a brief statement says.

He is expected to receive an angry telling off after Netanyahu tweeted that Trump’s border wall was a “great idea,” comparing it to the wall on Israel’s southern border.

On Saturday, Netanyahu praised Trump for his plan to build a security barrier. Referring to the recently built fence along Israel’s border with Egypt, the prime minister said the measure had been a “great success” in keeping out migrants, who mainly came from African nations.

President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea ????????????????

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) January 28, 2017

Israel walked back the tweet a few hours after the prime minister sent it.

A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not commenting on US-Mexican relations when the Israeli leader said earlier that US President Donald Trump was “right” in pushing for a wall along the US-Mexico border to block illegal immigration.