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Monday, January 22, 2018
J Street: Pence used Knesset speech to pander to evangelical base
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJ Street accuses US vice president of using his address to the Knesset to pander to his far-right base of evangelical Christians.
“Trump and Pence are exacerbating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and severely limiting their own ability to help resolve it,” J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami says in a statement.
“As the vice president uses Israel as just another partisan issue on which to pander to his far-right evangelical base, it is the Israeli and Palestinian peoples who will pay the price,” Ben Ami adds.
He also warns the Netanyahu’s government is “making a serious mistake” in aligning itself with an “extreme and retrograde worldview that is completely out of step with the majority of Americans and American Jews, and the future of US leadership.”
The Times of Israel Community.