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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Netanyahu hails censure of Rashida Tlaib: ‘From the river to the sea means there’s no Israel’
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails the US House of Representatives for censuring Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for using the term “from the River to the sea, Palestine will be free” along with other anti-Israel rhetoric since the October 7 Hamas onslaught
“From the river to the sea means there’s no Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean,” Netanyahu tells Fox News.
“What this congresswoman is calling for is… genocide, the elimination of the one and only state of the Jewish people. That’s absurd, and I salute the Congress for censuring her,” Netanyahu says.
He then criticizes pro-Palestinian protesters around the world, saying they are expressing support for Hamas, which Western leaders have likened to ISIS and the Nazis.
“They’re lining up with ISIS, with Al-Qaeda, with these murderers, with these baby burners, with these rapists, with these mutilators, with these head choppers — This is what they’re aligning themselves with,” Netanyahu says.
“Can our world survive if people with such moral depravity go and support these murderers?” Netanyahu asks.
“This is an indictment of higher education in many places in the West where people who are supposedly educated cannot distinguish right from wrong and good from evil. Hamas is evil and we have to defeat evil, not protest and demonstrate on behalf of evil,” the prime minister adds.
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