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Smotrich accuses Biden of licensing attacks on settlers
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is accusing US President Joe Biden of making common cause with antisemites and legitimizing attacks on Israeli settlers by putting fresh sanctions on Israeli extremists who attack West Bank Palestinians.
In a statement to reporters, Smotrich denies that settler violence is a problem, calling it a “lie spread by Israel’s enemies to slander settlers and pioneers and the settler movement and to harm them.”
“This is an immoral BDS campaign that turns victims into attackers and sanctions the spilling of settler blood. It’s too bad the Biden administration is cooperating with these actions,” the far-right minister adds.
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