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Smotrich slams ‘hypocrite’ US for condemning Ben Gvir: Don’t lecture us on morality
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich slams the US as “hypocrites” after the Biden administration condemned National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for saying that Jews’ right to travel and live safely in the West Bank is more important than Arabs’ freedom of movement.
Smotrich backs up his fellow far-right colleague, telling Army Radio that “there is no country more moral than Israel and anyone in the world who attacks us is a hypocrite.”
“I’m not even talking about the Americans, what they did in Afghanistan or in Iraq. They can’t lecture us about morality or human rights, that is the greatest hypocrisy.”
Speaking on Thursday, a State Department spokesperson condemned Ben Gvir’s remarks as inflammatory and likened them to racist rhetoric being dangerously amplified by senior officials.
The Times of Israel Community.