US lawmaker slams ‘illegal’ Israeli seizure of West Bank land

By Jacob Magid

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3 July 2024, 6:51 pm 12 Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Elissa Slotkin asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on 'Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,' at the Capitol in Washington, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who is also running for a Senate seat, slams Israel’s appropriation of 2,965 acres of land in the Jordan Valley.

“These land seizures are illegal, they make a two-state solution even more distant and they inflame tensions at a time when everyone should be trying to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East,” Slotkin tweets.

Slotkin is known as one of the more moderate, pro-Israel lawmakers in the Democratic Party who has been endorsed by AIPAC.