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Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 04:12 PM Dec 2016

NeoNazis beat out far right Zionists as priorities for the Trump team

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-official-boycotts-israeli-gov-t-meeting-over-exclusion-of-far-right-swede

A representative of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team was among a group of conservative lawmakers and officials from the U.S. and Europe who boycotted a meeting with Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely this week over her decision to exclude a far-right Swedish pol from the briefing, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry told the Times that the delegation had canceled its briefing with Hotovely (pictured above) because she would not allow the attendance Swedish pol Kristina Winberg, whom the spokesperson described as "a member of a party with neo-Nazi tendencies."

A representative for the group also told the Times that the delegation was boycotting the meeting in protest of Winberg's exclusion.


OF COURSE....

Btw, the hard-right zionist characterization of Hovotely came from Josh Marshall at TPM:

A coalition of neo-Nazis and hard-right Zionists can be unwieldy.

A representative of the Trump transition has decided to boycott a meeting with the Israeli government after the Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to meet with a member of their delegation. Becky Norton Dunlop, deputy to the senior adviser on Trump’s transition team, was in Jerusalem with a delegation of far-right Bannonite European parliamentarians. But Israel said it couldn't meet with Sweden's Kristina Winberg because of her party's "neo-Nazi tendencies." Faced with that rebuke, Dunlop decided to boycott the meeting entirely.
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