Facing Mexicos fury, Israel backtracks on Trump border wall praise

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/facing-mexican-fury-israel-backtracks-on-trump-border-wall-praise/

A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not commenting on US-Mexican relations when the Israeli leader said earlier that US President Donald Trump was “right” in pushing for a wall along the US-Mexico border to block illegal immigration.

The backtracking came after Mexican officials phoned Jerusalem and angrily demanded a clarification, the Haaretz daily reported on Saturday night.

Earlier Saturday, Netanyahu had welcomed praise from Trump for Israel’s security barrier. Referring to the recently built fence along Israel’s border with Egypt, the prime minister said the measure had been a “great success” in keeping out migrants, who mainly came from African nations.

“President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu wrote in English on Twitter, Trump’s preferred method of communication.

“[Netanyahu] referred to our specific security experience which we are willing to share,” spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon wrote on Twitter.

POS rightwing ethnonationalist governments are forming a new axis of evil and alienating the rest of the world in the process.

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1. The day after Holocaust Remembrance Day

And you are back to using Nazi terminology to describe the Jewish state.

Classy.

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2. no I'm comparing Netanyahu-Trump-Putin to Saddam-Khameini-Kim nt

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3. The Axis powers comment harkens back to WWII

That was why Bush used it with respect to those dictators during his presidency.

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4. ok, then I'm comparing Bibi to Mussolini + Putin to Tojo, if that helps.

Trump is the guy with the moustache. Bibi is just his sycophantic sidekick who aspires to fascist rule without the genocidal dreams.

P.S. Bibi should really STFU about other country's borders.

P.P.S. Mexico should expel Israel's ambassador.

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5. That's not a reasonable comparison

I agree with you that Netanyahu is a right-winger, and obviously Trump is a lunatic, but they aren't Hitler and Tojo.

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6. Putin is Tojo.

The only difference between Trump and Hitler are the institutional restraints and disparate organizing skills.

Bibi is Mussolini, a tin horned fascist.

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9. It's a historical analogy to the German-Italian-Japanese Axis

That's why Bush used the term.