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Netanyahu fears tackling Democrats

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has kept quiet so far on the matter involving US Rep. llhan Omar, D-Minn.; he knows his policies have been helping reduce Democratic support for Israel for years.
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When someone plays into his hands, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never misses an opportunity to lob the ball into his rival’s court. It happened again March 10, when television presenter and model Rotem Sela wrote on her Instagram account that Israel is a state of all its citizens and that Arabs, too, are people. Later that day Netanyahu set her right and reminded his many followers that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, and only of the Jewish people (as stated in the Nationality Law adopted last year by his ruling coalition).

Just two days prior to the storm Sela precipitated, Netanyahu received a handsome political gift from Washington and did not even bother tweeting his thanks. President Donald Trump said the Democratic Party had become “anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish” after lawmakers refused to discriminate between anti-Semitism and other hues of racism, including Islamophobia.

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