ISRAEL: Netanyahu Praises Trump’s Racism

Haaretz reports:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support Saturday for U.S. President Donald Trump plan to build a border wall along America’s border with Mexico and praised Trump for referencing Israel in defending his wall. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Netanyahu tweeted.

With the statement, Netanyahu thrust himself into the political debate currently raging in the U.S. over Trump’s immigration policies, and to a greater extent also into the severe diplomatic crisis between Mexico and the U.S. which saw the Mexican president cancel a scheduled meeting with Trump.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump invoked Israel to justify his proposed plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. “The wall is necessary,” the president explained, “because people want protection and a wall protects. All you have to do is ask Israel.”

Netanyahu is currently under two separate investigations related to alleged bribe-taking.

President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea ????

— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2017