US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has once again publicly contradicted official US policy on Thursday, declaring that the settlements in the West Bank are a permanent part of Israel, and falsely claiming that Israel only occupies some 2% of the overall West Bank.
Legally speaking, Israel occupies 100% of the West Bank, though as a practical matter deals with the Palestinian Authority ceding some security control in certain areas has the EU estimating about 60% of the West Bank under direct military occupation. It’s not clear where the 2% claim originated
Friedman is known as an outspoken supporter of the settlements, but the 2% figure is just a flat out lie, and a blatant one. This also marked the second time in his short time as an ambassador that the State Department has felt the need to publicly rebuke him.
State Department officials were quick to insist that US policy is that the settlements are not part of Israel, and that this has not changed. They added nothing Friedman says should be viewed as a change of any US positios.
For sure the Bibi feed the ambasador and the world with thruts like this
Whatz are thruts……???????
Woww Was there any doubt in honest people’s minds that Friedman wouldn’t say something like this? He has always been a staunch promoter of settlements in the West Bank. He is one of those arrogant ambassadors that calls himself an American with dual Israeli citizenship. He is nothing more than the typical “wolf in sheepskin” !!!!!!
Just anouther Israeli agent working and subverting democracy in the USA.
Not “just another Israeli agent”, but one who draws a large check from the US Treasury for his employment as a double agent. And to be totally accurate, he is just one of legions.
Pat Dunne
“subverting democracy in the USA”
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Putting the scorpion in charge of transporting frogs across the lake.
Ambassadors are in charge of nothing, and this comment by David Friedman isn’t even newsworthy.
The American ambassador to Israel saying such a thing is not newsworthy? In one sense you are correct…the mainstream media will not touch this.
Please Correct Yourself “David Friedman isn’t even newsworthy”. If ambassador had Spoken The TRUTH That Israel is A Criminal Terrorist NAZI State, then, it is an Open Secret that David Friedman along with his whole Clan would have been CRUCIFIED.
American Administration & All Other American Institutions can Destroy USA for The Benefit of Criminal Zionist Terrorist NAZI State of Israel.
The absolute worst of the very few US ambassadors actually confirmed during the Trump administration. Remember, Trump fired EVERY US AMBASSADOR effective on Inauguration Day. Last I looked, 9, including Friedman, Trump’s bankruptcy attorney, had been confirmed.
Of course, Trump has rendered American international diplomacy moot with his Twitter. I would not want to be an ambassador for the US knowing that at any moment, without the slightest consultation with his ambassador, the President might completely contradict erstwhile policy having to do with any given nation.