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US envoy says he’s not boycotting Ben Gvir but will primarily deal with Netanyahu |
2023-01-11 |
It was only days ago that the Biden team was going to stay as far away from that horrid Bibi Netanyahu as possible. How times have changed. [IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides denied on Tuesday that he or the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)![]() have imposed a boycott against far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir but said Washington would primarily be working with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it adapts to bilateral ties under the new hardline Israeli government. "There’s no boycott. I don’t do boycotts... We are going to work with the Israeli government. It is a democratically elected government," Nides responded after being prompted on the matter during an interview with the Kan public broadcaster. "We’ll work with everyone. But in principle, [who] I’ll be working with is the prime minister." The preference to work with Netanyahu is one that has been vocalized by Biden officials in recent weeks and it is part of what they say is a new approach that aims to hold the longtime premier accountable for the policies of some of his far-right coalition partners, such as Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, of the Religious Zionism party. |
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