He should apologise for ever opening his mouth – Peter
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister has been forced to apologise for insulting remarks he made about Saudi Arabia over normalisation ties with Israel.
Bezalel Smotrich caused outrage when he told Saudi Arabia it could “keep riding camels” if it tried to demand an independent Palestinian state in return for normalising relations with Jerusalem.
“My statement regarding Saudi Arabia was unfortunate, and I regret any offence it may have caused,” MR Smotrich said in a video statement on X.
But he said that he also expected Saudis not to offend Israel. “I’m also not willing to accept hypocrisy. Just as I don’t intend to offend the Saudis, I expect from them not to offend me, or rather, offend us,” he said.
“And anyone who denies the living and very deep connection we have to the regions of our homeland in Judea and Samaria, offends us,” he added, using the Israeli Biblical term for the occupied West Bank.
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