Hey, Bibi: You Manage Your Border, We'll Manage Ours
The Israel Prime Minister stepped in a hole and kept digging when he praised Trump’s wall. Stay out of our hemisphere, buddy.
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR.
02.05.17 12:15 AM ET
Jerusalem, we have a problem.
That giant sucking sound you hear isn’t those American manufacturing jobs that H. Ross Perot warned in 1993—with some prescience, I have to admit—would be headed to Mexico if Congress ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement.
No. It’s the sound of Benjamin Netanyahu sucking up to President Donald Trump in advance of a White House visit scheduled for later this month. The Israeli Prime Minister recently endorsed, via that new diplomatic backchannel known as Twitter, Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Last week, newly-confirmed Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that the border wall should be built within two years. To the chagrin of some Trump supporters, Kelly also said that the wall would not be a continuous barrier but rather—in some places—a virtual wall with sensors that are monitored by Border Patrol agents.
But who asked Netanyahu for his opinion anyway? This subject is a bit outside his wheelhouse, isn’t it?
Now, I have much respect for the Prime Minister, and I’d defer to him if the topic directly impacted his neighborhood, like Iran’s nuclear capability or fighting Hamas.
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