Amid a visibly growing anti-Israel sentiment in Europe and elsewhere, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Monday 8 Shevat delivered yet another blow against Jerusalem. Shapiro leveled unprecedented criticism against the government and the yishuvim throughout Yehuda and Shomron. He accuses the government of failing to provide an acceptable response to “settler violence”, referring to attacks against Arabs.
Ambassador Shapiro was addressing the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv, stating there is “too much vigilantism in the West Bank that goes unchecked”. He continued his scathing rebuke adding “there is a lack of thorough investigations” and as far as to accuse Israel of maintaining a double standard of law throughout “the West Bank, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians”.
The ambassador added the US administration remains “perplexed” due to the current administration’s “settlement policy” and warned there must be an implementation of the “two-state solution” to prevent a binational state.
The Prime Minister’s Office rejected the ambassador’s accusations, adding “the ambassador’s statements, on the day when a mother of six who was murdered is buried, and on a day when a pregnant woman is stabbed – are unacceptable and wrong”.
“Israel enforces the law on Israelis and Palestinians. The onus for the stalemate in the diplomatic process is the Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite and refuses negotiations,” it concluded.
The ambassador’s statements have significant fueled the battle of those seeking Israel’s demise, giving more than an air of legitimacy to many bogus allegations leveled against Israel by the PA (Palestinian Authority).
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I’ve been saying from day one that this sniveling little twit is a self hating Jew of the worst kind. Let this little — —– move his offices to Ramallah where he’ll be nice and safe.
Netanyahu has only himself to blame, for this hatred coming out of the White House, as HE let the whole Duma saga fester as he kept imprisoning and torturing Israeli citizen’s without any formal arrest.
But no word out of the lowlife Schapiro on the constant stabbings & murder of innocent Israeli’s! Pheh!
i’m sure in his heart of hearts, US ambassador Dan Shapiro, does not really believe what he’s saying. but, what would anyone do who has a cushy job with none other than Barak Obama, the President of the US no less? there is something that everyone values and that is “job security”. Mr Shapiro is nothing less than a mouthpiece for Mr Obama. i predict that after Obama’s presidency comes and goes, mr shapiro would feel free to express his true views (as a frum yid) w/re to Israel in what would be Dan Shapiro’s memoirs.
“HE let the whole Duma saga fester as he kept imprisoning and torturing Israeli citizen’s without any formal arrest.”
There is no evidence that the suspects were treated any differently than any other suspected terrorists.
“But no word out of the lowlife Schapiro on the constant stabbings & murder of innocent Israeli’s”
He condemns them repeatedly. You would know that if you bothered to spend five minutes on Internet searches. But facts would destroy your hate Narrative.