Speaker Mike Johnson visits occupied West Bank to support Israeli settlers | Republicans
Mike Johnson, Gaza in the middle of a worse hunger crisis in the midst of the journey to support the Israeli settlement crisis praise and condemnation measures for the Republican Parliamentary speaker on Monday to visit the occupied West Bank was the highest.
The trip watched Johnson’s arrival to Israel on Sunday, unaware of other Republican MPs and his meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
Johnson’s visit to the West Bank is the highest profile of the US political figure, as Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo went to Psogat in November 2020 in the last months of Donald Trump’s first presidency.
It is a special journey organized by a pro -Israeli advocacy group, Axios Report and not an official congress delegation. Outlet said Johnson traveled with Republican representatives Michael McCaul, Nathaniel Moran and Michael Cloud from Texas and Claudia Tenney from New York.
Johnson told Israel settlers on Monday that Israel’s controversial Palestinian territory was the “right -hand”. According to a report Published on the pro -Palestinian Common Dreams website and separately, Marc ZellIsrael president of Republicans abroad.
Johnson, common dreams, said that “Judas and Samaria Mountains are the right property of the Jewish people” and that the region is on the front of the Israeli state and that it should remain an integral part ”.
“Even if the world thinks of the opposite, we are standing with you,” he added, an open reference to the latest declarations stating that France and Britain will recognize the Palestinian state if Israel does not buy a ceasefire in Gaza.
His visit was immediately condemned by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which issued a statement that called Israel’s annexation of the West Bank as “a clear violation of international law ..
Johnson’s attitude towards the support of settlers, “The Arab and American weakens the efforts to stop the war and [the] The cycle of violence clearly contradicts the US position of settlements and settlement violence ”.
Accordingly A shipment in x Zell said that Johnson should use the 250th anniversary of the US independence next year to “remind the American people to remind the Jewish-Christian foundations established in the country of Israel”.
Johnson’s trip put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the growing hunger crisis in Gaza, while some critics call Israel a genocide.
In addition, a Palestinian American from Florida comes shortly after Israeli was killed by Israeli settlers while visiting the family in the West Bank. The Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, appointed by Trump, described killing as a “terrorist attack ..
Johnson is expected to meet Netanyahu before returning to the United States on Sunday.
