US shouldn’t preach morality to Israel, Smotrich says, backing Ben-Gvir - sh.itjust.works
The United States is in no position to go after Israel on human rights issues
given how its army acted in Iraq and Afghanistan, Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said.
Because there’s a sizable contingent of the electorate which is fanatically in favor of giving Israel aid, mainly for religious reasons, and the opposition to that aid is much more tepid and/or less numerous.