Said Arikat, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem-based newspaper Al-Quds, regularly criticizes the Jewish state in his ostensible questions at the U.S. State Department press briefings.
“Why is [sic] all these attacks by Israel and basically coming so close to Damascus—and in fact, they struck Tartus the other day with a bomb that measured three-point something on the Richter scale,” he said at Wednesday’s briefing. “So why does that—doesn’t that raise an alarm? Why is it OK for Israel to keep doing what it’s doing, occupying more land?”
“Israel has said that these kinds of actions and the limited defense of its borders are temporary, and no nation—certainly not even the United States—could tolerate terrorists and other armed militia groups becoming embedded right on their doorsteps,” Patel said.
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“Why is [sic] all these attacks by Israel and basically coming so close to Damascus—and in fact, they struck Tartus the other day with a bomb that measured three-point something on the Richter scale,” he said at Wednesday’s briefing. “So why does that—doesn’t that raise an alarm? Why is it OK for Israel to keep doing what it’s doing, occupying more land?”
“Israel has said that these kinds of actions and the limited defense of its borders are temporary, and no nation—certainly not even the United States—could tolerate terrorists and other armed militia groups becoming embedded right on their doorsteps,” Patel said.
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“Israel, of course, as we’ve long said, has every right to its self-defense and its security,” a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
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