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Israel's finance minister has said that he had chosen his words poorly when he called for a Palestinian town to be 'wiped out' after two Israeli settlers were killed there.

Jerusalem – Israel's finance minister said on Saturday he had chosen his words poorly when he called for a Palestinian town to be"wiped out" after two Israeli settlers were killed there.

"I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out," Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, had said on Wednesday."I did not mean harm to innocents when I said that Huwara should be wiped out," he tweeted on Saturday.

"They were irresponsible, they were repugnant, they were disgusting," US State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters.

 

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And they say South Africa must take sides. SakinaKamwendo. We are not having this dialogue often.

Yeah but he meant it.

Israel? Sorry, you must mean Occupied Palestinian Territories, News24.

There is two things I see one is that there is a ghetto system in Israel use against the Palestinians by the Jews that looks a lot like the ghettos that the NAZI used on the Jews and secondly is when annexing siad land for Jews use, that builds up tension.

He's a cannibal,..

His a poor thinker anyway, that is why they don't believe in peace.

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