CNN: Prime Minister Netanyahu on Reps Omar, Tlaib Ban ‘Visit Negating Legitimacy of Israel,’ AIPAC Disagrees

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LIEBERMANN: "Well, there’s a lot that’s unprecedented. First, President Donald Trump’s tweet saying Israel would be showing great weakness by letting them in. Basically Trump trying to dictate to Israel what its foreign policy should be, and perhaps more importantly, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu very little wiggle room in terms of what his decision would be. Netanyahu has never publicly disagreed with Trump and he wasn’t about to start now. A short time after that tweet, the announcement came, first from the Deputy Foreign Minister, and then from Netanyahu himself, that the Israeli government had officially, and this is the other unprecedented part, decided to deny entry to two American duly elected congresswomen, and that is something that hasn’t happened here before, Israel relying upon a law that was passed about 2 1/2 years ago that allows it to bar entry to anyone who supports the boycott of Israel. But this is certainly the most high-profile use of that law since it was passed and since it was enacted.”