Benjamin Netanyahu seems overly excited with the latest administration in the US, he decided to jump on the Donald Trump Twitter bandwagon, and supported the controversial border wall.
The Israeli prime minister had no idea his tweet would be retweeted 52,000 times, and would cause an uproar home and abroad. The prime minister in recent times had faced corruption charges, but the latest tweet might have added to his low approval rating.
Netanyahu tweeted;
A tweet he had sent in support of man of Donald Trump statement that Israel built a fence and it works, and the US-Mexico border wall will work too. Israel ha built a steel fence along its border with Egypt to stop illegal immigrants from conflict areas like Somali, Eritrea and Sudan.
The tweet from Netanyahu twitter account angered the Mexican government, which believes that the Israeli prime minister should have never have involved in such bilateral issue with his careless tweet.
Mexico foreign ministry said;
The foreign ministry expressed to the government of Israel, via its ambassador in Mexico, its profound astonishment, rejection and disappointment over Prime Minister Netanyahu's message.
Mexico is a friend of Israel and should be treated as such by its Prime Minister.
The US ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration, Dan B. Sharpiro took off the diplomatic gloves and also went to Twitter to question the motives of Netanyahu tweets. Dan tweeted;
Hard to explain this intervention on a hotly debated issue in domestic U.S. politics. Unless this endorsement is Trump's demand of Netanyahu for something Netanyahu want.
Another backlash was from the Opposition politician Yair Lapid, who is ahead of Netanyahu in recent opinion polls, was also scathing. Lapid tweeted in Hebrew;
A serious mistake by Netanyahu.
It is a needless declaration of war on Mexico and Hispanics and a rupture with the Democrats (including the majority of U.S. Jews). It doesn't matter what we think of the wall, don't we have enough troubles of our own?
In a statement by the Israel's foreign ministry;
We do not express a position on U.S.-Mexico relations.