Ros-Lehtinen Comments on Disturbing Attempts to Breach Israel’s Borders

(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement on attempts over the weekend from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Gaza Strip to breach Israel’s borders: 

“This past weekend’s incidents were not peaceful protests but attempts by extremists, many of them armed, to lay siege to Israel. There is no moral equivalence between Israel’s defensive measures and the Syrian dictatorship’s brutal repression of its own people.

“As a sovereign, democratic state, Israel has the right to defend its borders and its people against incursions. Put in the same position, any free nation would act just as Israel did. 

“As always, the United States must stand up for our indispensable ally Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself.”