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State Department: Saudi Arabia video that removed Israel in Trump trip announcement was ‘inadvertent mistake’By Josefin Dolsten May 8, 2017 3:24pm (JTA) — The State Department called the posting of a video by the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia that removed Israel from an announcement about the president’s upcoming trip to the region an “inadvertent mistake.”On Monday, Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., criticized the State Department for “editing out” Israel in the video posted on the Riyadh embassy website and Arabic-language Twitter account. The videos were no longer available on Monday afternoon and a video on the embassy site contained the announcement that included Israel.“At a time when the United States should be encouraging the governments of the region — and their people — to promote tolerance, respect and mutual recognition, this video implies that the U.S. accepts Saudi Arabia’s public rejectionist position toward Israel,” Engel, the Jewish ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.Continued: http://www.jta.org/2017/05/08/news-opinion/united-states/state-department-saudi-arabia-video-that-removed-israel-in-trump-trip-announcement-was-inadvertent-mistake
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