Egypt’s foreign minister blasted the spiritual leader of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party for calling Arabs “snakes” during his weekly sermon. Ovadia Yosef’s comments are “an expression of a racist outlook and represent an insult to the Arabs as a race and nation,” Amre Moussa said.
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