The Israeli government had no official comment today on the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada yesterday. It was praised, however, by Mordechai Ben-Porat, a Minister-Without-Portfolio, as a move to “protect the democratic and free world.”
Ben-Porat, a rightwing hardliner and former member of the defunct Telem faction founded by the late Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, told a group of Canadian radio and television reporters that the U.S. incursion into the 133-square mile island state was comparable to American action in Lebanon.
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