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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu in hot water over praise of Trump's wall

FILE PHOTO: A labourer works on the border fence between Israel and Egypt. (Photo: Reuters)

When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump's plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad.

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