David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel during the first Trump administration, told Newsmax on Friday that the criticism lobbed at Israel over its pager attack on Hezbollah terrorists “doesn’t make any sense.”

In an interview with “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE,” Friedman said it’s curious that Israel can’t escape criticism from Americans like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., no matter the manner in which they defend themselves against terrorism.

“I don’t get it, because the criticism had been historically, I think an unfair criticism, had been that Israel is killing too many civilians when it’s killing terrorists, which I don’t agree with but that’s been the criticism,” Friedman told Higbie. “Now they have a plan in place, right? This brilliant plan going after pagers, you know. [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah thought that the pagers would be safe because they’re low technology.”

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