“There is no other possible outcome”.
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And Trump’s comments on Israel particularly the billionaire businessman’s repeated questioning of its commitment to making a peace deal with the Palestinians sparked an aggressive backlash from his Republican rivals.
Donald Trump evaded specific questions about whether Palestinian demands in peace negotiations are legitimate and whether Israel should be allowed to build settlements in the West Bank without restrictions, though he said the Israeli housing projects were a “huge sticking point” in talks. But I’m sure they were on the minds of Rubio and Cruz in particular: According to a report yesterday from Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff, Sheldon’s leaning toward an endorsement of the Floridian while Miriam’s enchanted with the Texan. “I think he turned a lot of people”.
Still, he did not think he would win the audience’s support. “I want the Brits and the French and the Germans and the Belgians and the Spanish, I want them to be part of who we are because in a group, collectively, we are stronger than when we go alone”. “Because stupidly, you want to give money”, he said.
A year earlier, Ohio Gov. John Kasich addressed the same crowd – but his remarks seemed tailored to an audience of one: Adelson. “And this is a fight about our existence”.
It was an event with a heavily Jewish audience but no Jewish speakers, and there were plenty of attempts by the candidates to telegraph their affinity for the religion. “This room perhaps more than any room I’ve ever spoken to”.
That view was echoed by Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, who was interviewed separately about Trump’s remarks.
He said: “You’re not going to support me even though you know I’m the best thing that could happen to Israel”. On Wednesday night in Virginia, Trump portrayed Rubio as inexperienced and absent from his job. He presided over that parade in New York City in 2004.
Huckabee rooted his argument for protecting Israel and improving U.S.-Israeli relations in his belief in God. Palestinians want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, for their future state. “Jerusalem should never be a divided city”, he said. “You want to control your own politician, I understand that”. The nation, he added to applause, “needs a wartime president to defend it”. Chris Christie gave an impassioned speech recalling 9/11 and suggested that in light of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, lets remember if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino can be a target for a terrorist attack then every place in America is a target for a terrorist attack. This “horrific murder underscores that we are at a time of war, whether or not the current administration realizes it”, he continued.
“It’s become so defining, it’s like he has it written on his forehead”, Trump said.
In his speech, Trump played up his pro-Israel credentials and Jewish relatives.
He received loud cheers for pledging to “work with the next Attorney General to stop the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement in the United States”, and for condemning the “discrimination” and “anti-Semitic behavior” that occurs “across the United States’ college campuses”. “The president continues to wring his hands and say, ‘We’ll see.’ …”
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“All of us are deeply concerned that this is yet another manifestation of terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism here at home”, the Texas senator told the meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Fiorina denounced Obama and Clinton for their treatment of the Islamic State, as well as for “turn[ing] their back on Israel” in agreeing to the “absolutely catastrophic deal with Iran”. “But I said it’ll take six months – at the end of six months and maybe sooner”. On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, she also said it was critical to lead the world in working to prevent “the kind of attacks we’ve been seeing”.
