He stressed instead the need to invest in infrastructure at home. Ukraine is not a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and has only received defensive materiel from the USA and its allies.
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A day after the Final Five interviews, in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks on Tuesday, Netanyahu referenced the issue of Israeli construction in the disputed territories, reiterating his view that stopping such construction would not yield peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr. Cruz, who spoke after Mr. Trump, said, “Palestine has not existed since 1948”, and that his opponent was ignorant about the region.
“It would be a serious mistake for the United States to abandon our responsibilities or cede the mantle of leadership for global peace and security to anyone else”, Clinton said.
AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus and four other leaders from the organization stood together on stage on Tuesday to apologize for Trump’s comments on Monday evening.
The billionaire tycoon told the audience that his “number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran”, and won loud applause when he said that if he became President “the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one”. “In the U.N., Israel, the Middle East’s only true democracy, is slandered like no other country on Earth”, said Netanyahu, adding that Israel has been “hounded” by U.N. agencies seeking to delegitimize its existence.
Even if you’re a big fan of Clinton, it’s hard to imagine how bellicose support (and not a smidgen of criticism) for the more powerful entity in the conflict will bring peace.
“I think there is some of that, absolutely”, the Vermont senator said after being asked if he would link BDS to anti-Semitism like his rival for the Democratic presidential nod, Hillary Clinton.
“We’ve had dark chapters our history before”, she said.
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin organized at least 40 rabbis who refused to enter the arena when Mr Trump was speaking.
From Trump came reminders that daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married into an Orthodox family, and he has been the grand marshal of a pro-Israel parade in NY. “My daughter Ivanka is about to have a attractive Jewish baby”, he said.
But planned protests and a mass walkout of his speech at the AIPAC conference Monday failed to materialize.
Sanders, the first Jewish-American to win a presidential primary, wrote in a letter to AIPAC President Robert Cohen, that his campaign schedule in the west would prevent him from attending.
For those who thought the unusual story line related to Donald Trump’s hands had left the 2016 campaign trail with Sen. “I am reminded why being pro-Israel has always meant following our better angels, angels of religious tolerance and the rule of law, of welcoming rather than refusing refugees…”
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The man opposing Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination for United States president, Bernie Sanders, didn’t speak at the conference, but outlined his policy regarding peace between Israel and the Palestinian people in a speech on Monday.
