“You’re going to like me very much”, he said.
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“I’m not particularly interested in being pandered to”, he said.
“I believe Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party’s chances to win an election”, said Graham of the Republican front-runner, who spoke later. “They may not be, and I understand that, and I’m OK with that”. “You can’t go in to do a deal and just shove it down their throat”, he said.
“I said you have to have the commitment to make it. I don’t know that Israel has the commitment to make it, and I don’t know that the other side has the commitment to make it….”
Republican presidential hopefuls courted Jewish voters Thursday, with promises to scrap President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, and vows of fervent loyalty to longtime U.S. ally Israel. He soon drew a smattering of boos after refusing to say whether Jerusalem should serve as the undivided capital of Israel, a priority for many in America’s pro-Israel lobby. “The person I rely on the most as it relates to U.S.-Israeli policy is my brother”, he said, to loud cheering. “Good”, Trump said, noting he too was once a prolific donor.
“And we all love him”, said the RJC official who posed the original question.
“I would say he’s hurt more people than he’s helped in business”, he said. “As a single achievement, that would be a really great achievement”.
“You just like me because my daughter happens to be Jewish”, Trump said, referring to Ivanka, a convert to Judaism, married to a Jew and raising their kids Jewish.
“She doesn’t have the strength or the energy to support Israel”, Trump said, contending that Clinton disappears from the campaign trail for three or four days at a time.
“Some in our own party – in the news today – have actually questioned Israel’s commitment to peace”, Florida Sen.
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During his unexpected five-month run atop the Republican field, Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination have argued he lacks depth and fluency on foreign policy. So the Trump strategy is still working for him. The former secretary of state is appearing Thursday in New Hampshire, during a week of public appearances that has taken her to Washington, Alabama, and Florida.
“I’ll be able to tell in one sit-down meeting with the real leaders”, he said. “Israel has no partner for peace in this conflict”, he said. “I do want your support, but I don’t want your money”. ‘Not the speech I thought I was going to give’. Palestinians want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, for their future state. The U.S. does not now recognize the Palestinian territories as an independent state, though the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in 2012 to recognize Palestine as a “non-member observer state”. Whether or not this administration realizes it or acknowledges it, our enemies are at war with us.
But White House spokesman Josh Earnest said those sorts of ideas wouldn’t fly, and made it clear that Obama wouldn’t sign such a bill. “And Trump didn’t discuss any issues of substance”, he said.
I’m a negotiator, like you folks…. “He didn’t advance his goal of showing any foreign policy….”
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The Texas senator tells the audience at a Republican Jewish Coalition presidential forum that “all of us are deeply concerned that this is yet another manifestation of terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism here at home”. The group and its biggest benefactor – casino magnate Sheldon Adelson – have little tolerance for anything that might be perceived as a criticism of the Jewish state. Trump responded, “Who’s the wiseguy?”
