Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition, Rubio accused President Barack Obama of pursuing a policy of “abandonment” with regard to Israel and the Middle East. “Donald Trump is well aware of the composition of our board and our audience”, Mark McNulty said, “one that includes many successful businessmen and women as well as deal makers like him”.
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Trump suggested they would not vote for him because he is funding his own campaign: “I don’t want your money so therefore you’re probably not going to support me”, he said to the audience in the Ronald Reagan Building, a few blocks from the White House.
“I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to make it”, Trump said.
Israeli authorities said today that they had arrested a number of alleged Jewish extremists over the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed a toddler and his parents in an attack that drew worldwide condemnation.
“It’s perhaps the hardest deal in history to put together”, said Trump, asked specifically if Israel should return to pre-1967 borders.
“If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them…”
“You just like me because my daughter happens to be Jewish”, Trump said.
Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, said Thursday it had apprehended several individuals it believed were linked to a “Jewish terrorist” organization and that there were “concrete suspicions” they were connected with the summer attack. “There’s something going on with him that we don’t know about”.
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.
Gop presidential candidate front runner Donald Trump, said Wednesday during a rally in Virginia that he plans to visit Israel “very soon”.
But then Trump elicited what has so far been the only negative reaction to something a candidate has said to the group. “I want to wait until I meet with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu]”.
On the eve of the gathering, Trump declared himself a “big, big fan” of Israel, and said chances for a lasting peace rest with the Jewish state. “Because so much death, so much turmoil, so much hatred – that would be to me a great achievement. I don’t know that Israel has the commitment to make it. I don’t know that the other side has the commitment to make it”, he said.
“Instead of standing up to those who single out Israel, the Obama administration takes the path of least resistance”.
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Netanyahu has been careful in distinguishing between what he has called the “EU bureaucracy in Brussels”, which he feels has taken a one-sided, pro-Palestinian position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and numerous individual states that make up the EU. “We have a president who refuses to use the term”. Ted Cruz of Texas have met with Netanyahu in Israel.
