In the other side of the Presidential campaign, Trump avoided areas of disagreement with the pro-Israel crowd, after suggesting earlier Monday that Israel should repay the US for the foreign aid it has received-aid that AIPAC lobbies to maintain.
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“What President Obama gets wrong about dealmaking is that he constantly applies pressure to our friends and rewards our enemies”, Trump said reading from a prepared speech that he peppered with ad-libs. “But it has repeated itself over and over and has done nothing but embolden those who hate America”.
“There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night, and for that, we are deeply sorry”, Pinkus said.
Since then, Israel has anxious that Washington, frustrated by the lack of progress since 2009, would abandon its historic support for Israel in the final months of the Obama administration in worldwide bodies such as the UN’s Security Council. Kasich also criticized Trump without mentioning his name, saying “we can not be “neutral” in defending our allies”. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as Clinton’s Democratic rival, Sen. I stayed in the conference room for a few minutes as it sunk in that the potential GOP nominee for president thought it was okay to comment on my appearance. He’s also aiming to bolster his foreign policy credentials, releasing a long-awaited list of his advisers and speaking later to the American Israel Political Action Committee.
Checking off the boxes for his hawkish pro-Israel audience, Trump slammed the United Nations, the Iran nuclear deal, and the “culture of hatred” in Palestinian society. Well, my view is very different.
“It’s disgusting, and it’s gotta end”, Trump said.
All three Republican presidential candidates spoke Monday in Washington at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention.
“I had many, many people that I am competing with, so you know when you talk about the majority plus one it is a very unfair situation”.
Israeli PM says he wants Washington to oppose any United Nations resolution on the creation of a Palestinian state. “Not a president who says he’s neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who-knows-what on Wednesday because everything’s negotiable”. “Together, let’s defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great”.
In the text of his would-be speech, Sanders told delegates he believes Israel and the United States have strong cultural ties, and reiterated his support for the country’s security.
The only current presidential candidate to skip AIPAC was Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t areas of disagreement and friends must be “honest and truthful” about differences, he said. He called on Netanyahu’s government to demonstrate its commitment to a two-state solution and said settlement expansion weakened prospects for peace.
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Thousands of AIPAC members are visiting Congress on Tuesday to speak to Republicans and Obama’s fellow Democrats, arguing for the continuation of billions of dollars in military aid for Israel and renewed sanctions against Iran.
