The Times of Israel, an online newspaper, was particularly brutal in its assessment, which was titled: “Trump courts Republican Jews with offensive stereotypes”.
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Trump said Tuesday that the United States should “take out” the family members of terrorists in the effort to fight ISIS, one of us writes. Is he unaware that the Palestinians still have not accepted the right of Israel even to exist?
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday invoked a series of stereotypes about Jews that are often deemed offensive and even anti-Semitic – in an address to Jewish Republicans.
According to Talking Points Memo, Graham opened by telling the crowd “why we lose” – the “we” meaning “Republicans”.
The rest of the GOP candidates registered under five percent.
The memo appears to be one of several internal documents Senate Republicans’ campaign arm has drafted in preparation for the 2016 election and the different candidates who could emerge at the top of the party’s ticket – a factor that is hugely important to congressional candidates running in a presidential year. As my colleague David Graham noted in October, Trump has been well-served by his twinning of immigration tough-talk with a refrain about raising taxes on the wealthy, embodying a populism otherwise unheard in the Republican Party. “I want to be very neutral and see if I can get both sides together”. “I know why you’re not going to support me – because I don’t want your money”.
“President Obama – and, I’m afraid, Hillary Clinton – have a different policy”, Rubio said, comparing the Democrats to the past Middle East consensus. “I will say that”. “Start taking everything that we say seriously and push back when we make absolutely no sense”, Graham implored. “I want to wait until I meet with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu]”.
“Our thoughts, our prayers are with those who have been impacted by the attacks in California last night”, he said before accusing President Obama of placing “his own legacy ahead of our mutual security” and warning of the threats to “Paris or London or NY or Miami”. The retired neurosurgeon from Baltimore has faced increasing doubts over the past few weeks about his foreign policy competence, but neither a last-minute trip to Jordan nor his weak appearance Thursday in front of influential Republican Jewish donors has been successful at reversing his decline. 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.
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“It would be malpractice for the Senatorial committee not to prepare our candidates for every possible Republican and Democrat nominee and election scenario”, said NRSC spokeswoman Andrea Bozek. The Israeli government and by extension most of Israel’s supporters in the US don’t consider the West Bank and East Jerusalem to be occupied territory. “You don’t lose it”, he said. “It’s probably the toughest deal to make”. Political scientists argue that the favorability of an individual candidate tends to take the backseat to certain fundamental trends when it comes to deciding elections, particularly how the economy is performing and views of the incumbent’s record influence voters.
