Abandoning decades of Republican orthodoxy on the essential need to project American power across the world, Trump said: “I don’t think we should be doing nation-building any more”. But the feeling still isn’t quite mutual.
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Hillary Clinton, who also spoke at the AIPAC conference on Monday, repeatedly attacked Trump in her speech earlier in the day but never mentioned him by name.
Israel regards the divided city as its capital but many countries, including its ally the United States, have resisted moving their missions there while its status and borders are still a matter of dispute. Others pointed out that the response to it could deepen faultlines between right and left in Israel and the global Jewish community, already split on issues like the Iran deal and policies toward Palestine.
“In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you’ve got a culture of hatred that has been fermenting there for years, and if we want to achieve peace, they’ve got to end this indoctrination of hatred”, Trump said.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump exchanged jabs Monday as they separately courted a massive crowd of pro-Israel lobbyists, putting their differing views on supporting the Jewish state front and center in their White House battle.
Our favorite moment among the speeches this year was in respect of Jerusalem. “He went into the arena as a racist demagogue but soon came out as an ostensibly serious contender”.
Trump took the unusual step (for him) of delivering prepared remarks from a teleprompter, saying in follow-up interviews that he had read a written speech rather than delivering off-the-cuff remarks because of the significance of the event.
The Iran nuclear deal: He would not have given Tehran access to more than $US100 billion ($131 million) of its own money that had been frozen by sanctions and he would not have commenced negotiations without the release of all American prisoners held by Iran.
Trump has faced pressure to release more details of his foreign policy platform and his team of consultants, amid reports that mainstream conservative and neo-conservative experts are loath to endorse him.
“Iran should remember that today, it’s not only the enemies of the Jewish people who have arrows”, he said.
Trump appears to be in a stronger position in Arizona. Israelis are used to pouring carefully over US signals toward their country for even the slightest deviation from established policies. While the U.S.is officially neutral in the Middle East conflict, his statement was a marked rhetorical departure for typically strongly pro-Israel U.S. presidential candidates.
As part of his attack on the United Nations, the Texan senator added that he would personally fly to NY to exercise the U.S. veto on any UN security council resolution which would seek to force a framework on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Mrs. Clinton promised that she would support firmly and keep the alliance with Israel while giving her speech, Mrs. Clinton accused her Republican rival, Mr. Trump, of being someone that can not be trusted partner for one of America’s closest allies. The Texas senator, who is facing an uphill fight for delegates to the Republican national nominating convention, took the audience through his record in the Senate of fighting for Israeli government interests, and against Iran.
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He said the US and Israel are united by democratic principles. Democrats responded by debuting a multi-pronged assault, shifting their rhetoric and resources against the man they expect to face in a contentious and ugly general election campaign.
