Former President Trump, the likely GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential election, said he supported Israel’s brutal military operations in Gaza in an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.
Trump agreed when a host described him as being “firmly in Israel’s camp.” He was then asked if he was “on board” with the way the Israeli military was carrying out its campaign.
“You’ve got to finish the problem. You had a horrible invasion that took place, that would have never happened if I was president, by the way,” Trump replied.
Trump did not elaborate on his position and only claimed the October 7 Hamas attack wouldn’t have happened if he was still president. When asked whether or not he would support a ceasefire in Gaza, Trump said, “Look, I hate seeing what’s happening. Again, it would have never happened. This attack on Israel and, likewise, Israel’s counter-attack, which is what it is, would never have happened if I was president.”
During his time in office, Trump was extremely pro-Israel and carried out several policies to support Israeli claims to occupied land. His administration recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory and declared that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank do not violate international law.
Trump’s administration moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and unveiled a so-called “peace plan” that would have seen Israel annex large swathes of the West Bank. Trump also brokered the Abraham Accords, deals that resulted in Israel normalizing ties with the UAE and Bahrain.
Trump has been relatively quiet on the campaign trail about the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but he is expected to continue unconditional military support for Israel if he wins in November. So far, nearly 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, and about two-thirds of the casualties are women and children.
Trump is very pro Israel. Of course there will be some who will argue that Trump will change his mind for whatever the reason. He won’t.
So, why aren’t you backing him? He’s pro genocide too.
I’m waiting on the “Trump 202-4 Genocide : paid for by the Timothy – jake – Donald Foundation For S**t Foreign Policy PAC LLC” commercials on evening TV, and YouTube.
Couldn’t possibly be more pro Israel than the current regime.
Sure he can.
“Trump has been relatively quiet on the campaign trail about the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but he is expected to continue unconditional military support for Israel if he wins in November.”
Let’s be frank, from the Palestinian point of view can the US position get any worse than it is right now under the Biden regime?
Maybe not, but that’s hardly a recommendation for Trump.
Could it be better with Trump? I don’t think so, based on Trump’s record. At best, maybe it can’t get worse.
The only “better” I see is that Trump riles up the political class into such a feeding frenzy that they all go nuts and turn on each other, and are incapable of getting anything done. Since everything they do is F’ed up, them doing nothing is usually a better option.
That’s certainly not nothing. Not enough to get me to vote for him, but a second Trump term would at least be interesting.
We do have an incompetent political class without a moral compass. Trump and Biden are two peas from the same pod.
Fanatic Zionists are in control in Washington and Tel Aviv.
Yes it can.
Trump the Buffon,,what a fu##### choice we have! Yes, he sucks J##ISH d#ck as long as they give him money for the campaign,,weak MOFU he is.
On his morning Sirius-XM show recently, comedian Jim Norton lamented loudly, “These two (Biden, Trump) are our choices ??? What’s WRONG with this country ??!!??”
Donald Trump is notably the only serious candidate running for President who hasn’t run over to Tel Aviv to jump into the arms of Bibi Netanyahoo. He hasn’t felt compelled to go over there to cheerlead the Gaza War because he doesn’t need to pander to Zionist donors. That’s why they don’t want Trump. They know they can’t control him.
“That’s why they don’t want Trump.”
Do you have evidence for the claim that they don’t want Trump? I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t.
It’s possible that they can’t control him, but history suggests that they don’t have to, since his inclination is to give them whatever they want anyway.
Agreed.
He’s tried to placate the Swamp but they’re a very exclusive club and he’ll never be a member.
Right, Trump is more of a cesspool kind of guy.
Better that than a bloodbath kind of guy.
“You’ve got to finish the problem”
Maybe he meant by starvation. No blood.
Like the Nixxster: “Finish the job” comment.
He can be bloody evil if needed to serve the Donald.
That has yet to be demonstrated.
Nope. Trump is no better on Palestine.
That’s true. But the Israel lobby is a one-issue gang and they are perfectly happy with Trump on that issue. I think that’s one reason why Biden is in such a jam. The lobby could dump him in a heartbeat and be confident it would all turn out right for them.
“Israel lobby is a one-issue gang…happy w/Trump on [Israel]. I think that’s one reason…Biden is in…a jam. The lobby could dump him…and be confident it would all turn out right for them.”
I think several things challenge the Israel lobby’s ‘make or break politicians’ power now:
1/ a younger Jewish American and younger-American-generally break with uncritical support for Israel vs. older Democratic generational views;
2/ Israel’s historical turn to the far right and its related genocidal siege of Gaza – which is impacting not just how the young see Israel, but wider electorates; and
3/ a resulting fracture in the Democratic Party which – going beyond Sanders’ ‘loyal opposition-ism’ – may lead enough Democrats to shrug off ‘lesser-of-two-evil-ism’ re Israel that the Democratic Party realizes it can never win again on past ‘Israel? Jawohl!!!’ positions…
…and, as a result, is forced to change its position and ally with its normally stiff-armed base to survive.
Let me suggest an edit:
“I think several things may begin to challenge the Israel lobby’s ‘make or break politicians’ power now . . .”
We can begin to assess when we see politicians resisting or challenging.
“We can begin to assess when we see politicians resisting or challenging”
i give citizen ‘resistance and challenge’ more importance – summer lee needed a grassroots campaign to effectively ‘challenge’ and resist aipac
does ‘resistance and challenge,’ in the form of uncommitted votes, mark an inflection point re citizen attitudes? – so that more ‘resisting’ summer lees will run? so that aipac has less power to beat them, as it beat many in 2022?
we shall see – but, in my view, the “uncommitted” rejection of biden’s israel policy – raising the much-aired possibility that enough voters may reject ‘pro-israel’ democrats that they can no longer win – suggests those questions are…questions…
“we shall see – but, in my view, the ‘uncommitted’ rejection of biden’s
israel policy – raising the much-aired possibility that enough voters
may reject ‘pro-israel’ democrats that they can no longer win – suggests those questions are…questions…”
I actively promoted “uncommited” votes in Tuesday’s DFL primary in Minnesota*. Uncommitted delegates received almost 19% of the vote, securing a solid second place behind Biden, more than twice the percentage for “favorite son” (sort of) Dean Phillips. (In Michigan, uncommitted got 113%.) In the Twin Cities metro, some counties came in at well over 20% uncommitted. Even in my quiet little city on a sandbar, we had 20%-plus precincts and one at 30%.
My dedicated DFL friends are freaked — and pissed at those of us who dared to encourage such an outrage. I just flat-out tell them that if they don’t dump Biden and do a 180 on support for genocide they should expect a second Trump term. We’ll see how they and the DNC respond to what is developing into a disaster for them. They are remarkably stupid people.
* Minnesotans don’t register to vote by party. In a primary like Tuesday’s, each voter chooses which party’s ballot to vote.
“My dedicated DFL friends are freaked — and pissed at those of us who dared to encourage such an outrage.”
1/ ‘Course they’re “freaked…and pissed”:
they’ve always counted on their party’s large left flank capitulating to the ‘lesser of two evils’ – but, this time, looks like enough won’t to cost B the election.
2/ Explain to yr friends that, lucky for them and the US, there’s a solution!
Klein at the NYT recently appealed to Biden to not run again due to age mental impairment – so Dem’s don’t lose the WH.
Crucially – Klein tasked Democratic Party mainstream officials and politicians with communicating this reality to the President.
3/ Applying this to US Israel policy, explain to yr friends that Dem’s will only change if they comprehend they have absolutely no choice but change or lose; that they will lose if Biden doesn’t change; but that Biden won’t ‘hear’ this ‘less it comes not just from progressives, but from centrists like themselves.
Yr friends really and truly don’t want Trump? Then it’s time for them to suck it up, quit their bitching and moaning about progressives, and get to work explaining that political reality to Biden and co.
91 court indictments before the election? Of course that could be just some weird coincidence.
Nope. Trump’s a criminal.
Lock him up!
The more likely reason why he hasn’t visited Israel lately is that he doesn’t want to risk the public embarrassment of being denied a visa if he tries to do so.
Or Biden denying him re-entry into the US until after the elections. Not that I care, but that would be funny right there. You know… The “Open Borders” and all…
Why would Israel even consider denying Trump a visa?
Maybe to make him look better in the eyes of some voters. Israel is looking bad already.
Because Netanyahu is just as narcissistic and vengeful as Trump, and Trump’s tantrums over Netanyahu congratulating Biden in 2020 pissed Netanyahu off. Israel also started denying visas to UN representatives after Guterres pissed Netanyahu off.
Additionally, Israel is, at the moment, even more dependent on the goodwill of the actual POTUS than usual, and granting a visa to every nob who wants to replace that current POTUS would invite at least minor retaliation.
Visas are discretionary. If Bibi doesn’t want you to have one, you don’t get one.
They are pragmatic people, business first.
Ralph Nader thinks 200,000 Gazans have been genocided to date
https://nader.org/2024/03/05/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/
I think that’s plausible.
Deny a visa to a former and possibly future US President? For what reason? Moving the embassy?
For pissing off Netanyahu, who is just as petty, vindictive, and narcissistic as Trump.
He courted and was fully supported by Sheldon Adelson in 2016.
Probably one of the most toxic of Zionist donors.
And one of the wealthiest.
Also dead, which would be better news is he hadn’t left Miriam to spend the $35 billion on evil schemes.
Thanks for the reminder.
he doesn’t need to pander to Zionist donors
Is that really something to hang your hat on? So, he said “finish the problem” for reasons other than to receive donations? Ah, a man who condones genocide for reasons other to enrich his campaign. He’s got my vote (/s).
His stand ins have, like his daughter and her husband went recently, as have many supporters of Trump in Congress. It could be that Trump hasn’t traveled out of the US, is due to his legal problems.
But they did control him, look at his record, he even cancelled the Iran treaty and moved the embassy to Jerusalem and condoned the Golan annexation and sanctioned Russia, and he likes Putin. He did it with more noise than Biden, he also has a very active son-in-law.
And yet he still move the ambassy to Jerusalem and made it from US point of view the capital of Israel.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/daaa3f2f9c9eca5190d4434905e6b5860a499d601404a81fdfdccb0046ae61b9.jpg
Probably Jill Stein.
I’m leaning her way. I can then say I’ve voted for her 3 times. In separate elections. 😉
Cornell West flamed out spectacularly.
Yes. Big disappointment.
Yup. Cornel just isn’t very good at real world politics. Disappointing, but not a big surprise.
Jill has, by far, the best antiwar platform.
How did Cornel West disappoint you?
https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1765448016046014849?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Dissident said it for me.
or Cornell, if nothing else, I have a dog with a streak of humanism and manners.
I’ll vote for Trump over the “Democrat” a third time, but there’s PLENTY I don’t like/don’t trust about him. Stay critical (thinking) my friends…
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A common sense update on Global-Communism versus Sovereign Nations. March 1, 2024 edition:
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https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
I am not voting for anyone supports genocide.
I understand. I believe I just read on AW that Trump supports the IDF killing spree. Israhell government ordering it, but many IDF laughing and enjoying the slaughter and destruction.
I did in the primary. Also in 2016.
Eliminating America would certainly solve the problem .
No need to eliminate America. Just the federal departments and 3 letter agencies creating the problems. Role them all into the wildlife and bird department and send them to count ducks in Alaska.
Not a surprising statement from someone who does not live in America.
Basically, the top 3 candidates for President couldn’t be more Zionists than the Zionists themselves, even if they wanted.
By Top 3 I assume you include Robert Kennedy Jr. who turned out to be a fanatical Zionist. Big disappointment,
Yes
You bet he did.
Sorry. That was a typo. It’s “Finish
the problem, *genociding all the Palestinians*.”If we “Finished the problem” it would be getting rid of MIC money, all of the Nuland types along with Trump and Biden morons.
But they are getting ready to replace it with a new China and Iran problem. That may be even more profitable than Ukraine and Gaza/Israel combined.
… and Wall St.
Definitely, at the top. The finance class.
Despite the president’s strong allyship with Israel, Trump would likely still be the preferred candidate for the Israeli government’s far-right leaders, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Last month, Ben Gvir told The Wall Street Journal that Trump would give the Israeli right a stronger backing than Biden currently does.
The Donald’s clone likes him fine.
Trump and his son-in-law do have a proven Zionist pro-Israel record.
The Zionists prefer the Republicans over the Democrats because there is more anti Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party. Polls show 76% of Democrats want a permanent ceasefire compared to 49% of Republicans. The Zionists prefer the Republican party because there is less push back against the Zionist agenda among Republicans than Democrats.
https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/u-s-polls-show-shifting-landscapes-on-gaza-ceasefire/
The driving force behind US support for Israel is Congress. The only way to change that is to change them.
The protest movement for ceasefire is persistent and growing. It bodes ill for the future of our incumbent legislature and worse for the Zionist entity.
March on my brothers and sisters!.. Occupy Capitol Hill!
Not many legislators willing or brave enough to buck AIPAC even if pushed by their constituents.
The constituents have to push them out of office. Maybe not soon enough for Gaza but too soon for Israel.
When they lose our support – it’s over.
Ask the imprisoned January 6 protesters about protesting in the “People’s House”.
Just goes to show it has to be done the hard way… Elections!
The Brits just made a stab at it with George Galloway returning to Parliament.
George Galloway is the proverbial “Drop in a bucket”.
Dam bursts are often preceded by a single drop.
This is what Trump said after the drone attack killed 3 American soldiers.
Trump said, “This attack would NEVER have happened if I was President, not even a chance – Just like the Iranian-backed Hamas attack on Israel would never have happened, the War in Ukraine would never have happened, and we would right now have Peace throughout the World. Instead, we are on the brink of World War 3…..”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-makes-outrageous-claim-about-iran-drone-attack-that-killed-three-us-troops/ar-BB1hqhtj
Why on earth does he keep repeating those same claims? Possibly because of this?
Trump: “But maybe our country would be better off if I actually had the nuclear codes because our enemies would be afraid, unlike they are now.”
Maybe because we had 4 years of No US Wars under President Trump. Another reason they don’t want Trump.
We are lucky, the circumstances for war were different. He would do what it takes to serve him, the same as Netanyahu and Biden, they are birds of a feather….
You mean no “new” wars under Trump. He participated and escalated the ones we were already in. In fact, he lessened the rules of engagement (airstrikes and drone strikes) in every conflict we were in to make killing easier.
Bullshit.
The Donald takes care of Donald, he never had a policy or has any interest concerning the American people. He is a narcissist like Biden. What has he accomplished when he was president, he served the money/political elite, they have the SC and the tax cuts he promised he broke treaties and started the trade war with China, he robbed the treasury serving the MIC and big corporate shareholders and he did not solve the border problem either.
Because he is a narcissistic, egomaniac loudmouth; just like the annoying drunks at the local bar on fifty cent beer night (remember those??).
Every once in a while he says something that strikes a chord, and gets people thinking he might be different, and might be worthwhile. Then….this.
It always depends on who is in the room with him.
Trump is just another dog on the leash being lead by Zionist Nazis. He will do the same as Biden, another dog, just doing the bidding of the Zionist Nazis. Maybe Trump, Biden can share the same jailcell, after being found guilty of War Crimes.
Both are Zionists, the US government is a united Zionist party. Elections are really meaningless. They are personal vendettas and removed from real policy debates. It is all about more money and power.
Not a dime’s worth of difference between the two major political parties on foreign policy and if and when there are deviations, “There’s six ways to Sunday the Intel Community can get back at you.” – per Sen Schumer to Trump
Trump: “Drain the Swamp!”
The Swamp: “No, we’ll drain YOU.”
As they did before., Shown him who is the boss. Exemplifies the tragedy of American nation. Itomized into zillion identities, conflicted, marginalized. No unifying idea except wars. While the support for Israel has plummeted among young, the Borg is clearly rushing to complete the genocide while people can still be made swallow it.
Trump learned it last time. He will not repeat the mistake.
POS…
Tweedledum and Tweedledee….
Deep state has us by the neck. The rebel Trump, the idol of freedom loving people who want to put America’s sovereignity first have a choice of a senile man whose administration is run by the whims of Israel, and a fake freedom living acror auditionng for the job of lead actor in stage managed democracy. Bur they run already each EU states, except a few, Australia, Japan and South Korea. The lack ofquity of their leaders is stunning, We are in good company. Deep state does not need creative , talented, experts or good managers. They bring mediocrities to power. There is no reason to advance the best — as there is no national interest. There is only the international interest by the well hidden Borg. And the Borg wants war, plenty of it — to diminish the impactof financial super-bubble they created. First to enrish themselves, create billionaires and now trillionaires. And then entangle the rest of regions — not countries — they manage in debts.
Borg thinks they are good managers. They are not good guardians of common space. They only bring chaos.
Good Company
wow you couldn’t make that Trump sh*t up, could we
check this guy out, greatest of all time =
Enjoyed.
Ditto
Although the details of Biden’s order are not yet known he has finally stopped doing nothing and has apparently started to put the screws on Netanyahu.
It is reported that food will be loaded on ships (registrations still unknown) on Cyprus. There will be a “special port” on Gaza where these will be unloaded. “Special port” sounds like a US controlled beachhead on Gaza’s coast. Is that so?
Biden will not have to tell Netanyahu that the US Navy will patrol and protect the shipping’s. That is a given. Biden might as well drive Israel’s navy and air force away from Gaza’s coast.
I have not yet heard how Biden will secure that the food, once unloaded in that port, will get to those who need it. Trucks manned by US marines?
Just learned more. It will be an off-shore port. Manned with US marines? Protected by US navy and air force?
Is food already loaded on ships at Cyprus and ready to go? If not, why not? How long will it take to build the offshore port? Will shipping lanes be protected by US navy and air force against terrorist attacks?
More who will do the unloading onto the beaches? How will the food be brought to the people of Gaza?
I wouldn’t put it past him that he genuinly believes that if he were President bad things wouldn’t happen. Just wouldn’t. I can’t think of any reason to suspect he ever developed the intelligence to rise above magical thinking. He certainly seems convinced every new lie magically disappears an earlier one. So why would it not be the case that if he were President the worst thing that could happen is an epidemic of pixie dust allergies.
The port will not be attacked by the IDF but must be protected against terrorists like those that bombed the Hotel David.
““You’ve got to finish the problem. You had a horrible invasion that took place, that would have never happened if I was president, by the way,” Trump replied.
Trump did not elaborate on his position and only claimed the October 7 Hamas attack wouldn’t have happened if he was still president.”
Are we sure the “…horrible invasion…” doesn’t refer to the IDF’s lightning-war entry into Gaza ? That’s the only “invasion” I see here.
Someone got to finish you & Joe…!
One more demonstration of how there is zero difference between Republican and Democrat – and one more demonstration of how Trump is as much an empty suit as Biden. But the Trump cultists will vote for him anyway because “no vaccines” bullshit. Morons.
I don’t know who will win the election, if there is one, but I can almost guarantee it will get worse for America and its people than it was under Biden last election. What makes anyone think Trump or Biden will make things better? it’s just more blind faith and hope springing eternal once again every 4 years.
If anticipating a Trump win The Zionist State of Israel is saying there is no American President with strength dedicated to America first is willing to stand up against Israel.
The delusional spoke…! US has become a country so low that allows a crook to run for the president of the united states…!
You can pick between a crook and a deranged old man. What a choice. Both are deranged crooks.
Worst damned choice ever.
Resolve not to vote for either of them. Neither is a lesser evil.
I agree, there is no such thing as a lesser evil, I found that out when I voted for Biden. Evil is evil, is is like being a little pregnant, it is yes or no nothing in-between.
It’s why, horrible as Biden and his crew are, I can’t get any optimism up for Trump, either. He’s just as likely to hire Victoria Nuland into his administration, and do all the same crap Biden does. A pox on them all.
“President [Donald] Trump is the best friend that Israel and the Jewish people have ever had in the White House and will be remembered in Jewish history forever,” said Yair Netanyahu, the son of Bibi. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Yair-Netanyahu-Trump-a-rockstar-best-friend-Jews-ever-had-in-White-House-592123
WASHINGTON— The Zionist Organization of America announced Friday it will be presenting former U.S. President Donald Trump with its most significant honor at its annual gala in November, calling him “the best friend Israel ever had in the White House.” https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2022-10-14/ty-article/.premium/zoa-to-award-donald-trump-with-its-highest-honor/00000183-d7ca-ddf0-adb7-f7ee786d0000