Posted on 09/18/2016 9:56:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States will not be limited by the new $38 billion 10-year "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) in determining whether and how to increase security aid to Israel, Donald Trump's Israel advisor told the Jewish Insider website on Thursday.
"Under a Trump administration, the level of strategic and tactical cooperation between the two countries will be of an unprecedented high level," Attorney David Friedman, who advises the Republican presidential nominee on U.S.-Israel affairs, told the website.
"The U.S. will not be limited in its support for Israel by the terms of the MOU," he stressed.
Friedman's comments come a day after the Obama administration and the Israeli government signed the new decade-long security assistance package, which was described as the "single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance in U.S. history."
Friedman told the Jewish Insider that he hasn't spoken to Trump about the new aid deal since the signing ceremony, "But I believe that Mr. Trump would see the MOU as a first step, with much more that still needs to be done."
Trump has continuously expressed his support for Israel. In July, in response to an anti-Israeli participant at one of his rallies, the billionaire declared that, as President, he would "protect Israel 100 percent".
Friedman, too, has declared that a Trump White House would significantly increase aid to Israel.
In March, Trump suggested that as President he would require Israel to pay back the United States for some of the foreign aid it received. He later retracted that position, however.
Friedman's comments on Thursday also come a day after he told Israel's Channel 10 News that as President, Trump would not force a peace solution on Israel.
Good for Trump, at least he’s on the right side of things
just yanking all the money, arms, training, protection, intelligence information and direct military fighting Obama has us giving the IslamoNazis.... including Iran....will go a loooong ways to making the world (including USA!) much safer again
Obama must wake up in cold sweat...He sees his so called legacy being ground underneath President Trumps shoes..For Obama to plead with blacks to vote for Hillary,it shows how much trumps speeches to the black community are having the desired effect...
I would love for Gen. Al Sisi and Bibi to dine with Trump at Trump Tower on Trump Steaks and Trump Wines.
Maybe Trump could even invite King Hussein to join them.
Obama’s and Hillary’s policies have been bad for Jordan, Egypt and Israel.
Yet American Jews still voted Democrat? Why?
Bibi has been marched in and out the White House servants and garbage entrance, left off the invite to dinner, and Tim Kaine and others boycotted Bibi’s speech to a joint Congressional session, Bibi’s record tying 3rd speech.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me. ..................
You mean Congress and the next President get a say? Obama has spoken, this can't be true
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