Posted on 10/27/2016 8:06:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - On a rooftop overlooking the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, around 200 American-Israeli fans of Donald Trump gathered to proclaim their support for the Republican candidate, convinced he will be Israel's best friend if elected.
Wearing "Make America Great Again" baseball caps, the small crowd, ranging from Holocaust survivors in their 80s to grinning teenagers in Trump t-shirts, said they didn't care about the sexual assault allegations against the candidate or the online anti-Semitism of some of his supporters.
"Trump will let Israel be itself and make its own decisions, that's what I like," David Weissman, a 35-year-old from Queens, New York, who moved to Israel three years ago, said at the event late on Wednesday.
"He's not a saint, but look at his achievements. He's not afraid to identify the enemy as radical Islam, and he's not going to support the two-state solution," he said, referring to long-standing efforts to forge peace with the Palestinians.
Trump has said that the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct fabricated their stories to damage his campaign.
Others at the rally said they liked the fact that Trump was promising to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and would not berate Israel for building Jewish settlements in occupied territory.
"It's very important that he becomes president," said Connie Gordner, 82, who moved to Israel from Jacksonville, Florida, 21 years ago. "If Hillary Clinton becomes president, we're dead."
The rally was organized by Republicans Overseas Israel, which estimates that there are 300,000 U.S. citizens living in Israel or in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seek for their own state.
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There’s a video on twitter but I’ve never figured out how to post twitter videos here.
#Jerusalem
Those ballots coming from Jews in Israel will be conveniently misplaced or not arrive at their destination.
Everything is being done to suppress the Jewish vote — and it’s all coming from the Democrats.
I wonder why would they want to suppress the votes of one of their most loyal voting blocs?
I dunno. They paid a PR firm for the alt-right NAZI crap to superglue, maybe they’re concerned about ROI.
Jews were trending Republican for quite some time — can’t have that!
Nice...I believe Jewish voters will drift to the Republicans, especially if the Dems want the Terrorist - er, sorry, I meant Muslim - votes..
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9cRK10AZWg
Video of entire Republicans Abroad program from Jerusalem.
Would suggest that Trump will get 80% + of the Americans abroad in Israel vote, just as McCain and Romney did.
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