Posted on 03/05/2024 8:00:52 PM PST by Milagros
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas, his most definitive position on the conflict since the terror group killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7.
“You’ve got to finish the problem,” Trump said on Fox News on Tuesday when asked about the war. “You had a horrible invasion that took place that would have never happened if I was president.”
When asked on the program whether he supported a cease-fire in Gaza, Trump demurred, avoiding an explicit position on Israel’s military effort that has now also left ... people dead in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The likely 2024 Republican nominee has not provided his own position on U.S. or Israel's strategy throughout the five months of the war.
Though a stalwart defender of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration during his presidency, Trump has also attempted to strike an anti-war posture on the campaign trail in the last year, attempting to contrast himself from President Joe Biden and his remaining Republican rival, Nikki Haley.
“Frankly, they got soft,” Trump said on Tuesday about the Biden administration, claiming that the aggression by foreign adversaries would not have happened if he were still president.
“That should never have happened. Likewise, Russia would never have attacked Ukraine," he said.
While Tuesday’s comments offered the strongest signal yet from Trump of what direction Israel should take, he has yet to offer specific thoughts or proposals on how much the U.S. should be involved financially, how hostage negotiations should be handled, the plight of Gaza’s civilian population or whether leaders should pursue a one- or two-state solution to the conflict.
Reached for comment by NBC News, the Trump campaign promoted the former president’s record on Israel and blamed Biden for the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
“President Trump did more for Israel than any American President in history, and he took historic action in the Middle East that created unprecedented peace,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary, said in a statement, adding, "When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end.”
Just days after Hamas attacked Israel, Trump, in a video posted from his Mar-a-Lago estate here, declared: “I kept Israel safe. Nobody else will. Nobody else can. And I know all of the players — they can’t do it.”
Trump did lay out a few markers in the three weeks that followed the Hamas attack. He said on Oct. 11 that a future Trump administration would “fully support Israel defeating, dismantling, and permanently destroying the terrorist group Hamas,” while telling the Republican Jewish Coalition later that month that Hamas fighters “will burn forever in the eternal pit of hell." That month, his campaign also said that, if elected again, he would bar Gaza residents from entering the U.S. as part of an expanded travel ban.
In the four-plus months since, however, the former president’s once-ardent public backing of Israel has gone mostly quiet.
That silence has run parallel to Biden increasingly coming under fire from left-wing and Muslim American voters for his support of Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 attack. A coalition of voters is campaigning for Democratic primary voters to vote “uncommitted” or for similar ballot choices, as some backed in Michigan, where the “uncommitted” vote earned more than 13% in last week’s Democratic presidential primary there — a small uptick from the nearly 11% who voted “uncommitted” in the 2012 primary, when then-President Barack Obama ran unopposed.
Well put.
Bravo Trump.
This is a suspicious article.
Best to never trust any interpretation of a Trump speech. Listen to it yourself.
This article was designed to suppress Michigan Muslim voters from selecting him. It has nothing to do with policy.
There is only one issue in this election. Drain The Swamp.
FR ham ass cheerleading section deeply saddened.
There will only be peace when there is a victor in this war.
Serious question: When was the last time a war was won? WWII maybe? Isn’t Korea or Viet Nam. Will history view America as winning war against Iraq? Just a thought.
Asked whether he supports the way the IDF is fighting in Gaza, Trump responds, “You’ve gotta finish the problem. You had a horrible invasion [that] took place.”
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1765008983452951017
LOL
Here’s Trump’s Fox & Friends interview:
https://rumble.com/v4hexk9-trump-interview-with-fox-this-morning-march-5-2024.html
Trump replies:
“And that, in a nutshell, is why real Americans want Trump in charge.”
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Of course.
Is SWAMPY CAIR Hamas garbage lobby islamofascists Omar/Trashoda OK?
Did you check in on all the hard core Israel haters here?
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A good honest man
He’s right
You have no choice
I’ve never seen a thread here
A reasoned one
What the hell was Hamas leadership thinking
What did they hope to gain from such actions
I think maybe thawrt Abraham accords
Bring their comrades out of the institutional west and younger people in the west
It’s certainly worked that way
We have more Israel haters out in public than I’ve ever seen or imagined
America has always been a much stronger supporter of Israel and Jewish homeland than most western nations
But man we have a loud anti Israel chorus these days from all institutional quarters
But back to my question
What did they hope to gain
It will likely destroy them or should
Yep.
Did you check in on all the hard core “Israel haters here?”
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Pharaoh/Haman/Stalin/Hitler
All are dammed in history.
Hater gonna hate...lol
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