Posted on 03/21/2016 4:18:22 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman
This is the first prepared speech I have heard Trump give. Not at all the stream of consciousness campaign rally stump speech.
This was carefully crafted, lots of detail, nuance.
You must hear and listen carefully to this speech.
I never have heard a Presidential Candidate give a more Pro Israel speech, there isn't one negative word about Israel in this speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
While I prefer Cruz for a number of reasons (primarily because I'm one of those awful religious fanatics!), I am in no way a "NeverTrumper."
Thanks, but I think I’ll go with Trump’s actual speech instead. He knows what he’s doing.
I actually thought I heard a sound from the audience at the end of the speech that they were sorry it was ending. It was short, dynamic, powerful and to the point. They seemed to want more. Hooah!!!
ML/NJ
Thanks
It’s impossible to get to the right of Trump on Israel and the Middle East without vowing to kill all of Islam, everywhere it exists.
He's been having a lot of nights off lately. Didn't even miss not seeing him tonight.
Fox has lost any edge or edginess it ever had.
Leni
Donald Trump’s speech, Wow, just Wow! What a powerful speech. Grand slam home run! I don’t remember hearing one from Reagan as good as this one. GO TRUMP!
Ted Cruz speech. As good as room temperature, flat soda pop. Gak!
He didn’t say they would HAVE to pay, he spoke in a positive way about their character as a nation that they would be willing to pay for costs of defending themselves...
Characterizing that statement as if Donald made a “Israel must pay, or else” type of proposition is nothing but wicked political manipulation of what he actually said.. PLUS that edited snippet clearly cuts off the details he was offering of what he actually was meaning relative to the primary targets of that statement... Germany, Japan and others in Europe.
I see a lot of this kind of sleazy edits going on these days with the Soros/GOPe acolytes.
I is REALLY appparent that someone edited what they wanted to obscure, right out of that clip on their home computer in order to cut out the application of clarifying context... Seems that some folks want to make Donald look bad, in my opinion...
some folks want to think evil of Donald so they look for ways to twist cut and repackage his clear statements, to try and make him look bad.. “still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest... lie lie lie...” or so goes the song.
Since passage, the law has never been implemented, because of opposition from Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, who view it as a Congressional infringement on the executive branch's constitutional authority over foreign policy; they have consistently claimed the presidential waiver on national security interests.
The fact is that Congress passed the bill but included a wavier for the President knowing full well he would use it. It was just a grandstanding play by Congress for domestic consumption. Why didn't Presidents implement the act?
The United States views as desirable the establishing of an international regime for the city. Its final status must be resolved through negotiations and it does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
United States policy on Jerusalem refers specifically to the geographic boundaries of the "City of Jerusalem" based on the UN's corpus separatum proposal. De jure, Jerusalem is part of the Palestine Mandate and has not been under sovereignty of any country since.
The United States voted for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in November 1947 and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 in December 1948 following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War but voted against Resolution 303 in December 1949 that reaffirmed that Jerusalem be established a corpus separatum under a special international regime to be administered by the United Nations because the U.S. regarded the plan as no longer feasible after both Israel and Jordan had established a political presence in the city.
The U.S. opposed Israel's moving its capital from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem following Israel's declaration of Jerusalem as its capital in 1949 and opposed Jordan's plan to make Jerusalem its second capital announced in 1950. The U.S. opposed Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 war. The United States has proposed that the future of Jerusalem should be the subject of a negotiated settlement. Subsequent administrations have maintained the same policy that Jerusalem's future not be the subject of unilateral actions that could prejudice negotiations such as moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In 2002, passed as part of the "Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003" Congress said, "For purposes of the registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen’s legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel," although Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have not allowed it.[58] A federal appeals court declared the 2002 law invalid on 23 July 2013. On 8 June 2015, The Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling struck down Section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, FY 2003, citing the law as an overreach of Congressional power into foreign policy.
The United States maintains a consulate in Jerusalem that deals primarily with the Palestinian Authority, while relations with the Israeli government are handled from the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. The U.S. consulate is not accredited to the Israeli government
The Declaration of Principles and the Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and the PLO on 13 September 1993 and 28 September 1995 respectively, left the issue of the status of Jerusalem to be decided in the ‘permanent status’ negotiations between the two parties.
I am a very strong supporter of Trump, but I was disappointed with his pandering on the issue. The bottom line is that the status of Jerusalem will be decided as part of the negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
I am a retired FSO and am familiar with the "theology" that surrounds the status of Jerusalem. It is a complicated issue that won't be resolved by the US being the only country to have its embassy in Jerusalem. Trump will find that out if he is in the WH. I predict he will use the Presidential wavier just like his predecessors.
But why would Trump care about that? Laws are to be changed. No Congress is bound by the congress before it and treaties can be broken.
What other wishful ideas do you have?
Trump says he wants to broker a deal in the ME. If he unilaterally moves our Embassy to Jerusalem, any prospect for a deal would be dead. The US would be going against UN resolutions it has signed on the status of Jerusalem. It would polarize the region even more including our allies like Jordan and Saudi Arabia as well as the EU If the truth be known, Israel would not want us to make such a move unilaterally. And there are increased security risks for our personnel and the facility.
As I stated, there is already a law on the books mandating the move, but Congress gave the President a wavier for a reason. It is all a kabuki dance for domestic consumption. Anyone who knows anything about the region, and I do, realizes that the US will not unilaterally move our Embassy to Jerusalem thus declaring it part of Israel.
The first time Trump went to AIPAC a few months ago, he said he would not move the embassy to Jerusalem. He took some heat for it, especially because Cruz said he would. Trump did the right thing last time and did not pander. This time he did. Again, I can assure you that if he gets into the WH, and I hope he will, he will not move our Embassy to Jerusalem unilaterally.
What other wishful ideas do you have?
I tried to educate you on the issue. I failed.
There will be no such thing as a piece deal between Israel and the Koranimals, sorry. Go to bed holding your Cruz doll and it might be better by the morning.
Wow. Piece? You need to learn English.
Go to bed holding your Cruz doll and it might be better by the morning.
I voted for Trump here in SC along with volunteering to hold Trump signs at the polls. I will vote for only Trump in November. If they try to steal the nomination from him, I will not vote for any Rep.
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