My theory: Trump has close Jewish friends. They talk to one another this way, with the jokes and the not-so-funny. John Podhoretz has even remarked on his “strangely Yiddish-inflected” speech. What Trump MAYBE didn’t keep in mind was that the whole world was listening, including those who wouldn’t get the familiarity and the inside jokes, and would interpret that wrongly. Trump thinks it’s a good thing to be a good negotiator, so that wasn’t insulting. It only looks insulting to people who think it’s a bad thing.
By the way, I don’t think he said he hadn’t decided about an undivided Jerusalem. I think he said he wasn’t going to say right now whether he would insist upon it. My feeling is that he will. But it goes with his general negotiating strategy that you don’t give anything away ahead of time.
Yep, they were loving him. Lots of laughter and applause. A few boos where appropriate. And he said he wanted to meet with Bibi on that.
Trump should not allow himself to be perceived as too pro-Israel. From comments I read at various right wing sites there are plenty of Trump voting people who are not so Israel friendly, who just want us to be out of the Middle East. Many think Israel has drawn us into wars there. Why antagonize them, getting them to sit out the 2016 election, by tilting too pro-Israel? I am sure Trump will be a good friend of Israel but first he has to get elected so Trumps answer on our Jerusalem embassy is what I like to see. (I am Jewish)