Posted on 10/12/2023 12:34:49 PM PDT by aperez77
An Israeli official on Thursday slammed former President Trump's remarks on Israeli intelligence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "shameful."
Shlomo Karhi, member of the Knesset in the Likud party and serving as Israel's minister of communications, reportedly told Israel’s Channel 13 that it is "shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens."
"We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts," Karhi added.
When asked if Trump’s remarks make it clear that he cannot be relied on, Karhi reportedly replied, according to the Times of Israel, "Obviously."
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Your comrade aperez77 no longer has an account here, don’t expect a response from them.
Yeah, he even got Liz Cheney and Rhonda Santis to finally criticize him.
Oh wait....
I don’t defend Trump much any more, but at least he has a mind to speak and speaks his mind. I dont know what the political impact of his words will be, but at least they are coherent and clearly not filtered through a polling sample.
Meh. President Trump was the most pro Israel president in history.
Spare the the BS about how his criticism of Bibi in any way demoralizes those fighting the islamofascists.
Netanyahu is no saint. His many problems and mistakes have weakened him. Trump is right to point that out.
He ran on a security platform and he has lost supporters who will not forgive him unless he flattens Gaza and many will never trust him again.
He needed a quick lethal strike.
He can’t now because of other influences.
Many will successfully convert after this war is over.
As I stated to the OP, there are plenty of libtards in Israel too.
Truth hurts sometimes. Doesn't mean that President Trump isn't fully behind Israel.
We know, it all doesn't matter to you.
What doesn't matter to anyone else, is your tired spiel attacking President Trump in a vain and pointless effort to attempt to convince other Freepers that an alternative would be a better bet for this election.
Whether that is factual or not is besides the point. The point is, when you can find another Republican candidate who can attract massive crowds like President Trump has, and still, does, then you can have a useful tidbit to add to the discourse.
As it stands now, your petty and puerile attacks are not only useless, they are the sign of someone who is attempting to stir up shit to get the results they desire... Just like President Trump! That puts you in good company. Maybe you should throw your hat in the ring!
Trump isn’t supporting Bibi now, is he? He may well have been telling the truth, but right now, at THIS moment, it was an unnecessary thing to say in the middle of this nightmare.
There is a time and a place for everything and this wasn’t it.
it was pure ignorance....just gotta make it about him. The guy is sick in the head....
How in the world did Israel succumb to a surprise attack?
Who disarmed the Israeli population? (in many cases the Hamas terrorists were sitting ducks from sniper fire from building balconies... except they were not allowed to own guns)
Why for several hours (3+ hours) before contacting the local security forces in the various Kibbutzes? They were not authorized to open their armories and distribute their weapons. Only Kibbutzs that remained unharmed and is the one because where the security officer (a 25 year old girl) disobeyed orders and opened their armory and distributed weapons.
Why were the sensos off on their fences on that Holyday?
Why did they not expect an attack on the 50th anniversary of something?? what a bunch of incompetents, they should have been at high alert!
Why are the ammunitions used in the iron dome interceptors running low?
These are all constructive criticism questions, is these problems are not fixed Israel will really suffer.
And now these MORONS, and INCOMPETENTS running the Israeli security forces are trying to divert attention and cover their own butts by screaming ‘We will have revenge’ ‘we will invade Gaza and leave it as rubble’
First of all, that is a trap, and second of all, All the goodwill gathered around the world will disappear as the numbers of civilian (Palestinian) deaths in Gaza increase.
Incompetents! And Netanyahu is right at the top of them.
What is wrong with criticizing Netanyahu?
OTOH, truth gets trampled in times such as we’re in. We’re big folk, we can stand the truth and if we can’t — we’re sunk. It seems we’ve reached a point where “truth” is so suppressed the issue is now light or darkness. Take your pick.
What really wounded the spirit of Israelis is the failure of the Israeli security apparatus. It is almost like they allowed this to happen, or they were so overconfident that they forgot that they have neighbors that are evil and constantly plotting and trying to find ways to harm them as badly as they can.
Trump pointing out this failure is not the problem. Their inability to acknowledge this failure as they coddled the terrorists, is a huge problem.
Shlomo seems to want to sweep the failure under the rug and pretend it did not happen.
Israel is full of libs who want to coddle their blood thristy enemies. Now they probably want to hide their failure.
I doubt Trump MADE IT UP... I believe him.
But their interpretation is the problem.
He did not say they were ‘smart’ to praise them, it was more in a ‘don’t underestimate your opponent’ framework.
And they know it, or are really stupid.
When I was in Nam we were always on high alert around US holidays, esp 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Xmas.. There were usually attacks of various intensity. It’s inexcusable that the Israelis were so complacent.
Yep. The people claiming he complimented the terrorists are either the liars spinning it or the usual braindead TDSers. What he said was no a compliment but a reality.
This Hamas attack continues to expose our enemies. Foreign and domestic.
I think it was the perfect time. Trump gave Bibi a loving kick in the butt to man up and do the right thing this time. Grow some iron balls... go through with the plan.
How could anyone with a functioning frontal lobe, not conclude Israeli intelligence FAILED, MASSIVELY...
There are only 2 options as to how this happened...
1) Israeli intelligence failed, MASSIVELY.
or
2) Israeli leadership and intelligence was aware this was going to occur and let it happen.
Now, I am not remotely suggesting the second option is true, but this is black and white, there is absolutely no middle ground here... one of those 2 things is true... and EITHER one of them being true is beyond disturbing.
I had a lot of issues with Bush after 9/11, but immediately afterwards wasn’t the time to bring them up.
There has been no president in recent history who has done more for Israel than Trump. His accomplishments in his last term speak for themselves. Anybody with half a brain can see that.
The RINOs in congress, the RINO presidents (Bush 1 and 2), democrat presidents have not done what Trump did. They were wringing their hands, afraid to upset the arabs.
What Trump said is the truth. We can acknowledge that our enemies are evil and constantly trying to get us. We can acknowledge that THEY ARE SMART and will find loopholes to get at us bad. The first step to protecting ourselves is to acknowledge that our enemies are smart and will find ways to get at us. The next step is to be smarter than them and find ways to protect ourselves.
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