Trump irks Jewish donors with comments on Mideast peace

WHIO-TV ^ | December 3, 2015 | Steve Peoples and Julie Bykowicz, Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Jewish donors gathered Thursday had two demands of the Republican presidential candidates who'd come to speak to them: unambiguous support for Israel and respect.

Donald Trump seemed to fail at both.

The party's 2016 front-runner openly questioned Israel's commitment to the Mideast peace process in his remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition, echoing comments he made the night before in an interview with The Associated Press. He drew boos after refusing to endorse Jerusalem as the nation's undivided capital. And he suggested to the influential group simply wanted to install a puppet in the White House....

[Rome2000]

Let’s not confuse anybody with the facts

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not sure what is being envisioned here. “Simply trade” — as if the countries involved would be anything other than “Over our dead bodies” about their Pallie brothers.

[af_vet_1981]

Identify Arabic speaking Moslems who happen to reside in Israel who are eligible for trade and swap them for Arabic speaking Christians on the verge of extinction. One could start with terrorists who have not yet killed someone, and extend it from there in several dimensions. The principle is to maintain the racial and language status while trading the disaffected threats for the persecuted victims. It's an act of mercy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And swap them? Still unclear what that means.

These Arab Christians live in various actual places.

Those places are going to be like, over our dead body for the idea of accepting an Israeli Moslem. I don’t know where you’re getting your swap magic from.

[af_vet_1981]

Well somehow, magically, millions of refugees are transiting borders in the Middle East; where there's a will there's a way.

[SunkenCiv]

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