Posted on 04/08/2024 3:44:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Trump called into conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show Thursday morning and was asked about recent comments he made that were perceived to be critical of Israel’s campaign in Gaza.
“And so, are you still 100 percent with Israel? And what’s your advice to Netanyahu, beyond ‘Get it over with in a hurry?’” Hewitt asked.
“Well, that’s all the advice you can give. I mean, that’s the advice,” Trump said. “You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy.”
“And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory,” he continued. “You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time. And the other thing is I hate, they put out tapes all the time. Every night, they’re releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn’t be releasing tapes like that. They’re doing — that’s why they’re losing the PR war. They — Israel is absolutely losing the PR war.”
The former president added that Israel must “finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”
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Sounds to me like he’s saying Netanyahu needs to be more forceful and that victory’s been slow in coming. That’s the opposite of what the left wants, which is a “ceasefire” so that Hamas can regroup and attack Israel directly again.
Exactly. Trump is a Jacksonian. When you fight a war, it must be fought ALL the way.
I agree, Israel should have ALREADY wiped them all out!
Read between the lines: Michigan.
If this is an accurate quote then the next Q for the former POTUS should have been, “ Mr. President what do you consider normalcy to be in Israeli Arab relations.” That response would be newsworthy.
Normalcy is allowing the Hamas attacks to go unanswered. I think those days are past.
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