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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agree on one thing: Israel’s genocide in Gaza must go on.
Trump told pro-Zionist Fox News that Israel must “finish the problem” in Gaza.
“You had a horrible invasion that took place that would have never happened if I was president,” he said.
Trump, characteristically, was evasive when asked about specifics.
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary, said in a statement obtained by NBC News: “President Trump did more for Israel than any American President in history, and he took historic action in the Middle East that created unprecedented peace. When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end.”
TRENDPOST: Trump has a history of pro-Israel statements as president.
San Diego Jewish World reported that his ties run deep with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the 1980s, his father, Fred Trump, befriended the Jewish leader when he served as the Israeli Ambassador to the UN in New York City.
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, is a member of the Friends of Israel Defense Forces national board, the report noted.
Trump once posted on Truth Social that he could easily be the prime minister of Israel.
Trump also once shared a comment that he is “the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world.”
Trump said, “the Jewish state has never had a better friend in the White House than your president, Donald J Trump.”
The Biden administration last month overturned the Trump-era “Pompeo Doctrine” that legalized Israeli land-stealing in the occupied territories. (See “ISRAEL SPEEDS UP PACE OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN WEST BANK” 5 Mar 2024, “ISRAEL ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEW SETTLEMENTS” 27 Feb 2024, and “LAND-STEAL: TOP ISRAELI MKs WANT POST-WAR SETTLEMENTS IN GAZA” 30 Jan 2024.)
The Trends Journal has noted that it does not matter what political party is in power in Washington, Israel will continue to get all the support it needs to impose its will on the Palestinians, no matter the human toll.
Extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has taken issue with the Biden administration for “giving humanitarian aid and fuel, which goes to Hamas.”
“If [Donald] Trump was in power, the U.S. conduct would be completely different,” he said, according to the WSJ.
Ben-Gvir controls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has warned the embattled prime minister that he would dissolve the government if Palestinians are not appropriately punished.
Trump tapped David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel during his time in the White House. Friedman is a major Jewish settlements backer and opposed to the two-state solution.
“A second Trump administration would likely follow a threefold approach. First, provide unconditional and full support to Israel. Second, continue to cement Israel’s legitimacy in the region. And third, force the Palestinian resistance to capitulate. From this perspective, a second Trump term would endorse the hardliners in Israel and enable the deportation of the Palestinians from Gaza,” Burak Elmali, a researcher at TRT World Research Centre in Istanbul, wrote in SCMP.