Excerpt below from (May 2024):
President Joe Biden’s administration paused one shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel hoping to prevent a full-scale attack
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President Joe Biden’s administration paused one shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel hoping to prevent a full-scale attack on Gaza — a move that former President Donald Trump condemned.
"Biden wants to immediately stop all aid to Israel," Trump said May 10 on Truth Social. "Any Jewish person who votes for Crooked Joe Biden should have his/her head examined!"
Excerpt below from (June 2024):
A comparison of Biden and Trump on Mideast policy. The biggest disparity between the two candidates may be their attitude toward Palestinians.
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Even so, Biden — like most past U.S. leaders — has sought to maintain some balance and support for Palestinians and to present the United States as a potential mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By contrast,
Trump was the first U.S. chief executive who gave near-absolute, unconditional support to Israel, handing the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu everything it asked for and then some.
Trump moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the disputed capital of Jerusalem, the first major country to do so. He also endorsed Israeli control of the Golan Heights, a contested fertile plateau that Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. He did so without concessions from Israel.
Trump was so popular among right-wing Israelis that
Netanyahu used him as he campaigned for reelection, adorning cities across Israel with huge posters of the two men together. A Jewish settlement in the West Bank named itself after Trump.
Trump’s one-sided approach won him praise from some pro-Israel advocates, but critics say he also sacrificed valuable U.S. leverage in negotiating broader peace in the region.
Excerpt below from (July 2024):
Donald Trump hasn’t said much about what he would do in a second term about issues of particular interest to Jewish Americans.
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American Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
But Trump’s Jewish allies say he has “fought for Israel like no president ever before.” Since he left office in 2021 and following the Oct. 7 attack, however, Trump has offered less than full-throated support for Israel, the hostages taken by Hamas or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He has remarked that Hamas
would never have attacked Israel had he been in the Oval Office and
criticized Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza, which he said shifted U.S. public opinion against Israel.
Trump has also
called for a swift end to the war and said Netanyahu
should pay a price for the security failures leading up to the Hamas attacks.
At the same time, Trump has promised major donors to back Israel’s war on terror — and he’s called for retribution against pro-Palestinian campus protesters.
Excerpt below from (August 2024):
Trump says he told Netanyahu to end Gaza war but criticizes ceasefire call
WASHINGTON/ BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their last meeting in July to quickly end
Israel's war in Gaza,
but the former president also criticized ceasefire demands.
"He (Netanyahu) knows what he's doing, I did encourage him to get this over with," Trump told reporters at a press conference on Thursday. "It has to get over with fast. ... Get your victory and get it over with. It has to stop, the killing has to stop."
Excerpt below from (September 2024):
David Friedman writes in new book that U.S. support for Israel is ‘based first and foremost on biblical prophecies and values.'
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Former President Donald Trump has largely remained silent on what he might do in a potential second term regarding issues of particular interest to Jewish Americans. However, if his close adviser’s perspective offers any insight, it could involve the U.S. actively funding a previously shelved Israeli plan to annex the occupied West Bank.
Israel will need financial assistance “to assert and maintain its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,” former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman writes in a new book,
One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, scheduled for release on Tuesday.
Friedman suggests that the next Republican administration and Congress could redirect $1 billion from existing aid to the Palestinians, including funds meant for the Palestinian security force, to finance the annexation plan, which he said will help improve the lives of Palestinians under Israeli control. “The easiest bucket to tap into and reposition is that of the United States.”
Excerpt below from (October 2024):
Fifty-eight percent of Israelis in the survey, conducted in September, said Trump would be better for Israel's security, vs. 20% for Harris.
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Israelis broadly favor Trump over Harris on security and in vote preference: Poll
Fifty-eight percent surveyed said Trump would be better for Israel's security.