Former president Donald Trump In an interview Thursday, he said he “wouldn’t do what Biden did” on Israeli policy, responding to President Joe Biden’s comments Wednesday about cutting off arms shipments to Israel if his military occupied Rafah.
Trump also used the trope of dual loyalty and doubled down on recent comments criticizing Jewish Democrats in the interview. Spectrum News of North Carolina 1“If you’re Jewish, just don’t vote for Biden,” he says, because “you’re really hurting the country. He’s gone completely the other way now. He’s gone — he dumped Israel.”
“If you’re Jewish and you vote for him, shame on you,” Trump continued.
Trump did similar comments In recent months, it has attracted negative reactions says in April Jewish Democrats “need to be talked to.” in 2019he said the Jewish Democrats were “very disloyal to Israel.”
Trump’s latest statements came in response to Biden’s statement in an interview with CNN The US will stop sending offensive weapons If his forces occupy Rafah, to Israel.
“Well, I wouldn’t do what Biden did. He just left Israel. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Trump said in an interview Thursday when asked if he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel’s border. the war effort.
When asked if he agreed with Israel’s occupation of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, home to more than 1 million Palestinians, Trump replied: “They have to do the job. Look, on October 7, they were brutally attacked. There were scenes in them that no one has seen.”
Trump has issued similarly aggressive messages about Israel’s military efforts, regularly saying at campaign rallies that Israel must “finish the job.” Discussing the Israel-Hamas war, the former president claimed it would never have happened if he were still in the White House because of his relationships with foreign leaders.
“Well, I said they’re going to have to get it over with, get it over with, get it over with, but get it over with and get it over with, because the world is exploding around them. So they have to get it done quickly,” Trump said in an interview with Pennsylvania’s WGAL on Tuesday.
Biden’s campaign fired back at Trump, with spokesman Charles Lutwak saying Trump “comes up every month with the same patronizing anti-Semitism and reminds Jewish voters that he doesn’t respect us.”