Trump to visit Israel, meet with Netanyahu
“Every presidential candidate that wants to may meet briefly with the prime minister,” sources said, according to an Army Radio report. “Netanyahu does not agree with every statement made by every candidate.”
Dozens of Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday wrote an urgent letter to Netanyahu asking him to cancel the meeting, Channel 2 reported.
Earlier Wednesday, Meretz legislator Issawi Frej submitted a request with Interior Minister Silvan Shalom seeking to block Trump from entering Israel during his upcoming visit.
“As an Israeli citizen, I ask that the state treat the racism against me in the same way it would relate to racism against Jews. Just as it is obvious that Israel wouldn’t allow an anti-Semite to use it to advance its political goals, so too, should be the case of Trump,” Frej said in a statement.
The 'dozens' of MK's who signed a petition asking Netanyahu not to meet with Trump was actually about three dozen - 37 to be precise. 35 of them are opposition MK's, with two (Shas' Yaakov Margi and Kulanu's Roy Volkman) MK's from the coalition also signing.Trump is “not only a racist, but a danger to the free world,” he added. “He is a man who incites against 20 percent of Israel’s population, a man who wants to fan the flames of hatred everywhere he visits.”
But Netanyahu kind of owes Trump this meeting even if it had not been set in advance. In addition to the tweet captured above, there's this.
Let's go to the videotape.
I don't want to get into a debate about Trump's comments about admitting Muslims to the US, but the first link in this post points out some important points.
Trump on Tuesday had proposed a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in remarks that were widely disparaged by the White House, the other Republican presidential candidates, and several US Jewish groups.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” Trump said in the statement.
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Kulanu’s former ambassador to the US Michael Oren said Israel should condemn Trump’s comments but that the prime minister should meet with him, as with all presidential candidates, to avoid being seen as intervening in internal American politics.
Speaking Tuesday to the Times of Israel, US-born Oren pointed to the Jewish people’s historical experience in slamming Trump’s comments. “We Jews, who have been the victims of gross and hostile generalizations throughout our history, should be first out there to condemn it.”
A trip to Israel is considered de rigeur for US presidential candidates hoping to shore up foreign policy bona fides and show support for the Jewish state.
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Kory Bardash, co-chair of the Israeli Republican Party, said Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump should not be seen as backing for the candidate.
“If Netanyahu meets with Trump it should not be perceived as an endorsement of the man or his policies, and that should be made clear. But there is a tradition of meeting with leading candidates, and proper protocol should be followed in this case as well,” he said.
Kulanu MK Michael Oren, a former ambassador to the US, said Israel has “a longstanding tradition of host candidates from both parties,” Oren said, citing visits by Barack Obama in 2008 and by Mitt Romney in 2012. “At the same time,” he added, “it’s important for leaders of a country close to 20 percent of whose population is Muslim to stand up and say that we distinguish between radical violent Islam and the faith that inspires millions not just here but internationally.”
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, illegal immigration, Islamic terrorism, Muslims, US presidential campaign 2016
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:07 PM
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….”Not all Muslims are Jihadists, but all Jihadists are Muslim”….
If the FBI, DHS and various national security apparatus cannot differentiate the dangerous Muslim from the non-dangerous Muslim, which every department head has recently admitted they cannot, then Trump’s position to pause all Muslim immigration is exponentially more reasonable.
The pause is not about the religious test but a pause because we can't vet the Muslims. At the moment.
Islam, a religion of war, is and always will be a threat to the lives and freedoms of all non-Muslims, since Muslims are under an eternal command from Allah “to fight all men until they say, ‘There is no god but Allah.’”
We as non-Muslims do not have the ability to reform the Islamic religion, and, while we welcome any efforts by Muslims themselves to Kemalize, i.e., secularize Islamic societies, we can neither involve ourselves in such endeavors nor count on their success.
We must therefore permanently take away Islam’s ability to harm us, by steadily reducing the numbers and power of Muslims in the West and throughout the non-Muslim world until all seriously believing Muslims and the vast majority of other Muslims have been returned to the historic Muslim lands, and by isolating, containing, and policing the Muslim world.
Sliming the orator (e.g., in this case, Trump), rather than addressing the content issues, is for sure an Alinsky tactic. Remember that in the US for the Dems, these open border tactics are voter drives. Or, if they intend to end elections, then the Cloward-Piven collapse of the US system is the goal. It's what they are doing with Obamacare to get single payer Govt medical... Power. It's all about POWER. (Not consistent with the Torah. Nor the constitution.)
Yes, there is CHICKENSHIT, but it is not Net.
CHICKENSHIT is the person who hasn't done a day of work in all his life, can't even utter a sentence without teleprompter.
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