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| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Trump's anti-semetism
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/israel-donald-trump-netanyahu-jerusalem
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Trump has 'every intention' of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital
Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders hail election of Donald
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Binyamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump
‘True friends’: Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump in September.
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Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Wednesday 9 November 2016 13.23 EST
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Israeli government ministers and political figures are pushing the US
president-elect, Donald Trump, to quickly fulfill his campaign promise
to overturn decades of US foreign policy and recognise Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital and to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv.
Their calls came as one of Trump’s advisers on Israel and the Middle
East, David Friedman, told the Jerusalem Post that Trump would follow
through on his promise.
‘It was a campaign promise and there is every intention to keep it,”
Friedman said. ‘We are going to see a very different relationship
between America and Israel in a positive way.”
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Other political figures – including Israel’s controversial far-right
education minister, Naftali Bennett – went further, suggesting that
Trump’s election should signal the end of the two-state solution and
aspirations for a Palestinian state.
The US election campaign has been closely watched in Israel, not least
Trump’s promise to scrap the Iran nuclear deal drawn up by Barack Obama
and fiercely opposed by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Indeed, during his campaign Trump slammed the Iran deal, describing it
as “the stupidest deal of all time” vowing to tear it up.
During the campaign Trump also promised to be Israel’s “closest friend”,
and has indicated that he would take a different approach to Israel’s
settlement-building in the occupied territories – long condemned by
successive US governments.
But although many on the right welcomed Trump’s election, other
commentators in Israel have also been deeply uncomfortable over the
perception that Trump – or at least members of his campaign team – were
responsible for antisemitic “dog whistles” in his messaging.
Trump’s election was quickly welcomed by Netanyahu, but the Israeli
prime minister steered clear of controversial issues, only
congratulating Trump and calling him a “true friend” of Israel while
pledging to work with him on security and peace in the region. Netanyahu
later released a video on YouTube welcoming Trump’s appointment.
“President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel,” said
Netanyahu in a statement. “We will work together to advance the
security, stability and peace in our region. The strong connection
between the United States and Israel is based on shared values, shared
interests and a shared destiny.
“I’m certain that President-elect Trump and I will continue to
strengthen the unique alliance between Israel and the United States, and
bring it to new heights,” he added.
After a phone conversation between Netanyahu and Trump later, it emerged
that Trump had invited the Israeli prime minister to the US.
“President-elect Trump invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to a meeting in
the United States at the first opportunity,” said a statement from
Netanyahu’s office.
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Netanyahu’s remarks came as it was suggested that Netanyahu and his team
had privately expected Hillary Clinton to be elected.
In a more coded message of congratulations, Israel’s opposition leader,
Isaac Herzog, referred to the rise of a new global populist politics,
saying: “The US elections are a continuation of a global trend of
rejecting the old ruling elites and a wish for a clear and emphatic change.
“Trump’s election is the continuation of a social, economic and
political tsunami that we’ve seen in many countries, which will also
bring about change in Israel.”
But other members of Netanyahu’s government – considered the most
rightwing in Israeli history – showed less restraint.
The education minister, Naftali Bennett, who heads the hardline Jewish
Home party and is seen as seeking to be prime minister one day, said the
idea of a Palestinian state was now over.
“Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the
notion of a Palestinian state in the centre of the country, which would
hurt our security and just cause,” Bennett said. “This is the position
of the president-elect … The era of a Palestinian state is over.”
The justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, also of Jewish Home; deputy foreign
minister Tzipi Hotovely, from Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party; and
Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat also called for the embassy to be transferred.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest issues in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians see Israeli-annexed East
Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, while the Israelis call
the entire city their eternal indivisible capital.
A Trump administration will be far more favourable to the Jewish state,
another of the president-elect’s advisers on Israel has said.
Shmuel Rosner, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute,
said a Trump administration is likely to be “much more understanding if
Israel has to use force in order to tamp down Palestinian violence”.
He also said he felt the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be “much
less of a priority, and when it’s not a priority, this means that Israel
in some ways gets off the hook”.
The Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, congratulated Trump and said he
hoped peace could be achieved during his term based on the two-state
solution.
“We are ready to deal with the elected president on the basis of a
two-state solution and to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967
borders,” spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP, referring to the year
when Israel seized the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaz
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