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| DATE | 2016-11-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Trump's anti-semetism
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On 11/16/2016 01:59 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/israel-donald-trump-netanyahu-jerusalem
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> The Guardian of all papers... one of the least balanced rags on earth
> Trump has 'every intention' of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>
> Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders hail election of Donald
> Trump, whose campaign promises would overturn decades of US foreign policy
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> Donald Trump wins US election – live updates
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> Binyamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump
> ‘True friends’: Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump in September.
> Photograph: Kobi Gideon/GPO/EPA
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> Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
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> Wednesday 9 November 2016 13.23 EST
> Last modified on Tuesday 15 November 2016 21.54 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.”
> What will President Donald Trump do? Predicting his policy agenda
> Read more
>
> 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.
> Donald Trump wins US election: 'we're all on the same team' says Obama –
> live
> Read more
>
> 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
>
Dear Stephen Bannon,
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the
amazing election results for President-Elect Donald Trump and the United
States of America. I would also like congratulate you personally on
being appointed as Chief Strategist.
We know that you are a strong supporter of Israel and a true friend
to the Jewish people and we look forward to your leadership in the White
House.
It saddened me to hear about the uncalled for smear campaign against
you by political opponents who refuse to accept the reality of losing a
fair and democratic election. I am pleased that we in the Shomron, were
first to openly support Donald Trump’s campaign and also opened a
campaign headquarters here.
I, as leader of the second largest group with-in Israel’s Likud
party central committee and Chairman of the Shomron Regional Council, am
glad that after 8 hard years we now have decent minded people like
yourself, coming to power in Washington DC.
Again, I would like to send my sincerest wishes to you and the
American people. Please consider me a friend and resource for all of
your Israel related interaction, and I look forward to meeting with you
soon.
Blessing from the people and Land of Israel,
Yossi Dagan
Chairman
Shomron Regional Council
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