On Monday, the Republican Jewish Coalition sent out an email condemning “Biden’s Abandonment of Israel at the United Nations,” and they were absolutely right, the Biden administration’s abstention on United Nations Security Council resolution 2728 was disgraceful.
But then, also on Monday, Israel Hayom’s Omer Lachmanovitch and Ariel Kahana published their interview with GOP presidential contender Donald Trump, in Mara Lago, Florida, and some of what was said there didn’t make me much happier about the former President winning in November.
Israel made a very big mistake. I wanted to call [Israel] and say don’t do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, Oh, that’s a terrible portrait. It’s a very bad picture for the world. The world is seeing this…every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people.”
In other words, there is no daylight between the way Biden views the fallout from the Israeli war in Gaza and the way Trump does, except that Trump blames the war on the sitting president. So, what was Israel supposed to do? Remarkably, Trump’s answer is almost identical to that of Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken:
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/po...s-fighting-back-was-a-big-mistake/2024/03/26/
