• Trump contradicts pro-U.S. policies by pandering to Israel at confab.
By Mark Anderson —
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Some Donald J. Trump fans may be asking: “Will the real Trump please stand up?”
On the one hand, the brash billionaire real estate tycoon and GOP presidential front-runner spoke March 21 at the Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—where he promised Israel everything and then some, including moving the United States embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and ensuring that any threat to Israel from Iran or anywhere else will be treated as a threat to the U.S.
“I didn’t come here to pander to Israel,” Trump began, before doing plenty of pandering. “No. My priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. We’ve rewarded the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism with $150 billion and we’ve received nothing in return.”
But on the other, just before speaking to well over 10,000 AIPAC supporters and officials at Washington D.C.’s Verizon Center, Trump told the Washington Post editorial board that he wants a softer military footprint in the world and if elected president would pursue what amounts to a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Among other things, he told the Post that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance is costing the U.S. too much money with diminishing returns. He told the Post that he’d put the brakes on U.S. support of NATO, and he’d spend the savings on rebuilding the crumbling U.S. infrastructure and on education.
“Trump said he advocates a light footprint in the world. In spite of unrest abroad, especially in the Middle East, Trump said the United States must look inward and steer its resources toward rebuilding domestic infrastructure,” the editorial board quaked, while calling Trump’s stance, “Unabashedly non-interventionist.”
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Still, while Trump’s chief GOP rival Senator Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz (Texas) may have been even more slavish toward Israel’s interests—telling the AIPAC crowd he’d literally “tear up” the nuclear agreement the U.S. and other nations reached with Iran—both men pledged the moon and the stars to Israel.
Trump, however, went on to say that he’d “enforce” the existing Iran deal stringently. Even the Times of Israel caught that twist, noting that Trump first said he’d “dismantle” the Iran deal but then said he’d “enforce” it. Some news outlets, however, suggested that Trump “charmed” AIPAC, implying that his apparent strong support for Israel is not altogether genuine or, at the very least, his Jewish audience was not totally sold on his remarks.
Trump did add at the AIPAC event that any agreement Israel reaches with Palestine that’s “imposed by the UN” would be “a total and complete disaster.” He further remarked: “A Trump presidency would veto, 100%, any attempt by the UN to impose its will on the Jewish state,” basically ruling out a resolution for a separate Palestinian homeland. And both Trump and Cruz made the spurious claim that Iran has been test-firing missiles, allegedly onto which are inscribed the words, “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth.” Cruz even said he’d shoot down any missiles that Iran test-fires if he’s elected.
Jamal Abdi, executive director of the National Iranian American Council responded: “We condemn Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and [still active GOP candidate] John Kasich for their pledges to undo the diplomatic efforts of President Obama and put the U.S. back on the path to war with Iran. Trump and his colleagues’ rhetoric may have won standing ovations from AIPAC, the organization that spent millions to try to kill the Iran deal, but it will not win them the White House. The U.S. people do not want another military adventure in the Middle East.”
So is the enigmatic Mr. Trump actually a super-servile servant of Israel, or is he being pragmatic in order to charm the unavoidably powerful AIPAC lobby by uttering what they want to hear in order to clear any obstacles to the White House?
Trump and Cruz especially, along with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), told AIPAC that the U.S. relationship with Israel makes both countries safer. But Israel, as the record shows, is largely the reason that the U.S. has been more or less constantly at war—for the security of a Middle East state in which Christianity is unwelcome and grossly disparaged.
And while media-anointed Democratic presidential “front-runner” Hillary Clinton also addressed the AIPAC conference and rapped Trump, she is actually a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-favored internationalist dressed in traditional Democrat garb, having addressed the CFR twice since her candidacy was considered and confirmed. Accordingly, she has a hawkish foreign policy for America to permanently police the world that’s not only well-suited to AIPAC; it’s also indistinguishable from the view widely held by Republican neoconservatives who’ve replaced traditional conservatives in government while heavily populating major think tanks that help lay the groundwork for legislation.
Mark Anderson covers the annual Bilderberg meetings and is chairman of AFP’s new America First Action Committee, designed to involve AFP readers in focusing intensely on Congress to enact key changes, including monetary reform and a pullback of the warfare state. He and his wife Angie often work together on news projects.
I thought there was going to be a meaningful and logical debate of the issue at hand. Boy was I mistaken. Instead people spewing hatred and even a Muslim spreading his cancerous infection called Islam.
Obviously those spewing forth hatred toward Israel have never travelled the Middle East. I worked for IBM for 20 years and spent time in several Arab nations and Israel and there is a world of difference. I was scared to moved in the Arab nations couldn’t even go to the market, which I wanted to see. But, in Israel, goodness I was in Houston or any major American city. Everybody spoke English and with my limited Hebrew I was able to chat with others. Life was pleasant and slow. Until the Palestinians started their saber-rattling.
Sorry guys, you don’t know Israel as I do, and consequently sadly misinformed and full of hatred for something you know nothing of.
No more “treating Israel like a second class citizen.”
If any of these two imbeciles get elected, they will carry on as usual the expected servile Gentile leadership behavior.
The Lord-Creator of the Heavens and Earth Does Not Have a Son
What Trump doesn’t include in the “$150 billion” amount, was that this money has been held in sanction by the United States.
And according to Trump, Iran, is the “leading state sponsor of terroism.” Please.
I do not trust Trump, just because the Zionist Jews, who are perpetually paranoid, because they themselves are so guilty of overt and covert manipulations, and the “establishment” appears to be against him, which could be totally orchestrated, does not mean he is not a narcissistic dictator type of personality. He now states he supports torture, and would do away with the Geneva Conventions. His facial expressions remind me of Mussolini’s, notorious supporter of fascism, or marriage of state and corporation.
Who is to say he is not simply telling the American people what they want to hear, the typical game of politicians, even though he is not seen as a politician
? It is rather pathetic, the “choices” we have for president.
This raises a number of questions. If Israel considers Iran such an enemy, why would they consider helping the U.S. to secretly sell weapons to Iran? Later, during the Yugoslavia Wars, the U.S. CIA was transporting al Qaeda fighters from their training camps in Afghanistan to Bosnia in Iranian air transports, as documented in the book CIA: Crime Incorporated of America. Why would Iran cooperate in this covert operation to help the U.S. when it was placing trade embargoes on Iran? There seems to be a lot of secret stuff going on that we are not being told about.
These two articles lay out why he is not qualified for POTUS and may also be considered an illegal alien:
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NALC Lead Attorney: Documents Obtained From Canada on Ted Cruz “PROBABLY AN UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN”