After Being Attacked by Israeli Official, Trump Fires Back: ‘No Better Friend to Israel’

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump issued a press release suggesting that there’s “no higher good friend” to Israel after critics accused him of praising Hezbollah terrorists.

As The Political Insider reported yesterday, Trump made feedback at a Florida marketing campaign rally through which he described Hezbollah as “very sensible” and criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“However Hezbollah, they’re very sensible they usually have a nationwide protection minister or any person saying, ‘I hope Hezbollah doesn’t assault us from the north,’” Trump instructed the gang.

“So the next morning they attacked,” he continued. “They may not have been doing it, however when you hearken to this jerk, you’ll assault from the north as a result of he mentioned that’s our weak spot.”

Final night time Trump referred to as Hezbollah very sensible and preemptively mocked the Faux Information for criticizing when he calls adversaries sensible.

And the Faux Information and DeSimp Marketing campaign STILL took the bait 😂

These persons are such idiots. pic.twitter.com/4VAsF8yxBr

— Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) October 12, 2023

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Confronted Heavy Criticism For His Feedback

A number of entities misconstrued Trump’s feedback as reward for a terror group when, in reality, it’s clear he’s suggesting incompetence on the a part of those that underestimate the terrorists’ crafty.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Trump’s remarks as “absurd” and characterised them as an “assault (on) our good friend and ally, Israel” and “reward” for Hezbollah terrorists.

Presidential hopeful Chris Christie additionally took time to criticize Trump.

“He’s a idiot. Solely a idiot wouldn’t make these form of feedback,” he mentioned. “Solely a idiot would give feedback that would give support and luxury to Israel’s adversary on this state of affairs.”

Trump is a idiot for praising Hezbollah and Israel’s adversaries proper now.

That is somebody who cares not concerning the American individuals, not concerning the individuals of Israel, however about himself.

That is additional proof that he has no enterprise being President of america. pic.twitter.com/JjZ4ub8p1I

— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) October 12, 2023

The Joe Biden White Home, after all, jumped into the fray by capitalizing on the media’s framing of his feedback as nicely.

White Home torches Donald Trump’s new feedback on Israel & Hezbollah.

“Statements like this are harmful and unhinged. It’s fully misplaced on us why any American would ever reward an Iran-backed terrorist group as ‘sensible,’” says White Home spokesman @AndrewJBates46. https://t.co/rf7dQfF9pk pic.twitter.com/wWknRp8DK6

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 12, 2023

And on Thursday, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi also took aim at the previous President.

“Shameful {that a} man like that, a former US president, abets propaganda and disseminates issues that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its residents,” he mentioned.

Shameful that you simply wouldn’t do your homework earlier than taking the American media’s reporting at face worth.

Israeli communications minister on Trump:

“Shameful {that a} man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates issues that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its residents.”https://t.co/UrnYzudFEj

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 12, 2023

Trump Insists He’s A Good friend To Israel

On Thursday, Trump issued a press release refuting any suggestion that he’s not a powerful ally to Israel.

“There was no higher good friend or ally of Israel than President Donald J. Trump,” he mentioned in a put up to the Reality Social media platform.

“Below my management, america stood in full solidarity with Israel, and because of this, Israel was secure, America was secure, and for the primary time in many years, we made historic strides for Peace within the Center East,” he continued.

“There was no higher good friend or ally of Israel than President Donald J. Trump. Below my management, the US stood in full solidarity w/Israel, & because of this, Israel was secure, America was secure, & for the first time in many years, we made historic strides for Peace within the Center East” pic.twitter.com/3TEqCYWvXG

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 12, 2023

Trump added that the world “is in absolute chaos” resulting from President Biden’s weak management, and in a subsequent post claimed “the assault on Israel would by no means have occurred” if he had been President.

Israel has likewise considered Trump as a good friend.

In 2019, Netanyahu vowed to name a town on the Golan Heights after then-President Trump, a thanks for recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the realm.

Two years earlier, Trump introduced that he acknowledged Jerusalem because the Israeli capital. He adopted that up by officially opening the U.S. Embassy there, a marketing campaign promise that presidents earlier than him had been unable to meet.

I fulfilled my marketing campaign promise – others didn’t! pic.twitter.com/bYdaOHmPVJ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017

Trump’s administration introduced concerning the historic Abraham Accords – a sequence of peace offers resulting in the normalization of relations between Israel and several other Arab and Muslim-majority nations.

Trump had aptly described the Accords as “the daybreak of a brand new Center East.”

Peace preparations within the Center East, previous to that, had been largely dismissed as not possible.

“How may ‘Crooked’ Joe Biden, the worst and most incompetent President within the historical past of america enable this to occur?” requested Trump. “We went from the Abraham Accords and peace to unprecedented loss of life and destruction.”

The White Home has confirmed 27 Americans died within the Hamas terror assaults. Roughly 1,300 Israelis had been additionally killed.