Trump: Israel ‘loyal to a fault’ by sticking with Democrats who are ‘bad for Israel’
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Former US president and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is asked to weigh in on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s call this week for elections in Israel to replace Netanyahu.
“The Democrats are very bad for Israel. Israel sticks with them. I guess Israel’s loyal — maybe to a fault — because they stick with these guys,” Trump says, criticizing Jerusalem for seeking to maintain relations with the Democratic Party.
“If [Biden] were a supporter of Israel, the Iran nuclear deal would have never been signed, and Israel would have never been attacked,” Trump says, referring to the accord that was signed in 2015 when Biden was vice president.
Returning to Schumer’s remarks, Trump recalls that Israel “lost a lot of people on October 7. People have to remember that.”
The former president suggests Schumer is aware of this, but is more interested in securing more voters.
“He’s seeing the Palestinians and he’s seeing the marches and they are big. Then he says, I want to go that way instead of Israel,” Trump says. “[He] sees a lot of people protesting out there and they happen to be Palestinians or… from the Middle East. He was probably shocked to see it, and, all of a sudden, he dumped Israel.”
“He just said essentially that Bibi Netanyahu should take a walk,” Trump adds.
