Republican front-runner Donald Trump says Israel should “keep moving forward” with building settlements.
“No, I don’t think there should be a pause,’ Trump tells The Daily Mail, referring to a construction freeze in the West Bank. “Look: Missiles were launched into Israel, and Israel, I think, never was properly treated by our country. I mean, do you know what that is, how devastating that is?”
He says he thinks “Israel should have – they really have to keep going. They have to keep moving forward,” with the settlements.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a press conference with members of the Veteran Police Association in Staten Island, New York on April 17,2016. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR)
Trump also says Netanyahu is “a very good guy.”
“I don’t know him that well, but I think I’d have a very good relationship with him,” Trump says. “I think that President Obama has been extremely bad to Israel.”
At the same time, Trump reiterates that he would like to negotiate a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
“With all of that being said, I would love to see if peace could be negotiated. A lot of people say that’s not a deal that’s possible. But I mean lasting peace, not a peace that lasts for two weeks and they start launching missiles again. So we’ll see what happens” Trump says. “I’d love to negotiate peace. I think that, to me, is the all-time negotiation.”
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