Trump’s ex-envoy says US ‘in for big shock’ if his immigration policies don’t pan out

If US President Donald Trump’s plan to reform immigration policies doesn’t work out, “America is in for a big shock,” former United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tells the Israeli government’s international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem.

Failure to stem immigration will make America like Europe, Friedman says. “We’re not quite yet where Europe is yet, no offense to Europe.”

Friedman says he “loves” Trump’s proposal for the US to take over and rebuild Gaza while expelling residents.

“Number one, Gaza is uninhabitable. It’s got unexploded ordnance, and it’s got homes that are unlivable,” he says. “The other reason, maybe more important, is that the only way that Israel really wins the war, the way that radical Islam is, like the way ISIS and Hamas define winning and losing, which is when they lose their land. They have to lose their land.”

Friedman notes that Israel’s Abraham Accords have survived the current war because the United Arab Emirates and other Arab nations share a common enemy.

“They’re watching on TV that Israel is killing women and children, and there was an easy excuse for them to call off of the agreement, but that didn’t happen for a single reason: if you ask them what the agreement is about, it’s about the common battle that Israel and the Emirates and other moderate countries are facing against radical Islam.”