ed note–hate to say we told ya so, but we told ya so…
The Jewish donors gathered Thursday had two demands of the Republican presidential candidates who had come to speak to them: unambiguous support for Israel and respect.
Donald Trump seemed to fail at both.
The party’s 2016 front-runner openly questioned Israel’s commitment to the Mideast peace process in his remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition, echoing comments he made the night before in an interview with the Associated Press. He drew boos after refusing to endorse Jerusalem as the nation’s undivided capital. And he suggested to the influential group simply wanted to install a puppet in the White House.
“You’re not going to support me even though you know I’m the best thing that could happen to Israel,” Trump said. “I know why you’re not going to support me — because I don’t want your money. You want to control your own politician.”
It was an extraordinary speech to a group used to deferential treatment. And Trump’s comments on Israel — particularly the billionaire businessman’s repeated questioning of its commitment to making a peace deal with the Palestinians — sparked an aggressive backlash from his Republican rivals.
“Some in our own party — in the news today — have actually questioned Israel’s commitment to peace,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told the crowd. “Some in our own party actually call for more sacrifice from the Israeli people. They are dead wrong, and they don’t understand the enduring bond between Israel and America.”
The primary benefactor of the Republican Jewish Coalition is casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who spent more on the 2012 federal elections than any other donor. Adelson’s willingness to make a huge political investment helps explain why his signature group attracted all of the major GOP presidential candidates to its forum in Washington — even though the man himself wasn’t among the hundreds in attendance.
On the eve of the event, Trump weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an interview with the Associated Press. He questioned for the first time both sides’ commitment to peace, adding that he would know within six months of being elected president whether he could broker an elusive peace accord.
He doubled down on those comments Thursday in an auditorium packed with Israel’s most loyal supporters.
“I don’t know that Israel has the commitment to make it, and I don’t know the other side has the commitment to make it,” Trump said.
The comment drew murmurs of disapproval. Later, a smattering of boos broke out after he refused to say whether Jerusalem should serve as the undivided capital of Israel, a priority for many in America’s pro-Israel lobby.
Trump shrugged off the criticism. “Do me a favor, just relax,” he told one of the people booing. Perhaps more than any other candidate, he can afford to.
The billionaire frequently calls himself a “self-funded” candidate. Compared to his rivals, he has raised — and spent — dramatically less, depending largely on free publicity to drive his campaign. He began his candidacy by loaning his campaign almost $2 million and has suggested a willingness to spend much more of his own money.
Yet he hasn’t ignored donors altogether. Fundraising records show that supporters have handed over $4 million, enough to cover his presidential efforts in recent months.
Regardless of his relationship with donors, Trump’s comments mark a sharp contrast from his Republican rivals who pledged unconditional allegiance to Israel. Several candidates blasted him from the stage.
“This is not a real estate deal with two sides arguing over money” Rubio said. “It’s a struggle to safeguard the future of Israel.”
Said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, “We need a president who will stand unapologetically with the nation of Israel.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee seemed to target Trump when he mentioned that some in his party support the “head-scratching” proposal that Mideast peace is possible only if Israel and the Palestinians both come to the table.
“I want to say where have you been for the last 70 years?” Huckabee charged.
Trump’s comments also fell flat among many Thursday’s crowd.
Michael Leventoff, a New York businessman and member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said Trump questioning Israel’s commitment to the peace process is another example of him “just getting it wrong.”
“There’s plenty of evidence of Israel’s repeated attempts at peace,” he said. “This is exactly why Trump is what I like to call a brilliant idiot. He should know better, and probably does.”
Trump told RJC members that while he doesn’t want their money, he does want their support. He noted he has won several awards from Jewish groups and recently said he has “a very good relationship” with Adelson.
The casino magnate has yet to make up his mind how who he’ll support in the GOP primary, said Adelson’s political adviser, Andy Abboud.
Each of the candidates is strong on the issues that concern Adelson the most, chief among them protection of Israel, he said. “The Adelsons are generally pleased with all of the Republican candidates and feel that the primary process will work its way out.”
That’s telling them, if he is elected they will assassinate him
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS GOOD, right???
This is war ! The Jews dont want him,and he knows it.
He knew exactly was he was saying about 911, and they know that too !
… well Ryan, it’s good for Cruz and Rubio…If there were any who might have donated or voted for Trump, they aren’t now. Hopefully this conversation really sticks in the craw of the US Jewry and they go after him with a vengeance!
One does not have to guess or make comments on Israel’s intentions and plans, just listen to the Zionists themselves.
Damned by their own words.
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“We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.” (Chaim Weizmann, Published in “Judische Rundschau,” No. 4, 1920)
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36. Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud), The Iron Wall, 1923: “A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!… Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important… to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonizing.”
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David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985: “We must expel Arabs and take their places.”
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David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti – Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
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Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : “We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return.” Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. “The old will die and the young will forget.”
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“We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves.” Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
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“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces – Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
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“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.” Israel Koenig, “The Koenig Memorandum”
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“It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.” Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
Let us not get too excited over a few ‘alleged comments’ Trump may have made about the jew lobby, and the international criminality of ‘israel’. This could very well be a reverse scam. Why? Because there are many of us, and I do mean MANY!, that are very suspect of the sincerity of The Donald. He totes his KJV bible and confesses a presbyterian up-bringing and back ground, but at the same time he married off his two daughters to jew real estate mafia types in jewYork, knowing full well that having his daughters married to jew real estate is good business for those in ‘the business of business’. If Donald is publicly revealing a distance between him and the jew lobby that will choose the president, don’t quickly fall for the possible charade, for it just may be playing out to try to convince skeptics like me that still believe he is as devoted to the jew vote buying as is Rubio, Cruz, and Huckabee. Remember, Huckabee made a viable stab at being president, and the jews let him know early that they would pick the president, just as they do the head of the Fed, and anyone that doesn’t kowtow to their song gets a negative picture posted on the face of the media. If the jews don’t get more negatively vocal about The Donald, then you can bet your bippy that his rebuke of them publicly is a charade, and a scam. Be alert.
No need to assassinate him as he won’t win – remember those electronic voting machines that can be hacked?
A few states here, a few states there, so as it does not look obvious and he looses.
If anything, it exposes how completely the Jews own the electoral process in America.
I’d also have to add: I agree with Mark. Trump’s mentioning of “celebrating Muslims” was a calculated, off-the-bank, three-ball pool shot to sink the “Dancing Israelis” in the corner pocket.
Wouldn’t read much into this – I see no great white hope or savior here – Trump is a money junkie and jewish capitalist whore shill through and through. Trump in high office would be business as usual – guaranteed
ed note–the point here was not to indicate some hope or savior, but rather as a follow up to what has bee discussed here as of late, that the Jews will not allow Trump to become prez because he is independently wealthy and too independent-minded for their liking.
Just great theatre, more great theatre from The Donald. But it DOES perfectly snub those who are so used to having their star of David tattooed bottoms kissed by politicians.
To be honest, I would LOVE to hear Trump at an AIPAC Jewish-ass-kissing session like the others in elections before that were so terribly nauseating. The politicians all try to sound more Jewish than the next….
He won’t become Pres and he is throwing it back at them. Methinks Putin and Trump could work very well at straightening things out in Syria….
#6 Alan you hit it dead on!
That’s exactly what’s wrong with America
And why people are beginning to hate you. including me your as guilty as your murdering zionist friends of the murder of the Palestinian people you support terrorism for your good friends the zionist regime of Israel.
We give Israel 11 million per DAY. I say we demand their unconditional commitment and respect. Otherwise they can kiss our ass. Why is it so damn important for us to side with Israel? They are just as corrupt as the u.s. government. If i had the funds i would run for president. Stop ALLLL foreign aid, bring home ALLLLL troops, secure our borders with fleets of ships and jets a DAMN WALL in the south. Put the corrupt banker in prison, ABOLISH the IRS, Charge everyone currently in vongress who broke their oath and imprision them INCLUDING the current clown in the white house. No more sending our children to fight in a fake war that we started. No more invading countries, no more policing the world. Drill our own oil, tree huggers can kiss my ass.
The 11 million/day that the US give to israel is not an aid: in Ancient History, it used to be called a tribute, i.e. a payment made by one country to another as a sign of dependence and submission.
They changed the ‘name’, they sugar coated it so that the people do not see it for what it really is.
When we realize that what are giving them is a tribute, we then understand why da joos/israel feel they owe us no commitment nor respect but only further hatred, disgust and contempt.
Donald Trump is insulting every body but he is independent and he does not need the Jewish money. That t is why the Jews hate him so much. The Jews want some one like Obunga who is docile and does any thing for the Zionist elite of criminals.
TRUST BUT VERIFY, WAS REGANS FAMOUS WORDS, FOR AS LONG AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT GIVE THEIR WEAPONS OF SELF DEFENCE, AMERICA WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE LARGEST STANDING ARMY IN THE WORLD.
HOWEVER IT IS IMOPORTANT VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW YOUR ENEMY OTHERWISE THE NON JEW STANDING ARMY WILL END UP DESTROYING ITSELF WHILE THE REAL ENEMY FLECE THE COOP.