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| November 26, 2016
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Jerusalem Thrilled by Trump’s Appointment of Nikki Haley as UN Envoy

 

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick as US ambassador to the UN will be celebrated in Israel, and denounced in Iran.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel was among the first, and was certainly the most exuberant of UN member states to welcome US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the world body.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was selected for the position on Wednesday, and Israel Ambassador to the UN immediately hailed the decision.

Haley is a “longstanding and true friend of Israel,” wrote Danon in a statement that went on to note the governor’s “outspoken [fight] against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in her state and throughout the US.” Continue Reading »

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| November 22, 2016
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Knucklehead Hamas official: ‘Trump may be Jewish’

 

view videoWATCH Senior Hamas official in an interview with Al-Jazeera saying earlier this month, “Trump loves the Jews, and not only because he likes the Jewish religion.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar has suggested that US President-elect Donald Trump is secretly a Jew.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera earlier this month, translated by MEMRI,  Zahar said that “Trump loves the Jews, and not only because he likes the Jewish religion. I do not rule out the possibility that he is a Jew.

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| November 22, 2016
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Report: Trump credited in French postponement of Paris Peace Summit 

 

London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reports president-elect’s team sent a clear message to Paris that their planned summit is unacceptable at this time.
• Palestinians: “The clearly biased position of President-elect [Donald] Trump and his people in favor of Israel will make it difficult to reach a solution to the conflict.”

By Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The international peace summit seeking to reignite the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, scheduled to be held in Paris in December, will be postponed and possibly even cancelled due to the result of the U.S. presidential elections.

Netanyahu and Hollande hold joint press conference – Photo: Koby Gideon, GPO

The reason, according to a Sunday report in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, is that the elected administration opposes the summit, Israel’s objections to it notwithstanding. Continue Reading »

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| November 10, 2016
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WATCH: Trump aid says, ‘Jewish settlements are not seen as obstacle to peace’

 

view videoGreenblatt: US President-elect Donald Trump won’t impose a “peace process” on Jerusalem. “He thinks that Israel is in a very tough situation and needs to [do what it has to in order] to defend itself. He is not going to impose any solution on Israel. He thinks that the peace has to come from the parties themselves.”

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Jason Greenblatt, one of US President-elect Donald Trump’s close advisors, spoke with Army Radio this morning about Trump’s future stances with respect to the Jewish State.

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| November 10, 2016
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Hamas: ‘We hope that Trump will re-evaluate policy, rebalance it for Palestinians’

 

Palestinian Authority spokesperson urges Trump to work towards a “Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.”

By i24news

 

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s office on Wednesday called on US president-elect Donald Trump to work towards a Palestinian state, with peace efforts with Israel long at a standstill.

Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority - Screenshot PP YouTube

Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority – Screenshot/YouTube

“We are ready to deal with the elected president on the basis of a two-state solution and to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders,” spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP, referring to the year when Israel took control of the West Bank after the Six-Day War. Continue Reading »

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| November 3, 2016
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Trump wins over Clinton by 5% in Israeli absentee-voter exit poll

 

The research poll has the number of actual voters from Israel at 30,000, which is significantly lower than Israel’s voter turnout in 2012, which analysts suggest is because of who the candidates are this time.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

If American citizens in Israel were to choose the next president of the United States, Republican nominee Donald Trump would win the election, according to the results of an exit poll taken among absentee voters in Israel obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post.

An Israeli soldier walks past members of the US Republican party's election campaign team near a mall in Modi'in, Israel. - Photo: REUTERS

An Israeli soldier walks past members of the US Republican party’s election campaign team near a mall in Modi’in, Israel.

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| October 25, 2016
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2016: 120,000 Americans registered to vote in US elections from Israel

 

Media campaign to register absentee voters by Republican supporters in Israel contributed to about a 60% spike in registration of Israeli-American citizens, compared to 2012.

By Reut Hadar

 

The Republican campaign to register American voters in Israel has brought about a 60% rise in voter registration compared to 2012. According to party statistics, about 120,000 voters currently in Israel have registered to vote in the US presidential race, and some have already cast their ballots.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York, Sunday, September 25, 2016. - Photo: Israel's Gov't Press Office/Kobi Gideon

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York, Sunday, September 25, 2016. – Photo: Israel’s Gov’t Press Office/Kobi Gideon

In 2012, that number was about 75,000. Continue Reading »

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| October 6, 2016
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Interview: Trump believes Israel must decide its own future

view videoMarc Zell, the head of ‘Republicans in Israel’ condemns President Obama’s ‘smoke and mirrors’ dealings with Netanyahu, saying Trump will finally move U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

By Eliran Aharon

 

Following the vice presidential debate this Tuesday and days before the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Republicans in Israel chief Marc Zell spoke with Arutz Sheva regarding the upcoming election and its impact on the State of Israel.

Despite initial misgivings over Trump’s candidacy during the primary, Zell – who had previously backed Florida Senator Marco Rubio – says he’s come to respect the Republican nominee’s leadership skill and intuitive understanding of the American public. Continue Reading »

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| September 26, 2016
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Trump tells Netanyahu: Jerusalem is eternal capital of Jewish people

 

view videoDonald Trump spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to the two candidates’ first debate Monday, hinting of a possible move of the US embassy to Jerusalem, ‘the undivided capital of the State of Israel.’

By Associated Press

 

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be meeting separately with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday in sessions that could set the tone for relations between the allied countries during the next presidential administration.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: Kobi Gideon, Israel’s GPO

Trump met Sunday with Netanyahu for over an hour at his residence in Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Israeli and campaign officials. Continue Reading »

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| September 15, 2016
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Watch Interview: Trump won’t force a peace solution on Israel

 

view videoIn a TV10 news interview, David Friedman, Donald Trump’s adviser on Israel affairs, says a President Trump would support Israel and let Jerusalem decide how to solve its conflict with the Palestinian Authority.

Israel Channel 10 News

 

David Friedman, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s adviser on Israel affairs, said on Wednesday that if Trump is elected president, he will not try to force a solution on Israel with regards to its conflict with the Palestinian Authority (PA).

“He’s not for or against, per se, a two-state solution,” Friedman told Channel 10 News’s Tamar Ish Shalom in an interview.
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| July 15, 2016
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Trump’s GOP Becomes More Pro-Israel Than Ever

 

U.S. Republican Party updates its official policy platform, taking an unprecedented pro-Israel position including Jerusalem, as the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish State.

By Israel Today Staff

 

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the party’s platform is now more pro-Israel than it has ever been.

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Indeed, the Republican Party’s Platform Committee did make surprising policy changes that no previous candidate would or could have represented.

The new platform erases all reference to a “two-state solution” and utterly rejects “the false notion that Israel is an occupier.” It further states that Jerusalem is the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| July 10, 2016
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Muslim & Jewish coalition united to defend Donald Trump

 

Republican candidate’s controversial statements often make undertaking of bringing their diverse communities to support Trump more difficult, though change in discourse is now happening, says Sajid Tarar and Eve Stieglitz.

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – Over the course of his campaign, the discourse of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offended many groups in the United States: Hispanics, African-Americans, women, Jews and Muslims have all felt targeted at least once.

MEMBERS OF the National Diversity Coalition for Trump pose following a meeting in Washington last we

MEMBERS OF the National Diversity Coalition for Trump pose following a meeting in Washington last week. – Photo: Courtesy

Jewish groups came out against Donald Trump last week after he tweeted an image depicting Hillary Clinton against a backdrop of cash and a six-sided star, which he later said was meant to be a sheriff’s star. Continue Reading »

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| June 24, 2016
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Harretz: Trump admin wouldn’t oppose Israel annexing parts of West Bank

 

view videoA senior Trump campaign official: “I think there are parts of the West Bank that will stay part of Israel in any peace deal. I am sure he [Trump] wouldn’t have any problem with that at all,” besides, “Nobody really knows how many Palestinians actually live there.”

By i24news

 

A senior official in the Donald Trump campaign has said that if elected president, Trump would back Israel annexing portions of the West Bank, the Israeli daily Haaretz reports.

IDF forces hold position near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank – Photo: HAZEM BADER/AFP/FILE

In an interview with Haaretz, Trump’s co-adviser on Israeli affairs, David Friedman, addressed issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how the presumptive republican nominee would handle them if elected in November.

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| June 19, 2016
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Trump: ‘We need to start using common sense, do racial profiling like Israel.’

 

Trump tells CBS, “You look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully. And you know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense.”

By Reuters

 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling in law enforcement, after urging harsher policies following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando.

Israel Security staff question Israeli Arab family at Ben-Gurion Airport. – Photo: David Bachar

“I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said when asked on CBS whether he supported more profiling of Muslims in America.  Continue Reading »

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| June 10, 2016
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Trump condemns Tel Aviv terrorist attack, denounces “uncivilized world”

 

Trump characterized the American commitment to Israel’s security as “of paramount importance,” after condemning the actions of the “uncivilized world.”

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

Washington – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday condemned an attack on civilians in Tel Aviv as an act of terror backed by the “uncivilized world,” warning that as president, extremist militant organizations such as Hamas will find “no refuge” on his watch.

In a statement, Trump said he awaits details of the event, which involved at least three Palestinian perpetrators shooting nine Israeli civilians in a popular Tel Aviv market. Four victims have died. Continue Reading »

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