Former President Donald Trump has blasted President Joe Biden’s policy on Israel, saying Biden and Democrats are “very bad for Israel.”
“They’re very bad for Israel. The Democrats are very bad for Israel,” Trump said on “MediaBuzz” Sunday. “Israel sticks with them. I guess Israel’s loyal maybe to a fault, because they stick with these guys. Biden is so bad for Israel. They should have never been attacked.”
He added:
“If Biden were good to Israel, they wouldn’t have been attacked.”
In the beginning, Biden wholeheartedly supported Israel, but after the State of the Union, Biden said — on a hot mic — he and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were going to have a “come to Jesus moment.”
“What’s happening is [Netanyahu] has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas, but he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken,” Biden told MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart, explaining the nature of his comment.
“He’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel,” he continued, adding that it was “contrary to what Israel stands for. I think it’s a big mistake and I want to see a cease-fire,” Biden told Capehart, Fox News reported.
Biden is one of many Democrats who have reversed their thoughts on Israel and its ongoing war with Hamas.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said recently that Netanyahu should be replaced “in order to move towards a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians in the form of a two-state solution,” Fox News reported.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said.
Trump took issue with Schumer’s remarks.
“He just said essentially that Bibi Netanyahu should take a walk,” Trump said.
“[Israel] lost a lot of people on Oct. 7, too. People have to remember that. I think maybe [Schumer’s] forgotten it. He doesn’t forget it. He looks at where do I get more votes? And I guess he’s seeing the Palestinians and he’s seeing the marches, and they are big. And he says, ‘I want to go that way instead of Israel,’” Trump said.
“All of a sudden, [Schumer] dumped Israel. That’s what he’s doing. He dumped Israel.”
President Biden on Friday seemed to lean towards Schumer’s way of thinking.
“Senator Schumer contacted my staff, my senior staff. I’m not going to elaborate on the speech. He made a good speech, and I think he expressed a serious concern, shared not only by him but by many Americans.”
But Trump views the matter differently.
“If he were supportive of Israel, the Iran nuclear deal would have never been signed and Israel would have never been attacked,” Trump said, per Fox News.
