politics that he s applying to immigration, that he s applying to policing and gun issues, and decided to make these members of congress, who have been his foils for this racist rhetoric of his, part of the story in the u.s./israel relationship. israel had made a decision a month ago to allow them to visit israel, even though they hold views that are critical of israel, views i strongly disz agree with, by the way, supporting sanctions and divestments of israel. they made a decision any member of congress should visit because of the strong relationship they have with this country and both parties. and then he decided to throw that relationship into the morasse of his racist politics. the prcime minister of israel i a desperate reelection battle advertises this close relationship with president trump as his main asset decided he had to go along with it. ambassador burns, the president seems to use the power of his office to keep
see her now. ooh. that s getting personal. in way president trump must have said or thought he was saying to bibi, bibi, there is this group over here called the squad. i want to run against them. i really don t care what damage i do to the long-term u.s./israel relationship, i got tlaib, i got omar, i got the others, i m going run against them, and donald trump, if he said once at the rally in new hampshire the other night that the squad is the new face of the democratic party, he said it a dozen times. okay, let s talk politics. that s trump. let s talk about the big part of this. he has done what he wants to do. trump wants to make tlaib and omar, you know, and aoc, he wants them to be the democratic party. he has picked this fight. was this strategic? he does. he does pick this fight. he doesn t fight pelosi, looks grown up. he did this on purpose in terms of it s exactly what he wants. in the big picture, i think he has always done it s an us against them. we ve talk
did he. ron dermer is the ambassador to israel and very close to the prime minister of. he was his chief of staff and sent by here, the most sensitive diplomatic post for an israeli to occupy. he said a week or two ago look, we re going to welcome them. they re members of congress. it s important for us to do that. what happened? i don t think it was just a tweet. netanyahu is a very tough and savvy politician. if he watches trump, he s gotten along well with trump, too well in my opinion and hurt in the sense by being excessively solicitous of trump. he depends on the u.s./israel relationship. he can see a tweet and could also say my hands are tied. we have a long tradition. i disapprove of these people. i m not going to meet them personally but they can come like anyone else can come to israel unless they re going to cause daniel which there s no evidence was going to be the
that au members come. and saying as you said, there may be good faith or strong disagreements about the underlying policy but there s something you don t see every day which is kevin mccar i think saying the squad can still come. today it s all been inverted. bill kristol, is this a story about foreign policy or is this a story about donald trump? i think it s very unfortunate that the prime minister of israel buckled to donald trump. there are israeli members of the zril knesset. a lot of their views are not that different from these representatives. israel has a long tradition of welcoming such people when they don t agree with particular policies or what hostile to the state as a whole. i m not saying whether these people are or not. it s an unfortunate thing for israel and the u.s./israel relationship. i think netanyahu in my opinion shouldn t have buckled. the interesting question is why
this particular strategic point and continue to engage in discussions together. certainly, there should be no doubt under prime minister netanyahu and president trump, the united states/israel relationship has never been stronger. it takes strong leaders to make commitments in perilous times. the ous has recognized the capital and recognized the sovereignty and brought military cooperation between the two countries to new levels. these are not rhetoric but concrete realities. i m sure there will be more to come. prime minister netanyahu with president trump and putin speak