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Related: About this forumTYT: Trump Says Israel Doesn't Really Want Peace... Republicans Lose It
Is it possible for Donald Trump to jump the shark? We think so. At a recent speech for the Republican Jewish Coalition, he gave it his best shot. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"...But in recent days, Trump appeared to stray across an inviolable line in the modern GOP platform: a robust, if not unflinching, support for the State of Israel. In an interview with the AP on Wednesday, Trump seemed to lay the onus for securing a long-elusive peace agreement at the feet of the Israelis, and not the Palestinians.
I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to make it, Trump said, before explaining that his concerns predominantly reside with one side in particular. He then added:
A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal whether or not Israel's willing to sacrifice certain things. They may not be, and I understand that, and I'm OK with that. But then you're just not going to have a deal.
This is by no means a pro-Palestinian sentiment. If anything, its a rhetorical inversion of the frequent argument, especially among conservatives, that Israel has no viable negotiating partner on the Palestinian side and that it shouldnt be pressured to agree to a peace deal that would compromise its security concerns.*
Read more here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-gop-israel/418737/
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TYT: Trump Says Israel Doesn't Really Want Peace... Republicans Lose It (Original Post)
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Dec 2015
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Cenk gives a pretty good analysis here. R&K nt
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)2. First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. The reason he's vague on Jerusalem is because he doesn't KNOW about it.