O’Rourke: Trump Turning Israel Into Partisan Issue

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Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the U.S.-Israel relationship into a partisan issue.

“Certainly the president is trying to [turn Israel into a partisan issue]; I don’t think he’ll be successful in that,” he told Haartez at the LGBTQ synagogue Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan. “Certainly Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu has tried to do that [with] the lack of respect that he showed to President [Barack] Obama, the partisan politics in which he’s participated here in the United States.”

“But we don’t have to accept that, and I don’t,” he added.

O’Rourke, who in April called Netanyahu “racist” in response to a campaign pledge to annex parts of Judea and Samaria if he were to win re-election that month, said that “I would do everything I could to work with Prime Minister Netanyahu if he is in power and if I am lucky enough to serve as president, and to support the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

However, he continued, “that is not mutually exclusive to ensuring that the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people is not compromised or undermined or ended all together, functionally and for all practical purposes, as an annexation would do.”

Additionally, O’Rourke reiterated his support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“It is the only way that I think you achieve those goals of human dignity and security, self-determination and the safety that people should be able to depend on in their day-to-day lives,” he said.

O’Rourke is one of 10 candidates who will be in the next Democratic presidential primary debate on Sept. 12.

(JNS)

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Maybe I should be used to it by now, but the lies and distortions in O’Rourke’s statement are infuriating. The “lack of respect” between then-President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu was a one-way street, with a constant stream of contempt, condescension and dismissiveness flowing from Obama to Netanyahu.

    As for Israel becoming a partisan issue? While the Democratic candidates are tripping all over each other to call Netanyahu a “racist” and condemn his policies and statements, how many of them have made so much as a single statement condemning the P.A. (Israel’s “moderate” “Peace Partner”) for its payment of bounties to the families of those who were killed or are imprisoned for perpetrating terrorist attacks against Jewish civilian targets? What condemnation is there for the lionization of those terrorists and the naming of schools, parks and public squares after the coldblooded murderers of children?

  2. “I don’t think he’ll be successful in that,” he told Haartez at the LGBTQ synagogue Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan.”

    Disgusting. Toaiva?! Synagogue?! That’s not a synagogue! Spitting kaviyachol on the Torah?!

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