Former President Donald Trump criticized Israel’s decision to visually publicize its ongoing war in the Gaza Strip in an interview on Sunday, March 24.
“I think Israel made a very big mistake,” he said in an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom at Mar-a-Lago. “I wanted to call [Israel] and say don’t do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, ‘Oh, that’s a terrible portrait.’
“It’s a very bad picture for the world. The world is seeing this … every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people. It would say it was given by the Defense Ministry, and said whoever’s providing that, that’s a bad image.”
His interviewers said that Hamas terrorists were in those buildings, and President Trump said, “Go and do what you have to do,” but advised not showing it, arguing that the broadcasting is one of the reasons why there’s been “a lot of kickback.”
“I think Israel wanted to show that it’s tough, but sometimes you shouldn’t be doing that,” he said.
He also warned the Israeli journalists that their country needed “to finish up your war.”
“Israel has to be very careful, because you’re losing a lot of the world, you’re losing a lot of support. You have to finish up, you have to get the job done,” he said. “And you have to get on to peace, to get on to a normal life for Israel and for everybody else.”
But the former President voiced overall support for Israel’s campaign.
“I would say I would act very much the same way as you did,” he said when asked what he would have done if it was his children and grandchildren who were kidnapped by Hamas and underwent the atrocities of Oct. 7. “You would have to be crazy not to. Only a fool would not do that. That was a horrible attack.”
Trump Blames Biden for Oct. 7
Former President Trump also blamed President Joe Biden for the attack last fall, calling his successor “a very dumb person” and saying that Hamas has no respect for him.
“If you look at people that were in other administrations with him, they saw him as a weak, ineffective president, they [Hamas] would have never done that attack if I were there,” he said.
Along with commanding respect, President Trump said Israel would have never have been attacked if he were still president of the United States because when he did occupy the Oval Office, “Iran was broke,” and he made sure China and 47 other nations couldn’t buy oil from Iran by threatening to tariff every single product and cease doing business with them.
“They had no money for Hamas,” he said. “They had no money for Hezbollah. They had no money for anybody. And now they’re sitting with $221 billion in cash, and they control Iraq, which has $300 billion in cash.”
He also criticized other American politicians like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) (D-N.Y.) for speaking out against Israel and calling for its people to vote out the current government. He noted that Israel used to have “the strongest lobby” in Washington, D.C., and now, it’s the complete opposite.
“You have AOC plus three plus plenty of others,” he said. “And all they do is talk badly about Israel, and they hate Israel, and they hate the Jewish people. And they are open about it. Take a look at some of these, Rashida Tlaib, what she says, the way she talks, and they truly hate the Jewish people.”
In contrast, President Trump touted his record on Israel, saying he was “the best president in history by a factor of 10 to Israel.”
Previous actions he specifically mentioned included bringing the Abraham Accords to fruition, recognizing the Golan Heights as Israel’s territory, and moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
He also said that when Iran wanted to make a deal with him, he said that 90 percent of the deal would have been that the country did not get a nuclear weapon.
“Iran is 35 days away from having a nuclear weapon because of the incompetence of Biden; he is an incompetent president,” he added. “He’s the worst president our country’s ever had. And it’s so sad when I see what’s happening in Israel and Ukraine and other places.”
While President Trump said he did not think it was appropriate for him to tell Israel what to do, he said that Israel cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
I disagree,,,these are not self-incriminating selfies of a guilty Hunter in bed with illegally traffic’s hookers, but justified incriminating video’d acts on others in repayment with interest of the illegal rapes and murders of tens of hundreds of innocent Israeli’s civilians, in a reality check for all those who terrorize others that in today’s modern warfare, more civilian casualties will result than military, just like in WWII and Ukraine, so when considering sowing the wind on others may reap the whirlwind upon your own people. If your hate for your own enemy exceeds the love of your own children, you as a human culture in the family tree of man deserve to be pruned then thrown into the fire that awaits all who resort to evil applied to innocent people who just want to live in peace, and enjoy the prosperity of turning middle east desserts into gardens of Eden,,,not Muslim hating gardens of evil. Abraham, the father of both nations must be spinning in his grave remembering God’s words of “Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated” ringing in his ears,,, the Genesis and fulfillment of much that today is revealed.
AND You can bet, had they NOT FILMED IT, the left would be accusing them “WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE HERE!”??
Strong man tactics? Not so sure it’s best approach. Maneuvering with threats usually don’t work. We would probably be more secure using equality as a central theme. Moves by 1945 Allied forces is what landed us here in the first place. We’re going to eventually have to address that head on. God loves ALL of us. Some instances in the Bible hate refers to simply mean “disapprove of” or “do not endorse method”. God made a great nation out of both sons.
“Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated.” God never did create us to be equal, just equally important different designed partts of the functioning Body of Christ that all have to work together,,,Some the Head (Not Biden) some the heart ( not MSM),,,some the part of the back side designed to remove the waste and the foul smelling people who prefer to live in the inner city swamps, not the American Garden of Eden (Big Apple peoplez), When these backside designed parts defy their original designs and all try to be the brains, things get backed up and painful in society rather quickly. Success in life is to discover the purpose in the Body of Christ that God designed you to be, not be a pooper of a president, but a remover of the corruption that is within the body,,,starting with the Democrats now corrupting our body politic. Many think Trump to be an ******, butt thank God he knows how to get his designed job done to clean up the mess that the confused Democrat deranged brains have created.
James Madison addressed the different Faculities of Man and more recently John F. Kennedy Vs Robert F. Kennedy, said this,” Where Civil-Rights Opponents went Off the Rails Was when They ( Justly ) demande Equall Rights to ( Unjustly,) demanding Equal outcome.”
I’m glad I read this because I’ve seen statements claiming that Pres Trump was advising Netanyahu not to do the bombing whereas he was advising him to not publicize the actions.
He’s probably right because Israel is getting slammed by the numbskulls out there.
It’s a case where no matter what you do, you will be criticized.
When i see situations like that i say fine, SINCE TO YOU numbskulls in the media, i am gonna be DAMNED either way, FINE I WILL DO IT THEN, and MAYBE tell you about it later.