TEL AVIV – As the Obama administration and Israel continue to negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding to govern military aid to the Jewish state, Donald Trump adviser David Friedman told an Israeli news channel on Wednesday that Israel would receive a better aid package under a future Trump presidency.
“Our view is that the aid package to Israel will certainly not go down, it in all likelihood will go up in a materiel amount because Israel must maintain a technological and military superiority within in the region,” Friedman told Israel’s Channel 2.
“I can’t give advice on how Israel should bargain and how it should develop its own strategy but certainly the Trump administration is not looking to cut back on foreign aid and will in all likely hood increase it significantly,” he stated.

Some have recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wait until after President Obama’s term in office expires to finalize the renewal of a 10-year defense package.

Friedman’s comments come on the same day Trump launched a blistering attack on Hillary Clinton’s foreign and domestic policies. Trump said Clinton’s actions as secretary of state “opened the Pandora’s box of radical Islam” even while she “refuses to acknowledge the threat posed by Radical Islam.”
In a televised address from his hotel in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, Trump strongly criticized Clinton’s policies while she was Secretary of State, including her leadership role in advocating for the U.S.-led NATO intervention in Libya.

Trump also spotlighted Clinton’s role in allegedly denying security requests to the fated U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, her support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and for the rebels targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and her involvement with the Iran nuclear deal.

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bogarde73 wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 1:44pm:


Really?  She "opened the Pandora’s box of radical Islam"?

What about the Bush, Republican administration's led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Bogarde73?

Didn't they have anything to do with "opening the Pandora's box of radical Islam"?   

Brian Ross wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 3:58pm:




WhatEVER are we to do with you, Brian?

Hmmm ... ?

Redmond Neck wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 4:06pm:


Turkey under Erdogan is hardly civilised, they are attacking and killing Kurdish Turks in Turkey with their military.

Erdogan said Assad must go for killing his own people, why has nobody said Erdogan should go for killing kurds and supporting the Islamic state

bogarde73 wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 4:32pm:


Nope.  There are others.

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IF they are citizens of Israel.  However, even then they are discouraged from voting by the ineffectualness of their voting for their candidates.   We have seen a steady drop over the last 30 years of Israeli Arab (and yes, there are Israeli Arabs) participation in the Israeli "democratic" process.  A process which has more to being determined by the minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews than anybody else.

Now, what is actually wrong with the Arabs voting, Bogarde, when they bother to vote, that is?

Personally, I believe the Israelis missed their chance to create a proper, multi-religious/multicultural state when they created Israel.   More to their shame and their regret.

bogarde73 wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 7:04pm:


Read the thread, Bogard73.   

Brian Ross wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2016 at 7:33pm:


Which are the other western style democracies in the Middle East?
Can you name one?