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In reply to birdseye
Trump says Israel needs to ‘finish what they started’
Former President Donald Trump said that Israel needs to
“finish what they started” and “get it over with fast,” as he continued arguing Israel was “losing the PR war” because of the visuals coming out of Gaza.
“You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show that aired Thursday.
Times of Israel
Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.
Washington Post
The former president has promised peace in the Middle East but also told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October to
“do what you have to do.”
Palestinians there fear Trump will now greenlight plans to expel them from the strip.During Trump’s first presidential term from 2017 to 2021, he adopted measures that harmed Palestinians in the occupied territory and surrounding region.Trump in 2019 recognised Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s occupied Golan Heights, contravening international law.