Trump To Republican Jewish Coalition: ‘You’re Not Going To Support Me Because

However, the audience did not offer any negative response when Trump told them, “You’re not gonna support me even though you know I’m the best thing that could ever happen to Israel”.

“I’m a negotiator like you, folks”, Trump said, adding, “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals?”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was forced to apologize to Adelson personally a year ago after using the term “occupied territories” while describing a trip to Israel.

– “I think you as business people will feel pretty good about this, and respect it”, he said, about how relatively little he was spending on his campaign.

As Trump observed, there were lots of press in the room, so he was burdened with the standard of having “to say something absolutely correct”.

“You just like me because my daughter happens to be Jewish”, Trump said in a joke at the beginning of his speech, referring to his daughter, Ivanka, who converted to Judaism to marry her husband, Jared Kushner. “I’m self-funding my campaign”. He also blamed the president for not doing more to stop the European Union from labeling products produced in land Israel seized in the 1967 war.

“Some of us renegotiate deals”, Trump explained. “And by the way, did you ever see a negotiation take so long?”

“Is there anybody that doesn’t negotiate deals in this room?”

Trump’s recent remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition are just one more demonstration of this reality – and Jews throughout America should take note, and be cautious.

The billionaire businessman said he wasn’t sure if the Israeli and Palestinian sides were willing to make the sacrifices necessary for a peace agreement.

“I don’t like to, as a dealmaker, give away a lot of cards by talking about how I deal with this event”, he said – a tactic that didn’t settle well with some attendees.

Trump drew loud boos from the audience as he refused to declare Israel was the undivided capital of Israel. “I want to wait until I meet with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu]”.

Cruz’s Republican opponents will also speak before the Republican Jewish Coalition throughout the day.

In the last presidential race, for example, Jews voted for President Obama over Mitt Romney by 69 percent to 30 percent. Ted Cruz, R-Texas pauses for a moment of silence for the shootings in California, before speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015.

Cruz said while details about the shooting in the wake of the Paris attacks were “still unclear”, it raised concerns of “radical Islamic terrorism here at home”.

This horrific murder underscores that we are in a time of war.

Trump drew mostly laughs.

“I am convinced that was a terrorist attack”. Israel is “singled out relentlessly” by global actors that seek to undermine the Jewish State, Rubio said, adding that President Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have a policy of “abandonment”.

He is now facing criticism for mispronoucing “Hamas” (like “HA-mus”, but you can listen for yourself at 03:38:43 here).

Trump sat down and shared his views on Israel in an AP Conversation – a series of extended interviews with the 2016 candidates to become the nation’s 45th president.

But there were many annoyed audience members.

And while those comments also faced scrutiny, the Anti-Defamation League, a leading hate speech and anti-Semitism watchdog, said Thursday in a statement that “we do not believe that it was Donald Trump’s intention to evoke anti-Semitic stereotypes”.