Donald Trump in PBS Newshour
On Foreign Policy:
Support goals of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
As president, Trump has: - reversed U.S. policy and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel seized from Syria after the Six-Day War of 1967.
- recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved the
U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv.,
- eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians and closed their representative office in Washington.
- ended the decades-long U.S. practice of opposing Israeli settlement activity in the
West Bank in what would be the core of a future Palestinian state.
- withdrawn from the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had fiercely opposed, and re-imposed stringent new sanctions on the country that
Israel regards as an existential threat.
- pulled the U.S. out of several U.N. organizations, the U.N. Human Rights Council and UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias in their agendas.
Source: PBS Newshour, "Jewish voters," on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Apr 6, 2019
On Immigration:
Use threat of tariffs to get Mexico's cooperation
Mexico has been absolutely terrific for the last four days. They're apprehending everybody. Yesterday, they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before, it was 1,000. If they continue that, everything will be fine.
If they don't, we're going to tariff their cars at 25 percent.The system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it's asylum, whether it's anything you want, it's illegal immigration, can't take you anymore.
Source: PBS Newshour "System is full," on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Apr 5, 2019
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