President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has come under fire for comments he made during the presidential election about J Street, who he described as “worse than Kapos.”
Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat slammed David Friedman, President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for Ambassador to Israel, in a conference call organized by the Wilson Center on Monday.
David Friedman, the man President-elect Donald Trump just selected to be the next United States Ambassador to Israel, has pre-offended a good chunk of American Jewry by referring to the supporters of the liberal Zionist group J Street as “kapos.”
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced the nomination of David Friedman, a New York attorney and a darling of the Israeli right, as the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a top Jewish surrogate, David Friedman, to be ambassador to Israel, with a statement saying Friedman will serve from Jerusalem and describing the city as “Israel’s eternal capital.’
Ahead of the much anticipated vice presidential announcement, Donald Trump on Thursday announced the formation of an “Israel Advisory Committee,” which will analyze U.S. policy on Israel and offer recommendations on alternative solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Republican Party platform will likely reject the idea of a two-state solution, a pillar of U.S. policy under both previous Democratic and Republican administrations, according to a platform draft pending the approval of the Republican Party’s Platform Committee.
Donald Trump, if elected as president in the fall, would likely support Israeli annexation of large settlement blocs in the West Bank if the stalemate in the peace process persists, Trump’s Israel adviser David Friedman told Jewish Insider on Thursday.
Donald Trump would retreat from the longstanding American commitment to establish a Palestinian state if elected president, an adviser to the Republican candidate said.\n\n
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