Trump tells campaign event, ‘e’re going to make Israel great again’
The former US president spoke at length about the relationship between the United States and Israel at an event hosted by his campaign for the November 2024 presidential election on Thursday.
“We’re going to make Israel great again,” Trump said, adding that he’s the “most popular person in Israel” and “could run for Prime Minister”.
“Would you like me as your prime minister?” he asked the crowd at the event in Washington, DC.
Trump also spoke about his record of supporting Israel during his presidency, including the US recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights.
He also said he had been told the “best thing” he had done for Israel was terminating the Iran nuclear deal, describing the 2015 agreement as “the worst deal ever made for Israel”.
Rashida Tlaib submits names of children killed in Gaza into US Congressional record
Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib has submitted the names of children killed in Gaza, taken from a 649-page list, recently published by Gaza’s Ministry of Health, into the record of the US Congress.
“The first 14 pages alone are names of babies [who] were under the age of one when they were killed,” said Tlaib, who is the only Palestinian American member of Congress.
“That’s 710 babies that the Israeli government has murdered,” she added. “I wish my colleagues would look at it.”
Murdered with US tax payer money
Taiwanese authorities question head of pager firm linked to Lebanon blasts
Authorities questioned the founder of Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese firm linked to pagers that detonated across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, in an apparent Israeli espionage operation targeting Hezbollah members.
Hsu Ching-kuang declined to answer questions as he left the Taipei offices of Taiwan’s prosecutors on Thursday evening. He told reporters earlier this week Gold Apollo did not produce the pagers in question, and they were made by Hungarian firm BAC that had licensed its design and branding.
A second person seen leaving the prosecutors office on Thursday was Teresa Wu, the only employee at a company called Apollo Systems Ltd who Hsu said earlier this week had been one of his points of contact for the deal with BAC.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that BAC was part of a network of Israeli shell companies created to obfuscate links to Israeli intelligence.
Taiwanese authorities have not issued a statement yet regarding their investigation into Gold Apollo.
Device attacks show Israel trying ‘to regain deterrence capacity’ – Analysis
Greg Stoker, a former US army ranger commando, and now an analyst with MintPress News, says despite the pager and walkie-talkie blasts in Lebanon, he doesn’t see the security situation in northern Israel changing dramatically.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said Israel is “losing time to exploit this attack”.
“The fact they haven’t made a move is typical of a flashy operation. They do a massive information push to make it seem like a bigger victory than it is,” Stoker told Al Jazeera. “From a strategic sense, this is a flagging war.”
