{"id":390696,"date":"2018-12-27T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/donald-trump-is-bad-for-israel-hopefully-our-president-will-reverse-his-decision\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:15:30","slug":"donald-trump-is-bad-for-israel-hopefully-our-president-will-reverse-his-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/donald-trump-is-bad-for-israel-hopefully-our-president-will-reverse-his-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Donald Trump Is Bad For Israel\u2026 Hopefully Our President Will Reverse His Decision\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Menahan<\/strong>
Information Liberation<\/a>
December 27, 2018 <\/p>\n

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Failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday on Twitter that he hopes President Trump will \u201creverse his decision to abandon Syria\u201d because it\u2019s \u201cbad for Israel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump Is Bad for Israel via @NYTimes<\/a>. Hopefully our President will reverse his decision to abandon Syria. https:\/\/t.co\/nrZbhpV5Zj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He linked to an article from the New York Times by neocon Bret Stephens which said \u201cthat the ultimate long-term threat to Israel is the resurgence of isolationism in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Israel most needs from the U.S. today is what it needed at its birth in 1948: an America committed to defending the liberal-international order against totalitarian enemies, as opposed to one that conducts a purely transactional foreign policy based on the needs of the moment or the whims of a president.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stephens said the idea \u201cneoconservatives always put Israel first\u201d is an \u201cinvidious myth\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Contrary to\u00a0the invidious myth<\/a>\u00a0that neoconservatives always put Israel first, the reasons for staying in Syria have everything to do with core U.S. interests. Among them: Keeping ISIS beaten, keeping faith with the Kurds, maintaining leverage in Syria and preventing Russia and Iran from consolidating their grip on the Levant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

President Trump said Wednesday that we give Israel billions of dollars every year and they can defend themselves.<\/p>\n

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Trump: We give Israel billions, it can defend itself in Syria https:\/\/t.co\/o1iqVDKHsi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From the\u00a0Times of Israel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Speaking with reporters, Trump was asked about criticism that the move could put Israel in jeopardy by allowing Iran to expand its foothold in Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t see it. I spoke with Bibi,\u201d he said, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. \u201cI told Bibi. And, you know,…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Chris MenahanInformation LiberationDecember 27, 2018 Failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday on Twitter that he hopes President Trump will \u201creverse his decision to abandon Syria\u201d because it\u2019s \u201cbad for Israel.\u201d Donald Trump Is Bad for Israel via @NYTimes. Hopefully our President will reverse his decision to abandon Syria. https:\/\/t.co\/nrZbhpV5Zj \u2014 Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}