TRUMP REJECTS MEDIA DEMANDS TO BASH ISRAEL

January 25, 2017

 

Daniel Greenfield

 

What a difference a few days makes.

So very recently a question like this would have led to a sanctimonious lecture about preserving the two-state solution. Now the response is so, so different.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265585/white-house-rejects-media-demands-bash-israel-daniel-greenfield

New US President Donald Trump “wants to grow closer with Israel and make sure that it gets the full respect that it deserves in the Middle East,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday.

In response to a question from a reporter about Israel’s approval on Tuesday of 2,500 new housing units in the West Bank, Spicer said, “Israel continues to be a huge ally of the United States…We’re going to have a meeting with [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and we will continue to discuss that.”

J Street is grinding its teeth somewhere. The "settlements", a discriminatory term referring to Jews living in Israel, had been an all-purpose excuse to bash Israel and justify Muslim terror. But now there's a fresh wind blowing through Foggy Bottom and the halls of the White House.