Listen as Larry spoke with Caroline Glick, senior contributing editor of The JPost, regarding President Trump’s visit to Israel.
Glick compared and contrasted Trump’s visit to Israel to that of President Obama’s:
Glick: And the other thing that I thought was very important was that he [Trump] really did take it to the Arab and Muslim leaders that were in the room with him. He didn’t shy away from discussing Islamic terrorism, radicalism and extremism. He told them that they had to ‘deal with it’ and that this was something that they had to denounce, drive out of their land. And that was a very powerful message that he gave to them. And again a striking departure from President Obama’s positions and his statements as President and his policies as President. The flies in the ointment from the Israel perspective is that he followed the practice of his predecessors, the odious practice of his predecessors of not listing Israel as an ally in the war against Islamic terrorism. And in not listing Israel as a country that has suffered the scourge of Islamic terrorism. And in both these cases, I think that these are aspects of American policy, that are not only the positions of Obama but also the positions of the American foreign policy establishment that has existed for over a generation. But there is something unique and in a way acceptable about a terrorist murder of Israelis by Palestine terrorist and others. Whereas every other act of terrorism worldwide or outside of Israel is fundamentally unacceptable. And so that was striking and it was distressing.
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