Trump: Negotiations with Israel
There were a few brief moments of sanity scattered throughout the debate, but they were so short that they could easily be missed. Trump defended his “neutrality” rhetoric about Israel-Palestine while touting his “pro-Israel” credentials, and actually made sense about how negotiations work:
As president, however, there’s nothing that I would rather do to bring peace to Israel and its neighbors generally. And I think it serves no purpose to say that you have a good guy and a bad guy.
Now, I may not be successful in doing it. It’s probably the toughest negotiation anywhere in the world of any kind. OK? But it doesn’t help if I start saying, “I am very pro-Israel, very pro, more than anybody on this stage.” But it doesn’t do any good to start demeaning the neighbors, because I would love to do something with regard to negotiating peace, finally, for Israel and for their neighbors.
And I can’t do that as well — as a negotiator, I cannot do that as well if I’m taking big, big sides.