{"id":1369,"date":"2016-02-22T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T18:35:58","slug":"israelpalestine-what-would-a-president-%e2%80%aa%e2%80%8etrump%e2%80%ac-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Israel\/Palestine: What Would a President \u202a#\u200eTrump\u202c Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first in a special series on the presidential candidates on Palestine\/Israel on\u00a0Facebook, Sandy Tolan asks, “What Would a President\u00a0\u202a#\u200eTrump\u202c<\/a>\u00a0Do?”<\/p>\n

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How bad has it gotten when arguably the most \u201cprogressive\u201d presidential candidate on Palestine\/Israel \u2013 in either party \u2013 is the nativist who\u2019d ban Muslim visitors to the U.S., close American mosques, enter U.S. Muslims in a national database, and enshrine waterboarding as a national foreign policy pastime? Yep; pretty bad.<\/p>\n

But Donald #Trump\u2019s apparent declaration of neutrality to MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough last week is significant in its sharp contrast to the outpouring of love (of dollars) nearly every other candidate has slobbered all over Israel and its most Strangelovian defenders since the beginning of the 2016 race.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be sort of a neutral guy,\u201d Trump told the \u201cMorning Joe\u201d host. In most international conflicts, such a statement would be laudable if unsurprising, hardly worth a comment. But in the alternative reality that is our reality, such statements do not go unchallenged, especially from those fawning souls hungry for campaign dollars from pro-Israeli billionaire titans Sheldon\u00a0\u202a#\u200eAdelson\u202c<\/a>, Haim Saban, members of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and others.<\/p>\n

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In the first in a special series on the presidential candidates on Palestine\/Israel on\u00a0Facebook, Sandy Tolan asks, “What Would a President\u00a0\u202a#\u200eTrump\u202c\u00a0Do?” How bad has it gotten when arguably the most \u201cprogressive\u201d presidential candidate on Palestine\/Israel \u2013 in either party \u2013 is the nativist who\u2019d ban Muslim visitors to the U.S., close American mosques, enter U.S. more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}