Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:16 PM Sep 2016

Trump: Israel will be destroyed unless I’m elected

Source: Newsweek Magazine

NEWSWEEK
07 SEP 2016 AT 09:50 ET

Republican nominee Donald Trump said Monday that if he is not elected as the U.S. president Israel would cease to exist as a country because of the Iranian nuclear deal.

Trump told labor leaders in Cleveland on Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch that the deal to slow down Iran’s nuclear programme in return for the lifting of a crippling international sanctions regime on the Islamic Republic’s economy “is going to destroy Israel—unless I get elected.” He added: “Then Israel will be just fine.”

Iran’s conservative religious leadership has routinely called for Israel’s destruction and the chief of Israel’s foreign intelligence service, Mossad, has said that the nuclear deal will increase the threat that Israel faces.

Israeli officials view that Iran’s extra revenue from the lifting of sanctions, estimated to be in the billions, will inevitably be used to fund groups opposed to Israel, such as Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Palestinian militant group Hamas.

-snip-



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/trump-israel-will-be-destroyed-unless-im-elected/

19 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Trump: Israel will be destroyed unless I’m elected (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
"Trump Threatens Jews With Death and Destruction" Democat Sep 2016 #1
Yup! 2naSalit Sep 2016 #2
"I". "Me" . . . . . Iliyah Sep 2016 #3
The deal w/Iran makes it impossible for them to ever build a nuclear weapon Botany Sep 2016 #4
To be fair, not "impossible", just a violation of the "deal". Whiskeytide Sep 2016 #15
No the deal makes it all but impossible to make the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb Botany Sep 2016 #17
Drama queen Don the Con certainly is getting melodramatic, isn't he? catbyte Sep 2016 #5
I thought he was the only one who can save America? sinkingfeeling Sep 2016 #6
In the OED, they are going to change "pandering" to a picture of Trump (nt) apnu Sep 2016 #7
"It's a really nice place you've got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it.".... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #8
A person has to be a special kind of moron C_U_L8R Sep 2016 #9
the entire planet will suffer greatly if the Dumspter somehow cheats his way into office. olddad56 Sep 2016 #10
Yeah, those Clintons are real anti-Semites..... (that was sarcasm, people!!!!) MADem Sep 2016 #11
Unfortunately, Trump's rhetoric works with some older Jewish voters DavidDvorkin Sep 2016 #18
This guy sounds more like the anti-christ every day. DawgHouse Sep 2016 #12
what a Republican FOOL. Iran knows they will be FLATTENED into DUST if they lash out at ANY country Sunlei Sep 2016 #13
I wonder Grimelle Sep 2016 #14
Every GOP candidate has been saying this for many years. PSPS Sep 2016 #16
Negative Nancy. truthisfreedom Sep 2016 #19

Botany

(70,506 posts)
4. The deal w/Iran makes it impossible for them to ever build a nuclear weapon
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:32 PM
Sep 2016


This is the man who got the nuts and bolts of the deal done.

Sec. Moniz .... if he isn't the best in the world @ this stuff then the list of people who
are as good or better is pretty damn small.

From wiki

Early life and education[edit]
Moniz was born in 1944 in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Georgina (Pavão) Moniz and Ernest Perry Moniz, both of whose parents were Portuguese immigrants from São Miguel Island, Azores.[5] He graduated from Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1962, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and was the president of the school's math club.[6] Moniz attended Boston College, where he received his Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in physics. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford University in 1972.[7][8]

Career[edit]
Moniz joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973, serving as Head of the Department of Physics from 1991 to 1995 and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center.[9] He also co-chairs the MIT research council. He served in the Clinton administration as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President from 1995 to 1997.[10] Moniz also worked in the United States Department of Energy, serving as Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001.[11] Moniz is also one of the founding members of The Cyprus Institute, wherein he and other scholars undertook the coordination, research and planning of the project. In 2013, he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid as a recognition of his research on energy policies and technologies.[12]

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
15. To be fair, not "impossible", just a violation of the "deal".
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 02:53 PM
Sep 2016

We would be foolish to assume Iran doesn't have their own versions of idiot psychos like Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al., who infest their government bureaucracy and will never give up their desires to join the nuclear club. You just can't dangle that level of power in front of world leaders and not expect them to keep reaching for it - no matter how many times their hand is slapped.

Don't get me wrong. I support the agreement and the lifting of the sanctions - any effort to engage the people, I think, is good. And I respect Moniz ans the others who made it happen. But the instability of that region means we can only assume things to a reasonably foreseeable but still quite uncertain extent. My personal opinion is that they will eventually get the weapons no matter what the rest of the world does.

Botany

(70,506 posts)
17. No the deal makes it all but impossible to make the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 05:04 PM
Sep 2016

And by the shear scale and nature of what it takes to process material into weapons grade
(highly enriched) material you can not do it and keep it secret. Both ways to make weapons
grade material are closed down to Iran now. ( either enriching uranium in centrifuges or by
making plutonium in a breeder reactor) The agreement gives the IAEA full access to every place
in Iran and because we are talking about radioactive materials you can't hide what you have been
doing.

Now they might buy some bomb grade material on the blackmarket but that would be enough for only one or two
bombs and using them would be suicide ..... besides Israel tends to kill any engineer or physicist who gets
anywhere close to making a bomb in Iran.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
8. "It's a really nice place you've got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it."....
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:52 PM
Sep 2016

"Hey, fires happen, ya know."

olddad56

(5,732 posts)
10. the entire planet will suffer greatly if the Dumspter somehow cheats his way into office.
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 01:03 PM
Sep 2016

that should be obvious, even to the uneducated white males under 35 that make up his base.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
11. Yeah, those Clintons are real anti-Semites..... (that was sarcasm, people!!!!)
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 01:12 PM
Sep 2016
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/209353/bill-clinton-sports-hebrew-hillary-pin-at-democratic-national-convention

Check Bill's lapel....



Bill Clinton Sports Hebrew Hillary Pin at Democratic National Convention
The pin was a gift from officials at the National Jewish Democratic Council, who never expected him to wear it

DavidDvorkin

(19,477 posts)
18. Unfortunately, Trump's rhetoric works with some older Jewish voters
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 05:20 PM
Sep 2016

My parents were convinced that Jimmy Carter was anti-semitic and anti-Israel, so they supported Reagan. In 2000, my father told me he supported Bush, using the same logic. Same thing again in 2008. If he were still alive, he'd be supporting Trump for the same reason.

Fortunately, I think people like my father are a small and diminishing part of American Jewry. Or maybe not, given that the Haredim align with the Republican right wing and are a growing percentage of the US Jewish population.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
13. what a Republican FOOL. Iran knows they will be FLATTENED into DUST if they lash out at ANY country
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 02:03 PM
Sep 2016

Jordan and Egypt wouldn't be such shitholes today if they didn't attack Israel not to many decades ago.


Iran has even less 'friends', Russia? what a good buddie Russia is. When they're done helping Assad exterminate its citizens perhaps Russia will invade and take over Irans seaport.

Latest Discussions»Latest Breaking News»Trump: Israel will be des...