2024-07-27 03:47:59
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump confirmed this Friday that there will be a “big war” in the Middle East and, potentially, a “Third World War” if he does not win the presidential elections next November.
The former president (2017-2021) held a meeting this Friday with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, at his vacation home in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), a day after the Israeli leader met separately with the US President, Joe Biden, and the Vice President, Kamala Harris, at the White House.
“If we win (the election), it will be very easy. Everything will be solved and quickly,” Trump told reporters at the beginning of the meeting.
But, he warned, if he doesn’t get to the White House, “we’ll end up with major wars in the Middle East and maybe World War III.”
“We are closer to World War III now than at any other time since World War II. We have never been so close, because we have people who do not know the value of our country,” the former president warned.
This afternoon Trump received the President of Israel with a close gesture at the entrance of his mansion and the two greeted each other by shaking hands firmly, and then entered, as noted in the video published on social networks by members of the previous presidential campaign.
At the meeting, the former president expressed his solidarity with Israel after the “deadly attack” of October 7, 2023 and promised that, “when he returns to the White House” he will do everything possible to peace to the Middle East” and preventing “anti-Semitism spreading across American college campuses.”
After receiving the Prime Minister of Israel and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, the two entered the palace to hold a meeting held behind closed doors.
“No president has done what I’ve done for Israel,” Trump said during what appeared to be the end of the lunch, according to a video posted on social media.
Netanyahu, for his part, thanked Trump for the work done to “promote stability in the region through, among many historical achievements, the Abraham Accords or the transfer of the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,” according to the eye The former president’s campaign website. .
He also thanked him for “the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty of the Golan Heights, the elimination of Qasem Soleimani (former general and head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards)” and the end of the “terrible nuclear deal with Iran.”
Netanyahu traveled to Washington this week to address Congress and urge elected officials to continue US support for Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
The Israeli leader arrived in Florida from Washington, where he gave a speech on Wednesday in Congress and on Thursday he held a meeting with Biden and the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who warned Netanyahu that he “will not be silent.” in the face of human suffering in Gaza.
“I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu that it is time for the deal to be done. So for everyone who has been calling for an end and longing for peace, I see you and I hear you. Let’s make the deal to take a break.” fire and end the war,” Harris told reporters at the end of the meeting.
Regarding Harris’ comments to reporters this Thursday after his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump told CNN at Mar-a-Lago this Friday that they “are disrespectful to Israel.”
“I think his words (Harris) are disrespectful. They are not very good about Israel. I don’t know how a Jew can vote for him, but this is his business,” the President said.
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