“Nobody’s done what I’ve done for Israel,” Donald Trump declared at a rally in Georgia when asked how he intends to support Israel if he is re-elected president.
He pointed to his administration moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a controversial move to recognise it fully as Israel’s capital, as well as recognising Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and negotiating the Abraham Accords, which normalised relations between Israel and four Arab countries for the first time.
But the biggest policy in support of Israel, Mr Trump said, was withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran – a deal current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ardently against.
Mr Trump went on to say that if he wins the White House again, his administration will “take care of Israel” – and then joked he’d get 97% of the vote if he ran to be prime minister there.
“We’re going to do a lot for Israel, we’re behind them. The big thing – we want to have peace in the Middle East,” he said.
He added “Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] called me yesterday, he called me the day before, and we have a very good relationship,” Mr Trump claimed.
The former president also said that he will also resolve the war in Ukraine after Putin’s illegal invasion.