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Clinton Blasts Trump

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ome of the loudest cheers for
Hillary Clinton’s speech at AIPAC
Monday came toward the end,
when she rounded on her Republican
rivals for the presidency and specifically
Donald Trump.
Political differences are nothing new,
Clinton allowed, but what America was
seeing this year “is something else entire-
ly: [a candidate] encouraging violence,
playing coy with white supremacists,
calling for 12 million immigrants to be
rounded up and deported, demanding we
turn away refugees because of their reli-
gion and proposing a ban on all Muslims
entering the United States.”
The former secretary of state urged, “if
you see bigotry, oppose it.” The audience
roared. “If you see violence,” she insisted,
“condemn it.” The applause grew louder.
“If you see a bully,” she demanded, “stand
up to him.” The Verizon Center fairly
trembled.
And rounding directly on the
Republican front-runner, she asserted
the need for “steady hands” in the White

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House, “not a president who says he’s neu-
tral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday and
who knows what on Wednesday because
everything is negotiable.”
Again, the applause in the stadium was
fierce and long. “Well, my friends,” she
said, “Israel’s security is non-negotiable
… America can’t ever be neutral when it
comes to Israel’s security or survival …
We can’t be neutral when civilians are
stabbed in the street.” And “anyone who
doesn’t understand that has no business
being our president.”
But if the candidate’s effective strategy
of distancing and differentiating herself
from Trump and the other Republican
challengers was unsurprising and bru-
tal, perhaps the more unexpected and
nuanced parts of her speech were those in
which she sought to distance and differen-
tiate herself from the Obama presidency
in which she once served.
Former secretary of state Clinton could
not completely disown the Iran nuclear
deal, which she supports. But she did her
best to assert a determination to ensure
that Iran holds to its terms or is heavily
punished for violations.

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Kasich Touts Jewish Ties

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n his AIPAC address, Ohio Governor
John Kasich touted his ties to the
Jewish community and called his
support for Israel “firm and unwavering
for more than 35 years of my professional
life.”
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu spoke in Congress about the
Iranian nuclear threat last year, Kasich said
he flew to Washington for the address.
Now that the Iran nuclear deal is in
place, Kasich has called for the suspen-

sion of U.S. participation in the deal due
to Iran’s recent ballistic missile test. If Iran
further violates the deal, he said, “We must
put the sanctions back on them.”
The governor called the current wave of
Palestinian terror in Israel “the outcome
of a culture of death that the Palestinian
Authority and its forebears have promoted
for over 50 years,” slamming Palestinian
school textbooks that are filled with “vile
anti-Semitism,” P.A. stipends for impris-
oned terrorists, and the Palestinians’
naming of public squares and streets after
terrorists.

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Cruz Jabs Trump, Obama

Eric Cortellessa | Times of Israel

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oming on the heels of Republican
frontrunner Donald Trump’s
much-anticipated address to
AIPAC’s annual policy conference, Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz used his own speech to
chastise the billionaire businessman over
his past pledges to remain “neutral” on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Texas senator told the crowd, “As
president, I will not be neutral. America
will stand unapologetically with Israel.”
Regarding Iran, Cruz said, “Although
Donald said he will renegotiate and get
a better deal, I will rip this catastrophic

Iranian nuclear deal to shreds.” Cruz also
vowed to shoot down any missile tests
conducted by the Islamic Republic.
Cruz repeatedly attacked President
Obama for the nuclear deal, saying the U.S.
president allowed “a homicidal maniac to
acquire the tools to murder millions.” The
nuclear agreement, he said, was analogous
to the 1938 Munich Agreement with Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler.
Addressing the roughly 4,000 students
present, Cruz took on the boycott, divest-
ment and sanctions (BDS) campaign
against Israel. “Anyone who supports BDS
will lose any access to federal funding,” he
vowed.

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