Donald Trump is packing his bags and traveling across the Atlantic. Amid controversial plans regarding Muslims, he’s heading straight to the middle east to meet a prominent leader in the region.
JERUSALEM —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Donald Trump when the Republican presidential front-runner arrives in Israel later this month, Israeli officials said Wednesday.
Israeli officials said the prime minister’s Dec. 28 meeting with Trump was scheduled two weeks ago — before the billionaire developer called for banning all Muslims from entering the United States.
Trump said he wants “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
Israel’s population is more than 20 percent Arab, and most of those citizens are Muslims.
The Israeli leader frequently meets with Republican and Democratic members of Congress. An Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the prime minister’s schedule, said Wednesday that Netanyahu “will meet with any candidate from any party who will be arriving in Israel and request[s] a meeting.”
Support for Israel, and for Netanyahu in particular, is a given among Republican presidential candidates.
Netanyahu said late Wednesday that he would go ahead with the Trump meeting, although he tweeted that he “rejects Donald Trump’s latest comments about Muslims.”
It seems Donald Trump is finding it hard to find many prominent politicians who will endorse his plan, but never underestimate the master negotiator. His supports are on his side, and he’s consistently on the rise.
Source: Washington Post
Update: A recent Tweet by Trump shows that he has decided to postpone the trip.
