Klobuchar: ‘I Disagreed’ With Trump For Recognizing Israel’s Sovereignty Over Golan

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, at the annual J Street Conference in Washington D.C., on Oct. 27, 2019 (Source: Screenshot)

WASHINGTON (JNS) — U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Sunday that she “disagreed” with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision in March to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

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“It’s not a good idea to negotiate these things right now, but let me be very clear in how strongly I believe that that promise that the prime minister made during his political campaign was wrong,” she said on stage at the annual J Street Conference in Washington, D.C.

Her reply was in response to a question from former White House National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor, who served under former U.S. President Barack Obama, whether she would condition U.S. assistance to Israel on the Jewish state not fulfilling a campaign promise of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex parts of the West Bank.

“That he was going to annex a third of the West Bank,” she continued. “Also the Golan Heights and what he did there. I disagreed with that.”

Candidates including South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have expressed an openness for such a contingency.

Regarding the Golan Heights, Buttigieg told JNS in August that the U.S. recognition was “an intervention in Israeli domestic politics.”

Klobuchar added, “I also strongly disagreed when he, at President Trump’s urging, said that members of Congress couldn’t even visit Israel,” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) being barred from entering Israel in August for their support of the anti-Israel BDS movement.

Trump called on Israel to reject the freshmen congresswomen from entering the country.

“It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!” he tweeted.

Tlaib was later granted a humanitarian request to visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank. In the end, she chose not to go.

In her remarks, Klobuchar reiterated her positions, including re-entering the United States into the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris Climate Accord, and the need to fight anti-Semitism. She also noted the one-year anniversary of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, where 11 worshippers were killed in the deadliest attack in American Jewish history.

She did not reiterate whether or not she would keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, where it was relocated from Tel Aviv in May 2018.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Buttigieg are scheduled to address the J Street conference on Monday.

They, too, plan to sit with the hosts of the weekly podcast “Pod Save the World,” Vietor and former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes to “discuss the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship, their visions for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their plans to combat the growing threat of white supremacy and more,” according to an email from J Street ahead of the conference.

The conference concludes on Tuesday, when participants will lobby J Street’s agenda on Capitol Hill.


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was a demorat then saw the lite
was a demorat then saw the lite
4 years ago

She’s running for vp
Does anyone still doubt that the dems have shifted left and anti Isreal just read their platform and what your next democrat candidate is saying

Loser she is
Loser she is
4 years ago

I’m sure she disagreed with Trump taking out al baghdadi too. Dems disagree with everything he says and does….it’s called Trump derangement syndrome. She’s desperate but this won’t help her cause.

Carroll O'Connor
Carroll O'Connor
4 years ago

At the time that that the Kennesset was debating the Chok Hagolan, Morainu HaRav Shach ztk”l was very much opposed. Obviously this would not be proof positive of what he would say today but his mehalech was usually opposed to needless proclamations and declarations.

Jack
Jack
4 years ago

SHOCKER!! A DEMOCRAT!!

Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

I can’t stand Klobuchar; many former staff of her,s have bitterly complained about how verbally abusive she was to them, over the years. She has never denied mistreating her staff. Secondly, not once has she ever acknowledged how the Syrian Army would routinely fire from the top of the Golan Heights (prior to 1967), onto Israeli settlements, within Israel proper. Trump did the right thing in recognizing Israeli jurisdiction over the Golan. I remember when the Golan was taken in 1967, and how it was almost lost, during the Yom Kippur War. It should never be given back to the Syrians. Can anyone imagine what it would be like now, with the Syrian civil war, with thise momzarim once again controlling the high ground? If Klobuchar and that faygeleh, Mayor Pete don’t like that, tough!

Democrats support Jew haters and are anti religious freedom
Democrats support Jew haters and are anti religious freedom
4 years ago

 uneducated yhcra
you are an ignorant moron educate yourself
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Johannes Pfefferkorn – After committing a burglary, he was imprisoned and released in 1504. He converted to Catholic Christianity in 1505 and was baptized together with his family. He preached that Jewish children should be taken away from their parents and educated as Catholics, Pfefferkorn declared that the only way to get rid of the Jews was either to expel or enslave them; the first thing to be done was to collect all the copies of the Talmud found among the Jews and to burn them