VIDEO Nº: 159
TITLE:159. Full speech Donald Trump addresses AIPAC
DATE OF EVENT:21/03/2016
RELEASE DATE:21/03/2016
DURATION:00.24.35 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:2599
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Good evening. Thank you very much.
I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter, and true friend of Israel…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
I'm a newcomer to politics, but not to backing the Jewish state…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
In 2001, weeks after the attacks on New York City, and on Washington and frankly, the attacks on all of us. Attacks that perpetrated, and they were perpetrated by the Islamic fundamentalists. Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Israel to show solidarity with terror victims. I sent my plane, because I backed the mission for Israel…100…percent…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
In spring of 2004, at the height of the violence in the Gaza Strip, I was the grand Marshal of the 40th Salute to Israel parade, the largest single gathering in support of the Jewish state…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It was a very…dangerous…time for Israel, and frankly, for anyone supporting Israel. Many people turned down this honor. I did not. I took the risk and I'm glad I did…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But I didn't come here tonight to pander to you about Israel. That's what politicians do: all talk, no action! Believe me…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
I came here to speak to you about where I stand on the future of American relations with our strategic ally, our unbreakable friendship and our cultural brother. The only democracy in the Middle East, the State of Israel…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Thank you.
My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Thank you. Thank you.
I have been in business a long time. I know deal making. And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic…for America, for Israel and for the whole of the Middle East…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The problem here is fundamental. We've rewarded the world's leading state sponsor of terror with 150 billion dollars, and we received absolutely nothing in return! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
I've studied this issue in great detail. I would say, actually, greater by far than anybody else…–THE CROWD MUTTERS. Believe me. Oh, believe me! And it's a bad deal! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
The biggest concern with the deal is not necessarily that Iran is going to violate it, because…already…you know, as you know, it has! The bigger problem is that they can keep the terms and still get the bomb by simply running out the clock. And of course, they'll keep the billions, and billions of dollars that we so stupidly and foolishly gave them…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
The deal doesn't even require Iran to dismantle its military nuclear capability. Yes, it places limits on its military nuclear program, for only a certain number of years. But when those restrictions expire, Iran will have an industrial-sized military nuclear capability ready to go and with zero provision for delay, no matter how bad Iran's behavior is. Terrible, terrible situation that we are all placed in, and especially Israel…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
When I'm president, I will adopt a strategy that focuses on three things, when it comes to Iran. First: we will stand up to Iran's aggressive push to destabilize and dominate the region…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Iran is a very big problem, and will continue to be. But if I'm not elected president, I know how to deal with trouble. And believe me, that's why I'm going to be elected president, folks…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we are leading in every poll, remember that, please…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Iran is a problem in Iraq, a problem in Syria; a problem in Lebanon; a problem in Yemen; and will be a very, very major problem for Saudi Arabia.
Literally, every day, Iran provides more and better weapons to support their puppet states: Hezbollah, Lebanon…received, and I'll tell you what, it has received sophisticated, anti-ship weapons, anti-aircraft weapons and GPS systems and rockets like very few people anywhere in the world, and certainly very few countries have. Now they're in Syria trying to establish another front against Israel from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
In Gaza, Iran is supporting Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. And in the West Bank, they're openly offering Palestinians, 7,000 dollars per terror attack and 30,000 dollars for every Palestinian terrorist home that's been destroyed. A deplorable, deplorable situation…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Iran is financing military forces throughout the Middle East and it's absolutely incredible that we handed them over 150 billion dollars to do even more toward the many horrible acts of terror…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Secondly: we will totally dismantle Iran's global…terror…network, which is big and powerful, but not powerful like us! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Iran has seeded terror groups all over the world. During the last five years, Iran has perpetuated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents. They've got terror cells everywhere, including in the Western Hemisphere very close to home. Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism around the world and we will work to dismantle that reach. Believe me, believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Third: at the very least, we must enforce the terms of the previous deal to hold Iran totally accountable, and we will enforce it like you've never seen a contract enforced before, folks. Believe me…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Iran has already, since the deal is in place, test-fired ballistic missiles three times. Those ballistic missiles, with a range of 1,250 miles, were designed to intimidate not only Israel, which is only 600 miles away, but also intended to frighten Europe and someday, maybe, hit even the United States! And we're not going to let that happen! We're not letting it happen! And we're not letting it happen to Israel, believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you.
[Do] You wanna hear something really shocking? As many of the great people in this room know, painted on those missiles in both Hebrew and Farsi were the words, “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth”. You can forget that! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
What kind of demented minds write that in Hebrew? And here's another: you talk about twisted? Here's another twisted part:
Testing these missiles does not even violate the horrible deal that we've made. The deal is silent on test missiles. But those tests do violate the United Nations Security Council resolutions. The problem is, no one has done anything about it! We will. We will. I promise. We will…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Thank you. Which brings me to my next point. The utter weakness and incompetence of the United Nations…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It's not a friend to freedom. It's not a friend even to the United States of America, whereas you know, it has its home. And it, surely, is not a friend to Israel…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
With President Obama in his final year…yay! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VERY VIVIDLY–…he may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel. Believe me. Believe me…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. And you know it…and you know it better than anybody.
So, with the president in his final year, discussions have been swirling about an attempt to bring a security council resolution on terms of an eventual agreement between Israel and Palestine. Let me be clear: an agreement imposed by the United Nations would be a total and complete disaster…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The United States must oppose this resolution and use the power of our veto, which I will use as president 100 percent…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
When people ask, “why?”, it's because that's not how you make a deal. Deals are made when parties come together, they come to a table and they negotiate. Each side must give up something: its values…! I mean, we have to do something where there's value in exchange for something that it requires. That's what a deal is. A deal is really something that when we impose it on Israel and Palestine, we bring together a group of people that come up with something. That's not going to happen with the United Nations! It will only further…very importantly, it will only further delegitimize Israel. It will be a catastrophe, and a disaster for Israel. It's not going to happen, folks…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And further, it would reward Palestinian terrorism, because every day they're stabbing Israelis and even Americans. Just last week, American Taylor Allen Force, a West Point grad, phenomenal, young person who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was murdered in the street by a knife-wielding Palestinian. You don't reward behavior like that. You…cannot…do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. There's only one way you treat that kind of behavior: you have to confront it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So it's not up to the United Nations to pollute…to really go with a solution. It's really the parties that must negotiate a resolution themselves. They have no choice. They have to do it themselves, or it will never hold up anyway. The United States can be useful as a facilitator of negotiations, but no one should be telling Israel that it must be…and…and really, that it must abide by some agreement made by others thousands of miles away, that don't even really know what's happening to Israel, to anything in the area…! It's so preposterous! We're not gonna let that happen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
When I'm president, believe me, I will veto any attempt by the U.N. to impose its will on the Jewish state. It will be vetoed 100 percent…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You see, I know about deal making. That's what I do. I wrote The Art of the Deal…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. One of the bestselling all-time. And I mean, seriously. I'm saying ‘one of’, because I'll be criticized if I say ‘the’, so I'm gonna be very diplomatic: one of…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I'll be criticized. I think it is number one, but why take a chance? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS VIVIDLY. ‘One of’ the all-time bestselling books about deals and deal making.
To make a great deal, you need two willing participants. We know Israel is willing to deal. Israel has been trying…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…that's right. Israel has been trying to sit down at the negotiating table without pre-conditions for years!
You had Camp David in 2000, where Prime Minister Barak [Ehud] made an incredible offer, maybe even too generous. Arafat rejected it.
In 2008, Prime Minister Olmert [Ehud] made an equally generous offer. The Palestinian Authority rejected it also.
Then John Kerry tried to come up with the framework and Abbas [Mahmud] didn't even respond. Not even to the Secretary of State of the United States of America! They didn't…even…respond. When I become president, the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. And when I say something, I mean it.
I will meet with Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu immediately. I have known him for many years. And we'll be able to work closely together to help bring stability and peace to Israel and to the entire region. Meanwhile, every single day, you have rampant incitement and children being taught to hate Israel and to hate the Jews. It has to stop…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
When you live in a society where the firefighters are the heroes, little kids wanna be firefighters. When you live in a society where athletes and movie stars are the heroes, little kids wanna be athletes and movie stars.
In Palestinian society, the heroes are those who murder Jews. We can't let this continue. We can't let this happen any longer. You…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. You cannot achieve peace if terrorists are treated as martyrs. Glorifying terrorists is a tremendous barrier to peace. It is a horrible, horrible way to think. It's a barrier that can't be broken. That will end, and it'll end soon. Believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you've got a culture of hatred that has been fomenting there for years, and if we want to achieve peace, they've got to go out, and they've got to start this educational process! They have to end education of hatred! They have to end it and now! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
There is no moral equivalency. Israel does not name public squares after terrorists. Israel does not pay its children to stab random Palestinians. [Do] You see? What President Obama gets wrong about deal making is that he constantly applies pressure to our friends, and rewards our enemies!  …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you see that happening all the time. That pattern, practiced by the president and his administration, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is a total disaster, by the way…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. She and President Obama have treated Israel very, very badly…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But it's repeated itself over and over again and it's done nothing to embolden those…who hate America. We saw that with releasing the 150 billion dollars to Iran in the hope that they would magically join the…world…community. It didn't happen…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
President Obama thinks that applying pressure to Israel will force the issue. But it's precisely the opposite that happens! Already, half of the population of Palestine has been taken over by the Palestinian ISIS in Hamas, and the other half refuses to confront the first half, so it's a very difficult situation that's never gonna get solved unless you have great leadership, right here! And the United States we'll get it solved, one way or the other. We will get it solved! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But when the United States stands with Israel, the chances of peace really rise and rises exponentially. That's what will happen when Donald Trump is president of the United States…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VERY VIVIDLY. And we will send a clear signal that there is no daylight between America and our most reliable ally, the State of Israel…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The Palestinians must come to the table knowing that the bond between the United States and Israel is absolutely totally unbreakable…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. They must come to the table willing and able to stop the terror being committed on a daily basis against Israel. They must do that! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. And they must come to the table willing to accept that Israel is a Jewish state, and it will…forever…exist…as a Jewish…state! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
I love the people in this room…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I love Israel. I love Israel. I've been with Israel so long in terms of…I've received some of my greatest honors from Israel. My father before me, incredible. My daughter Ivanka is about to have a beautiful Jewish baby…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
In fact, it could be happening right now, which would be very nice as far as I'm concerned. So, I wanna thank you very much. This has been a truly great honor. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
