Donald Trump would score a landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election if it was up to the Israeli electorate to decide the outcome of the vote. A latest opinion survey shows that 58 percent of Israelis would vote for Trump, compared to just 25 percent who would opt for his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.
“A majority of Israelis would vote for former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump if they could participate in the US elections, a Channel 12 poll finds,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday. “According to the survey, 58 percent would vote for Trump, 25% would vote for US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and 17% answered they didn’t know who they would choose.”
There are good reasons for Israelis to prefer Trump over Harris. Trump brokered the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and key Arab states, ushering in an era of diplomatic and economic cooperation in the Middle East. He also recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as well as Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic high ground along the Syrian border.
Trump also oversaw the destruction of ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq that sprang up under Barack Obama’s presidency — right on Israel’s doorstep.
The favorable polling figures for President Trump in Israel are in sharp contrast to those in some European countries. Harris would win overwhelmingly if elections were to take place in Germany, country’s media reports. “The U.S’ election is … a dominant topic in Germany,” German weekly Der Stern claimed July 30. “79% of Germans would choose Kamala Harris.”
Polls in the U.S. show that an overwhelming majority of American Jewish voters favor Harris over Trump. “Harris leads Trump with U.S. Jews by a 72 to 25 percent margin, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Jewish Democratic Council of America,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Monday. “Trump, meanwhile, holds an 83-17 percent lead over Harris among Orthodox Jews.”
An Israeli airstrike on Saturday destroyed a Hamas rocket launch site and a weapons factory located near a school in northern Gaza.
Israeli fighter jets “conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Shuhada’ al-Zaytun school in Gaza city,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press statement Sunday. “The school compound was used by Hamas terrorists to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
While Hamas terrorists fired rockets at Israel from near a school building, the IDF undertook painstaking effort to minimize civilian casualties. “Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” the Israeli military assured. “The Hamas terrorist organization systematically violates international law by operating from inside civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and exploiting the Gazan civilian population for its terrorist activities.”
The Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group on Saturday unleashed another wave of rocket and drone attacks on Israel. “The IDF’s aerial defense array intercepted rockets during two separate Saturday morning barrages, during which Hezbollah fired a total of over 55 rockets into Israeli territory from Lebanon, the military stated,” the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday.
The barrage of rockets was fired in ‘support’ of terrorist group Hamas, Hezbollah declared. “In a later statement, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attacks, claiming it had launched dozens of Katyusha into Israel in support of the Gazan people and Hamas,” the newspaper added.
On Friday, Hezbollah drone strikes caused a large forest fire near the northern Israeli city of Safed.
“The Hezbollah terror group fired some 20 rockets toward the northern city of Safed early Friday morning, sparking a large blaze in a nearby forest and causing minor damage to a building in another community, authorities said,” The Times of Israel reported Friday. “No injuries were reported in the attack claimed by the Lebanese group, which said it had targeted a military installation in revenge for a deadly strike in southern Lebanon a day earlier.”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) undertook counter-measures, destroying Hezbollah rocket launchers used in the latest round of barrage fired from Lebanon.
“Earlier this morning, the IAF struck the launcher from which projectiles were fired toward the Galilee area,” the Israeli military disclosed Sunday. “Additionally, earlier today, the IAF struck the launcher from which projectiles were fired overnight toward the Upper Galilee area, alongside a Hezbollah military structure in the area of Kfar Remen in southern Lebanon.”
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