Scott Walker
Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and a leading potential candidate for the GOP nomination for president, said on Tuesday the Obama administration is outright dismissing the needs of Israel.
He made the assertion in the context of discussing current White House policy toward Iran, and the emergence of the U.S.-Tehran nuclear treaty.
“I wish it were not the case,” he said, in an op-ed for Medium, posted on the tail end of a five-day trip through Israel, “but this trip only confirmed my belief that the current administration is not giving Israel the support it needs. Instead of standing with our ally, the president is making bad deals with a country that wishes to wipe Israel off the map.”
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Walker, who’s expected to jump in the presidential race at the beginning of the summer, also called the nuclear agreement in the works with Iran a bad deal.
“As the Israelis rightly recognize, such a bad deal would not only give Iran a pathway to a nuclear bomb, it would empower their broader, destructive agenda,” Walker said, the Hill reported. “We don’t have to guess what Iran might do with billions of dollars in sanctions relief to funnel to terrorist proxies and an intact nuclear infrastructure. They have said so themselves. They seek the destruction of Israel and, ultimately, of the United States.”
Walker said he met personally with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with other Mideast leaders.
“My goal in visiting Israel was to listen to its leaders and its citizens in order to better understand their perspective,” he wrote. “It is very clear to me that now is not the time to dismiss or downplay the threats to their country or ours. Nor is it a time to dismiss the rise of anti-Semitism around the world and an increasing effort in places like Western Europe to delegitimize Israel. Now is the time to work together and restore the ruptured bonds between our two countries.”
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