GOP presidential hopeful Nimrata “Nikki Haley” Randhawa threw a fit on Monday over fellow Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s proposal to cut aid to Israel in 2028.
“Vivek Ramaswamy is completely wrong to call for ending America’s special bond with Israel,” Randhawa whined on Twitter. “Supporting Israel is both the morally right & strategically smart thing to do.”
“This is part of a pattern with Vivek—his foreign policies have a common theme: they make America less safe,” she added.
.@VivekGRamaswamy is completely wrong to call for ending America’s special bond with Israel. Supporting Israel is both the morally right & strategically smart thing to do.
This is part of a pattern with Vivek—his foreign policies have a common theme: they make America less safe.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) August 21, 2023
From The Hill:
Ramaswamy said late last week in an interview on the Rumble show “Stay Free with Russell Brand” that he wanted to expand the Abraham Accords, in which Israel normalized relations with a few of its Arab neighbors, so that additional aid for Israel “won’t be necessary” by 2028, when a current package is set to expire.
Ramaswamy said during the interview that he thinks the U.S.-Israel relationship has been in the country’s interests, and he believes in abiding by commitments that the U.S. has already made, but he wants Israel to be more incorporated into the rest of the Middle East region.
He said he wants to negotiate an “Abraham Accords 2.0” to include countries such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Indonesia to “get Israel on its own two feet.”
The original accords included the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, with Sudan and Morocco following soon after.
“I want to get Israel to the place where it is negotiated back into the infrastructure of the rest of the Middle East. We should not be worried about holding one nation or one region hostage over one particular question relating to Palestine,” Ramaswamy said.
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