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Wed Sep 7, 2016, 05:36 AM Sep 2016

Trump Supporters Open Campaign Office in West Bank, Declaring Him Good for the Settlers [View all]

The new makeshift office was proudly touted as the first U.S. campaign headquarters ever opened over the 'Green Line,' a reference to Israel’s internationally recognized borders.

Judy Maltz Sep 05, 2016

KARNEI SHOMRON, West Bank – By opening an office in the heart of a major Jewish settlement, was the Donald Trump campaign in Israel trying to make a political statement?
Not at all, said Tzvika Brot, its newly appointed director, when asked by reporters about the particular choice of venue. “All we want to do is to get American citizens interested in voting in the U.S. election to register now before it’s too late,” he said on Monday during the official launching event. 

But Mark Zell, the American-born lawyer who serves as chair of Republican Overseas Israel, thought otherwise. 

“While Tzvika said this is not a political statement as such,” he interjected, “that’s not entirely true. I worked along with representatives of the Trump campaign to get passed a historic amendment to the Republican Party platform, and this amendment specifically omitted any reference to Israel as an occupier and coincided with Trump’s own statements that building homes, synagogues and schools for Arabs and Jews in Judea and Samaria was an issue for the Israeli government and people to decide – not something that America should be dictating to Israel.” 

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.740441
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