Israeli warplanes bombed positions in the Gaza Strip yesterday under the pretext of responding to a rocket attack on settlements in the Gaza Strip, while US President Donald Trump said that "no other American president has helped Israel as much as it did" American Jews who vote in favor of the Democratic Party for "high treason", and increased it, last night, by saying that any vote in favor of a Democratic candidate is a vote against Israel.
Israeli warplanes bombed a Palestinian naval position last night under the pretext of responding to a mortar shell that exploded in an open area near a settlement of Sdot Negev.
A spokesman for the Israeli army said it was monitoring the firing of other shells from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements of the casing, and that the army responded by targeting other sites in the northern Gaza Strip.
For its part, Palestinian sources said that the Israeli warplanes bombed several sites at dawn yesterday in the Gaza Strip, noting that the occupation aircraft targeted the naval position west of Gaza City with three successive raids, while a loud explosion was heard south of Gaza City.
The explosions also sounded north and central Gaza Strip, while the occupation fired light bombs on the area of Sufa on the eastern border of the Strip.
On the other hand, Trump told reporters as he left the White House: "I think that if you give your voice to a Democrat, you are very, very traitorous to Israel and the Jewish people."
The accusation of "high treason" angered Democratic presidential candidates and American Jewish groups.
Critics said Trump's remarks reflected anti-Semitic stereotypes that accused American Jews of double loyalty to the United States and Israel.
In remarks to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Bush referred to two Democratic lawmakers that Israel refused to let them enter under pressure from Trump.
"Where did the Democratic Party go?" Trump said. To what extent did they go to defend these two women at the expense of the State of Israel? I believe that any Jew votes for a democratic interest, this shows complete ignorance or treason. ”
Accusing American Jews of double loyalty is seen as a metaphor.
Democrats rejected Trump's comments. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on Twitter: "My message to Trump is: I'm a Jew and I'm proud, and I have no worries about voting for Democrats."
American Jews tend to be Democratic. About 70 percent of them supported Democratic candidates in the latest US presidential election. Former US vice president and frontrunner to contest Trump in the November 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden, called Trump's remarks "insulting and unjustifiable" and urged him to stop sowing discord among Americans. "The Jewish people do not need to prove their loyalty to you (Trump) or anyone else," Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke said on Twitter. O'Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, has called Trump racist for speaking about immigrants. Trump's comments angered many American Jewish groups.
The group said. "It is dangerous and a shame that President Trump will attack the vast majority of the American Jewish community and call it stupidity and betrayal," a liberal Jewish-American lobby group said in a statement.
The American Jewish Committee said the president's comments were "shockingly divisive."
But the Republican Jewish Committee stood by Trump. "President Trump is right. "To defend a party that protects and encourages people who hate you because of your religion, it shows a great deal of self-treason." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office declined to comment on Trump's remarks.
Trump's accusation of Jews who vote for the Democratic Party as "high treason" has angered Democratic presidential candidates and American Jewish groups.