{"id":2014601,"date":"2023-08-28T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:58:14","slug":"in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy won&#8217;t reduce Israel aid without Jerusalem&#8217;s consent, in a surprising change of stance."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Backlash Over Proposal to Halt U.S. Funding to Israel<\/h2>\n<p>Facing backlash \u2063for his\u2064 proposal to halt\u200b U.S. \u2064funding to the \u2062Jewish state by 2028, Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s campaign now says he does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-latest-reversal-vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wont-cut-israel-aid-without-jerusalems-approval\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy won't reduce Israel aid without Jerusalem's consent, in a surprising change of stance.\">support cutting military funding<\/a> to Israel unless the country &#8220;tells the U.S. that it no \u2064longer needs the\u200c aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact-check section on Ramaswamy\u2019s website\u2063 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vivek2024.com\/truth-over-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated\u200c Monday<\/a> to say that he &#8220;won\u2019t cut aid to\u200d Israel until\u2063 Israel tells the \u200dU.S. that \u200bit no longer needs the aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s what\u200b Vivek actually said, so don\u2019t believe\u200d the opponents\u2019\u200d lies that he wants to cut aid to Israel\u2014which makes zero sense as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-treasury-department-ignoring-national-security-responsibilities-experts-say\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Treasury Department Ignoring National Security Responsibilities, Experts Say\">foreign policy priority<\/a> any time in the foreseeable future,&#8221; said\u200b Ramaswamy\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bstatement is a reversal \u200dfrom the candidate\u2019s promise\u2062 earlier this month that &#8220;come 2028, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-slams-vivek-ramaswamys-stance-on-israel-completely-wrong\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley criticizes Vivek Ramaswamy's Israel stance as 'totally mistaken'.\">additional aid won\u2019<\/a>t be necessary.&#8221; It is also the clearest sign yet that\u200d he supports \u200dcontinuing \u2063the funding, which accounts for roughly $3 billion\u200c annually and which Israel primarily spends on\u2064 the U.S. defense industry.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c shift comes as Ramaswamy\u200c has come\u2062 under fire from pro-Israel \u2062leaders and his Republican primary opponent Nikki Haley, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/nikki-haley-slams-vivek-ramaswamy-for-call-to-end-israel-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during last week&#8217;s debate that Ramaswamy was &#8220;completely wrong to call for ending America&#8217;s\u200c special bond with Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy hit back\u2063 at \u2064Haley, a fellow \u2064Indian-American, in the campaign statement, writing &#8220;Keep lying, Nimarata Randhawa.&#8221; \u2064Haley\u2019s maiden name was \u2063Randhawa prior to her marriage to Michael Haley in 1996. Her first name is &#8220;Nimarata,&#8221; although she goes\u200c by\u2062 her middle name \u200b&#8221;Nikki.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His campaign said he would\u2062 &#8220;also partner with Israel to ensure that Iran never acquires nuclear capabilities.&#8221; \u2064He described Israel\u2019s current affiliation with\u2064 the United \u200cStates\u2062 as a &#8220;client relationship&#8221;\u200b and said his policies\u2063 would turn it into a\u200b &#8220;true friendship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2019s \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ramaswamy-cut-off-aid-to-israel-after-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conflicting<\/a> answers on aid to \u2064Israel have irked\u2063 both supporters and opponents of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy told\u200c the <em>Washington Free\u200c Beacon<\/em> last week \u200bthat he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-progressives-fund-weather-underground-terrorists-ivy-league-think-tank\/\" title=\"Billionaire Progressives Fund Weather Underground Terrorist\u2019s Ivy League Think Tank\">supports cutting<\/a>\u2064 off the aid when the current package\u2064 passed\u2063 by Congress expires in 2028. He said the aid would be unnecessary because he plans to successfully negotiate new peace treaties between Israel and four \u200bArab states\u2014Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Indonesia, and\u2063 Oman\u2014during the \u2062first year of\u200c his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we\u2019re successful, the true mark of success for the U.S.,\u200d and\u200b for Israel, will be to get to a 2028 where Israel is so strongly standing on\u2064 its own two \u2064feet, integrated into the economic\u2062 and\u200d security infrastructure of the\u2063 rest\u2064 of the Middle East, that it will\u200d not require\u200c and be \u200bdependent on that \u2063same\u200d level of \u200bhistorical aid or commitment\u2063 from the U.S.,&#8221; said Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<p>But\u200d he said he could also see the aid continuing\u200d after 2028 if his plan is ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big difference is to see if the Abraham Accords 2.0 is indeed \u200dsuccessful at getting Israel to a stronger place than it is today while relying on\u200b U.S. aid,&#8221; \u200che told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> earlier this month. &#8220;If it is, then that is the best-case scenario for all; if it\u2019s\u2064 not, then the \u2063aid will continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June, Ramaswamy told a gathering in\u200b New Hampshire\u200c that he would roll back the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-stefanik-garlands-comment-on-cuomo-corruption-not-good-enough\/\" title=\"Rep. Stefanik: Garland\u2019s comment on Cuomo corruption \u2018not good enough\u2019\">military aid<\/a> as &#8220;part of a \u200dbroader disengagement with the Middle East,&#8221; according to\u200d a video of the event obtained by the <em>Free \u200dBeacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u200bwould not do\u200d that as an isolated policy,&#8221; Ramaswamy said at the time. &#8220;I would do it as part\u200b of also making sure that\u2062 we&#8217;re not leaving other people we&#8217;ve also \u2062propped up, from Saudi Arabia to even Iran, in other ways, over\u200d the years, right? So it&#8217;s \u200cgot to be \u2063part of\u2064 a comprehensive strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated this in an interview with comedian and podcaster \u200dRussell Brand \u2062in August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come 2028, that additional aid\u2064 won\u2019t be necessary in order \u2063to\u2064 still\u200d have the kind of stability \u2063that we\u2019d actually have in the Middle East by having Israel\u200b more integrated \u2064in with its partners,&#8221; said \u2062Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cut military funding to Israel unless Israel tells the U.S. it no longer requires aid.&#8221; Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign faced criticism for his plan to stop U.S. funding to Israel by 2028. However, his website&#8217;s fact-check section now clarifies his stance, stating that he will only consider cutting military aid if Israel explicitly states it no longer needs assistance from the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2014602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}