Trump says Israel is losing PR battle with Gaza war

While Israel is fighting a war against Hamasex-president donald trump suggested that the country is losing a separate conflict: a public relations battle.

“I think Israel needs to do a better PR job, frankly, because the other side is beating them on the PR front,” Trump said in an interview with Univision, obtained by traffic lights.

The former president previously hit out at Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahusaying he “wasn’t ready” for the Hamas the attack on October 7, in which hundreds of people were kidnapped and more than 1,000 were killed. He also said Netanyahu “let us down” before the 2020 assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

In the latest interview, Trump refined his view, calling the Israeli leader “strong.”

The former president also suggested that if he were president, he would have pushed for a negotiation with Iran and could have prevented the deadly attack. “We would have had a deal with Iran,” he said. “Iran was broken, I say with respect, they were broken.”

Mr Trump reinforced that statement by adding: “We actually got along well with Iran” when he was president.

The 2024 leader then shifted gears to another controversial accusation: that both Palestinians and Israelis are conditioned to hate each other, as this hatred is learned to be ingrained in society.

Palestinians “learn to hate the Jewish people in the first forms of school, whatever their form of school is, but you know, hatred of Israel,” he said.

“There’s no hate like the Palestinian hate for Israel and the Jewish people. And probably the other way around too, I don’t know. You know, it’s not that obvious, but probably that too,” Trump continued. “So sometimes you have to let things play out and see where they end up.”

Even content aside, this Univision interview is full of controversy. This is the first interview that the former president has on the network since he expelled one of its anchors: Jorge Ramos – from a 2015 campaign event.

The interview took place at Mar-a-Lago and will air at 9:55 PM ET on November 9.