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Clinton tells Israel she´ll safeguard its ´military edge´
JERUSALEM: US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says that if elected she would work with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make sure Israel´s strategic military edge is preserved.
"Shortly after being inaugurated I would invite the prime minister to Washington for meetings, I would send my joint chiefs and intelligence experts to Israel to meet with their counterparts," she said in an interview with Israeli Channel Two television aired on Thursday. "What we need to do first and foremost (is) to be sure that qualitative military edge is unmatched," she said. The US and Israeli governments have for several months been negotiating the terms of a new 10-year defence aid pact to replace the current one, which expires in 2018 and is worth more than $3 billion (2.7 billion euros) per year. The Netanyahu government wants the United States to increase the annual amount of military assistance it provides. In the Channel Two interview, Clinton said the prospect of an election victory for her Republican rival Donald Trump should alarm all Israelis regardless of their political views. She said that Trump favoured a nuclear strike on the Islamic State group, which is fighting in the devastating conflict in Syria, right next door to the Jewish state. "His understanding of the broader dangers in the region should alarm any Israeli ** matter where that person is on the political spectrum," said the Democratic Party candidate. "Using nukes against ISIS... **t k**wing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. How does that in any way help Israel," she asked, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. She added that Trump, who has praised Vladimir Putin, would **t seek to hamper the Russian president´s actions in Syria but preferred "giving a full carte blanche to Putin to do whatever he seems to want to do, right on Israel´s doorstep". Vows to hunt IS chief, slams ´dangerous´ Trump Clinton sought to polish her image Thursday as a strong leader with a command of major global challenges -- the IS jihadist group first among them -- while discrediting Republican rival Donald Trump as unfit for the White House. With just 61 days before America chooses a new commander in chief, the Democrat delivered a withering takedown of the brash billionaire at a rare impromptu press conference, assailing his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as "scary" and insisting Trump has ** real plan to defeat the Islamic State group. Seeking to strike a commanding tone, Clinton called for the United States to track down and kill IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as it did Osama bin Laden. "We should make it a top priority to hunt down the leader of ISIS," Clinton told reporters on a tarmac in White Plains, New York. "Getting al-Baghdadi will require efforts at the top levels, but it will send a resounding message that **body directs or inspires attacks against the United States and gets away with it." Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, have clashed repeatedly over foreign policy, but their battle rose to a new level Wednesday night when the two were separately grilled over their national security credentials at a New York forum. "One thing you didn´t hear from Donald Trump last night is any plan to take on ISIS, one of the biggest threats facing our country," Clinton said, using an acronym for the group. When asked at the forum about how he would stop the spread of global terrorism, "Trump´s answer was simply, ´take the oil,´" Clinton added. "He says his plan is still a secret, but the truth is he simply doesn´t have one. And that´s **t only dangerous, it should be disqualifying." Instead of laying out a Middle East strategy, Trump "bizarrely" praised Putin and suggested the strongman is a better leader than US President Barack Obama, she said. "**w, that is **t just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country as well as to our commander in chief, it is scary," Clinton said. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Clinton tells Israel she´ll safeguard its ´military edge´ || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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