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In Israel, Christie Says Trump Ducked Mideast Progress and Fueled Bigotry
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/us/politics/chris-christie-israel-hamas.html
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Mr. Christie delivered a scathing assessment of Mr. Trump’s Middle East policy in an interview as he traveled to Israel on Sunday for what proved an emotional one-day visit in which he toured a kibbutz, Kfar Azza, near Gaza, where 58 residents were butchered by Hamas terrorists last month.
Mr. Christie watched raw footage of the attacks at a military base near Tel Aviv, commiserated with survivors and families in a hospital and conferred with Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, in Jerusalem.
The peace agreements struck by Israel with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, collectively known as the Abraham Accords, are widely seen as perhaps Mr. Trump’s most important diplomatic accomplishment.
President Biden’s own diplomatic efforts to secure a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which were underway in earnest before the Gaza war broke out, were widely viewed as building on Mr. Trump’s achievements.
“If Chris Christie thinks strengthening the U.S.-Israeli alliance, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, bringing peace to the Middle East with the Abraham Accords and enacting laws to protect Jewish Americans is low-hanging fruit, he is clearly living in a fantasy world not rooted in reality,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.
In the interview, before arriving in Israel, Mr. Christie traced the surge in public expressions of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bias since the war began in part back to Mr. Trump’s often inflammatory rhetoric.
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