Trump says Israel should keep building settlements

Republican front-runner Donald Trump says Israel should “keep moving forward” with building settlements.

“No, I don’t think there should be a pause,’ Trump tells The Daily Mail, referring to a construction freeze in the West Bank. “Look: Missiles were launched into Israel, and Israel, I think, never was properly treated by our country. I mean, do you know what that is, how devastating that is?”

He says he thinks “Israel should have – they really have to keep going. They have to keep moving forward,” with the settlements.

Trump also says Netanyahu is “a very good guy.”

“I don’t know him that well, but I think I’d have a very good relationship with him,” Trump says. “I think that President Obama has been extremely bad to Israel.”

At the same time, Trump reiterates that he would like to negotiate a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

“With all of that being said, I would love to see if peace could be negotiated. A lot of people say that’s not a deal that’s possible. But I mean lasting peace, not a peace that lasts for two weeks and they start launching missiles again. So we’ll see what happens” Trump says. “I’d love to negotiate peace. I think that, to me, is the all-time negotiation.”