Trump's Ambassador to Israel

UPDATE:

In his column, published on israelnationalnews.com earlier this year, Mr Friedman attacked the moderate Jewish lobby group J Street.

He wrote: "Are J Street supporters really as bad as kapos? The answer, actually, is no.

"They are far worse than kapos – Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps.

"The kapos faced extraordinary cruelty and who knows what any of us would have done under those circumstances to save a loved one?

"But J Street? They are just smug advocates of Israel’s destruction delivered from the comfort of their secure American sofas – it’s hard to imagine anyone worse."

  Independent

Hmmmmm. Let me think for a minute.



Original post:

This comes from Israel's oldest daily newspaper.

David Friedman is looking forward to working from [the] 'U.S. embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem,' [the] Trump transition team says in [a] statement.

[...]

During the presidential election campaign Trump and some of his advisers, including Friedman, said that if he became president, his administration would recognize united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and implement the U.S. Congress’ decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. However, another adviser to the president-elect seemed to downplay these remarks on Wednesday, telling Middle East diplomats in Washington that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem was a "complex" move, which would be a "process" that would take a long time if undertaken.

  Haaretz

Friedman is one of Trump's bankruptcy lawyers.

Based on statements he has issued and columns he has penned, Friedman is positioned on the far right of the Israeli political map – more hardline in his views than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

That's impressive. Surely there isn't a lot of space to the right of Netanyahu.

Friedman has challenged the widespread view that Israeli settlement activity is illegal and opposes a ban on construction activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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He also serves as president of American Friends of Bet El Institutions, which financially supports the settlement enterprise.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway