CNN Guest Likens Trump Campaign, GOP To Israel Before Rabin Murder

Matthew Balan | August 15, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

Haaretz's Chemi Shalev bemoaned the state of the GOP on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS on 14 August 2016, and compared Donald Trump's remarks on "Second Amendment people" to the political climate in Israel in 1995 before the murder of major political figure: "It reminded me of the months preceding our late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination." Shalev also connected the "lock her up" chants at the Republican National Convention to this climate, and later added that if "somebody...tried to hurt or harm Hillary Clinton tomorrow, I don't think anybody would be surprised."

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