See second have of this article for more details on Trump campaign spokeswoman's Pierson’s attempt to smear the Khan family which has been successful with a lot of the candidate’s supporters and surrogates who trust the right-wing websites they read.
The whole incident is a useful reminder of just how firmly rooted the entire Trump campaign is in fictional beliefs — many of them revolving around the paranoid delusion that American Muslims are a fifth column secretly plotting to undermine the United States. https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/donald-trumps-spokeswoman-katrina-pierson-says-alot-things-not-true/
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discounted the possibility (of taking in Syrian refugees by saying, “Israel is a small, a very small country that lacks demographic and geographic depth.”
Instead, at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Israeli leader announced that construction had started on a fence along the country’s eastern border with Jordan — a possible pathway for war-weary Syrians to reach Israel but also a way for extremists from groups such as the Islamic State to infiltrate the Jewish state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/06/some-israelis-want-to-take-in-syrian-refugees-netanyahu-says-no/
See second have of this article for more details on Trump campaign spokeswoman's Pierson’s attempt to smear the Khan family which has been successful with a lot of the candidate’s supporters and surrogates who trust the right-wing websites they read.
The whole incident is a useful reminder of just how firmly rooted the entire Trump campaign is in fictional beliefs — many of them revolving around the paranoid delusion that American Muslims are a fifth column secretly plotting to undermine the United States.
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/donald-trumps-spokeswoman-katrina-pierson-says-alot-things-not-true/
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discounted the possibility (of taking in Syrian refugees by saying, “Israel is a small, a very small country that lacks demographic and geographic depth.”
Instead, at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Israeli leader announced that construction had started on a fence along the country’s eastern border with Jordan — a possible pathway for war-weary Syrians to reach Israel but also a way for extremists from groups such as the Islamic State to infiltrate the Jewish state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/06/some-israelis-want-to-take-in-syrian-refugees-netanyahu-says-no/