JERUSALEM (AFP) -
US
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Israel "soon",
he told an Israeli newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.
"Yes,
I will be coming soon," Trump said without giving further details in
response to a question from the Israel Hayom newspaper, a freesheet
considered close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump
had scheduled a visit to Israel for late December but postponed it a
few days before following an uproar over his proposal to bar all Muslims
from entering the United States.
"I have decided to postpone my
trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later
date after I become president of the US," he tweeted at the time.
In
the interview published on Wednesday, Trump renewed his criticism of US
President Barack Obama over a July nuclear deal with Iran that was
vigorously opposed by the Israeli prime minister.
"The current
threat against Israel is more important than ever" because of "President
Obama's policy towards Iran and the nuclear deal," he said.
"I think the people of Israel have suffered a lot because of Obama."
White House hopefuls often visit Israel as part of efforts to bolster their foreign policy credentials.
© 2016 AFP
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