On Monday, Donald Trump added his judgements and condemnations of the situation of the globe to the long list of politicians who voiced their opinions over the weekend.

For the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal (“globalists”), for wind turbines (“we see whales washing up on shore”), for Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida (“He’s fallen like a wounded bird from the skies”) and his indictments (“a great badge of honour”), for transgender athletes (“Have you seen the weightlifting records?”), and even for one of the region’s most venerated institutions, the New England Patriots (“not a good game” Sunday).

It’s possible that the onslaught on Israel occupied the minds of many Washington bureaucrats. Monday night, Trump rallied his base of voters in a small auditorium at a performing arts centre in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. However, this was not issue one, topic two, or even topic thirteen.

After the deaths of almost 900 Israelis, violence erupted in the Middle East, and Trump spent well over an hour talking about it. Trump, reading from a teleprompter, accused Vice President Joe Biden of “tossing Israel to the bloodthirsty terrorists,” reengaging in diplomatic relations with Iran, and failing to do enough to back Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu.

It’s possible that the onslaught on Israel occupied the minds of many Washington bureaucrats. Monday night, Trump rallied his base of voters in a small auditorium at a performing arts centre in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. However, this was not issue one, topic two, or even topic thirteen.

After the deaths of almost 900 Israelis, violence erupted in the Middle East, and Trump spent well over an hour talking about it. Trump, reading from a teleprompter, accused Vice President Joe Biden of “tossing Israel to the bloodthirsty terrorists,” reengaging in diplomatic relations with Iran, and failing to do enough to back Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu.

We had peace in the Middle East less than four years ago,” Trump stated. An all-out battle has broken out in Israel today, and it is expected to soon spread. Wow, what a change a president can make. Can you believe it?

After making unsubstantiated claims about Hamas entering the U.S.-Mexico border and implying the group could launch an attack within the country, he returned to his usual talking points about eliminating the Deep State, attacking Hillary Clinton, and averting World War III.

Trump is not one to stick to a script or alter his delivery based on current events. His comments from Monday suggested he was not really invested in the Israeli situation and saw little benefit in making it a part of the primary.

Regarding the latter, he seems to have company. An indication of how well Biden handles international conflicts is the possibility of a wider confrontation between Hamas militants and Israel, which might have huge ramifications in the general election. It seems unlikely, though, that this would change the course of the Republican primary race, which has been rocked by an unusually large number of foreign policy issues, including worries about China, Ukraine, and now Israel.

“If we’re not at war – at least not directly, troops not committed and that type of thing – it’s not as big an issue,” said Wayne MacDonald, a New Hampshire congressman and former state Republican Party chair who supports former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Literally, “guns and butter.”

The situation had the potential to become a dividing line between isolationist and more engagement-oriented factions of the Republican Party almost immediately after the attack. When campaigning in Iowa over the weekend, former Vice President Mike Pence criticised “voices of appeasement like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis that I believe have run contrary to the tradition in our party that America is the leader of the free world.”

However, Pence’s low percentage of support made him an isolated figure. Rather than criticise one another or call for a more internationalist foreign policy in general, the remainder of the Republican field exploited the crimes to blame the existing administration.

Trump has labelled the Democratic vice president, Joe Biden, “weak.” His “sleeping on the job,” as DeSantis put it, was evident. When Christie criticised “appeasement and isolationism,” he was directing his criticism at Vice President Joe Biden and not at his fellow Republicans. Even Haley, who had previously broken with Trump on foreign policy with regards to China and Ukraine, did little to set herself apart from her competitors on the matter.

She instead made a connection between Israel and the southern border.

On Sunday, Haley expressed her concern about Iran’s claim that the southern border is the quickest and easiest way to enter the United States. Our borders are completely open. People are passing through; no one is checking their credentials.

In the days following the assaults, Haley and others have come forth with proposals for particular reforms they think the United States should implement. Haley advocated for measures like as arming Israel with intelligence and weapons and cracking down on Iran. DeSantis has advocated for a complete halt to “any and all types of foreign aid flowing to Hamas.”

Indeed, some Republicans believe that the attack on Israel will serve as a rallying cry for their party’s supporters. Support for “our ally” Israel was widespread at Trump’s event, and everyone there was angry at Vice President Biden for his comments on Hamas assaults.

“The blood’s on Biden’s hands,” said Jill Hegner, a Republican from Gilford, N.H., who is “300 percent” with Trump and who came at the performing arts centre at 6:30 a.m. to beat the hordes of thousands of people hoping to get one of the about 100 seats inside.

According to Hegner, “Trump, we had no new wars, peace in the Middle East.” “As soon as Biden took office, he ordered the removal of all of that. I can’t believe it.

Former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman and Trump adviser Stephen Stepanek recently told reporters, “the world was a lot safer when Donald Trump was president.” Among the sea of red and white “Make America Great Again” baseball caps and “America First” sweatshirts, there was a yarmulke, the head covering used by devout Jewish males.

Even so, domestic issues continue to top the list of concerns for Trump voters in New Hampshire and the rest of the GOP.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans rank domestic issues as more pressing than foreign ones. On Monday, Trump appealed into Republican fears about inflation and immigration, which drew louder applause than his warnings about international problems.

Trump’s calls to “stop child sexual mutilation” and “dismantle the Department of Education” caused many to get up and applaud. Instead of recording Trump’s comments on the state of the world, they grabbed out their phones to record his dramatic reading of a poem titled “The Snake.” He was met with cheers when he discussed his role in reopening lobstering waters off the coast of New England, but was met with quiet when he said that Vice President Biden “betrayed” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

While many New Hampshire Trump supporters agreed that the United States should back Israel, many others voiced opposition to the president’s plan to keep funding Ukraine, another country embroiled in a civil war.

The attack on Israel is “very fluid dynamic situation which is very sensitive on many fronts,” according to Republican operative and ex-Trump aide Dave Urban. Urban said that the president had little more to say on the subject.

What he has to say has already been stated,” Urban said. “He basically says, ‘I relocated the embassy. My record as president is unparalleled in its support for Israel. What is he going to say that will help him politically?