Republican former president Donald Trump has met Jewish leaders at a sacred gravesite in New York, according to AFP.

“We can never forget the nightmare of that day,” Trump told a crowd of a few hundred at his golf club, adding that “the October 7 attack would never have happened if I was president.”

And he hailed progress in Israel’s campaign to degrade Hamas’s military capabilities, telling his audience: “The dawn of a new, more harmonious Middle East is finally within our reach.”