The Blogs: How Good Is Trump Going to Be for Israel? It’s Not That Simple! PART 1

Trump has reason to hate liberal Jews who by a wide majority voted for Kamala Harris. He was convicted by two juries in super liberal Manhattan, a city loaded with Jews.

He was off to a good start as a friend of Israel by appointing Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel. No American Jew ever says what Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister and former governor of Arkansas, says about Israel. Here’s a sample –

Occupation? There is no occupation – and don’t call it the West Bank – it is Judea and Samaria, and all of it belongs to Israel.

Settlements – “there’s no such thing as a settlement – they are communities, neighborhoods, cities”.

It is a tragedy that American Jews are incapable of similar direct comments. Or Marco Rubio’s directness.

Rubio was confronted by a so-called journalist and a heckler who asked him how he could not condemn the Israelis when some of their bombs attacking Hamas targets resulted in the deaths of children. He said that all those deaths are caused by Hamas, and Israel has every right to seek to destroy Hamas. He said all civilian deaths could be avoided if Hamas turned over the hostages and surrendered.

It is also tragic that even after October 7, 2023 American Jews still talk about a Palestinian state. Kamala Harris advocated for such a state, yet American Jews voted heavily in her favor. Josh Shapiro, the popular Jewish governor of Pennsylvania is all for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside Israel. The fantasies persist.

Well, Kamala and Josh, I have news for you. The Hamas murderers who murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children are all Palestinians. They knew how Israel would react and were totally willing to sacrifice thousands of their own people.

Any Palestinian state would be controlled by Hamas or by another terrorist organization just as Hamas controlled Gaza after all the Israelis left. They had their state. Instead of elevating their people, they built tunnels which they loaded with weaponry waiting patiently for an October 7 opportunity.

The New York Times is and always has been a Jewish-owned paper. Hard to believe but during the four years of Trump’s first presidency a day did not go by when the Times did not criticize him, and much of the criticism was vicious and personal. During the several months of the 2024 presidential campaign, the Times kept to the same standard – not a day went by without an attack on Trump. That standard also applies to the talking heads on MSNBC and CNN. Night after night portraying Trump as the worst human being on the planet. The worst offenders were Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, and Lawrence O’Donnell.

THE PHENOMENON OF DONALD TRUMP

There is no other politician in America who could withstand this torrent of abuse and insults. Everyone else would have folded. Trump thrived on it, and it caused his base to become more devoted and protective. How could his enemiesnot understand that their nonstop, over-the-top insults would eventually work to Trump’s advantage? They created a victim, a martyr.

On November 1, 2020, the New York Times devoted an entire anti-Trump section where they invited 15 of their correspondents to challenge each other as to which one could come up with the most derogatory comments.

Insults on Top of Insults – he nurtures hate – he’s a tyrant worshiper – he’s a “lying, grifting, shady carnival conductor.”

Bret Stephens is a highly respected opinion columnist for the Times. He had been the editor of the Jerusalem Post and lived in Israel for years. A Trump hater and a Netanyahu hater exactly like his colleague, Tom Friedman. Stephens has called Trump –

”A lawless, immoral, terrifying president” – “a malignant, narcissist, fraudster, bully, demagogue – a thug who engages in nonstop mendacity”. He has been much harsher on Trump and Netanyahu then he ever was on Arafat.

This high IQ fool voted for Harris knowing that she would have been a disaster for Israel – his hatred for Trump trumped his love for the people of Israel.

As the date of the election came into view (November 5), the New York Times outdid itself—

On October 23, their attacks included the following:

A lifetime of scandals with many specifics – his businesses that went bankrupt – he avoided the draft during the Vietnam war – he cheated on all three of his wives – he avoided paying income taxes for years and was very proud of his cleverness in doing so –

On October 26, the Times devoted four full pages to all the awful things that would happen if he was to win. The Times might not devote four pages to the death of a president.

Articles on November 2 laid out his multiple false claims, – “a grab bag of false conspiracies” – a mountain of lies consuming two full pages.

In the Sunday section of the Times two days before the election, the editorial board plus seven columnists laid out a litany of Trumps’ sins, the usual catalog – corruption, lies, lawlessness – “how to end a democracy”.

The headline on the Times Sunday Magazine front cover –

”Crisis looms that could threaten American democracy”. Including several anti-Trump articles.

Other newspapers and magazines crucified Trump as well, but none matched the fervor and consistency of the New York Times.

Trump has an iron constitution to be able to absorb all this abuse and remain standing. It is very ironic that his detractors often preach about unity and togetherness. Their non-stop insults have the opposite effect on millions of Trump voters. Think of Hillary Clinton referring to them as “a basket of deplorables” during her 2016 run against Trump or President Biden’s reference – “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”

Here’s a prime example of why I call Trump a phenomenon. When he decided to run in

2016 he was ridiculed by the pundits.

The question was asked again and again – could a seventy-year-old man who had never held any political office, who had never served in the military, who had been married three times with two of his wives being foreigners, who was very rich but avoided paying taxes – could such a man ever be elected president? The resounding, unanimous answer was a firm NO!

After he lost the 2020 election to Biden and after his speech leading to the attack on the Capital he was abandoned by nearly all of his former allies. The few media outlets that had backed him joined the chorus against him – The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The National Review.

And yet he made a comeback winning the Republican nomination and his great victory of November 5, 2024. That was phenomenal!

Now I will quote some very high-level people who don’t think Trump is a phenomenon – who think that he is a menace.

Robert Gates was the Defense Secretary under Republican President Bush. He was so highly thought of that Democrat Obama continued him in that position. This is what Gates said about Trump –

”On national security, Trump is beyond repair. He is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief”.

So tell me, how was the community organizer from Chicago (Obama) fit to be Commander-in-Chief?

Many of Trump’s fiercest critics knew him intimately and had worked for him.

James Mattis, a highly respected general, had been Trump’s Secretary of Defense – said that Trump does not try to unify the American people, he tries to divide us. His January 6 speech, which led to the attack on the Capitol, was an effort to subjugate democracy by mob rule.

General H. R. McMaster was Trump’s National Security Advisor who said that Trump was unfit to be president. Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, said the same thing. Another National Security Advisor, John Bolton, said Trump would cause a lot of damage if he was elected to a second term. Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said many nasty things about his former boss.

General John Kelly, who became White House Chief of Staff, said that Trump had contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

America’s number one military man as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, is on record saying that Trump is “fascist to the core, and no one has ever been as dangerous to this country”.

Both in 2020 and 2024, scores of senior national security officials took out full-page ads saying –

”It is important that we stop Trump’s assault on our national values and institutions”.

In spite of all this, Trump won the election of November 5, 2024. He won all seven battleground states and was the first Republican to win the popular vote in the last 20 years. At the age of 78, Trump, during the several months of campaigning, adhered to a schedule of multiple daily rallies and travel, which would have exhausted a 40-year-old. He is somewhat of a physical phenomenon.

TO BE CONTINUED…