Trump stands up for Israel

These must be very tough times for anyone, especially for any Jews, who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. While the resolution of the Israel-Iran war remains to be seen, it must be painfully clear to them that President Trump has stood up for Israel. He has attacked Iranian nuclear sites with American military assets.

President Trump has played a wise and courageous role preventing a second Holocaust. This is not hyperbole; it is a hard truth in the nuclear age.

In the Wall Street Journal, a commentary “Trump Does Jews Another Mitzvah” by Mark Penn and Andrew Stein lauds his impressive resume supporting Israel and the Jewish people. The opening paragraph states, “Anyone who cares about Israel and the future of the Jewish people must appreciate the support they are receiving from the Trump administration. It’s a sharp contrast to Joe Biden’s equivocating backing, which would have been unlikely to improve if Kamala Harris were in the White House.”

Years before the flaccid Biden-Harris administration, President Barack Obama demonstrated his disdain for Prime Minister Netanyahu. Obama obsessively pursued the toothless JCPOA (aka, the Iran nuclear deal) that richly funded Iran and kept open their path for a nuclear weapons program. Obama and Biden should be rebuked for creating the Iran that is near achieving their “death to America and Israel” goal.

Without regurgitating the anti-Israel history of the Obama, Biden and Harris administrations, at least we should recall Obama’s association with the likes of Farrakhan and his stabbing of Israel in the back with UN Resolution 2334. The Biden-Harris presidency brought back to the White House many of the Obama anti-Israel senior staffers like Maher Bitar, who was on the board of Students for Justice in Palestine, and Rob Malley, who was placed on unpaid leave and had his security clearance suspended awaiting review of allegations that he may have mishandled classified information.

Almost ten years ago, at Donald Trump’s speech in New York City announcing his run for the presidency, he said referring to Obama, “Take a look at the deal he’s making with Iran. He makes that deal; Israel maybe won’t exist very long. It’s a disaster, and we have to protect Israel.” President Trump gets high marks for prescience, loyalty and consistency.

Since the initiation of the war, the case for Trump’s pro Jewish and pro-Israel credentials versus the last few Democrat administrations became even stronger. Bari Weiss’s last podcast “The ultimate deception: How Trump and Bibi outfoxed Iran,” tells a great story. She and her guest Mike Doran, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, explained that the sixty-day red line issued by Trump to the mullahs to negotiate in good faith had expired. On the sixty-first day Israel began to attack and damage Iran’s ability to create a nuclear weapon.

We can wonder how many progressive Jews marched in the recent “No Kings” rallies and heard the “…Free, Free Palestine” chants? We can wonder how many Jews still hate Trump despite his impressive fight against antisemitism at institutions like Harvard. We can wonder how many of these “useful idiots,” as Bibi has called them, joined the Women’s March and participated in BLM performative riots. Did they know both movements were organized by antisemites?

While President Trump has vigorously attacked antisemitism, we can’t recall any meaningful action by Biden’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt, despite her tenure during the October 7th Hamas atrocities. In addition, Trump’s first term achievements including the move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem and the creation of the Abraham Accords, should have been – dayenu -enough.

What causes some Jews to ignore or undervalue President Trump’s support? Is it a matter that politics is their new religion? Are they so obsessed with issues like borders, pronouns, and defunding police that they abandon their people? And is this because of an indifference, assimilation and apathy towards their Judaism? Why do they choose nonsense instead of common sense? Lots of good questions. In Jeremiah 5:21, “foolish people” are warned relative to spiritual failings “…who have eyes but cannot see and ears that cannot hear.” At a minimum, their behavior is unbecoming.

To deny or undervalue President Trump’s historic standing up for Israel and protecting his Jewish citizens, proves the words of Mark Twain, “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”