Mission LIMITATION Statement: These weekly emails, of which this is #1159, shall reference U.S, politics only to the extent that it bears upon their core mission, enhancing Jewish peoplehood identification of us grassroots American Jews with our brethren in our people’s homeland of Israel. But so you know where I’m coming from, I don’t regard Republicans (of which I am one) as more saintly than Democrats. Hell, I was so mad at the GOP for impeaching President Clinton over a non-governmental function indiscretion (turning the Oval Office into the Oral Office) that I voted for the Democrat for U.S. Senate. But I regard as the current administration’s most damaging act to America not its atomic bombing on its first day in office of the Mexican border wall and oil pipeline from Canada, but its poisoning of the morals and minds of our kids – LGBTQ (“+” yet) and CRT in our schools’ classrooms; gender-change maiming of even pre-adolescents; intimidating parents at school board meetings; boys in girls’ sports teams (yes, boys are generally bigger and stronger than girls – QED the results of “trans-genders” in competitions), showers, bathrooms and locker rooms. But, meanwhile, back at the Big Rotten Apple . . .
You grassroots Jewish American Democrats, yes, You, have an obligation right now to His Indictee, former American President Trump. Maybe you despise the man as not bearing the Dignity (ho-ho) of His Ice Cream, The Big Guy, incumbent President Biden, and maybe you don’t believe Trump did good things for the U.S. and its citizens (e.g., energy independence, border security, non-inflation, self-respect and dignity abroad for Americans).
But with the personal courage to stand up for the Jewish people’s homeland against intense State Department and international opposition exhibited once before long ago by a Democrat in the White House, President Harry Truman, President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved our embassy there; recognized the Golan Heights (which have an historical Jewish connection, and in our time functioned for years as a high ground for Syria raining down artillery shells on Jewish farmers below) as Israeli, not Syrian; devised a non-suicidal for Israel peace plan, accepted by then PM Netanyahu and election opponent Ganz, granting “the Palestinians” internal autonomy (see Trump’s Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s Sledgehammer: How Breaking With the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East); and orchestrated the Abraham Accords (again see the Ambassador’s book), addressing “the peace process” totally opposite to John Kerry, from the Arab world in, rather than from the proven-impossible “Palestinians’” out.
Whether you agree with me or not that these actual actions by Trump were positive steps with hopeful potential for ultimately achieving peace between Arabs and Jews, it is undeniable that Trump undertook them toward that essential enviable equitable end. Maybe Trump will become President again (as I personally hope), maybe not. But whoever is will be hesitant at best to stick his neck out for Israel, in a world in which U.S. support for Israel – reflect on regard for Israel in the U.N. – has been almost alone, absent respectful appreciation for that (I did not say political endorsement) of us American Jews.
So you Democrats among us, you have to let your Party know, right now, that this politically-driven cockamamie indictment of President Trump by New York City is a Shanda upon both that Party and Place, and, below all, a low blow upon a former American President who deserves at the least fair and respectful regard and treatment by the American people, not least among them American Jews. Giving an earful to Schumer (who says his name derives from “shomer”) is a sound place to start.