Thursday, August 24, 2017

Fwd: From David Bedein, Center of Near East Policy Research. When a US government official calls you a liar, you go on the offense.





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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Troubling Trend in the White House? Time for the American Jewish Leaders to Visit Hebron! New Anti Israel Appointees and Ousted Pro Israel Strategists and Trump Loyalists

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Updated: August 27, 2017

Updated: August 28, 2017
Updated: September 13, 2017

Bible 001: Biblical Claim to the Land of Israel.  Ammunition for Trump's inner circle of Jewish Advisers
https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2017/04/fwd-open-letter-to-vaad-roshei-yeshiva.html

more ammunition....The Canaan Falsehood - Melanie Phillips
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-canaan-falsehood-melanie-phillips.html

Some of the biggest betrayals to the Jewish People happened when a right wing nationalist gov't was in power.  Case in point: Menachem Begin and Camp David, Ariel Sharon and Gush Katif Expulsion.  We can't just assume that because we have right wing Jewish Nationalist advisers to President Trump, things will go the way we expect.   Recently we are witness to a very disturbing trend coming from the White House and we need to voice our deep concerns before it is too late.

Here are some links that are worrisome and indicate that not all is well for Israel coming from the White House.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Fwd: Caroline Glick and Dry Bones Returning Iraqi Jewish Archives, the Treasures to the Looters who Stole it. What is the State Dept doing with Jewish religious property?????
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2017/09/fwd-caroline-glick-and-dry-bones.html

How to Get Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal
by John R. Bolton

August 28, 2017
I offer the paper now as a public service, since staff changes at the White House have made presenting it to President Trump impossible. Although he was once kind enough to tell me "come in and see me any time," those days are now over.
If the president is never to see this option, so be it. But let it never be said that the option didn't exist.
Abrogating the Iran Deal: The Way Forwardhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10910/exit-iran-nuclear-deal



AUGUST 27, 2017
Name-Calling Critics Fail to Refute ZOA’s Concerns About McMaster by Morton A. Klein, Elizabeth Berney and Daniel Mandel
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/27/name-calling-critics-fail-to-refute-zoas-concerns-about-mcmaster/

Here is a potentially positive development: However, only if the Trump Administration stops pushing for a 2 State Solution with nullifies G-d's Covenant with the Nation of Israel and for the detriment of humanity!

AUGUST 27, 2017 
Report: Kushner Asks Abbas to Hold off on Anti-Israel Diplomatic Initiatives to Give Trump Administration Time to Formulate Peace Plan
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/27/report-kushner-asks-abbas-to-hold-off-on-anti-israel-diplomatic-initiatives-to-give-trump-administration-time-to-formulate-peace-plan/

“Palestinians” to Give US Ultimatum on “Peace Process”

By Pamela Geller - on August 27, 2017
https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/palestinians-ultimatum-peace.html/


New US Mideast Director Implied Moral Equivalency between Palestinian Terror and Israel
https://unitedwithisrael.org/state-departments-new-mideast-director-has-record-of-criticizing-israel/

Ousted Bannon: Mahmoud Abbas is a terrorist, I'd never meet with him - David Rosenberg

Caroline Glick on McMaster Purge of Trump Loyalists

Amb. Friedman.. Please Seriously Listen to ZOA Concerns and Opposition to McMaster/Tillerson Policies and Actions

Did Jared Kushner discourage the Embassy Move to Jerusalem?
Report: Bannon pushed for US embassy move Jerusalem, blocked by Kushner  August 21, 2017

Did David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt pressure Israel to remove the metal detectors in Temple Mount to ease the tension?  http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.803066

The Temple Mount Affair: What Has Changed? - Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser
http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-temple-mount-affair-what-has.html

Meanwhile King Abdullah II of Jordan seems to be making peace with Abbas condemning Israel in spite of being dependent on Israel.

There is nothing the enemy likes better than infighting!.  If there are differences  among Trump's inner circle and loyalists it should be conducted no differently than the arguments between Hillel and Shamai, the great sages and their followers who disagreed but nevertheless loved and respected one another. 

The Talmud is comprised of differing approaches and Talmudic Scholars spend their time trying to get to the very root of the matter to understand where the two sides diverge and differ

It seems to me that Jared Kushner, David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt seem to take the Hillel approach. The kinder approach. 

We have been in exile for over 2,000 years.  Many believe that we are living in Messianic Times.  Maybe Shamai's stricter approach is the necessary approach to fight evil such as ISIS, IRAN, Fatah and Hamas.  

A Machlokes (Conflict, disagreement) LeShem Shamayim (for the sake of Heaven).  

These and those: two conflicting opinions can both be valid. And some conflicting views cannot exist without the other

Beraisa DeR' Yishmael - Introduction to Sifra
Torah Methodology #13 – Shnei k'suvim hamach'chishim zeh es zeh…
When there are 2 opposing passages that seem contradictory, along comes a passage that reconciles them.


The idea that the Halacha will be in accordance with Beis Shamai in the time of Moshiach comes from the Arizal. It is quoted in his name by Mikdash Melech to Zohar Parshas Bereishis 17b and in Likkutey Torah (Rabbi Shnuer Zalman of Liadi) Parshas Korach 54c. The Arizal interprets the Mishna in Pirkey Avos (5:19) that an argument for the sake of heaven such as that of Hillel and Shamai will endure; although now the Halacha is like Beis Hillel, the argument will endure as later the Halacha will be like Beis Shamai. An alternate source is Tosfos Chadashim at the beginning of Avos who brings this in the name of the Gaon of Nikolsburg.
There are two general explanations brought:
1) Mikdash Melech: Hillel represents kindness and Shammai severity (hence the rulings of Beis Hillel are almost always more lenient). When Moshaich comes the advantage of the severity will be revealed and therefore the halacha will be in accordance with Beis Shamai. [Based on this reason some say that this is only in cases where Bais Shamai are stricter].
2) Tosfos Chadashim: Bais Shmai comes from such a high level this present world is incapable of withstanding and only when Moshiach comes will we be able to follow their opinion. [It seems based on this reason we will follow all Beis Shamai's rulings, not only the stricter ones.]
The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains at length in his Kuntres "Torah Chadosha Me'Iti Teztzei" how the fact that the Halacha will change in accordance with Beis Shamai is consistant with the immutable nature of the Torah.   

Dear Jared Kushner, Amb. Friedman and Jason Greenblatt...

Visiting victims of terror and sending condolences and tweets of outrage following terror attacks is very nice but please do not confuse ceremony with substance.  Surely you have better things to do with your time than pay condolence calls....How about like visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron as did Caleb ben Yefuneh for inner strength and fortitude to stand strong in the face of  UNESCO and Public Opinion outrage against Israel's determination to assert Sovereignty and defend her claim to our Biblical Homeland!

Kushner visits family of officer murdered in Jerusalem attack

Trump Dispatches Personal Envoys on Condolence Call for Shabbat Massacre Victims



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Jordan and King Abdullah II...Harboring a Terrorist that Killed 15. Jordan refuses to extradite Tamimi...

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Thank you Susie Dym of Mattot Arim for the Links and for raising awareness!

Just in case we consider King Abdullah II Israel's friend...

Ahlam al-Tamimi: Jordan refuses to extradite her to US
US prosecutors allege woman accompanied suicide bomber and ordered him to detonate explosives in Jerusalem pizzeria.

Jordan planner of 2001 blast [is] relieved [that] US extradition [is] blocked  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/23/jordan-planner-2001-blast-relieved-us-extradition-blocked.html

It's seems logical that Israel and the Jewish People and the civilized world should be pressuring Jordan to release Tamimi...Yet I have strong reservations that our efforts would be successful. ...that is not until we show Jordan that we mean business in asserting Sovereignty over our Land and mean business in protecting our Holy Sites and our People...

King Abdullah II is clearly making peace with Abbas right now.  Both seem to have greatly benefited from their claimed success to get Israel to capitulate and remove the Metal Detectors on Temple Mount. 

So what is the root of Israel's inability to withstand the Palestinian Rage directed against them?

 It comes from Israel's failure to assert Sovereignty over Temple Mount. 

Palestinians want Control and Sovereignty over Temple Mount... They want it so that Israel won't have it. For Israel,  what is paramount and primary is keeping peace and security over Temple Mount, the Holiest Jewish Site,  for both Jews and non Jews alike. Exercising Sovereignty and Control is secondary.  

The Temple Mount Affair: What Has Changed? - Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser

My take is as follows....We messed up big time with Temple Mount.  There is no way that Abdullah II will agree to extradite Tamimim  especially now after he is claiming victory over Israel's capitulation.  Israel stands alone.  The entire civilized world will not be holier than the pope! Since when has the world really cared about Israel's victims of Terror?   

Let Netanyahu put back the metal detectors and claim Har HaBayit. 

Jordan is dependent on Israel for their water and economy.    Only then we can think of insisting that Jordan extradite Tamimi. Can you imagine the Rage in Jordan against Abdullah II if he capitulated to the Israeli's or even to an International Court to extradite their hero Tamimi?

Even if we judge King Abdullah II favorably, that he is moderate and a friend of Israel, he is walking a tightrope. His grandfather Abdulah I was assassinated according to Ron Kampeas bc of his peace efforts towards Israel. Surely King Abdullah is wary of standing up to Terrorists who murdered Israeli's for good reason. 

In addition, his most recent actions clearly show he is not in the peace making mode with Israel.. 



After Donald Trump's inauguration as United States president on 20 January 2017, Abdullah traveled to the US on an official visit.[70] He was worried about the new administration's positions on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (specifically, issues relating to Israeli settlements) and Trump's electoral campaign promise to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move which Jordan considers a "red line".[71] Abdullah met Trump briefly at the National Prayer Breakfast on 2 February, and reportedly convinced him to change his policy towards Israeli settlements.[72] This was substantiated by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who said two days later that the expansion of Israeli settlements may not be helpful in achieving peace.[70]

Again, I am no expert.  My guess is that the King of Jordan is intimidated by the Palestinians and Radical Islamic elements in his empire. 

"Israel cannot convince Arab nations to help it resolve the Palestinian conflict any more than it can convince the PLO to cut a peace deal with it.
Like PLO leaders, the leaders of the Arab world know that they cannot help Israel with the Palestinians.
Doing so would involve disowning the Palestinian narrative.
The Palestinian narrative claims that the Jews of Israel are colonialist interlopers who stole the land from the Palestinians, its rightful owners. The narrative makes no distinction between Tel Aviv and Hebron. All of Israel is a crime against the Arab world. All of Israel is illegitimate.
The overwhelming majority of the Arab world believes the Palestinian narrative. For an Arab leader to walk away from it or even to signal an attenuation of his fealty to it in the interest of regional peace would be the riskiest of moves.
Israel has nothing to offer Arab leaders that could induce them to take that risk." (my emphasis)

John Bolton's Two State Solution Not Viable. Proposal for a 3 State Solution. Israel, Jordan and Egypt. My Objections to this Proposal and Alternative Proposals in Brainstorming mode! https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2017/06/john-boltons-two-state-solution-not.html Monday, June 05, 2017

This entire incident at Temple Mount opened our eyes clearly about Jordan.  John Bolton who loves Israel was deceived with Jordan, hoping that they and Egypt can be a peace partner but after what happened on Temple Mount, I hope he sees the truth of the matter.  

Here is some background about King Abullah II's grandfather King Abdullah Ist

6 things you didn't know about the Six-Day War by Ron Kampeas
 http://www.jta.org/2017/05/15/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/6-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-six-day-war

For 20 years, Jews paid fees to a symbol of Palestinian pride.

 "Separate and Unequal," penned by three Israelis – Amir Cheshin and Avi Melamed, two former municipality liaisons to the city's Palestinian population, and journalist Bill Hutman – cited the conundrum as an example of the balancing act that Israeli officials had to perform: Maintaining a Jewish claim to the entire city, while at times deferring to Palestinian nationalism, in order to keep the peace.

 Ron Kampeas in this JTA article says that Jerusalem was never officially annexed or declared under Israeli Sovereignty.Can Jordan be trusted not to advance against Israel when pressured by other Arabs as in 1967 when they attacked  Israel?  Perhaps what happened to King Abdullah I is what Caroline Glick is afraid of and therefore referred to Bolton's Proposal as  "riskiest of moves"....

 Kampeas writes:
During most of his reign, King Hussein of Jordan sought a peaceful arrangement with Israel, taking a cue from his beloved grandfather, King Abdullah I, whom he saw assassinated in Jerusalem in 1951 because he was seeking peace with Israel.Like his grandfather, he sought peace in secret but did not escape opprobrium – and was wary of meeting Abdullah's fate. Hussein felt he had little choice but to join President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in saber rattling against Israel in 1967 – Nasser, wildly popular in the Arab world, had already taunted the king as being subservient to Israel.Moreover, Israel had humiliated Hussein a year earlier with a massive daylight raid into his territory to exact revenge for an attack carried out by Palestinian Fatah troops, who then operated with relative impunity from Jordanian soil.According to historian Martin Gilbert's "Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas," on June 4, 1967, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol relayed a message to Hussein: "We shall not initiate any action whatsoever against Jordan. However, should Jordan open hostilities, we shall react with all our might and (Hussein) will have to bear the full responsibility for all the consequences."At 8:30 a.m. the following day, Jordan started shelling western Jerusalem, and at 9:30 a.m., Hussein broadcast, "The hour of revenge has come."
Kampeas suggests that Jordan since then has gained Israel's trust.
King Hussein drove Fatah out of Jordan in 1970 and in 1973 waited out the Yom Kippur War. In 1986, he came close to signing a peace deal with Israel.
In 1994, symbols bold and subtle made evident that Hussein had earned the trust of leading Israelis. The king was present at Israel's Arava terminal when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a peace treaty with his Jordanian counterpart, Abdelsalam al-Majali.
Ted Belman calls for King Abdulah  to abdicate to the   JOC (Jordan Opposition Coalition)   The ultimate alternate Israel-Palestine solution

Personally, I think that if King Abdullah abdicates, Most Palestinians will join Hamas or ISIS unless USA and Israel intervenes big time.  JOC a secular Palestinian State doesn't have much of a chance against Fatah or Hamas or Isis.

If King Abdullah extradites Tamimi, the RAGE would be explosive!  

What choice does Israel have?  If they want to seriously extradite Tamimi let them suggest that Israel is willing to expand it's borders if it is threatened by it's surrounding neighbors who are intent on protecting terrorists who are intent on Israel's destruction be it Syria, Lebanon,  Jordan,  Hamas, Isis, Fatah and Iran. 
Israel should be willing to expand it's territory going to the Euphrates River, as was the original boundaries of the Balfour declaration as was the Original Mandate of Palestine in 1920 and consistent with the Biblical boundaries promised to Abraham in Brit Bein Habesarim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_of_the_pieces

The promise was first made to Abraham (Genesis 15:18-21), then confirmed to his son Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and then to Isaac's son Jacob (Genesis 28:13),Abraham's grandson. The promised land was described in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river (Exodus 23:31).
 And we recently read in Parshath Eikev Devarim - Deuteronomy - Chapter 11:24
24Every place upon which the soles of your feet will tread, will be yours: from the desert and the Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River, and until the western sea, will be your boundary. כדכָּל־הַמָּק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּדְרֹ֧ךְ כַּף־רַגְלְכֶ֛ם בּ֖וֹ לָכֶ֣ם יִֽהְיֶ֑ה מִן־הַמִּדְבָּ֨ר וְהַלְּבָנ֜וֹן מִן־הַנָּהָ֣ר נְהַר־פְּרָ֗ת וְעַד֙ הַיָּ֣ם הָאַֽחֲר֔וֹן יִֽהְיֶ֖ה גְּבֻֽלְכֶֽם:
The Stone Edition Commentary נְהַר־פְּרָ֗ת The Euphrates River
The borders given in Numbers 34:1-12 are nowhere near the Euphrates. Those were the borders of the generations that entered the Land. Here Moses looked to the coming of the Messiah when the Euphrates will be the borders of the Land. 


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Robin Ticker

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Monday, August 21, 2017

Fwd: Glick: Charlottesville, Trump, Jews, ZOA's Klein

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Excellent article by Caroline Glick.  



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By Caroline Glick

On Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of support to the American Jewish community in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday.

On the surface, his move made sense – the largest Diaspora community is concerned about the growing profile of viciously antisemitic forces on the Right. But at a deeper level, Rivlin's move was detrimental.

Rivlin's letter channeled a communal posture that ignores the actual state of the Jewish community. In so doing, it made it more difficult for Jewish Americans to recognize and surmount the dangers they face.

The American Jewish community is rightly concerned about neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups that are gaining more and more attention these days. The fact that antisemitism was the dominant theme of a rally ostensibly organized to oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public park reveals the potency and centrality of Jew-hatred as an organizing tool for white supremacists in America.

President Donald Trump's remarks on Tuesday, where he claimed that only some of the people participating in the protest were white supremacists and the rest were just there to protect a monument, were hurtful. On Thursday, The New York Times published interviews with rally participants that bore out Trump's claims. They said they were only at the rally to protect the statue and do not harbor white supremacist views.

The fact is that the rhetoric of white supremacists on Israel and Jews is largely indistinguishable from the language of the far Left. Both insist that "Zionists" control the US government, media and banking system and use their control to advance the fortunes of the illegitimate "Jewish ethno-state."

Maybe they were telling the truth. But it is hard to believe people who oppose white supremacism and Jew-hatred would willingly march under swastika flags to the roar of Nazi chants.

Whatever the case, Trump's equivocation was distressing.

But then, it wasn't unprecedented for a president to obfuscate the potency of antisemitism in political violence.

In February 2015, a terrorist aligned with Islamic State entered the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris on a Friday afternoon and held the Jewish shoppers hostage while killing four of them.

When asked about the event, then-president Barack Obama denied the massacre was an antisemitic attack. He referred to the victims as "a bunch of guys in a deli." The perpetrators were merely "a bunch of violent, vicious zealots."

When asked to clarify if Obama really meant to deny the attack was an antisemitic assault, both the White House and State Department spokespeople insisted, repeatedly, that the attack was not antisemitic.

The administration only deigned to acknowledge the truth in clarifications on Twitter, which it belatedly released, and which included the outright lie that the administration had said the attack was antisemitic all along.

The Obama administration's mind-melting refusal to acknowledge the attack was anti-Jewish bespoke its larger policy of denying that Jews are specifically targeted for annihilation by Islamic terrorists. The implications of the policy of denial for the safety of Jews throughout the world, including in the US, were self-evident.

And yet, the American Jewish community preferred to ignore the whole thing.

Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama's favored Jewish journalist, tweeted, "FWIW [for what it's worth], the Obama Administration has been pretty clear in its condemnations of European antisemitism over time."

Today, the same Goldberg who underplayed and denied what can at best be called Obama's diffident response to anti-Jewish violence, has been leading the charge against Trump.

Among other things, Goldberg likened the counterprotesters at Charlottesville to the American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy.

In Goldberg's conflation of neo-Nazis with real Nazis and the far-left counterprotesters in Charlottesville to US forces, we see the real issue at the heart of the maelstrom now dominating US public life.

The real taboo Trump broke in his remarks following last weekend's deadly riot was not his equivocation about the relative badness of the neo-Nazis. His real offense was his insistence that the counterprotesters – the ones Goldberg and his colleagues liken to World War II partisans and Allied forces – were also violent.

And yet they were. And Goldberg and his colleagues know they were.

In an ironic twist of history's knife, the day of the riots, the September issue of The Atlantic monthly, where Goldberg serves as editor, hit the newsstands. The cover story, written by Peter Beinart, one of the stars of the American Jewish Left, was inconveniently titled, "The rise of the violent Left."

Beinart's article chronicled the violence and lawlessness of antifa, the radical group that organized the counterprotest in Charlottesville. Antifa is a group of radical goons who stand behind the violence that has plagued US college campuses for the past several years. All the violent protests – from Vermont to California – where conservative speakers were blocked from addressing students by rioting students who burned buildings and assaulted their fellow students who wished to attend the lectures – were antifa productions.

And antifa's operations go well beyond the walls of campuses. As Beinart notes, it was antifa rioters who physically assaulted Trump supporters as they walked to their cars at the end of a Trump rally in San Jose, California, last summer.

The purpose of antifa's violence is not merely to deny freedom of speech to those whose positions it opposes. It is also to prevent normal relations between Democrats and Republicans and between progressives and conservatives.

Hence, as Beinart noted, this past April, antifa threatened to use physical violence against participants in Portland, Oregon's annual Rose Festival parade where the local Republican Party was, as usual, scheduled to march along with their Democratic counterparts. The event, which has taken place annually since 1907, was canceled.

Antifa is problematic for American Jews specifically because it operates in a coalition of far-left groups that all hate Israel and believe that just as Republicans and conservatives should be banned from participating in public life, so American Jews who support Israel should be silenced. All of its coalition partners support the destruction of Israel and castigate the Jewish state as criminal. All bar Jews who support Israel – or even are proud of their Jewish identity – from participating in their events.

Hence, Linda Sarsour, the BDS leader who was elevated to the top of the US feminist movement when she served as co-chairwoman of the Women's March against Trump, insists that Zionists cannot be feminists.

Hence Black Lives Matter, the anti-police group that is a core member of the antifa coalition, libeled, in its mission statement, Israel as an "apartheid" state which is carrying out a "genocide" against the Palestinians.

Hence, Democratic Socialists of America, another core group in the antifa coalition, just passed a resolution at its annual convention to officially join the BDS movement. The vote was reportedly greeted with jubilant chants of "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free."

The fact is that the rhetoric of white supremacists on Israel and Jews is largely indistinguishable from the language of the far Left. Both insist that "Zionists" control the US government, media and banking system and use their control to advance the fortunes of the illegitimate "Jewish ethno-state."

David Duke, one of the leaders of the white supremacists in the US, wrote a fan letter to Roger Waters, the far-left, openly antisemitic musician who leads the BDS movement.

So from the American Jewish community's perspective, there ought to be no distinction between its abhorrence and concern over the white supremacists and its concerns and abhorrence of the radical Left. Indeed, the community should be more concerned over the latter because its assaults are more direct and more frequent.

And even more ominously, whereas no Republican leaders – including Trump – wish to be associated with white supremacists, mainstream Democratic leaders are increasingly supportive of the BDS movement and other anti-Israel groups. So it is that formerly pro-Israel New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and formerly pro-Israel New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker are embracing the BDS movement.

And yet, rather than sound the alarms or fight the growing power and influence of the anti-Jewish far Left in their political home, the American Jewish leadership is ignoring the danger and devoting itself to criminalizing Trump, his advisers and supporters.

Whereas the Anti-Defamation League had nearly nothing to say about either Sarsour or Cong. Keith Ellison, with his anti-Jewish record of statements from his service in the antisemitic Nation of Islam, ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt insisted Monday that Trump must investigate his closest advisers for alleged ties to white supremacists.

The alleged "ties" of the likes of Trump aides Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka to white supremacists are the invention of The Forward newspaper, which has relentlessly libeled both men – and particularly Gorka – without ever producing a shred of evidence to back up its allegations.

Rather than acknowledge its errors, this month the Forward took its campaign a step farther when it published an extraordinary op-ed titled "19 people Jews should worry about more than Sarsour."

Prominently placed between Gorka and Bannon and the neo-Nazis on the one side and the leaders of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, and Trump himself on the other, was Mort Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America.

In other words, for the Forward, pro-Israel American Jews of the type assaulted by antifa and its comrades, and pro-Israel presidential advisers are more dangerous to the community than Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and of course, Sarsour herself who embraces Jew-killing terrorists and says that Jewish Israel-supporters must be shunned.

Trump's electoral victory was a revolutionary event in US history. Tens of millions of American voters supported Trump because he promised to "drain the swamp," in Washington and serve the needs of the people who the swamp cast asunder.

A big part of that swamp is the Left that insists it is above criticism while its opponents on the Right are deplorable racists unworthy of consideration. When Trump called out the far Left along with the neo-Nazis for their violence at Charlottesville, he was keeping his pledge to his voters and upending one of the most cherished myths of the hated "establishment."

Given that the white supremacists and radical leftists converge in their hatred of Jews, it is important for the American Jewish community and for America as a whole to embrace Trump's actions. He is not engaging in moral equivalence between good and evil. He is exercising moral clarity. Without such clarity, the forces of Jew-hatred in the US will never be defeated. Without such clarity, the political position, security and freedom of American Jews will grow increasingly imperiled.

Israel's job, to the extent it has one in the current fight plaguing the US, is to point out this truth, not join the bandwagon in obfuscating it. Trump is far from a perfect mouthpiece for this essential battle against Jew-haters on the Right and the Left.

But at least he is using his mouth to sound the battle cry. For this he should be applauded by Israelis and American Jews alike.

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Robin Ticker

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