Cast
your mind back to 2016 and the ‘discovery’ that in 2014, at the height of Israel’s
genocidal bombardment of Gaza, when 2,200 people, including 550 children were
murdered, Naz Shah, not yet an MP, dreamed
of transferring Israel to the United States realizing that Israel would finally
be rid of the Palestinians and have no more excuse to engage in blood letting.
The
two states get on so well, and the USA has land in abundance. It seemed an
obvious solution. It would also save the USA a small fortune in military aid.
By
2016 we were in the middle of the fake Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ attack on Corbyn so
Naz was forced to humiliate herself and apologise for ‘anti-Semitism’ to the ‘Jewish community’ (i.e. the Israel lobby)
in order that she could stay in Parliament.
Ken Livingstone got suspended defending her and Corbyn went along with
all this and ended up getting suspended himself.
However
imagine what might have happened if Naz Shah’s fantasy had been acted out. Is it a crime to fantasize? We all dream of a
better world!
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| A brilliant idea |
I
have to confess I never understood this ‘anti-Semitism’ stuff. All Naz Shah and others were suggesting was a
change of scenery for Israeli Jews!
There was no hint of extermination or anything. Now today, just imagine
what would have happened if that dream fantasy had been fulfilled.
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70%
of Israelis supported Trump compared to just 13% for Biden. Even Jeremy Corbyn got more Jewish voters
than Biden got Israeli Jewish voters!!
Imagine what would have happened if we had put half Israel’s Jewish populace
in Michigan and the other half in Pennsylvania?
Between them they had 38 electoral college votes and that would have
enabled Trump to win by a slender 2 votes.
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| McDonnell and Owen Jones did more to destroy the Corbyn Project than Boris Johnson - this was the time to tell the Zionists the difference between satire and anti-Semitism |
Anti-Semitic?
Why? There’s plenty of rustbelt land filled
with abandoned factories and foreclosed land that Israel could colonise and
call home. They could establish settlements galore on the ruins of rusting factories. Indeed they could have rejuvenated them and
put back life into America’s industrial economy.
Meanwhile
the Palestinians could return to their own home. Even better the Israeli settlements could be
demolished, brick by brick and in that way the old Biblical scenery of the West
Bank could be restored to what it was before these ugly concrete structures.
In
other words everyone would benefit!
The
fact that 70% of Israelis would have voted for the anti-Semitic Trump
demonstrates once again that the best friend of Zionism is anti-Semitism. Trump
has claimed
that Henry Ford, the legendary anti-Semite who printed
the Czarist forgery the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his Dearborn
Independent, was his ‘inspiration’. The same Henry Ford that Hitler also
claimed as his inspiration
and who hung a life-sized portrait of him by his desk.
This
is the man that Israeli Jews would have voted for by a factor of over 5-1. So
when you see someone like Keir Starmer describe themselves as a ‘Zionist without
qualification’ then you know that what they mean is that they are a racist ‘without
qualification’.
So
loved was Trump that West Bank mayors
and settlers held a religious ceremony, complete with the blowing of the shofar
(a ram’s horn) to pray for the re-election of Trump. Unfortunately god seems not to have been
listening! If this is god’s attitude
then if I were a settler I would be very worried that the great bearded one
might be angry again with his people! Exile to the United States would be a fitting punishment - again!!
Below
are 3 articles, two from the Times of Israel
and one from Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz.
Tony
Greenstein
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) |
Israel
Democracy Institute poll also finds 42% of Israeli Jews believe the US-Israel
bond will weaken if Biden is elected, with only seven percent saying it will
strengthen
3 November 2020, 4:30 am
Some 70 percent of Jewish Israelis believe a
victory for Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the US presidential election would
be preferable for the Jewish state, an opinion poll indicated on Monday.
The Israel Democracy Institute survey, released
a day before the US election day, asked whether Republican incumbent Trump or
his Democratic challenger Biden is the preferred candidate, “from the
standpoint of Israel’s interests.”
Among Israeli Jews, 70% said Trump is the
preferred candidate, 13% said Biden, and 17% don’t know.
Support for Trump was markedly lower among Arab
Israelis, with 36% saying he was the preferred candidate, 31% saying Biden, and
33% saying they didn’t know.
Among all Israelis, 63% favor Trump, 17% Biden
and 20% don’t know.
Broken down by political camp, 82% of right-wing
poll respondents, 62% of centrists, and 40% percent of left-wingers said Trump
is the better candidate for Israel.
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Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP) |
“Presumably this pronounced preference among the
Jewish public for Trump to keep serving stems to a large extent from the
assessment that Biden’s election would weaken US-Israeli relations, and
strengthen the relationship between Washington and the Palestinians,” IDI said.
The survey polled 611 men and women in Hebrew
and 150 in Arabic, constituting a representative national sample of the
population of Israel, with a margin of error of +/- 3.7%.
Trump has been viewed by many as one of the most
pro-Israel US presidents ever.
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| Marc Zell - Chair Republicans for Israel Overseas |
The Trump
administration has used the final months of the campaign to further seek
support from pro-Israel Jewish and Evangelical Republican voters. In just this
past week, the State Department updated its policy to allow US citizens born in
Jerusalem to list Israel as their country of birth on passports and US
Ambassador to Israel David Friedman signed an agreement with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu extending US scientific cooperation to apply as well in the
West Bank — a move viewed by many as a first step toward American recognition
of Israeli sovereignty over the settlements.
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Opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid-Telem is pictured during an interview with AFP at his office in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on September 14, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP) |
But opposition leader Yair Lapid on Monday said that whoever wins, “the next president of the United States will be a friend of Israel.”
“Both Donald Trump
and Joe Biden are friends of Israel, with a deep commitment to Israel and to
Zionism,” Lapid said in a statement, while adding he had seen hostile “radical
voices” growing stronger within the Democratic Party.
Several rabbis,
including Haim Druckman, an influential former member of the National Religious
Party, have urged US citizens in Israel to vote for Trump.
And on Monday evening
around 150 Trump supporters waving US and Israeli flags rallied in the city of
Beit Shemesh south of Jerusalem, where many Israeli-Americans live.
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An Israeli supporter of the re-election of US
President Donald Trump waves American and Israeli flags from a car at a rally
outside of the US Embassy, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Maya
Alleruzzo) |
The Trump
administration has also sought to expand the list of Arab and Muslim-majority
countries to normalize relations with Israel in the final months of its current
term. Last Friday, Sudan agreed to become the third country to do so in recent
months. Sudan followed the lead of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain after
weeks of pressure from Washington, which conditioned removing Khartoum from its
blacklist of state terror sponsors on Sudan making peace with the Jewish state.
These moves follow
decisions by the Trump administration to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital, transfer the US embassy there, recognize Israeli sovereignty over the
Golan Heights, scrap previous policy deeming settlements to be illegal, release
a peace plan widely deemed to be the most favorable to Israel yet, take a far
more combative approach toward the Palestinians than previous administrations
and pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, which the Netanyahu government opposed
aggressively.
On the other hand,
Trump’s critics point out that he has turned the issue of Israel into a
political football when for decades the bipartisan nature of support for the
Jewish state had been touted as something that kept Israel more secure. Polls
of Jewish voters in the US show that at least two-thirds prefer Biden over
Trump, many of whom blame the president for the rise in white nationalism in
the US, which has seen Jews targeted in record numbers of anti-Semitic attacks.
Moreover, these more
dovish voters are less supportive of the Israeli settlement enterprise in the
West Bank and tend to oppose moves the Trump administration has taken to
solidify the Israeli presence there at the expense of efforts to reach a
two-state solution.
Look
at Trump and You'll See the Israelis
Published on 08.11.2020
Standing in line Friday in the Tel Aviv suburb of
Ramat Aviv Gimel to pick up the weekend edition of Israel Hayom, affluent
residents discussed the likely defeat. “We’re screwed,” one man said sadly; his
companions nodded in agreement. It’s a dark day for Israel: Donald Trump has
lost the election.
No other country in
the world, with the possible exception of the Philippines or Nebraska, was as
saddened by his fall. A poll by Israel’s Mitvim think tank found that 70
percent of Israelis support Trump.
A survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center had similar findings.
Whereas 75 percent of West Europeans are fed up with the U.S. president, in
Israel a large majority – including centrists and some leftists – admires him.
It can be argued, of
course, that this support is a way of saying thanks for moving the U.S. Embassy
to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights and
withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear deal. But these events caused little
excitement in Israel. No one jumped into a fountain in a city square to
celebrate the recognition of Majdal
Shams as an Israeli town, and only a few people were moved by Ambassador
David Friedman’s change of address.
The explanation for
Trump’s rising popularity in Israel goes much deeper; its roots are much more
disturbing. Israel admires Trump not despite his many repellent shortcomings
but because of them. Trump is the embodiment of everything that’s bad and ugly
about Israel while normalizing and whitewashing them for us. Look at him and
you’ll see ourselves. This is who we are, or who we’d like to be. Most of us,
anyway.
Trump is the
embodiment of Israel the unbeautiful; he could easily be elected prime
minister. The vulgarity, coarseness, belligerence, ignorance, scheming and
lies; the contempt for the weak, for the law, for justice, the media, science
and the environment – all this fits us like a glove.
Who wouldn’t want a
prime minister condescending to everyone, someone who always knows best, who
will make Israel great again? Who wouldn’t want a prime minister who’s nobody’s
fool, who made his fortune through guile and cunning, just the way we like it?
Who wouldn’t want a
prime minister who scoffs at political correctness and will bring back the good
old days of male chauvinism unhindered by feminism; who won’t bother us with
all those threats to the planet and nature, who’ll also bring back racism?
Who wouldn’t want a
real man like him? Who wouldn’t like someone who will scorn international
institutions, human rights groups and international law, who will violate
signed agreements and deride arrogant Europe and its universal liberal values,
just as in the secret dreams of many Israelis? Even Benjamin
Netanyahu, who’s as similar to Trump as he can be, can’t attain that level
of making dreams come true.
Take the typical
Israeli driver. He isn’t Trump? The Israeli road isn’t Trumplike? Cut somebody
off, honk, curse, break the law, park anywhere, don’t think about anyone but
yourself, yours is the biggest, strongest and fastest; look at me.
Take Israeli
politics, especially politicians on the right. That isn’t Trump? They wouldn’t
want to be like him?
Combine Avigdor Lieberman, Miri Regev, Osnat Mark, Miki Zohar and David Amsalem and you get Trump in Hebrew.
Combine their bullying, ignorance, populism, superficiality, populism and
vulgarity and you get Israeli Trumpism.
As an encore, add the way Trump humiliated the Palestinians, ignored their very existence. Their
rights meant nothing to him, just as they mean nothing to most Israelis, simply
because they’re weak. It’s a dream.
It’s an Israeli dream to stop aid to the weak and give
it to the strong, as Trump did – from the UNRWA refugee agency to the
Israeli army, from the refugees to the force that expelled them. And it’s an
Israeli dream to deport asylum
seekers, as Trump has, to keep hundreds of children separated from
their parents and leave tens of thousands of frightened adults.
That’s Trumpian justice, and it’s Israeli justice. That’s why we’ve loved him so much. That’s why it’s such a pity that he’ll be leaving.
In
shadow of patriarchs, settler leaders gather in Hebron to pray for Trump win
West Bank mayors recite psalms, hoping for four more years; cite incumbent’s recognition of Golan Heights and Jerusalem, support for Israel against threats like Iran and BDS
November 2020, 4:53 pm
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Hebron spokesman Yishai Fleisher, right, and Marc Zell, the head of Republicans Overseas Israel, blow shofars to show their support for Trump November, 2, 2020. (Courtesy Har Hevron regional council spokesperson) |
Settler leaders held a special prayer session Monday
outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, at which
they thanked US President Donald Trump for his support of the settlement
movement and wished him success in Tuesday’s elections.
Psalms and other prayers meant to aid the incumbent
president to victory were recited at the Monday event, during which Har Hevron
Regional Council chairman Yochai Damri and Marc Zell, the head of Republicans
Overseas Israel, blew shofars to show their support for Trump.
At the event, Damri explained why the US president
meant so much to the settler movement.
“We came here today to say to President Trump thank you,” he said.
“Thank
you for your special relationship to the land of Israel, for the recognition of
the Golan Heights and of the settlement enterprise. Thank you for your war
against Iran and the BDS movement. Thank you for strengthening the settlement
of the land of the Bible. We pray and hope that you will continue to another
four years of strengthening the settlement enterprise.”
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| Israeli Trump Supporter heads to Jerusalem |
Marc Zell, the head of Republicans Overseas Israel at
the Cave of the patriarchs, November 2, 2020. (Courtesy: Har hebron regional
council spokesperson)
Kiryat Arba Local Council chairman Eliyahu Libman
said, “Trump proved his friendship toward the people of Israel by moving the
American embassy to Jerusalem, and recognizing our sovereignty in the Golan
Heights and the right of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.”
Those moves on behalf of the settler enterprise were
lauded as “tremendous and daring” by Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael
Gantz.
Also adding their voices to the reelect Trump prayer
meeting were Gush Etzion Regional Council chairman Shlomo Ne’eman and the mayor
of Hebron, Rabbi Hillel Horowitz.
The Tomb of the Patriarchs, where the prayer session
took place, is sanctified by Jews and Muslims as the burial place of the
biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca
and Leah.
Hebron is home to approximately 1,000 settlers, who
live in a series of enclaves surrounded by some 215,000 Palestinians. Large
numbers of Israeli security forces protect Jewish residents in the city, which
is frequently the scene of violence.
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While Jews in the United States — except for the Orthodox — are expected to
vote overwhelmingly for Democrat Joe Biden, Trump is a popular figure in
Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described him as the “greatest
friend” Israel has ever had in the White House.
Many in Israel view Trump as a staunch supporter of
the Jewish state, especially in the wake of the Washington-brokered Abraham
Accords, which led to normalization
deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan.
A poll published by Channel 12 news Friday showed 54%
percent of Israelis favor Trump, compared to 21% who favor Biden and 25% who
were undecided or did not know. No methodology or margin of error was provided
by Channel 12 for the survey.
Settlers in particular have been outspoken supporters
of Trump for his policies that appear to support Israeli annexation of parts of
the West Bank. In addition, he has earned accolades for his administration’s
decisions to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli sovereignty
over the Golan Heights.
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US ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) with Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi in Efrat on February 20, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90) |
Still, many settler leaders, Damri included, rejected Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan over the fact that it included the possibility of the creation of a Palestinian state on parts of the West Bank not annexed by Israel. The reaction was reportedly met by anger in the White House.
Oded Revivi, the influential head of the Efrat
settlement who was one of the settler leaders who embraced the Trump plan, said
Sunday that he would not participate in the rally out of respect for the US
political process.
“President Trump has proven over four years that he
is a big friend of Israel and during his term ties between Israel and the US
have grown stronger. However, just as we warn off foreign influences from
internal debates and elections… so it is not correct for the leadership to
express a stance on the US elections,”
he tweeted.
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