{"id":86230,"date":"2016-01-24T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86230"},"modified":"2016-01-24T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:59:05","slug":"is-trump-good-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86230","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump Good For Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jewish friend tells me: He is good for Israel, for sure. He&#8217;s just not good for neocons. The neocons don&#8217;t understand that because they don&#8217;t understand that they themselves are not good for Israel. They are not good for Israel because they are not willing to understand that the interests of the US are not the same as Israel. So they promote policy that helps neither country since the only way to ameliorate the difference in interests is to serve neither, but rather to create an umbrella interest of nonsense, like &#8220;spreading democracy&#8221; to the Arab world. Someone like Trump will do much, much better because he will be honest to himself about crafting policy, in terms of winners and losers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important that intelligent Orthodox Jews understand that pretending American and Israel interests are the same ends up harming Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jewish friend tells me: He is good for Israel, for sure. He&#8217;s just not good for neocons. The neocons don&#8217;t understand that because they don&#8217;t understand that they themselves are not good for Israel. 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