{"id":90171,"date":"2016-03-16T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90171"},"modified":"2016-03-16T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:10:25","slug":"the-left-will-get-trump-nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90171","title":{"rendered":"Jews For Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Marks posts on FB<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* How Are Those Non-Racist Open Borders Working Out?
\nIs Islamophobia worse than rape and sexual assault? More than 1,000 crimes by Muslim migrants against women in a single night in Cologne. Police detain two suspects, from Algeria & Iraq. Of course, we should have more migrants and less jails, say Bernie & Hillary.<\/p>\n

* If depicting Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi uniform was said to be incitement and prelude to his assassination, is the relentless comparisons of Trump to Hitler an equal incitement and prelude to his assassination? What leaders are disavowing that verbal violence?<\/p>\n

* As that violent instigator Trump says, \u201cIf they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl.” Oh, wait a second, that was Obama.<\/p>\n

* Appearing on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources on Sunday, longtime media critic Steven Brill \u2014 no conservative \u2014 saw a double standard in how the media reacted to the events in Chicago: \u201cI want to say this very narrowly, because this does not excuse Mr. Trump from inciting violence, it does not excuse everything else he\u2019s doing in his campaign. I do think that if Trump supporters, by the dozens or hundreds, planted themselves at a Hillary Clinton rally or a Bernie Sanders rally and stood up and disrupted it, and that was their intent, that the press would cover that differently. So in that sense, I think Trump has a point.\u201d
\nCNN host Brian Stelter agreed: \u201cI think you\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Why when leftist protestors disrupt Trump rallies does it reflect poorly on Trump, not on those leftists attempting to suffocate political expression? If right-wingers disrupted a Hillary or Bernie rally, would we blame Bernie\/Hillary people or the disruptive right-wingers? So far, only leftists are disrupting Trump rallies, not rightists disrupting anyone. Try disrupting a Black Lives Matter rally in Baltimore and see how gently they’ll react.<\/p>\n

* Some said (not in this story<\/a>), what’s worse, being endorsed by David Duke, whose endorsement Trump didn’t seek, or Hillary and Bernie actively meeting with and seeking the endorsement of Al Sharpton, provocateur of the Crown Heights Pogrom, with its cries of “Kill the Jews,” the murder of Jew and dozens of home invasions? What’s more threatening, a Klan endorsement that Trump didn’t seek, or Hillary and Bernie voting for the Iran nuclear deal? The deal allows Iran to test ballistic missiles, and this week Iran did, with threats to annihilate Israel written in Hebrew on the missile. To Jews, Sharpton is worse than Duke, Iran is more threatening than the Klan.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Mark writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a campaign stained by insults and innuendo, has anyone been more smeared than conservative Republicans supporting Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

More than a few Orthodox Zionists among them complained to us that in a dangerous, uncertain world, their fears are dismissed as phobias: xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia; they\u2019re called racist, nativist, fascist. Their candidate, Trump, is routinely compared to \u201cHitler\u201d by professors, comedians, even Anne Frank\u2019s half-sister, Eva.<\/p>\n

(Despite the oft-repeated charges that Trump hates Muslims, a March 1 poll conducted by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that 18 percent of American Muslims are now Republican and Trump is their favored nominee.)<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump asked those at a rally to \u201craise your hand,\u201d like a juror at a swearing-in, in a pledge to vote for Trump in the primary. To the people at the rally, an innocent gesture, surely, but it was \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d in the eyes of Abe Foxman, formerly of the Anti-Defamation League, signaling \u201cobedience to their leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foxman, for decades, scolded those who made Holocaust comparisons to petty politics. Americans are routinely scolded against comparing the nuclear deal with Iran to the 1938 Hitler appeasement. \u201cWe can\u2019t even compare Islamic terrorists to Nazis \u2014 or even to Islam,\u201d said one Trump supporter, \u201cand suddenly we\u2019re told that a Trump rally is a Nuremberg rally on the eve of the Holocaust.\u201d Incivility is contagious; Trump\u2019s campaign, drizzled with impolitic insults, is being mirrored on the left by intemperate critiques as incendiary as Trump\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

J.J. Gross, a New York writer now living in Jerusalem, e-mailed: \u201cI am not for Trump; I am against Hillary [Clinton] and [Bernie] Sanders. Hence I will vote for Trump, absent any other opponent to those two.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gross was one of several who pointed to Sidney Blumenthal as an example why \u201cHillary can\u2019t be trusted.\u201d Blumenthal\u2019s son, Max, is a fierce critic of Israel; The Nation called \u201cGoliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel\u201d by Max Blumenthal, \u201cthe \u2018I Hate Israel\u2019 handbook.\u201d The elder Blumenthal suggested Clinton read Max\u2019s articles, some of which Clinton distributed to her staff.<\/p>\n

Gross continued, \u201cBernie Sanders\u2019 Jewishness is the most dangerous kind. \u2026 My worry with Sanders is not what he would do \u2018for\u2019 Israel but what he would do \u2018to\u2019 Israel. Yes, Trump is a bombastic, bloviating egomaniac, in the American tradition of Teddy Roosevelt and P.T. Barnum; such ego demands greatness for America, and by extension its allies, of which Israel is certainly one, if not the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Brooklyn, one rabbi, familiar with back-room conversations in Borough Park and chasidic Williamsburg, said Trump\u2019s supporters were \u201cnot the sophisticated people.\u201d But even unsophisticated people can have good reasons, said the rabbi, who asked not to be named because of his political ties. \u201cThere\u2019s great anger at the Democratic Party,\u201d and \u201chere comes a man who speaks his mind, telling everyone off. He\u2019s not really a nice guy. The Yiddish word is prust,\u201d crude, coarse.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, in Florida, Sid Dinerstein, former Palm Beach County Republican chair, said, \u201cThe Republican Jews I speak to seem very solid for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry Spiewak, chairman of the Flatbush Council of Jewish Organizations, was cited last summer in Hamodia and Haaretz as a Trump supporter. (In the American Jewish Committee poll of Jewish attitudes released last fall, Trump polled higher than any other GOP hopeful.) Spiewak told Haaretz that Trump was like Howard Stern. \u201cOnly Trump has the guts to say what others are afraid to say out loud. \u2026 Is he abrasive sometimes? Yeah, but that\u2019s what people like\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Six months later, Spiewak is not so sure. He senses that Trump supporters may be less apt to express their support. \u201cLook,\u201d Spiewak told us, \u201cI listen to Howard Stern every morning, but I don\u2019t go around telling everybody. I still agree with what Trump\u2019s saying on the issues, but I\u2019m not agreeing with how it is said \u2014 the way he puts people down. He\u2019s losing respect from the community. My respect level is less than it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know,\u201d said Spiewak, \u201cI always say to my friends, \u2018anybody but Hillary.\u2019 But I really don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do now. Hey, it\u2019s early. My father used to say, an hour before Shabbos isn\u2019t Shabbos. A lot can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

What about him being neutral on Israel? (Trump has said that in negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians he would be \u201cevenhanded,\u201d an honest broker.) \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s neutral on Israel,\u201d said Spiewak.<\/p>\n

Dr. Alan Rosenthal, a professor of surgery at New York University, said he had no problem with Trump\u2019s \u201cneutral\u201d comment regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. \u201cHe is correct in \u2018not showing his cards\u2019 at this time. I would not want to play poker with Donald Trump. I don\u2019t think Trump would hesitate to treat Arab leaders as condescendingly as he did Chris Christie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenthal continued, \u201cFrom an Israel\/Jewish perspective, a priority to me, I trust Trump to be a very strong, positive candidate. People I know who have had dealings with Trump, both business and personal, never heard him intimate even the most subtle anti-Jewish or anti-Israel comments.\u201d His Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, \u201call of whom he loves dearly,\u201d are all shomer Shabbat, \u201cmaking an anti-Israel\/Jewish position very unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been much polling on the race in Israel, but the Jewish Journal cited an Israeli Democracy Institute monthly Peace Index poll saying that 60 percent of Israelis say that Trump is good for Israel, while 51 percent say the same for Hillary Clinton. Seventeen percent of Israelis say Trump would be bad for Israel; 32 percent say Clinton would be bad for the Jewish state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dennis Prager writes March 15, 2016<\/a>: <\/p>\n

This past Friday, a left-wing mob shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago. Most Americans viewing what happened saw it for what it was \u2014 another left-wing assault on the speech of those with whom they differ and on traditional American civility.
\nNot surprisingly, the media reporting has concentrated overwhelmingly on Trump for incendiary and inexcusable comments he has made at some of his other rallies that were disrupted by protesters. For example, he offered to pay any legal bills incurred by a man in the audience who sucker-punched a protester as he was being led out of a Trump rally.
\nMany have also noted the alleged assault by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was accused of trying to grab Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields\u2019 arm. (I say \u201calleged\u201d because I have watched the video of the alleged incident four times but could not ascertain what actually took place.)
\nFor the record, I have been relentless in my criticisms of Donald Trump, both in print and on my radio show, preferring any other Republican candidate. Based on his past, I have not had any reason to trust him as a conservative or as a Republican, and he has exhibited serious character flaws.
\nNevertheless, truth must trump opposition to Trump.
\nAnd the truth is that the left-wing attack on Trump\u2019s Chicago rally had little, if anything, to do with what the incendiary comments Donald Trump has made about attacking protestors at his events. Leftist mobs attack and shut down events with which they differ as a matter of course. They do so regularly on American college campuses, where conservative speakers \u2014 on the rare occasion they are invited \u2014 are routinely shouted down by left-wing students (and sometimes faculty) or simply disinvited as a result of leftist pressure on the college administration.
\nA couple of weeks ago conservative writer and speaker Ben Shapiro was disinvited from California State University, Los Angeles. When he nevertheless showed up, 150 left-wing demonstrators blocked the entrance to the theater in which he was speaking, and sounded a fire alarm to further disrupt his speech.
\nIn just the last year, left-wing students have violently taken over presidents\u2019 or deans\u2019 offices at Princeton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dartmouth, Providence College, Harvard, Lewis & Clark College, Temple University and many others. Conservative speakers have either been disinvited or shouted down at Brandeis University, Brown University, the University of Michigan and myriad other campuses.
\nAnd leftists shout down virtually every pro-Israel speaker, including the Israeli ambassador to the United States, at every university to which they are invited to speak.
\nYet the mainstream media simply ignore this left-wing thuggery \u2014 while reporting that the shutting down of a pro-Trump rally is all Trump\u2019s fault for his comments encouraging roughing up protestors at his events.
\nThat the left shuts down people with whom it differs is a rule in every leftist society. The left \u2014 not classical liberals, I hasten to note \u2014 is totalitarian by nature. In the 20th century, the century of totalitarianism, virtually every totalitarian regime in the world was a leftist regime. And the contemporary American university \u2014 run entirely by the left \u2014 is becoming a totalitarian state, where only left-wing ideas are tolerated.
\nTens of millions of Americans look at what the left is doing to universities, and what it has done to the news and entertainment media, and see its contempt for the First Amendment\u2019s protection of free speech. They see Donald Trump attacked by this left, and immediately assume that only Trump will take on, in the title words of Jonah Goldberg\u2019s modern classic, \u201cLiberal Fascism.\u201d
\nAnd if these millions had any doubt that Trump alone will confront left-wing fascism, Trump\u2019s opponents seemed to provide proof. Like the mainstream media, the three remaining Republican candidates for president \u2014 John Kasich, the most and Marco Rubio the least \u2014 blamed Trump for the left-wing hooligans more than they blamed the left. It is possible that in doing so Senators Cruz and Rubio and Governor Kasich effectively ended their campaigns and ensured the nomination of Trump as the Republican candidate for president. The combination of left-wing violence and the use of it by the other GOP candidates to wound Trump rather than label the left as the mortal threat to liberty that it is may clinch Trump\u2019s nomination.
\nAnd if the left continues to violently disrupt Trump rallies, they \u2014 along with the total absence of condemnation by the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate \u2014 may well ensure that Donald Trump is elected president. Between the play-Fascism of Trump and the real Fascism of the left, most Americans will know which one to fear most.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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