{"id":90726,"date":"2016-03-22T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90726"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:35:21","slug":"why-israel-loves-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90726","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel Loves Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Trump is upsetting to delicate Jewish sensibilities, how come Israelis love him?<\/a> Maybe Trump is only upsetting to wimpy spoiled Jews. Cucked Jews are upset by Trump. Real Jews, aka Israelis and Orthodox Jews, love Trump.<\/p>\n

If Israel wants to kick out its Arabs, do you think Donald Trump would try to stop them? Do you think Israelis who chant “Death to the Arabs” fear Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

Politico<\/a>: This might be the most surprising poll from a wild, unpredictable 2016 campaign: One in four Israeli Jews would vote for Donald Trump.
\nThe real estate mogul does not have a coherent position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, except to break with decades of Republican orthodoxy and announce that he would be \u201cneutral.\u201d His GOP rivals repeated that line endlessly, hoping it would blunt Trump\u2019s rise in the polls. It didn\u2019t.
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\nHis campaign, run in the style of an authoritarian strongman, has earned him sharp criticism from American Jews, the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. And his backers include a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who hopes Trump will \u201crehabilitate\u201d Hitler\u2019s image, a statement that ought to give pause to anyone in Israel. Indeed, the big question looming over this week\u2019s American Israel Public Affairs Committee convention is just how many delegates will walk out during Trump\u2019s speech.
\nYet, a recent poll found Trump was by far Israel\u2019s favorite GOP candidate, and the second-most popular overall. A plurality even thought he would be best at \u201crepresenting Israel\u2019s interests,\u201d better than Hillary Clinton, with her decades of advocacy at the highest levels of government.
\nThose numbers could rise further still, after a spate of positive coverage in Israel\u2019s most widely read newspaper, Israel HaYom, owned by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. After months of scant coverage, the shift is a sign that Adelson\u2014a major force in both Israeli and American politics\u2014is reluctantly embracing Trump.
\nAll of this presents a major dilemma for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has worked for years to align Israel with the GOP. The party\u2019s presumptive nominee is now being spurned by the same establishment figures, men like Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who make up Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cbase\u201d in Washington. Trump has no emotional attachment to Israel. And his success has upended the long-held belief that Republican voters care deeply about a candidate\u2019s position on Israel.
\nIn the United States, Trump has scrambled the political map, shattering the decades-old alliance between social conservatives and the Republican economic elite. In Israel, the confusion could become even more acute. Trump has already violated some of the tenets of the \u201cspecial relationship.\u201d And while his tough-guy persona and hostility toward Muslims have earned him surprising support from Israeli conservatives, his ascent is also a source of unease for policymakers: It creates a schism between an Israel that needs to work with Trump, and American Jews who despise him\u2014and it could end up undermining the marriage between the GOP\u2019s pro-Israel foreign policy elite and the broader Republican electorate.
\n\u201cThe government is in a bind,\u201d says Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat and adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak. \u201cTrump in this respect is so unpredictable. If I were advising Netanyahu, or indeed if I were Netanyahu himself, I would shut up for a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

…His negative comments about Muslims don\u2019t hurt him in Israel, either. \u201cThe Israeli public is getting everything through the Israeli media in Hebrew, so it\u2019s not like they see everything,\u201d says Tal Schneider, an Israeli political analyst. \u201cThey don\u2019t grasp the entire candidate, they just see his anti-Muslim sentiment, and then they say to themselves, \u2018ah, obviously we know that, because we live with the Muslims here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Camil Fuchs, a well-known pollster who worked on the survey, says party affiliation also played a role in the findings. \u201cClinton is viewed as cooler to the Israel issue\u201d because she\u2019s a Democrat, he says. \u201cAnything Republican is seen as better for Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

…The umbrella organization for Reform Jewry, the largest community in the United States, accused him of \u201csowing seeds of hatred and division in our body politic.\u201d Jewish commentators from across the political spectrum describe his rallies as \u201cNuremberg-esque\u201d and accuse him of inciting violence. His views on Israel are barely a tertiary concern; the criticism is about how Trump\u2019s campaign undermines social and political norms…<\/p>\n

Trump did endorse Netanyahu before the 2013 election, calling him a \u201cwinner,\u201d the highest praise in the mogul\u2019s vocabulary. But Trump\u2019s candidacy appears to have cooled their relationship. Trump announced with much fanfare in December that he would visit Israel after Christmas. Netanyahu, who has mostly kept silent on the election, quickly distanced himself from the candidate, denouncing Trump\u2019s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Trump took the hint and cancelled his visit; Israelis suspect he harbors a grudge.
\nOne Israeli journalist who covers Netanyahu half-jokingly imagines the dialogue at the first Trump-Netanyahu meeting: \u201cListen, you Jew, your slick ways aren\u2019t going to work with this White House,\u201d Trump might warn. \u201cStop those f**king settlements now.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Netanyahu might soon have little choice but to meet with Trump, so the mogul needs a new image amongst the Israeli public. Several observers pointed to the Chicago rally as a turning point: It offered a compelling narrative, a tough right-wing leader besieged by angry liberals, that would resonate with Israelis who resent their own left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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