President Trump and his sidekick are saying some very strange things of late.
There are some people for whom you truly feel sorry. They mean well, but sometimes they are so clueless that they don’t realize how much damage they bring upon themselves. An organization that brought Gazans to Israeli towns for work had several of its members murdered. Instead of learning from October 7, it simply relocated its activities to the West Bank. Then there is James Wolfensohn, who in 2005 raised $14 million to buy the Israeli hot houses in Gaza. Israeli farmers made millions selling bug-free leafy greens to Europe, and Wolfensohn figured that the Palestinians could use the facilities as a source of income as they took over Gaza from Israel. Within three days of Israel’s departure, the hot houses had been taken apart by wild Gazans, and the entire project went kaput.
JD Vance and Donald Trump remind me of Wolfensohn: they think that they can create peace from violent and hateful people. The outcomes will be the same, but only on a much larger and more destructive scale. The U.S. is presently in the process of giving Iran a third of a trillion dollars and Israel the finger. Qatar flak Witkoff and Saudi friend Kushner apparently helped birth the destructive now-signed MOU and retreat from victory. Donald Trump joins Barack Obama and Joe Biden in losing to Iran with claims of winning the negotiation. Why would JD Vance do a photo op with the butcher of Tehran?
The president and his VP have decided to play tag-team as they give Iran billions, which will go to terror and not to rebuilding the country. Some strange recent comments are included below.
From the president:
- Iran needs some ballistic missiles like its neighbors. Hezbollah drones just fall in the desert and do nothing. The dozens killed in Israel by Iranian missiles and Hezbollah drones were unavailable for comment.
- Israel would not exist without the U.S. and without Donald Trump.
- Israel has killed too many people in Lebanon as it continues to lose soldiers to Hezbollah.
- Israel may have starved people in Gaza, though there is no evidence of it.
- Israel should let Syria deal with Hezbollah (despite Erdogan telling al-Jolani not to do so).
- Bibi is f***ing crazy.
- Bibi can be very difficult.
From the vice president:
- Bibi has “got some things wrong” but is a partner.
- Israel will eventually come around to the Iran agreement, though “hawks” want every Iranian dead. Never heard anyone suggest the same.
- Vance said World War II ended in negotiations; it ended in unconditional surrender.
There may be arguments that some of the comments above are technically true. The U.S. gives Israel a lot of military aid, which it uses for its survival against Muslim terrorist groups and states. The U.S. also gets a lot of benefits from Israel, and one might believe that without Israeli tech and combat experience, the number of dead soldiers in Caracas and Iran might have been a lot higher. The question is, why are the two top executive officials of the United States turning against Israel and attacking her and her prime minister after the two countries worked seamlessly during the recent Iran War? Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and even President Trump said that Israel was a model ally. What changed?
President Trump has fallen into the same rut in which Joe Biden and Barack Obama were born. They concluded that they can be friends with big Iran, with its 90 million people. They look at a map and believe that being in alliances with treacherous countries like Qatar, Turkey, and psychotic Iran will be good for the U.S. I had thought that Trump was immune to money due to his wealth and experience living in opulence. And maybe for garden-variety billionaires like those who try to buy American politicians, Donald Trump is unaffected. A Zuckerberg or Cuban cannot buy him. But apparently Qatar is in a whole new league with its “$1.2 trillion in investments.” And even though this Islamist country is pushing the Muslim Brotherhood in K-12 and universities, Trump always praises their emir and speaks highly of this terror-supporting country. Donald Trump, like Barack Obama, has decided to go for a pro-Iran agreement so as to make Iran a new friend of the United States. Maybe when they fire their nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles at Washington, they’ll swaddle them in velvet as a token of appreciation.
Countries turn against Israel because she is a small country, and how much does she really have to offer? Yes, she has a powerful tech sector, and military sales went over $19 billion last year. But support for Israel should be based on Israel being right. Israel is a democracy where none others exist. She guarantees rights for minorities, including those who hate Jews. Israel is not a perfect country, and one can certainly criticize it on legitimate grounds. But it is far better in every way than Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. Iran mowed down 42,000 of its citizens. Israel might send in the water cannons and horses against the ultra-Orthodox protesting universal conscription. There is a very real chance that Bibi Netanyahu will not win the elections this fall. Will the Qatari emir face elections? Does Egypt’s al-Sisi or Syria’s al-Jolani expect to be deposed by a democratic vote? Israel is a good country whose values are all but identical to those of the United States. Israel’s enemies tend to be the same as those of the U.S. Hezbollah killed a lot of Americans before it began to kill Israelis regularly.
The president and vice president have tired of Bibi Netanyahu and Israel. They think that they, like Obama, can bring Iran around to become a “normal” country. An advisor to Winston Churchill said that the British leader told him that if they would treat “Uncle Joe” (Stalin) like a member of the club, maybe he would come to behave like a member of the club. Stalin did not change but took all of the goodwill and countries granted to him by Churchill. The Iranians are tied to their religious belief that they must destroy Israel and the West. The $300 billion will go to arms and terrorists, not to rebuilding cities. Not for nothing have they been saying for five decades that the U.S. is the “Great Satan.” No agreement or massive payout will make the Iranians friends of the West. It will only help them achieve their goal of wiping out Western civilization that much faster.
And what will become of Israel? The Jews have been around for over 3,000 years. We have experienced pogroms, forced expulsions, and holocausts. The Jews will keep going. If Israel can do it alone or with smaller countries that have not been bedazzled by Qatari wealth, she will. If she still needs a big benefactor for fighters and other big-ticket items, Jews can pick up Mandarin pretty quickly. Everybody knows that Jews love Chinese food, so if the U.S. gives Israel the boot, the country is not going to say the mourner’s “kaddish” on itself but will soldier on alone or with new friends. The loss for the U.S. will be enormous in both Israeli tech and the blessings that come with being good to the Jewish people. Not one country in history that turned against the Jews is advanced or successful. Iraq and Iran were both thriving countries that held their own in the 1950s; they both lost their Jews at different times, and they are now one step better than Afghanistan and Somalia. Screw the Jews, and you screw yourself. Can you say Yemen?
Donald Trump has surrendered to Iran. JD Vance has shown that he is not ready for prime time.
