Showing posts with label AIPAC. Show all posts
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Friday, February 22, 2019

Op-ed:
Poison to America, Poison to Israel
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”
- Rep. Ilhan Omar ((D-MN) words tweeted on February 10th asserting that politicians' support of Israel is driven solely by money

She was elected to Congress and while garbed in a hajib she placed her hand not on the Holy Bible as she was being sworn into office but on the most unholy of books, the qur'an. A practicing muslim basically radicalized against any and all not muslim...her allegiance lies not to the U.S. Constitution and it's stated words...words that are the law of our land...but to the sharia whose words and laws she truly believes trumps all.

Not in this country baby...never in this country.
 
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Op-ed:
Poison to America, Poison to Israel
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”
- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) words tweeted on February 10th asserting that politicians' support of Israel is driven solely by money

She was elected to Congress and while garbed in a hajib she placed her hand not on the Holy Bible as she was being sworn into office but on the most unholy of books, the qur'an. A practicing muslim basically radicalized against any and all not muslim...her allegiance lies not to the U.S. Constitution and it's stated words...words that are the law of our land...but to the sharia whose words and laws she truly believes trumps all.

Not in this country baby...never in this country.

She's also an incestuous sort who married her brother which might be okay in Somalia, the third world country of her birth, but it is not now nor will ever be okay here in America. You can read about that in New Evidence Supports Claims That Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother and/or in New Photos Corroborate Perjury Claims Against Rep. Ilhan Omar, as She Deletes Social Media. And she's a criminal to boot having committed both student loan and immigration fraud (which you can also read about in the above links), yet she's one of the darlings of the new Democrat-Socialist party. Appointed to the all-important House Foreign Affairs Committee by Nancy Pelosi herself, now sees our ever so corrupted 'Fifth Estate' heads over heels in love with her...her being Rep.Ilhan Abdullahi Omar from Minnesota's 5th Congressional District...the very district where Taliban and other gangs run wild with the police not being able to do much to stem their ever-growing tide of violence.

And feeding into that increasing violence by the very act of “reporting omission,” now sees the 'Fifth Estate' promoting Ilhan Omar's words and comments on both social and mainstream media...all while rejoicing in her being a prime seller of newspapers and e-news hits which aids in the media's always bottom line of seeking additional advertising revenue. So once again selling their souls for the almighty dollar, the media raves about this unabashed anti-Semite who calls for Israel's destruction while also speaking badly of the world's Jews...but who has finally been forced to issue an apology...an apology of sorts for words she recently said...more on that in bit.

And with fingers crossed behind her back...being a master in the art of taqyya...Ilhan Omar has gained an ally in the media who help to promote her and her fellow Democrats progressive/socialist agenda...translation: freebies and handouts in exchange for votes... while at the same time proving herself to be nothing but another community organizer of hate...Israel and Jew hate that is...a female version of Barack HUSSEIN Obama...the man who outwardly and ever so proudly continuously stabbed America's staunchest ally, Israel, in the back.

Sadly, Ilhan Omar's utter disdain for Israel is spreading throughout the uber left of the Democrat party...a party who once supported the Jewish State but who now are just another vocal advocacy group for the so-called Palestinian cause. And this ever so vile woman not only has become the Democrats newest flag bearer of hate, but also has no problem publicly speaking and tweeting falsehoods about AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee). Claiming that AIPAC is but the bought-and-paid-for lobbying voice and deep pockets of America's Jews and pro-Israel politicians, Omar remained until recently ignorant to the fact that while AIPAC does indeed rally donors on behalf of pro-Israel candidates they do not give direct contributions to any candidate. In fact, AIPAC membership numbers are far exceeded by evangelical Christians and other non-Jewish conservatives as being its major donors on behalf of Israel, which is quite sad as too many American Jews still align with today's Democrat turned Socialist party...but that's for another article.

So with Ilhan Omar basically following Obama's pattern of hate we knew it wouldn't be too long before she started to open her mouth and tweet her hatred of America's Christians as well. Again...more on that in a bit.

And with rightful calls for her resignation still very much being bantered about on both sides of the political aisle, others are saying that at the very least Ilhan Omar needs to be thrown off the House Foreign Affairs Committee as she is biased against giving any and all aid...military or otherwise...to Israel. But know this woman's current anti-Israel stances are not new but do go all the way back to 2012 when she was in Minnesota's State House.

First a bit of background on this anti-Semitic muslima...a muslima who I believe not only is a puppet of Hamas and their affiliate C.A.I.R., but who I also believe was monetarily backed by Hamas when running for office, and who might even supply her with “talking points” to this very day.

Born in Mogadishu, Ilhan Omar and her devout muslim family.came to the U.S. in 1995 as refugees after the start of Somalia's civil war. Moving to Minneapolis...which has the largest Somali-muslim population per capita in the U.S...Omar studied political science and international affairs at North Dakota State University before embarking on her political career. Winning a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016, Omar became the first Somali-American elected to U.S. legislative office. Then, in November 2018, she won an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives thus becoming one of two muslim-American women elected to Congress...the other being the equally vile Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan.

So like I stated earlier, Ilhan Omar has already been accused of using anti-Semitic language in many previous tweets. For example, Omar outwardly expressed her support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement...a vile movement whose goal is to end all international support for Israel because of what the group calls "oppression of Palestinians." And every time Omar's tweets about BDS were caught she apologized and said the specific controversy in question was “an opportunity for her to learn.” Lying of course she fools no one for instead of softening her anti-Israel rhetoric it has only gotten worse, and Omar does not a thing to hide her hatred of Israel or of the Jewish people.

But her latest aforementioned “Benjamins” tweet was the last straw for many, and last week it directly led House Republican leaders to add a provision to unrelated legislation condemning anti-Semitic language, thus forcing Democrats to go on the record against Omar's remarks. And with the provision passing unanimously, in a 424 to 0 vote, House Minority Leader Keven McCarthy stated that, "Amid the troubling rise of anti-Semitism, including attacks on synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, it is our duty as a nation to stand firmly against intolerance and division." 
 
Also by his calling the vote “a defining moment in Congress and for the country,” the ever so hateful anti-Semite Ilhan Omar basically got “bitch-slapped” by proxy which she most rightfully deserved.

Rightfully deserved and not just for the “Benjamins” comment but for other past comments made against not only Israel and the Jewish people but against American ideals and allegiances as well. But first some other past comments about Israel...for example...in 2012 Omar was but a local Somali-American activist in Minnesota... channeling her inner Obama...when she tweeted that, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”
 
And it was only last month that Omar was forced to address this six+ year old tweet after it was caught still being online, obviously overlooked when she purged some of her most inflammatory tweets. Saying, “Those unfortunate words were the only words I could think about expressing at that moment,” referring to what was then Israel’s November 2012 operation against Hamas in Gaza. You know Hamas...the designated terrorist group which it seems Omar proudly supports.

And not so long ago in an interview with 'MuslimGirl' magazine...parts of which showed up on her twitter page...Omar claimed that Israelis are being “prioritized by the U.S.,” while at the same time comparing Israel to Iran. Saying, “...and so when I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it...and we still uphold it (Israel) as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out...” only made matters worse when those comments were caught, again due to being overlooked in her purging of inflammatory tweets.

Now giving as her so-called “explanation” that she was just simply referring to “our relationship with the Israeli government and the Israeli state” and not to the Jewish people “as a whole,” Omar proved what a liar she is for she then almost immediately retweeted another tweeter user's post that said, “current-day Israel is much like the U.S. South was during segregation.”

Now as to Ilhan Omar's other racist and hateful comments dare we not forget this little bit of happiness when just this past January a “staring contest” between a Native America "activist for hire" and a group of Catholic high school students took place on the National Mall, going viral from there. And just like her fellow liberal buddies, Omar rushed to conclusions and tweeted that, “The boys were protesting a woman's right to choose & yelled 'it's not rape if you enjoy it'...They were taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants…Sandmann's family hired a right wing PR firm to write his non-apology.” But instead of issuing an apology when her so hated white Christian Conservative boys innocence was proven...Omar cowardly deleting her tweet hoping it would just fade away....guess what...it hasn't nor will it.

And lets not overlook that back in 2016, when as a State Representative, Omar stated that “the best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion," and that "We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to effect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation." These comments were made when she begged a judge to show leniency toward a group of six Minnesota muslim men found guilty of not only trying to travel to Syria to join ISIS, but also of having provided ISIS with material support and conspiring to commit murder overseas. Shows this woman's true allegiances now doesn't it, but thankfully the judge issued harsh sentences.

And then just last week Omar accused President Trump of both supporting and backing a coup in Venezuela that was trying to overthrow socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro. Tweeting that, “A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face,” and that, “Trump’s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay, & the Vatican’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue,” shows just how anti-Trump and anti-American this woman really is for she would rather see Venezuela collapse under Maduro's socialist agenda than prosper once again under capitalism.

What a nasty piece of work this muslima is...and the above stated are only the tip of Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American statements and tweets. And she is deemed so vile that even Nancy Pelosi issued a statement in response to Omar's “Benjamins” tweets and AIPAC comments. Saying that, “Legitimate criticism of Israel's policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share, but Congresswoman Omar's use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel's supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments," led to Omar issuing the following lame apology, “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes."

However, Ilhan Omar finished her anything but an apology with words that, “AIPAC continues to be an issue of concern, although the highly influential organization does not make campaign contributions.” A joke of an apology saw President Trump himself calling her words “lame.”

And with Ilhan Omar's hatred of Israel and the Jewish people deeply ingrained into who she is...led her in a recent CNN interview to say that it was "not surprising" that she's generating attention and added that, "I think it is actually exciting because we are finally able to have conversations that we weren't really willing to."

Finishing with these words, "It is really important for us to get a different lens about what peace in that region could look like and the kind of difficult conversations we need to have about allies," it's plain to see where Ilhan Omar's true allegiances lie...obviously not with Israel...not with America...and surely not with President Trump for this what she tweeted about him just over a week ago when he called for her to resign, “You are a hypocrite who has trafficked in hate your whole life against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?”

Guess Omar's hatred of both Trump and Jews has blinded her to the fact that Trump's daughter, husband, and their children are Jews.

 

Loyalty to her islamic roots is the name of the game for Ilhan Omar, and if you need more proof just look at this short video of Omar grilling Trump's Venezuelan envoy Elliot Abrams. At around one minute twelve seconds in you will see her flashing an evil condoning grin when the word “massacre” is said...if that doesn't send shivers down your spine as to the dangers this woman poses to America, Israel, and even Venezuela, than I surely don't know what will.
 


And to those in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District who voted this abomination of a woman into office, all I can say is “what the hell is wrong with you,” as I shake my head in utter disgust for this woman represents not America's best but its very worst.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Op-ed
Abandoning Israel
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio bit.ly/2cpXuRd

"Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders." 
- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s response to John Kerry’s speech which he deemed almost as unbalanced as last week's Security Council resolution that declared Israeli settlements illegal

Fact: Barack HUSSEIN Obama is the biggest mistake in American political history. His economic policies are a disaster but even worse are the foreign policy nightmares he has created...policies where our allies are now our enemies and our enemies are his friends.

Fact: a two-state solution regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not the answer and it never was. And why...there is no such thing as Palestinians...period. These made-up people were created by Yassir Arafat in the 1960’s to advance his PLO organization. The ‘so-called’ Palestinians are actually Jordanians...they hold Jordanian citizenship and passports as well as having Jordanian DNA...but shhh...the media, Obama, and his brethren do not not want you to know that.

Fact: Israel is but a tiny sliver of a country being a mere 8,000 sq miles, 260 miles at its longest, just 60 miles at its widest, and barely three miles across at its narrowest. The 22* unfriendly Arab countries...muslim countries... that surround Israel are about 640 times her size (encompassing 5,000,000 sq miles), about 60 times her population with said population occupying but one-sixth of one percent of the lands known as Arab lands. Yet tiny Israel with just 13 million people...13 million Jews...is deemed by both the entirety of the Arab world and by their brethren and operative in the White House...one Barack HUSSEIN Obama...as being "expansionists" and "aggressive" against all 250 million Middle East Arabs, and defacto against the 1.4 billion muslims worldwide.

Fact: the 22 Arab countries (members of the Arab League) all refuse to take in their fellow Arabs...the ‘so-called’ Palestinians. The population of the 22 Arab lands (this includes those muslim countries in Africa) is about 422 million people in total spread out over millions and millions of acres of largely unpopulated land yet they cannot find room for a mere 4.2 million of their brethren, but tiny Israel is expected to give up even more of their land...land just double the size of Rhode Island...for those wishing them dead. 

Fact: the only obstacles to any real peace in the Middle East is both the refusal of the ‘so-called’ Palestinians and their supporters to recognize Israel's right to exist, and the sad reality that the Obama administration coupled with his cronies in the U.N. have not only sided with and directly aided Israel’s enemies but have colluded with said enemies to bring about the Jewish state’s demise. 

And these facts bring us up to last week’s U.N. resolution vote condemning Israel for their settlement building in the occupied territories...territories rightfully gained in the ’67 War. And this vote...a stabbing in the back actually...was orchestrated and engineered by none other than the Obama administration. And how do we know this...we know this from both his own people and from others unexpected. 

First, this past Tuesday, Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said that Egypt and the Palestinians drafted the resolution and that the U.S. worked with them...again...he said the U.S. worked with them...on the language but only after the intention to go forward “no matter what” was made clear. And second, while Egypt had the sense to pull back their support for this...their original resolution...after speaking with both President-elect Donald Trump and with Benjamin Netanyahu himself, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that Egyptian officials "might have leaked" new information that seems to give credence to at least some of the claims now being made by Netanyahu’s office regarding the U.S. working on and lobbying for the very resolution that condemned what they called "Israel's expanded settlements."

Now leaving the four anti-Semitic, anti-Israel countries of New Zealand, Senegal, Venezuela, and Malaysia to do the dirty work....and do the dirty work they did leading up to the fact that this past Wednesday, in his last press conference as Secretary of State, John ‘Swiftboat’ Kerry...a well-known anti-Semite and an integral part of pushing through Obama’s very bad nuclear deal... spewed words of hate towards Israel for 70 long minutes as he defended the U.N. vote...a vote that included making Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall, part of Palestinian occupied territory...and defended Obama’s stance on the Jewish state. And so with his usual deadpan look of disgust that he always has when speaking about Israel or about anything Jewish related, Kerry began with words to the effect that no administration has done more to protect Israel’s security than has the Obama administration.

If I could have I personally would have bitch-slapped Kerry across his filthy, lying, islamic-condoning face.

Kerry then started ripping into Israel...into Netanyahu...for his and their settlement building. But the most vile of words spewing from Kerry’s mouth came a bit later when he said that Israel can either accept a two-state solution or, and I quote, "If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace.” 

But what I want to know is who the hell does John Kerry think he is to tell the sovereign country of Israel what she can or cannot do...what she can or cannot be.

See John Kerry's most vile speech in full here:  

These words led Benjamin Netanyahu to push back and push back hard. In a blistering and hastily arranged televised statement coming just one hour after Kerry finished his hateful words, Netanyahu clearly alluded to the fact that he was not happy with Obama or his administration, that he and Israel are committed to resolving issues with the Palestinians only through direct contact not through U.S. brokered contact, and that he was ready to deal solely with President-elect Donald Trump, a man who has sided in total with Israel...a man who understands that the incitement of violence perpetrated by the Palestinians against the people of Israel is of their doing alone.

And what Netanyahu basically did...in a most statesmanlike way...was tell both Obama and Kerry to go to hell. And this came soon after his statement that, "We have it on absolutely incontestable evidence the U.S. organized, advanced and brought this resolution to the Security Council," promising to share the what he called "sensitive" intelligence with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. 

See Benjamin Netnyahu's response to John Kerry's speech in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3v5OGsxETE

Gives even more credence to the afore mentioned words of Department of State’s spokesman Mark Toner...gives more credence to the fact that Netanyahu knows well that peace in the Middle East will never be attained by isolating Israel, but can only be achieved through direct one-on-one negotiations between the Israelis and those who call themselves Palestinians.

But Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett went even further than Netanyahu in condemning Kerry’s words. Calling Kerry's speech "divorced from reality,” Bennett spoke in general of Obama and crew’s Mideast policies having left the entirety of the region "in flames” including the "genocide" in Syria; and that Iran is now "racing" towards a nuclear bomb after Obama and crew’s "abandoning" of Israel.

And U.S. pro-Israel groups...groups once in Obama’s camp...have now started chastising both Obama and Kerry for this most vile and deliberate slap in the face to Israel. In fact, in a statement coming right after the vote, AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) stated it was “deeply disturbed by the failure of the Obama Administration to exercise its veto to prevent a destructive, one-sided, anti-Israel resolution from being enacted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In the past, this administration and past administrations have rejected this type of biased resolution since it undermines prospects for peace.”
 
Adding that, “It is particularly regrettable, in his last month in office, that the president has taken an action at odds with the bipartisan consensus in Congress and America’s long history of standing with Israel at the United Nations,” AIPAC also said that they wanted to thank President-elect Donald Trump and the many Republican and Democratic members of Congress who urged a veto of this resolution.

And in calling Kerry’s speech in specific nothing but a “failed attempt to defend the indefensible,” AIPAC said that contrary to Kerry’s claims that, “the [Obama] administration unconscionably failed to block [last week] was unfair, unbalanced and represented a profound departure from the policies of previous Democratic and Republican administrations for nearly the past forty years,” they made it very clear that this resolution was a deliberate and malicious move on both the U.N.'s and Obama's part to rein in Israel and most especially to rein in Netanyahu.

Also speaking about Kerry’s placing “overwhelming and disproportionate” blame for the failure of the peace talks squarely on Israel’s shoulders, AIPAC called him to task for failing to mention the many Israeli peace offers the Palestinians refused to accept including the many offers of resuming direct peace talks.

And Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, the dean and associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center... said that “Secretary Kerry makes it sound like it’s the apartments and kindergartens built in Jewish communities on the West Bank that are the main impediment to a two-state solution, when he and those diplomats who voted for UNSC 2334 know that it is Palestinian terrorism, and the continued control of Gaza and the largest portion of the Palestinian population by terrorist Hamas that is the main roadblock to a true peace.”

And Republican lawmakers are now chiming in not only on the actual vote but on Kerry’s speech as well. Here are but a few examples regarding the vote: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan described the U.S. abstention as “absolutely shameful.” Rep. Nita Lowey described the abstention as a “stain on the United States’ long and consistent record of defending Israel against one-sided UN Security Council resolutions.”  And Texas Senator Ted Cruz spoke directly with Netanyahu after the vote assuring him of strong support for Israel in Congress and that he and Senator Lindsey Graham are proposing a bill that no U.S. dollars will go to the U.N. until this vote is reversed. And Florida Senator Marco Rubio said of Kerry’s speech, “Secretary Kerry's anti-Israel speech undermines America's moral standing” as well as issuing the powerful statement below.

 
But it’s not just Republicans who are furious with Obama and Kerry...here are a few of the two dozen Democrats now publicly speaking out against the stabbing of Israel in the back. Virginia Senator Mark Warner said he was “dismayed that the Administration departed from decades of U.S. policy by not vetoing the UN resolution regarding Israeli settlements.” Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey said “I called on the administration to veto the U.N. resolution on Israel. I am disappointed that the U.S. delegation did not use veto power on the Security Council.”  

And New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the incoming Senate Democratic leader, in criticizing the U.N. vote stated that he is “Extremely frustrating, disappointing and confounding that the Administration has failed to veto the UN resolution.” As for Kerry’s speech Schumer issued this statement: “While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets from Gaza into Israel...this is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember...While he may not have intended it, I fear Secretary Kerry, in his speech and action at the UN, has emboldened extremists on both sides."

But the bottom line is that both Kerry’s speech and the, I believe, Obama orchestrated U.N. resolution itself, were nothing but Obama’s laying the groundwork for the Levant to come to fruition as Israel, the ancestral home of the Jewish people since the time of Abraham, would now become an indefensible country...laying the groundwork for a created Palestinian homeland to become a Hamas controlled, Iranian backed terrorist state...with the icing on the cake being the dividing of Jerusalem in two...something we know Benjamin Netanyahu will never allow to happen. 

And with rumors now surfacing that John Kerry is actually finalizing a document that the Obama administration hopes will form the basis for a U.N. Security Council resolution that officially recognizes a Palestinian state before his presidency comes to an end on January 20th, there will be no question that it will indeed include both the dividing of the land of Israel and its eternal capital Jerusalem. And this very possibility was fueled on by Kerry’s most vile speech...a speech that actually might have lighted the flames of an all-out war throughout the entirety of the Middle East and maybe even beyond.

And just maybe this has been the goal of Barack HUSSEIN Obama all along for from the fires of hell the Caliphate would then be born.
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* The 22 Arab countries that are part of the Arab League are Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, State of Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. 

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Op-ed:
Trump v. Cruz at AIPAC
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://www.americanpbn.com/

“I didn't come here tonight to pander to you about Israel..” 
 - Donald Trump speaking at AIPAC

"Believe me"..."Believe me"..."Believe me"...said over and over again. Guess what...I believe not one word Donald J. Trump said at this years AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, America's largest pro-Israel group) for while Trump talks the talk...sort of...he showed just how little he knows about foreign policy in regards to Israel, and the audience responded in kind with the most subdued of all the responses given to any of the presidential candidates in attendance.

Entering the hall like a despot surrounded by bodyguards, Trump read off a teleprompter like so many politicians before him... something he said he's never do or be...while simultaneously releasing his prepared remarks on his campaign website while he was speaking. And Trump, to the chagrin of many in attendance, actually used part of his time to promote his narcissistic self and his books, and to try to do damage control in relation to his recent statement said both at the last debate and on CNN that he hoped to be neutral in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But how can one do damage control when making such outlandish statements as first Trump saying that he had studied the Iran deal to an extent “greater by far than anybody else,” sending both the audience and myself into fits of laughter for with that one line Donald Trump showed just how little he knows about the true danger Israel faces today. And second, “We know Israel is willing to deal...” flip-flopping from what he said again at the last debate and in an Associated Press December interview when he alluded that Israel was unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary for Middle East peace...in other words Trump wanted Israel to give up even more of its tiny sliver of land to those wishing to wipe her off the map.

“My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” Trump said, but how can that be his number one priority when he has spewed out time and again that building a wall along our southern border is numero uno with him. And really folks, to dismantle is not to eliminate the “disasterous deal” for remember Trump's interview a few months ago on 'Meet the Press' when he said, “it would be very hard for the next president to undo the deal.” What Trump seems to be pushing for with his carefully chosen word “dismantle” is just a renegotiation of the current deal, so, I call these words Trump said to AIPAC indeed pandering for the Jewish vote and nothing else.

And I also call his words, "I know deal-making and let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for Israel, and for the whole of the Middle East," adding that "The problem here is fundamental. We have rewarded the world's leading state sponsor of terror with $150 billion and we received absolutely nothing in return," the words of someone who is not as astute on deal-making as he thinks he is for the most important thing Trump is missing here is that we...the United States... should not and must not under any conditions be doing any deals whatsoever with the world's leading sponsor of terrorism...good deals, bad deals, or indifferent deals...no deals period.

"Let me be sort of a neutral guy...I have friends of mine that are tremendous business people, that are really great negotiators, [and] they say it's not doable," were Donald Trump's words regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict said during an MSNBC town hall just this past February. And remember, too, that last year the Republican Jewish Committee (RJC) actually booed Trump when he would not commit to recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But now at AIPAC, Trump flip-flops on both accounts as he wants us to believe that he sides with Israel by his simply calling for the moving of the American Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem never mentioning the waiver in the 'Jerusalem Embassy Act' that would actually allow him as president to avoid doing so.

But the truth is that Trump's now saying that our embassy would be moved in a Trump administration just masks the fact that first, Donald Trump truly does want to stay neutral in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to protect his current business dealings in the area and second, that his heart is truly not in moving our embassy to Jerusalem as both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital, and moving said embassy would neutralize his stance of neutrality making him an enemy of those who business deals he will try to court in the near future.

Trump the empire builder will always 'trump' Trump the policy maker in the end.

And so the man whose sole Israeli foreign policy experience consists of 'lending' former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani his plane so he could fly to Israel, his having in his own words “taken a risk” by serving as the Grand Marshal of the '40th Salute to Israel Parade' way back in 2004, and his having a few Jewish grandchildren...that man did not address two issues important to Israel...those being efforts here in America to silence campus support of Israel, and the 'Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement' growing within our country. And this man now wants us to believe that he supports Israel one hundred percent in her fight against Iran and other enemies just because he says “believe me.”

NO...I don't think so for at a news conference right before his AIPAC reality show appearance, Donald Trump had the audacity to raise the possibility of first, eliminating American aid to Israel by saying, “There are many countries that can pay [to aid Israel], and they can pay big-league”...and second, by suggesting that Israel repay the U.S. for the foreign aid it has received to date. Shades of isolationist Rand Paul I would say...shades of a man who while he might be 'friendly' towards Israel is a friend Israel needs to keep a watchful eye on.

See Donald Trump's AIPAC speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmINZRwiZU

So while Donald Trump tried to suck the air out of the conference room just with his mere presence, the other two Republican candidates spoke to AIPAC as well. And while John Kasich offered a sound but predictable vision for American/Israeli relations, it was Ted Cruz who brought the house down. And Cruz rightfully pointed out that Trump’s constant use of the word 'Palestine' showed his true lack of knowledge on the history of modern day Israel when he said, “To the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948.” By his saying those words Ted Cruz acknowledged as fact the main touch point in the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, while Donald Trump's teleprompted words gave the land of Israel an identity that goes against everything Israel stands for...and goes against everything the Holy Bible dictates.

Ted Cruz understands the problems Israel faces today and he had actual policies in place that would help defund any college or university that supports the 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, against Israel; he was able to turn Hilary's 2014 well-publicized statement that Israeli rockets hit civilians in Gaza occasionally because it is a densely populated area against her by saying that, “the reason the missiles are in schools is not because Gaza is small. The reason the missiles are in schools is because Hamas are terrorist monsters using children as human shields;” and he nailed Donald Trump when saying, “My leading Republican opponent promised he, as president, would be neutral between Israel and the Palestinians,” adding that “Let me be very, very clear: As president, I will not be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with the nation of Israel”...an unwavering stance Ted Cruz has taken since even before announcing his run for the presidency.

And Ted Cruz also called Trump to task for promising that he’s going to negotiate and get a better deal with Iran by (rightfully) saying that, “Well, my view is very different...I will rip up the deal, reimpose sanctions and tell Iran to shut down (not just pause) its nuclear program or we will shut it down for you.” Tough but heartfelt talk from a man who has a deep love for Israel and a man who wants to see the Jewish State survive intact and whole.

And Ted Cruz brought the audience to its feet when he explained his personal love for Israel. Starting with, “Now some have asked, Why on earth did a Cuban American Texan become one of the leading defenders of Israel in the United States Congress?,” Cruz explained that “Israel is a liberal democracy that shares our values, Israel is a steadfast and loyal ally, and our military aid to Israel is not charity, it is rather furthering the vital national security interest of the United States of America.”

Explaining further his father's story of leaving Cuba and coming to America in 1957, by saying his father told him that, “When I faced oppression in Cuba, I had a place to flee to, If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?,” Cruz finished by saying, “And there’s only one other nation on earth like the United States of America that’s created as an oasis, as a beacon of hope, to people who have faced oppression, who have faced the horrible murder and persecution, and that nation is Israel.”

See Ted Cruz's AIPAC speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRyiT1geIGs 

And herein lies the differences between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump not only in their speeches given at AIPAC but in their true feelings when it comes to the Jewish State of Israel. And highlighting those differences is the fact that Donald Trump sees Israel as merely sound bytes for votes, sound bytes he's learned about through perusing magazines and newspapers while listening to the talking heads on TV...while Ted Cruz immerses himself in the intricacies and nuances of foreign policy as it relates to Israel and truly sees Israel as America's closest ally and friend. “Am Yisrael Chai”...the nation of Israel lives...Ted Cruz said...simple words that proved not only to those attending AIPAC but to Jews everywhere that he is the best candidate to not only cover Israel's back but to rebuild the fences between the two nations that Barack HUSSEIN Obama has torn down.

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