Mr. Netanyahu,
Your love affair with Donald Trump goes against the interests of the Jewish people and makes Israel less safe. Most Jews in America oppose Trump and are turned off by your support of him. The American Jews are Israel’s most numerous and important supporters in the Diaspora, but your support of Trump drives a wedge between American Jewry and Israel. Most of us are ardent supporters of Israel but you create a conflict which weakens that support. We are now torn between our concern for Israel and our concern for our own country which has been taken over by a tyrant in the service of Vladimir Putin.
Your love affair with Donald Trump goes against the interests of the Jewish people and makes Israel less safe. Most Jews in America oppose Trump and are turned off by your support of him. The American Jews are Israel’s most numerous and important supporters in the Diaspora, but your support of Trump drives a wedge between American Jewry and Israel. Most of us are ardent supporters of Israel but you create a conflict which weakens that support. We are now torn between our concern for Israel and our concern for our own country which has been taken over by a tyrant in the service of Vladimir Putin.
Trump colludes with Putin in his attack on democracy and
has broken our alliance with the western democratic nations including Canada,
Western Europe, and others. In the long run it is in Israel’s interest to be
part of the democratic world and not part of an autocratic axis led by Putin
and followed by Trump.
I know you are opposed to the Iran deal, but it is
actually a fairly good deal with verifications that have been working and
therefore protects Israel. If we are lucky, Europe will keep it going despite
Trump. As for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, any benefit to Israel
is only symbolic while it further isolates Israel, removes America as a broker
in future negotiations, and mainly benefits Israel’s enemies. The good that
Israel is doing is being drowned out by the bad. And you can not blame it all
on Israel’s enemies. Much of it is self-inflicted by the Hard Right leaders and
settlers to whom you pander.
Trump is temporary. Americans are increasingly becoming
fed up with Trump’s corruption, immorality, incompetence, and treason in the
service of Putin. Mr. Netanyahu, your affair with Trump is putting Israel on
the wrong side of history. The Mueller Investigation is closing in on Trump,
and after the November election he will most likely no longer have control over
Congress. Trump might very well be impeached and removed from the presidency. When
Trump is gone, we Jews in America will still support Israel, but that support
will be more difficult, and Israel will have to repair the damage it will have
done to itself.
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