JEWS CHOOSE TRUMP
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The Conservative and Reform rabbinical leadership along with affiliated lay groups and tepid pro-Israel groups,have revealed their elitist contempt for democracy and their disdain for Zionism by appealing to President Trump to force Prime Minister Netanyahu to break his electoral pledges. They did this in a letter sent to a Jewish publication on Friday, April 12. In that letter they called on our President to stop Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from extending sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Why not ask President Trump to do what they really want: overthrow the Israeli government and install a secular leftist government. Because that is what they want: they don’t care about democracy or rule of law if Israelis dare not to want what they think Israelis should want. The rabbis, ironically enough, are trying to declare US sovereignty over Israel. They are acting as if Israel is a vassal state of the US. These American rabbis and those allied with their thinking refuse to pay any attention to what the Israelis have found out while waiting, patiently for decades while the Palestinian Arabs keep repaying their every peace effort with ever-increasing terrorism: the Arab leadership will not agree to “live side by side in peace and security” with the Jewish state.
And at this point, most Israelis are not longer prepared to live in limbo. They have already rejected what these American rabbis demand they accept. On April 9th, the Israeli electorate gave a loud, resounding “no,” to parties whose vision for Israel these Americans endorse, giving them the lowest election support ever. Not surprisingly, these American interlopers are not listening to what Israelis want at all. Perhaps what is most galling is that the rabbis’ outrageous April 12 letter oversteps their authority to speak for even American Jews within their respective denominations. They are not interpreting Jewish law, their alleged area of expertise, but are acting as Democratic Party partisans with its allegiance to the shibboleth that two states for two peoples will bring peace. After Netanyahu pledged to extend sovereignty to all Israelis living in the disputed areas that are the heartland of Biblical Israel, the Israeli public applauded that pledge. Israelis gave Netanyahu the highest proportion of the vote that he has ever received in any election. What’s downright laughable is that these unelected American rabbis are now willing to prostrate themselves before President Trump whom they daily defame, calling on him to impose their preferences on an electorate which has rejected it as a threat to their survival. These arrogant, insulated rabbis have not learned from thousands of rockets fired from Gaza or the tens of thousands of missiles on the Lebanon border or the decades of stabbing, shooting, ramming attacks on Jews in Judea and Samaria. But Israelis have. These letter-writing hypocrites hide behind protestations of love for Israel and then condition that love on doing it my way or it is the highway. They threaten that the American Jewish community will not support Israel if it does not do what they want. How dare they! We witness with sorrow, the power of Rep. Illan Omar and her cohort in the cowering of the four Jewish Democratic representatives who cravenly echoed the rabbis calumny. Not one of them had the courage to demand that Rep. Omar be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee despite her outrages against American Jews and against Israel. Now they dare to tell Netanyahu to ignore the will of his people and kowtow to them, as they kowtow to their freshman colleague. Reps. Engel, Lowey, Deutch and Schneider – have you no shame? Perhaps they all – the representatives, the rabbis, and their cheerleaders- fear that they may soon be turned away by what the Democratic party is becoming. Appeasement, however, is unlikely to win them a delay in excommunication. And since the real religion of their declining congregations is whatever is this year’s Democratic Party platform, they now attempt to hoist this outrageous letter as a “Jewish” position. Let us be clear, the rabbis have no authority to speak for American Jews in the political arena. They have disgraced themselves by doing so. We gratefully recognized President Trump’s commitment to the Jewish State and the indivisible linkage between a secure Israel and a secure United States during the 2015-2016 campaign and he has honored that commitment up to now during his presidency. We are hopeful he won’t now be swayed by these leftist Democrats in clerical clothing. |
@ AryehbnBaruch:
“Unfortunately, a majority of the non-orthodox population is with them”
I think that’s accurate. I also believe this, about the vast majority of US Jews:
“If not Israel, what does fire up Jewish-Americans? In short, the Jewish precept of tikkun olam (“repairing the world”), construed by modern mainstream denominations to mean “social justice.” This isn’t surprising, given American Jewry’s perennial penchant for liberalism”
and,
“Reform Judaism [is] “the Democratic party platform with holidays thrown in” and the services in a Reform temple [are] “the Democratic Party at prayer.””
— https://www.city-journal.org/html/democratic-party-prayer-14816.html
@ Cathy:
They want the Jews of Area C to be ethnically cleansed like the Jews of Gush Katif were. That’s the beef. That’s what Ganz hinted at. They are traitors.
I don’t think any of these American Jews have a clue as to the issues involved in the article. All Netanyahu is doing in extending sovereignty is bringing the Jewish communities in Judea – Samaria under the same law as the rest of Israel follows. The Arabs already live in the Palestinian run PA and won’t be affected. What we have here are Jewish towns and Arab towns. In the industrial areas and in some towns, there may be Arabs and Jews living or working together. For the most part, this is working out. Polls have shown that about 43% of Arabs responding have said they prefer to live under Jewish sovereignty than under “Palestinian” Arab rule. The number is probably higher but we don’t know what the undecideds really think. Regardless, the Arabs in the PA will remain unaffected. So what’s the beef?
I have no problems with rabbis who talk about morality, use their pulpits to preach to their congregations, and meet with politicians as representatives of Judaism. My problem is that many of these liberal “rabbis” have for all practical purposes left the faith of Judaism and are of the faith of Progressivism. They may call themselves Reform Jewish Rabbis but they no longer follow Judaism or feel connected to the Jewish Nation. That is why these “rabbis” support “Palestinian” (in reality Syrian Arab) settlements and their struggles while fighting against Jewish rights in the Land of Israel. Unfortunately, a majority of the non-orthodox population is with them.
Two very operative words in this essay are “declining congregations”.
When I stand at the back of the Kotel and look at this cacophony of people, from different races, ethnicities, cultures, languages, nationalities, etc, I have to ask myself, “What in the world do I have in common with any of them?” Even though I am not an Orthodox Jew, the honest answer to me is, “the extent to which all of us “hold” to the Torah”. Empirically, without the torah, there would be no Jewish peoplehood and no Jewish state. Let’s hope that these “declining congregations who purport to speak on my behalf, do not destroy the Jewish nature of the state of Israel on their way to oblivion.
As an American married to a rabbi, I agree with you. Those organizations do not speak for us. They do not speak for all clergy here. Am Yisrael Chai