July 14, 2016
OCCUPATION NOW, OCCUPATION TOMORROW, OCCUPATION FOREVER:
Are we ready for Trump? (Avi Berkowitz, 7/13/16, Times of Israel)
From a letter written by Mr. David Friedman, Donald Trump's top Israel adviser, we learned that a Trump Administration would not automatically support the Two State Solution for resolving our conflict with the Palestinians. Instead, a Trump Administration would consider other solutions for resolving the conflict, including a One State Solution in which Israel extends its sovereignty throughout Judea and Samaria and grants full citizenship rights to the indigenous Arab population.Go ahead. Rub your eyes and feel free to re-read the bolded words above.Yes, the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States would present us, the partisans of Greater Israel, with a chance to win the day, rapidly and peacefully. If we play our cards right, our fifty year struggle to reclaim the homeland - dunam by dunam, settlement by settlement - would conclude in very short order and with the extension of Jewish sovereignty throughout all of the Land of Israel, from the river to the sea. Moreover, all of this will happen with the firm and generous support of the democratically elected Trump Administration, whose policy makers will be celebrating alongside of us the return of the Jewish people, of the Children of Israel, to their Biblical boundary lines.But even if the unthinkable does not happen, even if Donald Trump does not become President of the United States and after November we find ourselves back at the grinding, tedious, and altogether too often life-threatening work of reclaiming our Homeland by homestead - dunam by dunam, settlement by settlement - the Trump campaign's willingness to look favorably upon the extension of the Jewish sovereignty up to the territorial boundary lines of Biblical Israel has permanently altered the context of our cause.
It is less shocking that this is a repudiation of the Israeli founding than that it is a repudiation of the American Founding.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 14, 2016 4:40 PM
