The question again and again is this: why do we need this unconditional support for Israel? What about Iceland or Belgium or the Netherlands or even France for that matter? Would it be a rational position to support whatever those countries are doing without the rule of law?
Netanyahu has pulled the political trigger by telling 60 Minutes that he and Donald Trump are concentric circles. “I know Donald Trump,” he said. “I know him very well.”[1]
He moved on to say that Trump’s “support for Israel is very clear. He feels very warmly about the Jewish state [and] the Jewish people.”[2]
I am certainly not a prophet of doom or a pessimist. We certainly have to withhold fundamental judgment until Trump gets to the White House. But the fact that he has been conniving with a first-rank mass murderer and a mad man indicates that his foreign policy will be a laughing stock.
David Friedman, Trump’s advisers on Israel and the Middle East, told the Jerusalem Post that “We are going to see a very different relationship between America and Israel in a positive way.”[3]
The question again and again is this: why do we need this unconditional support for Israel? What about Iceland or Belgium or the Netherlands or even France for that matter? Would it be a rational position to support whatever those countries are doing without the rule of law?
More importantly, would the Founding Fathers have given their stamp of approval on this unconditional allegiance to Israel? Does Trump know that people like George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson argued that America should never look for monsters in foreign lands to destroy?
Washington made it perfectly when he stated that
“The great rule of conduct for us…is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
Jefferson added:
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
Washington again declared the government of the United States
“well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence…
“The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force…she might become the dictatress of the world…no longer the ruler of her own spirit…”
The Founding Fathers were quite clear on foreign policy, and obviously not a single U.S. president today will pass their test. As we all know, U.S. presidents have an unconditional attachment to Israel, and virtually no one has been able to get out of that matrix without an “anti-Semitic” bomb attached to his/her spine.
When Ron Paul was trying to articulate the view that America needs get back to what the Founding Fathers actually believed with respect to foreign policy, flaming Jewish Neocon David Horowitz called him a “vicious anti-Semite.” Here are some definitions of the word vicious: “
“Brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bloodthirsty, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous, murderous, homicidal, smash-mouth, malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, spiteful, hateful, vindictive, venomous, poisonous, rancorous, mean, cruel, bitter, cutting, acrimonious, hostile, nasty, defamatory, slanderous, catty.”