JEWISH WORLD

By FERN SEIDMAN Reprinted with the permission of www.jewishvoiceny.com . O n that spring day in 2015, when businessman and real estate titan Donald Trump came down the escalator with wife Melania at his eponymously named tower in midtown Manhattan and announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, very few believed that this man with no experience in politics could ever deliver on his promises of creating millions of jobs, spurring our strug- gling economy or building a wall on our southern border, among many other things. Despite the odds being stacked against him throughout the 2016 presidential race and the bevy of pundits writing him off as a public- ity seeking entrepreneur with a nefarious agenda, President Trump not only managed to boldly defy the odds and become our nation’s 45th president, but has proven that he has it within his ability to fulfill his campaign slogan of “Make Amer- ica Great Again.” For the last four years, President Trump has been the whipping boy of the left-liberal fake news media and their cohorts in the Democratic party. From the get-go, egregious lies and gross distortions were dis- seminated about the president, with many historians commenting on the fact that no other president in mod- ern history has been treated with such palpable animus as he. Yes, President Trump promised the American people that he would drain the swamp; that he would aggressively weed out political graft and corruption at its core and would restore a sense of accountability to American politics. This is precisely why the high command at the Democratic party along with their lack- eys in the media have chosen to take directives from the circumspect characters in the “Deep State” in order to derail Trump and ultimately oust him from office. Nonetheless, President Trump vigilantly forged ahead with the steadfast objective of fulfilling the promises he made to the American people and that is exactly what he has accomplished. F or the Jewish people in particu- lar, it is beyond noteworthy to mention that no other president in the history of this nation has done more to support and protect us both in the United States and in Israel. Let’s not forget that every previ- ous administration dating back to Bill Clinton has promised that the United States would move their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people. Not only did President Trump do it, but he accomplished it despite the fact that world leaders were ballistic over this move and importuned him not to go ahead with this purportedly controversial gesture of solidarity with our cherished ally, Israel. So, Trump not only swam against the tide on this, but also granted complete Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights, as he faced intense political backlash in the process. For all intents and purposes, Israel does not enjoy bipartisan sup- port in Congress anymore. Those halcyon days have morphed into an anachronism of sorts, with a hostile Democratic party replacing it. Such new age socialists and rabid Jew haters as Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have now radically transformed the party, while other senior members of Congress such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are not only giving their impri- matur to the vehement- ly anti-Israel agenda of the aforementioned members of the squad but are actively sup- porting them with every ounce of her energy. The recent historic peace accord between Israel, the UAE, Bah- rain and the détente between the Jewish state and Saudi Arabia was laboriously carved out by the tireless work of the Trump adminis- tration’s chief Middle East negotiators and brilliant strategists who have a firm grasp of the geo-politi- cal climate in that neighborhood of the world. Trump’s stated desire when he ran for president in 2016 was to bring about a long standing and enduring peace in the region and he has done just that with the indispensable help from senior advisor Jared Kushner and his assis- tant Avi Berkowitz. Y es, it is true that Trump has accomplished what no other president could do in terms of creat- ing peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors, but that is exactly continued on page 28 The Choice Is Clear Calling on America to re-elect Trump No other president in history has done more to support and protect Jews both in the United States and in Israel. 24 JEWISH WORLD • OCTOBER 16-22, 2020 OPINION President Trump is a figure of controversy for some, almost the epitome of evil for liberal media, but he still led this country to a better place. President Donald Trump, center, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to left and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan to right during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House on September 15th. President Trump enters the briefing room of the White House to discuss the resurging economy. 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