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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Josh Hammer: Donald Trump may be America?s most pro-Jewish president ever. Thr?

By Glenn Reynolds

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Josh Hammer: Donald Trump may be America’s most pro-Jewish president ever.

Through word and deed, President Trump ? a father of an observant Jew and grandfather of Jewish children ? has repeatedly established himself as a true friend and guardian of the people of the covenant. And in the post-1948 era of Zionism, Trump has been by far the most loyal and transformative friend of the world?s sole Jewish state. Trump ended decades of presidential timidity and promise-breaking by finally moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. He withdrew the United States from the harrowing capitulation to evil that was the Obama-Biden nuclear accord with Iran and has slapped crippling sanctions on the mullocracy.

He decimated the Islamic State ?caliphate? and decapitated Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani, both threats to Israel and Jews everywhere. He closed the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization?s mission in Washington and defunded the Palestinian Authority itself due to its barbaric ?pay-to-slay? subsidies.

Trump also cut funding or outright withdrew from three anti-Israel UN bodies: the (grossly misnamed) UN Human Rights Council, UNWRA and UNESCO.

And we?re just getting started. Team Trump has boldly stood up for Israeli ?settlements? in Judea and Samaria. The president formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and rolled out the most pro-Israel plan for peace with the Palestinian Arabs that a US president has ever endorsed.

Most remarkably, the man who wrote ?The Art of the Deal? shepherded through not one but two (thus far!) separate normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab world. That?s probably the most important positive diplomatic triumph for Israel (and for Jews worldwide, who benefit from a strong Jewish state) in decades. Imagine what a second term could bring.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 23, 2020 (boomark / email).