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s take inexplicable and mendacious positions it is a little surprising that there is not a semi quincentennial celebration planned in israel similar to the bicentennial at least to my knowledge and it has little to do with the reigning president and his policies towards israel in fact the bicentennial year was preceded by ford s kissinger inspired reassessment of relations with israel due to israel s sluggishness in surrendering to america s dictates then concerning the fate of sinai it is no matter us israel relations have gone from cool to warm to very warm and everything in between and many point to the united states current dysfunction and woes but if anything it was far worse in 1976 inflation was in the double digits the us was in the middle of a bitter election campaign that would harp on the corruption of watergate and the defeat in vietnam but anniversaries commemorate past events not current events despite my occasional pointed and wholly justified criticisms of the usa suffice it to say that no other country aspires to do good in the world as does the united states no other country has objective values that it tries to export across the world and no country seeks the good and welfare of other countries as does the united states sure it occasionally stumbles and even hesitates as winston churchill whose mother was american reputedly said you can always count on the americans to do the right thing after they have exhausted all the other possibilities we are living through that again in real time but what is true about the virtues of us is also true about israel we also seek only the good of mankind only to be castigated even by those we try to help we are held to a standard of conduct that no other nation is and often a standard of conduct that no nation could survive if truly implemented and we seek their welfare even when they dream of our destruction e g who feeds their enemy in wartime a good question never asked until slightly more than two years ago and yet that has left israelis not bitter but still hopeful knowing as we do that the arc of history bends not towards justice but towards redemption and moshiach part of our hopefulness as israelis is that the united states retain its course and its values and not surrender to the temptations of materialism and hedonism undoubtedly the disinclination of many american jews to make aliya stems from the fact that despite the surge of jew hatred the usa still remains a wonderful place to live a place to which foreigners across the world regularly informed of america s evil still want to sneak in and live there its opportunities still dwarf those of every other country in the world and despite the frequent vicissitudes in us israel relations we should be clear that the us is the only power in the world that is predisposed to our wellbeing if that should change it would frankly be worse for the us than for israel but the american experiment has surely benefited all of us and transformed the world the very notion of self determination of peoples in their indigenous land the essence of the political zionism found a powerful booster in the united states it would not be wrong to say that there are only two countries that are forces for good in the world the united states and israel today and tomorrow if we remain on course the possibilities are endless and optimistic happy 250 th to the usa all americans and the world comments off on semiquincentennial fever tagged israel politics zionism the price of appeasement posted on june 29 2026 comments off on the price of appeasement first published at israelnationalnews com it is outrageous enough that negotiations are taking place between the united states and iran that directly affect the lives and well being of millions of israelis but without the participation of israel and with the expectation that we will simply acquiesce to any decisions that are made this is eerily reminiscent of the treatment of czechoslovakia in 1938 where its territory was dismembered at munich and soon thereafter its sovereignty was entirely lost this analogy casts iran in the role of the nazis which they would accept as a compliment and it also casts vice president jd vance if he were a rival trump would invariably nickname him shady j d in the role of neville chamberlain with a full beard instead of a bushy mustache in truth it is lebanon whose land is being segmented and whose sovereignty is being forfeited to foreigners not israel s but it is our lives that are at stake as well as the viability of our communities in the north and all to appease a genocidal foe that has been able to humiliate the united states even from a position of abject weakness worse though is vance s ill disguised contempt for israel and for jews as indicated by a torrent of statements he made some prepared some improvised as strange as it must sound to normal thinking people since vance got involved the only nation he has singled out for criticism in the entire region has been israel which is the only nation in the region that has been threatened with extermination by iran vance s new pals at least the moderates he has uncovered as so many gullible americans have as well in the last half century when it suits them he has not internalized this if the deal makes iran weaker as vance claims why are they celebrating and then mocking and threatening the united states they don t sound defeated especially now that the us has effectively ceded control over the straits of hormuz to iran what vance has said is certainly offensive but nevertheless deserves answers for example this classic over the last three months two thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by american hands and paid for by american tax dollars and 100 of those weapons were improved refined tested and deployed by the idf with the results shared with the us at the price of jewish blood and treasure saving the us billions of dollars in research and development the good news is that israel used them successfully thank g d as opposed to the us military which mostly did not yesterday s wall street journal reported what was previously concealed that iran essentially destroyed the major us naval base in bahrain during the war the american failure to dislodge iran from the straits or defend its gulf allies undoubtedly played an enormous role in the us cut and run from this conflict trump can tout the us military with typical braggadocio as the most powerful in the world but sad to say it underperformed and did not achieve us objectives in the war the boast means nothing the facts on the ground in the air and in the straits prove otherwise israel is grateful for american assistance money that for many reasons is well spent for purposes of american security but we would be better off without this dependence and the suggestion being floated that the us should relocate its destroyed bahrain base or other bases to israel is insane and should be ruled out by israel the presence of american forces in israel impairs our security it would constrain our freedom of operation imagine having to consult with american officials every time our fighter jets departed imagine us troops being killed g d forbid in a future conflict or in a terrorist attack we have always taken pride in defending ourselves without us soldiers to assist us and we should adhere to that and swiftly shutter the kiryat gat base what else did vance say in response to pointed criticism of the mou by ministers smotrich and ben gvir vance suggested that donald j trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of israel at this moment in time and then he got testy if i was in the cabinet of the israeli government i might not be attacking the only powerful ally that i have anywhere left in the entire world anybody in israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the united states needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation in that country well first it is not true there are plenty of heads of state sympathetic to israel even discounting our steadfast friends micronesia palau and now somaliland israel has warm ties with india the most populous country on earth and azerbaijan and most recently relations with bolivia and colombia are strengthening the czech republic is friendly as is poland most of the time israel is vietnam s second largest supplier of weapons and there are others who respect and sympathize with israel but circumstances fear of muslim terror force them to be less vocal about it second what vance ignores or dismisses is precisely the reality of the situation in israel we are not surrounded by canada mexico and two oceans we are surrounded by enemies some of whom have peace treaties with us that preserve a non belligerency without a real peace and encircled by others who openly proclaim their genocidal ambitions to wipe us off the map to drive us into the sea to reverse this insult to islam to excise this cancerous tumor to use their words it is a region of dictators and autocrats some of whom seized power by force and others who ascended to power by heredity that doesn t even begin to address the designs of our enemies within our borders perhaps vance needs to wake up the united states might have the luxury of ignoring its enemies israel and the jewish people do not his only suggestion in dealing with those who wish to exterminate us is appeasement and heeding his every dictate furthermore vance declared what is your exact proposal you re a country of 9 million people you can t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have to which ben gvir responded and good for him this is the proposal to deal with the nazis of the 21st century just as the united states dealt with the nazis of the 20th century if vance thinks that genocidal foes will be deterred by words and agreements forget signing ceremonies as the iranians still refuse to appear in public with the americans then his isolationism is as misguided as it is hazardous for israel and the united states he has a peculiar morality that would grant immunity to terrorists who hide among civilians even when those civilians are supportive and share the goals of the terrorists but one question lingers why isn t the world sympathetic to us in vance s language this is a perplexing question that has deep roots and makes many people uncomfortable including many jews why are we so hated why are we the only nation on the globe that is the target of such disdain and for whom nations actively plan its demise the only one why would nations as diverse as spain burkina faso brunei south africa turkey bangladesh and australia have such animus towards israel for sure it must perplex even kind hearted people across the world why are jews so hated why were we the victims of repeated pogroms expulsions and the holocaust why having returned to our ancient homeland in accordance with biblical prophecy does israel remain the only nation on earth whose very existence is found threatening and unacceptable such questions cannot be fully answered in a brief essay and perhaps never fully understood the answers go to the mystery and majesty of the jewish experience that bewilders many jews and certainly affronts many of our foes many unthinking jews just assume that we must be doing something wrong because if not we would be loved after all we bring so much good to the world kindness morality inventions development culture etc we are the first to respond when natural disasters strike anywhere in the world and still remain unpopular even among beneficiaries of our kindnesses thus herzl thought that jew hatred would end if we had our own state many in the world including misguided jews today believe that jew hatred would end if we didn t have a state others feel that if we are hated it is because we don t make a sufficient effort to be loved or haven t conceded or surrendered enough in israel or haven t established a palestinian state or didn t build settlements or whatever none of this is true the roots of jew hatred go back to our forefathers and their covenant with g d to the torah that we received at sinai to our maddening and inexplicable survival for thousands of years despite being the objects of unending enmity our forefathers dealt with genocidal enemies as did their descendants throughout history and down to our day our foes despise us because of our religion and theirs or because they have no religion like the communists and resent our fidelity to ours they hate us as rootless cosmopolitans or as colonialist masters over a tiny parcel of land they have long chanted go back to israel until we did and now they chant from the river to the sea we have no claims or right to be here their hatred is based on overt jealousy and ill considered fear on opposition to the notion of a chosen people on resentment towards those who are deemed the favorites on barely disguised religious antagonism it has nothing to do with where we live and how we act but entirely with who we are as a nation shady j d vance opposed the war so much so that he was the only leading national security official not to be present in mar a lago when the most recent hostilities were launched but his particular snarkiness the only nation on the globe he taunts since his verbal attacks on ukraine were ignored by zelensky seems to be based on his newfound faith about which he is peddling a new book as if he is personally trying to resuscitate the ancient catholic disparagement of jews he would do well to consider not only the fates of bilaam and balak but moreover the historical reality that goes back to ancient times to g d s promise to avraham and i will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you and all the families of the land will be blessed through you breisheet 12 3 may all those who support israel share in the divine blessings comments off on the price of appeasement tagged israel politics zionism trump goes wobbly posted on june 23 2026 1 comment versions of this first appeared at jns org and israelnationalnews org in august 1990 days after iraq invaded and conquered kuwait british prime minister margaret thatcher pressed president george h w bush on taking decisive military action bush agreed but when he at first deferred to the united nations for support thatcher challenged him and famously said this is no time to go wobbly george less than six months later the united states and allies launched the gulf war and within a few weeks kuwait was liberated saddam s forces were routed and the iraqi threat was for a time neutralized donald trump has gone wobbly lacking another world leader with the fortitude of mrs thatcher mr trump lacks any counterforce and thus is torn between several of his more engaged advisors some of whom are obviously pained and troubled by the deal with iran and 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