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s 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 his more isolationist advisors who want to cut us losses and run across the world britain s prime minister keir starmer is the anti thatcher europe s leaders are docile and primed for appeasement russia and china can sense american impotence and the gulf states are more afraid of iran than respect the united states the only world leader who still wants to defeat the menace of radical islam is binyamin netanyahu who has now been set up by trump as the scapegoat if the agreement with iran fails no matter the reason it can fail because israel will still not accept an iran with extensive ballistic missile capabilities something that trump has now accepted because israel will not withdraw from the land it has freed from hezbollah domination in southern lebanon because israel cannot accept the remilitarization of iran s terrorist proxies or because israel is unconvinced of iran s sincerity in abandoning its nuclear weapons program indeed to anyone who does believe that iran will voluntarily disavow its nuclear program i would gladly sell them a bridge in brooklyn that can be renamed the trump bridge trump s concessions are quite flabbergasting he has already conceded that the 60 day deadline is not final the iranian negotiators masters of procrastination and obfuscation are playing trump and will simply delay as long as necessary knowing the resumption of war is unlikely and especially having received sanctions relief that will enable them to feed their fighters and spread their terror more stunning are two admissions that trump made during his press conference on wednesday that the united states never thought that iran would close the straits of hormuz or launch attacks on the oil infrastructure of its gulf neighbors it is hard to underestimate the level of unpreparedness this reflects was a us attack on iran never war gamed the essence of war gaming is anticipating the possible responses of the enemy who after all also has a say in how the war is conducted was this not done or worse was it done but trump simply ignored it because he admittedly prefers to rely on his own instincts this fiasco was compounded by two great failures of the us military the first was the inability to reopen the straits of hormuz to international shipping dubbed operation project freedom which was aborted before it began ultimately it does not matter whether the straits remained closed because of the united states lack of capability or lack of willpower to reopen them willpower being an essential element in the conduct of warfare this failure emboldened iran which now knows that it can open and close the straits at will thus disrupting the global economy israel may soon be facing iranian demands such as withdraw from lebanon and gaza divide jerusalem or establish a palestinian state or iran will close the straits of hormuz to world shipping if that occurs that will be a donald trump legacy the second failure just as staggering was the united states inability to protect its gulf allies from iranian attacks that caused extensive damage to land and infrastructure it is incomprehensible that these gulf kingdoms purchasers of hundreds of billions of dollars in american weapons over the decades could not protect their own territory even more egregious was the reluctance to respond in kind to iran s infrastructure now rendered sacrosanct and off limits to attack purportedly to allow the iranian people a greater chance at prosperity once the regime collapsed there is little chance of that happening now trump going wobbly when iran was weakened as never before has succeeded only in empowering and enriching iran heartening the enemies of america and israel and intimidating the gulf states in casting their destiny with iran and not with the west and all to save a dollar a gallon in the price of oil or seriously plan on fighting history s first casualty free war or chase the chimera of 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