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mprehensive than israel must win a position on the dictatorial excesses of the supreme court or a desire to do anything other than topple netanyahu the failed israeli generals turned prime ministers also had tenuous commitments to democracy and especially to the rights of minorities as evidenced by rabin and sharon s contemptuous dismissal of their opponents and settlers after all generals are used to giving orders and are not always amenable to the give and take of democratic governance harry truman who chose not to run against eisenhower predicted that his successor would have a hard time getting things done he ll sit right here and he ll say do this do that and nothing will happen poor ike it won t be a bit like the army if only that would be our problem our problem has been not military leaders turned prime ministers getting nothing done but in getting the wrong things done our problem has been generals spearheading and bulldozing their and our way into strategic calamities that cost us dearly in lives treasure international standing and the fulfillment of our destiny a mature society knows better than to expect tough looking generals to be successful politicians a jewish society should know to find leaders who can advance our national spiritual destiny until we merit true leaders as we had in days of old 5 comments semiquincentennial fever posted on july 3 2026 comments off on semiquincentennial fever first published at israelnationalnews com the united states celebrates this weekend its semi quincentennial literally halfway to five hundred years and a more easily pronounceable and spellable name would have been in order it is an achievement the world has changed so much since 1776 world maps have been re delineated countless times and numerous countries have been founded or have had their forms of government changed and yet the usa endures the world and the jewish people have benefited enormously from the founding of the usa in mostly unanticipated ways the great torah leader rav chaim of volozhin reportedly stated in the early 1800 s that the united states would be the last foreign refuge jews would enjoy before the coming of moshiach indeed millions of jews found safe haven in america in the 19 th and 20 th centuries including three of my grandparents and my father and for that we are eternally grateful the idea that any nation on earth would welcome jews even for a time and permit freedom of worship flabbergasted and gratified immigrant jews even if many exploited the freedom of religion to flee from their religion and the us played an important if occasionally reluctant role in israel s creation and even our survival it was 250 years ago that these words electrified mankind we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness no other nation then invoked g d s name in order to do anything but justify the absolute power of the monarch no other nation perceived these rights as truths much less self evident truths and no other nation had a system of government in which there were co equal branches each with checks and balances on the others none of this had to be and many jews as well as americans believed in the hand of providence in america s creation and statecraft abraham lincoln notably in his second inaugural address underscored this and that to paraphrase bejamin franklin that the usa has been able to keep its republic for this long and to remain mostly faithful to its creed and values is remarkable if not providential no nation before had distributed power amongst the ruling classes in order to protect the individual is it easy to maintain co equal branches or government no it is not and exhibit one today in israel is the seizure of supreme power by a runaway judiciary that essentially appoints itself follows no laws and capriciously asserts control over any and every aspect of society it wishes to for me this anniversary recalls the far more pronounceable bicentennial in 1976 exactly fifty years ago i was a teenager in israel at the time and the day is forever etched in my memory because it coincided with the astonishing rescue of the israeli hostages at entebbe uganda israel had been on emotional standstill for more than a week with the lives of more than one hundred jewish hostages in existential danger and with the rabin government in the process of negotiating a release of hundreds of terrorists in exchange for their freedom that was the era when israel prided itself on not negotiating with terrorists how quaint that must sound fifty years later for the more than forty years we have just about only negotiated with and conceded to terrorists beginning with the abu jibril deal in 1985 and reaching its full force with the oslo accords and so on but here the talks were designed to stall for time as israel prepared for a potential military rescue we awoke that sunday morning to the thrilling news of the rescue we didn t yet know that three hostages had perished along with one officer yoni netanyahu the sense of exhilaration was palpable for one thing almost immediately it lifted the gloom that had beset israel in the aftermath of the yom kippur war for another the miraculous nature of the rescue flying through the night thousands of miles the decoys the surprise assault the quick escape with the hostages and their safe return all reaffirmed g d s role i recall traveling on a bus that afternoon from netanya to yerushalayim looking at the clouds which to me seemed to form a hand as in the hand of hashem the joy on the bus and on the streets was overwhelming and where was i going to the bicentennial celebration that was taking place in the football stadium of hebrew university in givat ram it symbolized for me the interconnection between the united states and israel how in many ways the american experiment was rooted in the bible how the founders saw themselves as providential actors like moses leading the israelites across the red sea guided by the divine pillar of fire itself ben franklin s recommendation for the great seal of the united states and how modern israel sees itself perhaps to a fault as an american outpost in the middle east a nation guided also by biblical values there is no article about the usa or israel for that matter that omits the disclaimer that no nation is perfect an indictment usually issued by citizens of nations that do not even aspire to goodness or virtue much less perfection one little known anecdote illustrates the point on july 5 the day after the entebbe rescue us secretary of state henry kissinger whose discomfort with being jewish bordered on schizophrenia called israel s us ambassador simchah dinitz to complain about the entebbe rescue operation i have some bad news to tell you kissinger said you used american equipment outside of israel the c 130 transport planes we will have to apply the law and put a temporary freeze on military shipments dinitz responded you must be kidding to which kissinger stated you know you have no right to do this without prior consultation dinitz thinking quickly replied that the transport planes are not weapons but equipment if the weapons freeze was eventually authorized it did not last long indeed no country is perfect and imperfect people in positions of power sometimes 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 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