Looking Way Back At 100 Trump Mitzvotim (Good Deeds)

Nadene Goldfoot                                                      

     Who will win the election of 2024?  Trump or Harris?  

I just did a search on my own blog and came up with this, below, buried on my January 2021 article at the end! He had come up with 100 ways that Trump had benefitted Israel !  It's a shame that the man does not fit his good deeds that were done under his name.  Here it is again the election time, and will be a close race with Harris.   I post this, not advising that he be elected, but showing the two sides of Trump as he is presented to us, with this being something most appealing to American Jews.  How can it happen that such a man as we have seen could do these 100 great things for Israel?  The first 3 were more than enough to praise his name for something we had waited so long to see happen.  I feel that son-in-law, Jerad Kushner, had the most to do with the 100 good deeds (mitzvas), but without Trump, there would have been no Kushner leading the way.  In fact, I think of Kushner as being in the position of Joshua on the Exodus.  

The Jerusalem Report of January 11, 2016 Donald Trump, Israel and the Jews-the controversial Republican candidate will find it difficult to leverage his pro-Israel positions to gain Jewish votes.  by Professor Eytan Gilboa-American Israeli.

Eytan Gilboa is Professor and Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a senior research associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and Chair of The Israel Communication Association. He has published several books and numerous articles on public diplomacy, international communication and US policy in the Middle East. He received his BA degree from the Hebrew University and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Gilboa has been a visiting professor in several leading American and European universities and research centers, including "The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Annenberg School of Communication at USC, the Department of Political Science at UCLA, the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C., the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, and the Institute for Communication Research at the University of Hamburg."

 He was an adviser to various ministries and agencies in several countries. He frequently contributes op-ed articles to newspapers and news websites around the world, and serves as a popular commentator on local and foreign television and radio networks.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-meets-prime-minister-netanyahu-israel/

1/24/21 100 ways Trump helped Israel-from posting on facebook: by Eytan Gilboa, Phd. 

1. President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
2. President Trump moved the American Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
3. President Trump closed the Jerusalem consulate and made it an Embassy branch
4. President Trump has never publicly criticized Israel
5. President Trump pulled America out of the Iran deal
6. President Trump raised military aid to Israel by $400 million
7. President Trump raised sanctions on Iran as soon as pulled out of the deal
8. President Trump recognized the sovereignty of Israel on the Golan Heights
9. President Trump designated IRGC (Iranian special forces) a foreign terrorist group
10. President Trump banned BDS head Omar Barghouti from America
11. President Trump banned the head of ICC and staff from coming to America
12. President Trump backed Israel’s right to self-defense in Gaza
13. President Trump left the United Nations Human Rights (sic) Council
14. President Trump cut off all aid to the Palestinian Authority
15. President Trump closed the PLO office in Washington, DC
16. President Trump was the first president to visit the Western Wall as President
17. President Trump sent the first official American visit to the Western Wall with an Israeli Prime Minister
18. President Trump allowed consulate and Embassy staff to meet with Jews of Judea and Samaria
19. President Trump allowed consulate and Embassy staff to visit Jews living in Judea and Samaria
20. President Trump announced that America will not support Israeli soldiers being tried at the ICC International Criminal Court (ICC)                                           
    
21. President Trump called out the anti-Israel antisemitism of Ilhan Omar (of The Squad).  
22. President Trump flew to Israel on his first foreign trip
23. President Trump issued no waivers on increased sanctions against Iran
24. President Trump offered a $10 million reward for information on Hamas and Hezbollah financial networks
25. The Trump administration wrote op-eds blaming Hamas and the Palestinians for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
26. President Trump stopped the lame-duck last-minute Kerry and Obama $221 million payment to the Palestinian Authority on January 20, 2017
27. President Trump signed the Taylor Force Act (an Act of the U.S. Congress to stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority until the PA ceases paying stipends through the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund to individuals who commit acts of terrorism and to the families of deceased terrorists.)
28. President Trump supported Israel in the May 2019 flare-up with Gaza.
29. President Trump refused a visa to Israel hater Hanan Ashrawi to America, (Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar. Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University. Beginning in the 1990s, Ashrawi was a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.)
30. President Trump sanctioned (punished) three leading members of Hezbollah in July 2019 (accusing them of having a “malign agenda” to support the Iranian government.

    The sanctions were the first to directly target members of Lebanon’s Parliament and underscored the White House’s intention to ratchet up pressure on Iran by punishing groups with ties to its government.

31. The Trump administration blocked an attempt to get the UN Security Council to issue a formal condemnation of Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the edge of Jerusalem in July 2019

32. President Trump sanctioned Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
33. Ambassador Friedman refused to advocate for a two-state solution unfavorable to Israel
34. President Trump removed “Palestine” from the list of countries on The State Department list of nations.
35. President Trump stopped a French $15 billion credit line to Iran
36. President Trump stopped a UN Security Council statement on tensions between Israel and  Hezbollah.  
37. Hezbollah that did not single out violence by the Lebanese terror group
38. President Trump cut a $120 million from aid to Lebanon to ensure it didn’t get to Hizballah
39. President Trump sanctioned 9 Iranians in November 2019
40. President Trump supported Israel after rocket fire in its skirmish with Islamic Jihad (terrorists).
41. President Trump said nothing about Israel limiting retaliation.
42. President Trump and America was the only country besides Israel to vote against all 8 UN 4th committee resolutions in November 2019
43. President Trump declared that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (“settlements”) aren’t illegal under international law
44. President Trump hasn’t supported two-state solution as the only solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
45. Vice President Pence visited Israel during his first year in office
46. Secretary Pompeo wrote a letter to Congress clarifying that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support
47. Secretary Pompeo says that claims that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria have impeded peace are foolish
48. President Trump didn’t comment when Defense Minister Bennet green-lighted a new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron
49. Secretary Pompeo announced that Iran is behind all the unrest in the Middle East
50. President Trump blamed Iran for Lebanon protests
51. President Trump’s US  deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates reportedly meets with envoys from UAE, Oman, Morocco, Bahrain to gauge willingness Israeli-Arab non-belligerence agreements
52. President Trump denounced Iran brutal crackdown on protesters
53. President Trump denounced Iran brutal crackdown on protesters
54. New US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft says she’ll defend Israel. In first United Nations press conference, Kelly Craft also warns Iran that Washington has ‘other tools’ if Tehran continues its bad behavior
55. President Trump regales Israeli-American group with tales of his pro-Israel moves retells extensive account of embassy move, tells Israeli American Council that he’s Israel’s best friend in the White House
56. President Trump signed an executive order on anti-Semitism that protects Jewish students on college campuses. The order includes anti-Israel activity
57. Robert O’Brien tells Meir Ben-Shabbat that ‘common interests between Israel and Arab states… have made new regional partnerships possible to counter Iran’
58. The Trump administration denounced Iranian human rights abuses and imposed sanctions on Iranian judges
59. After President Abbas hailed the ICC declaration that it will investigate Israel as an historic day for Palestinians, Secretary Pompeo said US ‘firmly opposes’ ICC announcement on alleged Israeli war crimes. He said the International Criminal Court’s move ‘unfairly targets’ Jewish state, calls for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians
60. The Trump administration announced seven joint US-Israeli clean energy projects — including an energy-storing system for electric cars and a hydrogen-powered drone that takes off vertically — have received $6.4 million in funding from the US-Israel binational research and development program for energy
61. America struck Iranian-backed militia in Iraq; 19 reported killed. Israeli Air Force chief said ‘US strike on Iran-backed Iraqi militia is a ‘potential turning point’
62. President Trump ordered deadly strike on Iran’s Soleimani
63. President Trump said new Iran sanctions have come into effect. President Trump said, “We’ve increased them. They were very severe, but now it’s increased substantially.”
64. President Trump mocked Iranian supreme leader, and wrote in support of the ‘noble people of Iran,’ after Khamenei attacks America and Europe in speech
65. President Trump releases his incredibly favorable-to-Israel peace plan to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict
66. Trump administration official Jared Kushner slams Palestinian leadership, urges giving up ‘fairy tales’ for peace. Kushner said Palestinians have been lied to, chiefs ‘screwed up every opportunity in the past’; rejecting Trump plan shows they aren’t ready for a state
67. Secretary Pompeo said If Palestinians unhappy with the Trump peace plan, they should present counter offer. He warned that Trump proposal could be last opportunity for Palestinian state
68. Jared Kushner says that if Palestinians are unable to meet the conditions of the new Middle East peace plan he crafted, Israel should not take “the risk to recognize them as a state.”
69. Israeli and UAE officials met in secret in US to discuss countering Iran
70. National security adviser Robert O’Brien warns Palestinians that resurgence of anti-Jewish hatred around the world means more Jews will immigrate to Israel and West Bank
71. Jared Kushner says Abbas responsible for spike in violence since release of peace plan
72. Jared Kushner tells UN Palestinian leadership has long history of ‘inciting intifadas when they don’t get their way’
73. Due to American diplomacy, Abbas, lacking votes, pulls request for UN vote against Trump peace plan
74. The US military seized Iranian-made weapons in Arabian Sea. The USS Normandy warship seized 150 ‘Dehlavieh’ anti-tank guided missiles, which are Iranian-manufactured copies of Russian Kornet ATGMs.
75. Trump advisor Jason Greenblatt warns that if traditional positions on conflict are readopted, ‘Israel will likely continue to thrive and the Palestinians will continue to suffer’
76. Secretary Pompeo says UN settlement blacklist shows UN’s ‘unrelenting anti-Israel bias’
77. The US State Department expressed concern over a report that Iranians were threatening to raze an ancient shrine revered by local Jews as the burial place of the biblical Esther and Mordechai, in an act of revenge against Israel and Washington
78. The US gave Israeli prime minister the green light for Givat Hamatos construction
79. Israel advanced plans for nearly 1,800 new settlement homes America doesn’t criticize
80. Ambassador Friedman said under the Trump administration, the Biblical heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, will never be judenrein
81. An Israeli delegation traveled to the United States for talks on coordinating a joint US-Israeli campaign against the International Criminal Court
82. Secretary Pompeo said the Israelis will ultimately make the decisions about annexation. That’s an Israeli decision, but we’ll work closely with them to share our views of this in a private setting
83. American diplomats circulate draft of Security Council resolution that would scrap expiration of 2015 nuclear deal’s ban on weapons sales to Tehran
84. State Department says Washington ready to approve ‘sovereignty and the application of Israeli law’ in some areas
85. US officials emphasize West Bank annexation not contingent on Palestinian state
86. Ambassador David Friedman asserted that Israelis across the political spectrum supported the Trump plan and that “just as Americans would never relinquish the area on which the Statue of Liberty stands, even though it’s a very small area, Israel would never agree to give up settlements like Beit El and Hebron
87. Secretary Pompeo praises Israel on visit, “You’re a great partner, you share information, unlike some other countries that try to obfuscate and hide that information.”
88. Secretary Pompeo warned the International Criminal Court against asserting jurisdiction over Israel, saying the United States will “exact consequences” for any “illegitimate” investigations
89. Secretary Pompeo called the ICC a “kangaroo court” and announced that sanctions in the form of asset freezes would be enacted against chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda and another senior ICC official
90. Serbia announced that it would move its embassy to Jerusalem, while Muslim majority Kosovo is to recognize Israel. The moves come as part of US-brokered discussions to normalize economic ties between Belgrade and Pristina
91. In a rare move, US sanctions 2 Lebanese politicians allied with Hezbollah who are former cabinet ministers that ‘provided material support’ to terror groups. America warned of new measures targeting organization’s allies
92. US envoys helped broker a framework agreement for Lebanon and Israel to start discussing their disputed maritime border
93. Jared Kushner says Saudi Arabia, Bahrain to allow all Israeli flights to use airspace Saudi flights also able to use Israeli airspace; White House advisor says Arabs losing patience with Palestinian leadership, will do ‘what’s in their best interests’
94. The Trump administration warned Palestinians if they continue to reject Trump peace proposal ‘the situation is just going to get worse and worse for them’; The US won’t ‘chase’ Ramallah
95. President Trump brokered peace between Israel and the UAE
96. President Trump brokered peace between Israel and Bahrain
97. US sanctioned 2 Lebanon-based firms, Hezbollah-linked businessman, Arch Consulting and Meamar Construction targeted ‘for being owned, controlled, or directed’ by terrorist group
98. Defying the UN, the Trump administration unilaterally asserts sanctions on Iran are back in effect. Secretary Pompeo vows Trump administration will ‘impose consequences’ on any state violating ‘snapback’ sanctions to ensure Tehran ‘does not reap the benefits of UN-prohibited activity’
99. The Trump administration unveils additional ‘UN’ sanctions against Iran, will enforce arms embargo
100. US, Israel, UAE announce establishment of $3 billion regional investment fund
101. The Trump administration brokered peace between Israel and Sudan and the two signed a normalization deal.                                   
     
     In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with army’s air force and air defense staff in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Iran’s supreme leader said the U.S. must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to return to its commitments to the nuclear deal with Western powers. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Biden withdrew Trump's  restorations of UN Sanctions on Iran.  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former president Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

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