Things to Realize About Israel in View of Their New Nation-State Law

Nadene Goldfoot                                         

At the Knesset we see a menorah

" Israel passed a controversial new “nation-state law” last week that’s sparking both celebration and fierce debate over the very nature of Israel itself."  I don't see much changing in how this affects all the citizens outwardly.  It's what the government felt what was needed to be in print.

1. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people.”
2. It establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, and Arabic — a language widely spoken by Arab Israelis —is given a “special status.”
3. It establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” and mandates that the state “will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.”                                     

   

   The Temple Mount
   Where Solomon's Temple first stood (961-920 BCE)
   Now Jews only have the Western Wall to pray  from
    Wall remains from King Herod (73 BCE-4 BCE)
   who built the wall, Wailing Wall/Kotel.
   Our History

Israel is the only Jewish state in the world.  Jews haven't had their own country since ancient Israel, established with king Saul existed in about 1030 BCE, over 3,000 years ago.    It continued until 70 CE when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans and the 2nd Temple of Solomon was destroyed.  Now, after having 6 million Jews murdered by Hitler, they have a state, and only make up 0.02% of the world's population.  They have taken special steps to secure their lives.  

There are at least 48 Muslim majority countries in the world.  About 10 have the state religion of Islam and are Israel's neighbors.  Egypt is the largest in population, then Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon,  and the looming awaiting Palestine would be right next door in the historical Jewish Judea-Samaria called the West Bank.  Gaza is also a part of the Palestine creation, where the rockets, mortars and missiles are shot from into Israel, populated by Muslims, mostly Hamas terrorists.

                                                               

In Jerusalem

Jews of the Diaspora have never thought of themselves as being nationalistic, having no nation since 70 CE.  They were of one religion, though, of Judaism.  Hitler tried to kill anyone with even 1/4 of their ancestry being Jewish.  We had said, we are a religion, not a nationality.  Here we are with the knowledge now that from what we know about Askenazi Jews, we are related to each other at least remotely. 

                                                            

 I'm surprised when I don't share at least a small segment of DNA with another Jew.  The finding usually is 5th cousin to remote.  We happen to be an endogamous society.  I bet a great many of Arabs are also endogamous.  I see that many Muslim men share the J1 haplogroup we call the Cohen gene because so many of our Cohens and others have a similar J1 haplogroup that shows Jews have it, too.  Indeed, the Bible is correct in that we are "cousins."  There are only about 14 million Jews in this whole world.  We're a rare group made up of Ashkenazi, Sephari and Mizrachi. 6 million are in the USA; 6 million in Israel and 2 million elsewhere.   14 million of us.  Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) has a14.6 million population.  

Pashtuns visiting Jerusalem at the Wall
Many claim to be from tribe of Benjamin taken by Assyrians in 721 BCE
Found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

                                                             

IDF now an Israeli of the Ingathering
Jewish Ethiopians waiting to be rescued came
in the 1980s.  They're not part of the 10 Lost Tribes
but more likely from days of Solomon wanting to return. 

  We lost 10 of our 12 Tribes to the plundering Assyrians in 721 BCE and where did they wind up?  It looks like they were able to end their slavery in Afghanistan and Pakistan and places around there.  It has been prophesied that the time would come when there will be an ingathering of our people, and we are in the middle of that miracle right now.  Since Israel has been re-created on May 14, 1948, Jews living under dire circumstances and Jews wanting to keep their faith have been streaming back to Israel.  They went from a population of 650,000 to 6 million Jews today.  1.7 million Arabs also live with them in Israel and are citizens.   Rabbis say the in-gathering  of Jews is to happen before the coming of the Messiah.  Of course Judaism, Christianity and Islam have different views of a Messiah.                                                     

Signs in Israel come in 3 languages
Hebrew, Arabic and English

                                                           

This tiny country's creation was for the Jewish people.  The 1st World War ended in 1917 where the Ottoman Empire had held Palestine for 400 years.  They had joined Germany's side in that war and lost the gamble.  The result was losing their empire.  It was in the hands of the Allies who decided that a Jewish Homeland would be made out of it and gave the mandate to do so to the English.  They also showed how little they thought of Jews no matter what the League of Nations had decided by giving away 80% of the promised land for Jews to an Arab of Saudi Arabia who turned it into Jordan eventually.  

                                                            

So now Israel is made out of a teeny scrap of land compared to countries surrounding them, and this teeny piece is to be divided again to accommodate the Palestinians whose family had come from all the surrounding states seeking jobs after our Russian Jews had first come and started building in the 1st Aliyah.  

Druze IDF on guard

                                                         

One of the Druze in the IDF
Their religion is from Islam.  About 120,000 live
in Israel living in the Galilee mainly in their own 18
villages and on Mt. Carmel.  They've fought with us since 1948.
There are Druze serving in the Knesset.  They have their own
religious courts and law. 

Other Druze live in Syria and Lebanon.  I read that a Druze Israeli feels hurt by the declaration.  Also, the Arab members of the Knesset are up in arms.  They must understand that they are a citizen of a unique country and are enjoying all the benefits of the Jews as equal citizens.  Arabs have the gift of not being expected to serve in the IDF if they don't feel they can do so.    What is changing for them?  Perhaps the Presidency and the Prime Minister position.  They'll lose all the rights they have with Israel if Israel is ever wiped out which their enemies keep trying to do.  That's why everyone is serving in the IDF; Israel's Defense Force.  They'll live as 2nd class citizens if they wind up in Syria or Lebanon.  This is Syria's President Assad's own personal problem.  He isn't a Sunni, like his other Arabs.  He's of a different group, the Alawites.    The Muslim Brotherhood tried to kill him.  

I have met a Druze lady in a meeting in the USA and admired her greatly.  She was a spokesman for Israel!  I would hate to hurt her or her community in any way.  I'm hoping this new law is not doing that.  I expect it's done to preserve what Israel has achieved.  

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-nation-state-law-bill-explained-apartheid-netanyahu-democracy
Update:  https://www.jewishleadershipconference.org/podcast/episode-8-zionism-and-israels-nation-state-law/?autoplay  with Professor Kontorovich.  

Update 8/24/18 : https://aijac.org.au/update/the-violent-gaza-deadlock-revisited-israels-controversial-nationality-bill/
Prof.  Kontorovich, however, released a statement citing the hypocrisy of Western nations who would take Israel to task over the new law.

“Israel’s nation-state bill is similar to provisions in many Western democratic constitutions, which provide for an official language and national character that reflects the majority of the population. Since Israel doesn’t have a formal constitution, it is imperative that the Jewish state has legislation that affirms the values and ethos it was founded upon.”

He added that “the Israeli bill is actually far weaker than constitutions of many European democracies, which unlike Israel even create an official national religion. The present bill does not violate anyone’s individual rights or create any special privileges for Jews.

“The faux outrage against the bill,” he stated, “is simply another attempt to single out the Jewish state and hold her to a double standard. What’s good for the United Kingdom and Spain should also be good for Israel.”

When Is Abortion Okay?

Nadene Goldfoot                           

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 (1973), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that declared a pregnant woman is entitled to have an abortion until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy without any interference by the state.

Our law of Roe versus Wade is a federal decision from 1973 by the USA Supreme Court deciding on when it's okay to have an abortion.  They decided that the woman's decision for an abortion must balance with the state interests of regulating abortions that would protect women's health and a potential human life.  The longer the pregnancy goes,the stronger the state becomes involved, of course.  This is why the 3rd trimester of a pregnancy is the most important time of if it's feasible or not.  This law gives women a legal right to have an abortion.  Her decision.  


                                                    

 The third trimester, or 27th week of gestation. The point at which an abortion becomes late-term is often related to the "viability" (ability to survive outside the uterus) of the fetus. Sometimes late-term abortions are referred to as post-viability abortions.
                                                    

PLANNED PARENTHOOD got involved saying that a woman has the whole right of choice until the time of fetal viability-the time to live outside the mother's womb with artificial aid if necessary which could happen at 23 or 24 weeks or even earlier because of medical advances. The government finances was supporting this group.  

The government is the largest source of Planned Parenthood revenue, according to the group's classification.

On their webpage, this is their thought about abortion:  "If you’re thinking about having an abortion, you’re so not alone. Millions of people face unplanned pregnancies every year, and about 4 out of 10 of them decide to get an abortion. Some people with planned pregnancies also get abortions because of health or safety reasons. Overall, 1 in 4 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the time they’re 45 years old."  They are advising the woman considering having an abortion.  Their considerations seem to be centering on the safety of having an abortion.  "The risk of death associated with abortion increases with the length of pregnancy, from 0.3 for every 100,000 abortions at or before eight weeks to 6.7 per 100,000 at 18 weeks or later."  
                                                            

The law of Roe v Wade started a national debate which continues on today when abortion should be legal and where religious views come into the situation.   This became an issue in national politics which has divided our country into pro-life and pro-choice camps with pro-active people and movements becoming very involved.

It is not new.  Abortions have been going on throughout history.  The USA has had back alley abortions going on throughout many years.  Money will buy someone to perform an abortion regardless whether the woman dies or not from it.  That's why laws come to the forefront.  

However, abortion was first a situation that had to have religion say something about it, since it involves the life of the mother and the life of a potential child of the mother.  
                                                     

Week 4 of fetal development

Judaism is our oldest monotheistic religion and had something to say about abortions immediately which we find written in the Torah (the 5 books of Moses). More is said about it in our Mishnah (Oholot 7:6) written at the end of the 2nd century.  This is the compilation of legal codification of the Oral Law of Moses, like a book lawyers would use about our laws.    My favorite commentator, Rashi, who goes back to when he was born in 1040 CE in Troyes, France, has a lot to say.  The Talmud also has much to say about it with Rashi's comments. 

It is not permitted to murder one person in order to save the life of another.  

The question between different religions is this:  Is a fetus at any age considered a person?  When does a fetus turn into a person?  

In Judaism, a fetus is not considered a life until once the greater part of the child has emerged from the womb.  Then it is considered as if the child had been born and the child is then a person in Jewish law.  

The situation is centered around the possibility that the mother is in grave danger and could die from an abortion.  Today, in a clinical setting, this is usually not the case as it was about 50 years ago and more.  

An example case in the Mishnah is: if the mother to be is in the act of giving birth and is having an exceptional hard time of it and her life is in danger now, the mother has priority over the life of the child and the child should be aborted.  However, if the greater part of the child has already appeared from the womb, it is considered to have been already born and the mother's life cannot be saved by destroying her child.  I would think that with that much of the child already here, the mother would not have died, hopefully, but possibly not hundreds of years ago.
                     
                  Abortion to Save the Mother's Life
A potential child who has appeared with more than half his body already is called a nefesh, a life.  
A fetus is called a rodef, a pursuer which is causing the potential death of the mother.  In this case it is natural causes that is the root of the problem that Heaven has caused and is not the fault of the rodef.  The destruction of the rodef is not looked upon as an act of murder in this case.  This is the only way in which the mother's life can be saved.  Feticide, then, is not considered a homicide.  
                                                      

The subject of abortion, however is a serious offense and is only to be undertaken for the weightiest of reasons.  Today, if there are any codifiers in our country deciding on the legitimacy of an abortion, their reasons would vary.

1. Many permit abortion when the birth of a child would cause the mother to lose her sanity.
2. Many would permit it if the doctors are of the opinion that the child would be born seriously deformed or as an imbecile such as the case of the thalidomide babies.
3. Many would permit it in cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape, especially the rape of a married woman.

                             A religious background: 

 4. No abortion clinic should permit abortion for economic reasons.
 5. No abortion clinic should permit abortion where the child is simply unwanted by the mother for her own personal reasons without a doctor advising it.  

Other religions will argue that a fetus once conceived is a life and are adamant against abortions that today would be happening most likely under the listing of # 4 and #5, because a woman has decided to not be pregnant, not because her life is threatened.  Most likely the woman is unmarried and poor and feels she is not in a position of raising a child. 
                                                          

Today, in our changing society, men and women are not expecting to marry by a certain age any more.  They may not even want or need to marry ..  Unwanted pregnancies are being prevented by over the counter aids, available for all to use.  Yet there are still women in need because of an unwanted pregnancy and clinics available and ready to perform an abortion.  

A girl not ready to have a baby can feel that the world has fallen on their heads when they find out they're pregnant and they are not married.  The rush to an abortion clinic to fix the problem will be the first thought of solving the problem.  If a boyfriend is involved, the two will talk it over and make a decision, which will no doubt be a financial decision.  
                                                         

There are women today who want a baby before it's too late for them and they are unable to conceive one,  and they will even go to clinics for artificial insemination, skipping the middle man and not needing a father for the baby. There is less stigma today in having a baby out of wedlock.  We see people in show business doing it openly.   We are living in different times.  But the old situation of how we bring in life or not is still on the books.  Are we looking upon a potential life as a special act where we will continue to think of life as something very special?  Or is it something to take easily away either as a partially born baby or a young man 21 on the battlefield or in the streets?  When is "life" not precious and something to guard?   

I'm happy to know that mankind was given thought and  laws about such an act as birthing.  Otherwise we might not all be here to enjoy life.  
                                                                           

b: February 12, 1965 in Washington, DC, Brett Michael Kavanaugh is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously was White House Staff Secretary during the presidency of George W. Bush.  His education comes from  Yale Law School, Mater Dei School, Georgetown Preparatory School, Yale College, Yale University

We have a potential judge that is being considered to join our supreme court and the Roe v Wade law is going to be one of the first considerations in deciding to accept him, no doubt.  Judge Brett Kavanaugh was chosen by President Trump for the new Supreme Court justice.  Perhaps we'll know by Fall if he is confirmed or not.  

A potential Supreme Court Judge is facing a society where 1 out of 4 women in the USA will have an abortion if this continues.  The reason for one seems to be left to the woman whose body is involved and has rights over her body.  Let's hope she also has considered her other parts, like her thinking.  Does she have parents?  How do they feel about it?  The growing tendency is that religion is waning.  Is morality waning with it?  

I believe that if the government is stepping in, considerations like sanitation and safety from abortions of course are a #1 consideration.  In our government, religion is not a part of our laws.  We have many differing religions here.  Our government has to be extra careful not to impose one religion over another, but still, we hope our people will make good moralistic decisions themselves from their own familial educational system.  Some will have religious beliefs but those that don't hopefully will have morals helping them make their best decisions.   

Resource:  Book:  What does Judaism say about..?  by Louis Jacobs

http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2016/02/2000-years-of-jewish-judges-on-abortion.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/law/court-cases/roe-v-wade

http://blog.acton.org/archives/102539-5-facts-about-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw7vraBRBbEiwA4WBOn7BjcHblDcb9qXawuFELTVcTrvPYBj5yonRO_YM_FZNfULHgchsMHxoCBgsQAvD_BwE
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/considering-abortion
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/05/429641062/fact-check-how-does-planned-parenthood-spend-that-government-money
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states?gclid=CjwKCAjw7vraBRBbEiwA4WBOnysBFMpcccGliD3y1drpzhlB5PqdARoPbOjdrtTO1zN5607qsMqtERoCd-IQAvD_BwE

Debating Accusations Against Trump

Nadene Goldfoot                            

Located near Central Park in New York City
Another international hotel of his is in Washington D.C.

Let's not forget all the good things he has accomplished in 1 1/2 years
while in office.  This is but a few.  

The fact that Hillary Clinton was running for the Democrats for the position as 45th President of the United States changed the climate of this country.  She was to be the first female president.  The party thought it was a sure thing.  So did she.  She was the wife of our 42nd president, Bill Clinton, and had 
                                                                     

Barack Obama speaking in Cairo, Egypt to Muslim Brotherhood
in Front Row 

been our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama's Secretary of State.  In that position, she was part of  a tragedy that caused some of the population to turn against her who possibly would have voted for her, and that was the Benghazi scandal where 4 Americans were killed that she, in her position, should not have allowed to happen, so felt future voters.
                                               

4 of Donald's children are Donald Trump Jr b: 1977, Ivanka b: 1981 and Eric b: 1984 with their wives; children of Donald's 1st wife, Ivana Trump.  Tiffany, was born in 1993 to 2nd wife, Marla Maples.  

Donald Trump, former Democrat, knew that no one could run against her and win.  She was the typical shoe-in.  He had switched parties and had become a Republican.  The USA had had 8 years of the Democrat, Barack  Obama, former community leader from Hawaii, and Republicans were anxious to get a foothold.  They had 17 candidates including Donald Trump running against her and the Socialist, Bernie Sanders.  Bernie took a nice chunk of votes away from Hillary.

Donald was not a politician and this was his 1st attempt of getting into politics.  He was a billionaire builder of hotels as well as owner, and a TV personality, having created, The Apprentice" where he famously would say, "You're fired!"  He also has written at least 10 books about how to make money and how to make deals.  

                                                                 

Being Donald was very well instituted in TV, he used what he was used to and was able to beat out all the other candidates from the Republicans, but with nasty manners that seemed to impress the tired and wary voters.  He was a doer, having taken the plunge earlier of seeking Obama's birth certificate, for if he found he was actually born in Africa, thought wrongly that this would keep him from being eligible as a president.  I believe that having an American mother makes it okay to run for president.  She hadn't given up her citizenship.  The point is, he had done all he could about it.  Voters had heard about that.
                                                     

Donald with youngest son, Barron, his 5th child.
  Barron was born in 2006.  

Donald is also a businessman, so voters related to him.    Obama was thought of as never having a real job.  Many of the others in office made politics their major and also hadn't been in business, only politics.  People felt they were in another zone. 
                                                                         

Donald Trump holding a new grandson. 

So we have Trump doing all sorts of things, calling other candidates names the most, that I remember, then calling our enemy, the head of North Korea, little rocket man.  As a former teacher, I recognized quickly the boasting and bullying tactics he was using, and was amazed that they worked for him.

I'm saying that since there is a G-d, and I am counting on him being with us all, only Hashem knows what plans he has for us.  Trump planned his visits in states that were very important for votes in our unusual system with electoral voting, and he won.  Hillary had been in politics since her husband was, and didn't go to those states, as she had it in the bag.  Today about one and a half years later, she's still asking why she lost.  We Republicans know.  Yes, I used to be a Democrat but switched after 4 years of Obama.  When he ran, I researched him and   had decided that he was not a president for Israel, and I was right.  On his last day in office, he showed as outwardly as one can that he didn't favor Israel by voting so as to not back Israel at the UN.
                                                                             

I would say that though Trump projects the role of a big braggart and bully, inwardly he's very sharp and goal oriented.  He sleeps but little and is a work-a-holic who does not drink any alcohol nor smoke anything.  He takes no drugs.
                                                                       

Melania, his wife
model and businesswoman
When they married, it was in a lavish Palm Beach, Florida, ceremony, with celebrity attendees including Shaquille O'Neal, Barbara Walters, Kelly Ripa, Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, former President Bill Clinton and then New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

Socially, this makes him dull, I suppose, but then he is married to the world's most lovely model, and has a history of being a playboy, that perhaps is just petering out with his growing age, now that he' s in his 70s.  He takes no salary for being president.  It goes to charity.

Democrats are still in shock at his becoming president.  I don't think he even thought he'd get it, but all his plans worked out.  He did.  What he gained is a headache of problems as president that he's tackling with gusto and success that he works on without a pat on the back or even a shekel.  Nothing he does gets an atta-boy except with some Republicans, but not their party, G-d forbid.  He's not part of that social group, either.  He stands alone, with his family and his voters.  Our president is under constant pressure and criticized, yet is fulfilling all his jobs at a faster rate than any president before him despite the party problems.  
                                               

Donald and Melania
 With her husband’s victory, Melania Trump became the first foreign-born U.S. first lady since Louisa Adams, John Quincy Adams’s wife, who was born in London. 

The Democrats are led to believe certain distasteful  things about him, naturally.  They are in a fight similar to our former Civil War. Lately the war is fought with all the TV stations anti-Trump with Fox News pro Trump.  I haven't run across a newspaper pro Trump so far.   I'll try to debate his case for him.  He has many accusations.  There is no end to the reporters who write in a negative format about anything and everything he does.  If Trump was to give everyone in the USA a bar of gold, the Democrats would complain that it was too heavy to pick up and they would hurt their back, or that it was too heavy to take to the bank. 
                                                        

First Lady Melania Trump is a former model and the third wife of U.S. President, real estate billionaire and former reality TV star Donald Trump. Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, Germanized to Melania Knauss) was born on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of communist Yugoslavia). 

1.  Trump endorses racial and ethnic bigotry.
    A.  Once on TV he was asked about a group in Idaho that are skinheads, the leader being something like a Hitler.  I had forgotten this man's name and am forgetting it right now.  It was David Duke.  Trump could have forgotten it too, and hesitated for a moment, possibly trying to remember who in the heck he was, before answering.  Most likely he was thinking, "Is this guy a voter?"  He didn't hear the end of that, being accused of being a lover of such people.
 Said to have made 5 bad comments:  "President Trump's reported description Haiti, El Salvador and African countries sparked a huge international backlash on Thursday night. 

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump told lawmakers during an immigration meeting on Thursday, according to media reports. "

       He did make some remark about Mexicans being criminals and rapists.  No doubt he was thinking of the drug war people trying to get into the USA.  Remember, he is not a politician and has not learned to weigh every word said.     However, this is exactly why his voters love him.  He's like them.  I would say that the man most likely is a typical white Protestant American with a college education.  Call him a racist and a bigot and you're most likely describing everyone that is a Protestant.  What I'm finding today is that too many are also anti-Semitic.  Not Donald, though.  

Ask sisters Diamond and Silk about Trump.  They are his greatest admirers.
They don't think he's a racial bigot.  They defend his record. 
 We “Stump for the Trump” because we believe in and can relate
 to his agenda to, “Make America Great Again!”  

2.  He fights against climate change.  
      A.  He has put jobs first and foremost on his list of things to do.  He has done an amazing job in this short period of getting people back to work.  Climate change has gone from Obama's #1 most important thing to probably #25.  It's not forgotten but is not life-imperative right now compared with having food on the table, life.  One had to take a back seat, and it was the climate. 

3. Likes the tyrants of the world who subvert basic human rights
    A.   People like North Korea's leader and Russia's Putin are in the lead on this one.  They also have nuclear power, so are the most important adversaries that we have.  (Now I want to use the "little rocket man" because I cannot remember his real name.-could be why Trump called him this.)Trump wrote a book about how to make a deal.  He is a dealer, a wheeler and a dealer.  Do you play chess?  often the winner in chess pulls out moves that you never see coming.  It could be that Trump has a plan and a method.  We teachers are like that.  We start a conference by saying something nice about the child.  Then we lead in with the problems, then end with something positive.  It's like a sandwich.  I'm counting on Trump having some outline like this of how he approaches people.  He is an American, raised in the USA always, unlike Obama was.  Do you think an American loves people who subverts basic human rights?  Really?  How did he ever learn such things in our good country?  Was it in his church?  schools?  family?  friends?  How many presidents have succeeded in their goals as fast as he has, by the way?  Most after 8 years haven't accomplished as much.

4. Declares our international allies are our foes
    A.  The USA allies are?  Europe?  Germany?   They belong to the European Union.  The countries are: 28 states belong.  19 use the euro currency and they are:   Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland,France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal,Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.  Headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium.   United Kingdom, , Croatia,, Poland,   

They belong to NATO-the North Atlantic Treaty  which has 29 members.  "The most recent member state to be added to NATO is Montenegroon 5 June 2017. NATO currently recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia and Ukraine as aspiring members."  Many have not been paying their dues, so Trump threatened to drop out since we are the biggest payer.  Now they're starting to pay up.  Trump has  a loud bark.  if he bites, that remains to be seen.  

New York times has made  a list of 487 people, places or things Trump has insulted if you missed any of them.  Soon people will feel insulted if they're not mentioned.  

Again, I maintain that this is his style of wheeling and dealing.  It's new.  You don't know what he'll do or say.
                                                                         

Israel is an international ally and they love him.  Who's telling lies now?   Trump actually did keep his promise and moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's capital, Jerusalem, where it belongs.   Every American president has promised to do it but never has kept their promise.  Trump did!  

Ivanka and husband Jared with 2 of their 3 children
 NOVOGRUDOK, Belarus — People in Jared Kushner’s ancestral town tend to speak very highly of US President Donald Trump.

5. He daily exaggerates and lies.
    A.  He made a statement of alleging that in places like California, "the same person votes many times." 
          He's  a man who communicates how he feels.  He discovered texting so does it all the time.  When he is interviewed, he speaks off the cuff.  The news waits to pounce on him, and they usually catch something.  Women are always complaining that their man is a silent man.  Not Trump.  He's used to the limelight of TV, so hasn't changed his personality.  He knows how to draw in listeners.  

Talk about lying, the juiciest lie going is from the Democratic party over the dossier.  it seems that Hilliary bought and paid for it, paid to get Russian propaganda about Trump that wasn't worth  a hill of beans; all lies.  Measure to measure, the Fusion GPS ties to Clinton campaign and Russian investigation  is turning up buckets of lies on the Democratic side.  

Any lies Trump said look like a piker alongside these.  I'm not about to find  that since Donald Trump's Presidential oath was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2017, that there would be a lie every day for  1 year, 188 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes and 19 seconds .  He's therefore been our president for a year and a half or 553 days.  I endured Obama for 8 years; 2,920 days.  Oy vey!  I never cried;  just screamed  a lot at the TV news.  
                                               

3rd wife, Melania; 5'11" model She was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia in 1970. She landed on covers on magazines such as Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria), Vanity Fair (Italy), GQ  and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

6. His personal history is that of misogyny. 
 This word means:  dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.  This isn't him.  He likes too many women, perhaps.  

  He has married 3 times to beautiful women.  That says  a lot since young men today do not have to marry to get what they want from women. 
                                                     

He was involved in the Miss Universe contest and other beauty pageants. We see that he likes beautiful women.   

This is the issue used against him in calling misogyny:  

• "President Trump recently issued a rule that allows employers, college and universities to drop birth-control coverage from their health plans."  in other words, if they don't use it they don't have to pay for it.  This isn't a socialistic state.  

7. Denigrated Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists

I'm afraid that I could never drive from Eugene to Acapulco again like I did in 1964 because of the danger today.  Mexico has a  terrible reputation now due to all the crime from drug gangs.  Even Trump up in New York had heard the tales.  He spoke unwisely, not learning to say SOME.  I taught English to Mexican illegal immigrants in a community college, and they were fantastic people.  I'd like to trade with Mexico and keep my students and give Mexico some of our own criminals who were born here.  What you heard from our president is probably no different than other people's thoughts on the subject.  If Mexico's government cringes at his remark, then they should do something about it like clamp down on the drug gangs.  I call FREE SPEECH on this one.  Trump needs some lessons on tact.  

He is remembered for casting aspersions on a federal judge because of his Mexican heritage.  Well, after being  a big-mouth and saying this, he was afraid that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel may be biased against him because of his Mexican heritage.  Would you blame Curiel if he was?  Trump has been roundly denounced, by the left and right, for saying  he might be biased.  

                                                   

Khizr Kahn family
Khan and his wife, the parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, took the stage Thursday night and took aim at Donald Trump with the line: "You have sacrificed nothing and no one.

8.  Questioned the loyalty of Gold Star parents
They were a Muslim family.  Trump had remarked to someone that he wondered why just the father spoke and not the wife, too.  The father has been speaking loudly against him.   Could it be that Trump has tried to limit Muslim immigrants from certain countries due to possible terrorist entrances?                                                              
Trump said in his return speech:                                               

“Captain Humayun Khan was a hero to our country and we should honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our country safe,” 

  Evidently this is the danger one faces who is not  a politician, and that is you are being watched and listened to for any off color remark you might make.  Just what was said by Trump that was so terribly bad, I cannot find.  Perhaps in this fight of religious war-ISIS who are radical off-beat Muslims, the Muslims against Israel, the Muslim refugees streaming into all the countries  is showing up in Trump's thoughts.  He's now           personally involved being the head of state.     
                                                                 

Pompeo laid the ground for meeting
with Kim Jong-un

New Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Ellen Pompeo, possible distant cousin,
star on Grey's Anatomy TV.  They need to do a DNA test, and do some
genealogy to find out.  Mike has all the skills and the heart for this job; highly
impressive when being grilled by Senators while on TV. 

               

No one stands up for Israel better than Nikki Haley, former governor.

                         

Trump dared to have a meeting face to face with Putin; has another on on the docket.

                                                               

IN CONCLUSION:  Obama was bad for Israel.  Trump has been the best president for Israel of any president so far since Truman.  He's pulled some verbal boners,

but are you going to throw out the baby with the bath-

water?  Are you crucifying him for these blunders?

Look what he has done for us:

1. Chose UN Representative Nikki Haley: best person to defend Israel.

2. Moved USA embassy to Jerusalem

3. Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital

4. Excellent rapport with Netanyahu of Israel

5. Family connection: Daughter had converted to Judaism, husband orthodox Jew

6. Saudi Arabia communicating with Israel as "enemy of my enemy my friend" now being befriended by Trump; gluing agreement, positive outlook

7. Ended horrid  Iran deal which was dangerous for Israel, USA

8. Meeting with North Korean Kim Jong-Un, talking, a nuclear enemy country

9. Meeting with Russia's Putin, talking, a nuclear enemy country

10. Chose Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State who also supports Israel

11.  Considering welfare of Israel in deals: Trump now endorses a deal on Syria that Putin struck the week before with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Putin said they had discussed “crushing terrorists” in Syria’s south and said the area “should be brought to the full compliance” with the Israel-Syria Separation of Forces Agreement of 1974. He presented the agreement as a way to protect Israeli security and mend relations between Israel and the Bashar al-Assad regime.

“This will bring peace to Golan Heights and bring a more peaceful relationship between Syria and Israel, and also to provide security of the state of Israel,” Putin said. “[Trump] paid special attention to the issue during today’s negotiations, and I would like to confirm that Russia is interested in this development, and this will act accordingly.”

Considering where Israel would be today with Hillary, I am not going to complain that Donald Trump is not the perfect person with all the right verbage when he mutters his thoughts aloud.  I remember when Obama did it while walking with Putin and a mike he forgot was open.  Israel was not spoken of highly.  No, Trump may be a rough and crude speaker, but his heart is all for helping out Israel.  

He's a man who has always been different, not keeping kosher of course since he's not Jewish, but resisting temptation of alcohol, smoking and drugs.  He's not a joiner but a real individual.  Right now he's doing his best as he can for his country as he sees fit; keeping out terrorists in several plans including a wall.  He's not trying to purposely divide families of illegal immigrants in this defensive move, but to remove possible criminals and terrorists in the mix.  This is why vetting has found people that have been turned away from entering.  Before, we've had presidents who shied away from confronting a solution.  He's also dealing with the many people involved with carrying out this agenda, and sometimes mistakes are made in the organization.  

Update: 9/5/18 With the Democratic Party against him and getting violent at that at time, plus a lot of Republicans, and people complaining that he isn't the usual president, not presidential enough, now Bob Woodward, investigative reporter for the Washington Post and helped bring about the news on Watergate, has come out with an anti-Trump book, FEAR.  He says Trump is having a nervous breakdown.  This determined Trump would be having one at this point if he were like all the rest of us average folks, but isn't.  The Democrats have also been determined to impeach Trump ever since he took office, and have been everything and then some to bring this about.  Even the wonderful man Trump chose to run for Supreme Court, Kavenaugh, is horribly attacked and this man seems perfect, even to me for this position.  Because Trump sponsors him, he is being damned, even in front of the man's 2 young girls.  Anyone for Trump, like Sarah who informs the newsmen daily, is being attacked, the latest to her in a restaurant with her family.  How Trump can navigate under such extreme pressure is beyond me.  The man loves praise and he's getting the opposite.  Anyone reading FEAR is a fool knowing that Bob's goal is to destroy Trump.  Already denials are coming out as to what he wrote what people supposedly said about him.  

Will any of this make a different to Democrats?  If Trump were perfect, he would be the Messiah.  I think their minds are permanently closed to anything positive about Donald Trump.  I suppose it will only be of interest to people in the future, and may G-d help those on his team trying to make our life better.  So many Jews voted for President Obama.  What was his list of achievements for the Jewish people?  What I will always remember is his not supporting Israel in the UN on his last day in office.  

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