The Israel issue continues to dumbfound me. I'm a Jew from Los Angeles and have always been involved in the Jewish community and I have had a lot of trouble understanding why my fellow jews have seemed to gravitate towards Trump since last Oct 7th. Similar to what Bill noted when talking about Clinton, rhetoric is nice but especially in …
The Israel issue continues to dumbfound me. I'm a Jew from Los Angeles and have always been involved in the Jewish community and I have had a lot of trouble understanding why my fellow jews have seemed to gravitate towards Trump since last Oct 7th. Similar to what Bill noted when talking about Clinton, rhetoric is nice but especially in foreign policy, actions are far and away the most important and I am more than happy with the support the Biden/Harris administration has given both to jews fighting anti-semitism in America and also towards Israel as they fight this war. Yet what I have continued to notice is that a lot of friends (and I understand this is all anecdotal) are more concerned with lip service than they are with actual results and policy. They are more concerned with Biden/Harris "both sidesing" on occasion than they are with Billions more in aid that was sent. It seems as though because Biden is not "perfect", they are projecting their dreams as to how this scenario in the middle east be handled onto Trump for no reason other than he talks nice (even though he really doesn't). At this point, Biden could turn into Moses and part the mediterranean sea for them and they would still say Trump would do it better. It is unbelievable the amount of unwarranted confidence that is placed in himm.
"Yet what I have continued to notice is that a lot of friends . . . are more concerned with lip service than they are with actual results and policy."
I think that goes a long way towards explaining the whole Trump phenomenon. His supporters are willing to endure his incompetence and malfeasance because they care more about his own-the-libs rhetoric.
The Israel issue continues to dumbfound me. I'm a Jew from Los Angeles and have always been involved in the Jewish community and I have had a lot of trouble understanding why my fellow jews have seemed to gravitate towards Trump since last Oct 7th. Similar to what Bill noted when talking about Clinton, rhetoric is nice but especially in foreign policy, actions are far and away the most important and I am more than happy with the support the Biden/Harris administration has given both to jews fighting anti-semitism in America and also towards Israel as they fight this war. Yet what I have continued to notice is that a lot of friends (and I understand this is all anecdotal) are more concerned with lip service than they are with actual results and policy. They are more concerned with Biden/Harris "both sidesing" on occasion than they are with Billions more in aid that was sent. It seems as though because Biden is not "perfect", they are projecting their dreams as to how this scenario in the middle east be handled onto Trump for no reason other than he talks nice (even though he really doesn't). At this point, Biden could turn into Moses and part the mediterranean sea for them and they would still say Trump would do it better. It is unbelievable the amount of unwarranted confidence that is placed in himm.
"Yet what I have continued to notice is that a lot of friends . . . are more concerned with lip service than they are with actual results and policy."
I think that goes a long way towards explaining the whole Trump phenomenon. His supporters are willing to endure his incompetence and malfeasance because they care more about his own-the-libs rhetoric.