What Was I Thinking About Israel

Nowadays most of our politics is about what outrage President Trump has perpetrated this week. The national press has shown itself to be extremely biased against the president. Even the pictures they run of him are the least attractive they can find. But it is what it is.

This week the President in his slightly inarticulate and extremely exaggerated fashion said that Jewish Americans were being “disloyal” if they voted for Democrats. The media went into overload. “Trump is a secret anti-Semite.” was the general tenor of the coverage. The background was that two Muslim Democrat Congresswomen wanted to go to Palestine and get publicity. Israel decided not to issue them visas. Trump supported Israel. Who is the anti-Semite here?

I am not a fan of President Trump. But that does not mean that he is wrong on every issue. Even when he states it in an inarticulate fashion. It reminds me of President Obama’s remark to Joe the Plumber: “You didn’t build this.” Instead of  parsing every word they utter, watch what they do over the long run. On Israel I think Trump is mostly right. On immigration and trade he has points but he is mostly wrong.