Issues and Solutions

Israel

I strongly support Israel as our ally and our close friend. The Democrats have not been supportive of Israel or the Jewish people for many years. Biden’s support for Israel following the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, is already waning as he and his administration call for pauses in Israel’s necessary mission to eradicate Hamas. Biden followed in President Obama’s footsteps in his  support and appeasement of Iran. Obama championed the Palestinian cause, even transferring $221 Million to the Palestinian Authority in his last hours in office, which was blocked by the Trump Administration. As Ambassador David Friedman has expressed, the Obama Administration treated Israel as if it was a “thief who had stolen the Palestinian land”. Where was the Democrats’ support for Israel as the Obama Administration acted in a hostile manner towards Israel and its leaders, including the sponsorship of a UN Resolution which condemned Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem?

In 2018, the Democrats elected two Muslim Congresswomen who have made numerous anti-Semitic remarks and shown their hatred of Israel since being elected and before. Ilhan Omar, representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, stated in 2012 that Allah must awaken the people to see the evil doings of Israel”. Recently, in 2019 she stated that Congressional support for Israel was due to campaign contributions and  supporters of Israel did not have allegiance to the U.S. The Democrats’ position was that she made these statements unknowingly and simply needed an education as to what constitutes being anti-Semitic. How ridiculous! Omar knows exactly what she is saying and the anti-Semitic movement she supports.

The same holds true for her Democrat Palestinian colleague, Rashida Tlaib, representing Detroit, Michigan, who said that the Palestinians had to give up their land to the Jews post Holocaust and apparently she wants it back. She has publicly supported a one state solution named Palestine and said that Israel has no right to exist.

In August 2019, both Omar and Tlaib wanted to condemn Israel and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (“BDS”) movement on Israeli soil. Israel rightly denied them that opportunity since Israeli law denies entry for BDS supporters.  The Democrats lamented that Omar and Tlaib were being denied the right to enter Israel and how Israel was in the wrong.

At the onset of one of the worst attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023 by Hamas from Gaza, where thousands of Israelis were massacred and seriously injured, including the elderly and infants, and hundreds taken hostage, the Democratic Socialists of America sponsored a rally in Times Square New York City supporting, praising and justifying the barbaric actions of Hamas. Omar, Tlaib,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Cori Bush (MO) and Greg Casar (TX) are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. They are still publicly rallying for the extinction of the state of Israel. 

The Republicans and the Trump Administration strongly supported Israeli and the Jewish people and made great strides to peaceful relations in the Middle East, as evidenced by the Abraham Accords between the US, Israel and the United Arab Emigrants signed in September of 2021. Morocco and Sudan followed suit and signed similar agreements and established diplomatic relations with Israel. More than just a political breakthrough, the deal has heralded a new era of thriving friendships, economic cooperation, investment partnerships, tourism and people-to-people relations. In October of 2023, Saudi Arabia was on the verge of normalizing relations with Israel in the framework of the Abraham Accords. This is the Middle East policy that the world needs. 

Since the Biden election, Hamas has been emboldened, as we saw in the 11 days of rocket attacks on Israeli population centers in May of 2021 and then the “September 11th” for Israel in October 2023 with an invasion by Hamas and brutal killings and mass kidnapping of Israelis. Biden and the Democrats have refused to enforce the sanctions on the sale of Irian oil, which has allowed Iran to sell 33 to 35 billion dollars of oil a year, since Biden has been in office. Biden wants Iran to sell its oil to drive down the price of oil, since he is limiting production in the U.S. How could it possibly be better for Americans to buy oil from Iran instead of American companies right here at home? Even after October 7, 2023, Iran continues its oil sales unfettered by the sanctions. Trump’s administration strictly enforced the sanctions and Iran was broke. Biden wants to reenter the useless Iran Nuclear Deal, negotiated by the Obama Administration, and wants to give billions of dollars to Iran to support terrorists, including Hamas, in the Middle East. Even now as Iran backed terrorists groups kill American service people in the Middle East and Red Sea, Biden won’t enforce the sanctions on Iran or stand up and defend against Iran’s murder of Americans. Israel is obviously opposed to the ludicrous Iran nuclear “deal” as it threatens the very existence of Israel but the Democrats keep pushing advocating for Iran. Where do these irrational Democrat policies lead? In April of 2024, Iran directly attacked the state of Israel for the first time in history.