Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, told Charlie Sykes yesterday that the proposed immigration ban on individuals from countries that have been “compromised by terrorism” would also include Jews and Christians, above and beyond Muslim citizens.
“I think what you heard in the convention speech, what we talked about out on the stump is that we would temporarily suspend from countries or from territories if you will — the caliphate obviously of ISIS expands beyond one country — but to say that individuals that come from regions or countries that have been compromised by terrorism, that we would expand that immigration. I think that’s appropriate until we develop a new vetting system,” Pence said. Read more at BUZZFEED.
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This is being billed by Trump haters as an anti-Israel stance. I don’t think so.
While unfortunately, Israel has come under some terrorist attacks, with Hashem’s help, it hasn’t reached a stage where it was “compromised by terrorism”. In fact the USA could learn a thing or two from Israel as to how to deal with potential terror attacks.
So Israel definitely isn’t one of the countries that Mike Pence was referring to…
If by some far chance he was referring to Israel, then I would point out that by the same token, the USA too was “compromised by terrorism”.