Former President Donald Trump said in an interview this week that U.S. Jews’ lack of devotion to Israel contributed to them not supporting him more strongly.
“American Jews don’t love Israel enough,” Trump told Brooklyn-based ultra-Orthodox weekly Ami, Haaretz reported. “You know what really surprises me? I did the [Golan] Heights, I did Jerusalem and I did Iran — the Iran deal was a disaster right? And I also did many other things.
“Jewish people who live in the United States don’t love Israel enough.”
In mentioning his administration’s recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, Trump excluded the Orthodox community, where his support was “very high,” from his criticism.
“I believe we got 25% of the Jewish vote, and it doesn’t make sense,” Trump said. “It just seems strange to me.”
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Unfortunately sad and true
might i be the first to say. I love Israel!!
and i have lots of hakoras hatov for what he did
Every Jew loves Israel. Trump is calling us all out for our actions not matching up to our internal love.
Trump is wrong: it’s not just the American Jews, but all contemporary secular Jews who pretty much sold-out all Jewish causes, and substituted everything with a secularism cult. Anytime they try separating Torah from the Jewish people, eventually they end up with no Jewish people altogether.