The word has gone out that Donald Trump’s foreign policy is up for grabs, and the neoconservatives are humming with pleasure over this news, and lobbying quietly and not so quietly. You can hardly blame them for sucking up to Trump: neoconservatives are hawks who care about Israel more than anything, and it is vital to them to secure Israel’s interests in the next administration.
Last night Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin– between railing against evangelical Christians for giving us Trump — was on Hardball pushing the hawkish John Bolton to be the next Secretary of State. Bolton is closely associated with the neocon camp; he served in the Bush war administration and was a fixture at the American Enterprise Institute and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Neoconservative Eliot Cohen– who said “Trump may be better than we think. He does not have strong principles about much, which means he can shift” — is also pushing for Bolton:
Bolton would be a capable Secretary of State – experienced & tough. Don't worry Trumpkins: we barely know each other. https://t.co/LXU8wg2mlC
— Eliot A Cohen (@EliotACohen) November 16, 2016
Even a leader of the Never Trump crew, Bill Kristol, is changing his tune on Trump: “Trump may become Truman or Reagan. But he could also be a low-class Hoover. And GOP ascendancy may last as long as it did in ’28.”
Kristol passes along the rumors that Rudy Giuliani could be secretary of state and Steve Mnuchin formerly of Goldman Sachs could be Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin has given money mostly to Democrats.
Alan Dershowitz the rightwing Israel supporter has of course made bold steps to embrace the incoming Trump administration. Dershowitz has exonerated alt-right Trump strategist Steve Bannon of charges of anti-Semitism.
Bannon will be a guest at the annual Zionist Organization of America gala, at which Dershowitz will appear, along with Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus.
Bear in mind that Dershowitz worked with Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, at Harvard 13 years ago, starting the Jewish Chabad House there.
The Republican Jewish Coalition is also defending Bannon. “He doesn’t sound anti-Semitic to me,” writes Ari Fleischer, the former Bush press secretary who is devoted to Israel.
Bernard Marcus issued a statement saying he has known Bannon for years and he is a devoted Zionist!
“I have been shocked and saddened to see the recent personal attacks on Steve. Nothing could be further from the truth. The person that is being demonized in the media is not the person I know… I have known Steve to be a passionate Zionist and supporter of Israel who felt so strongly about this that he opened a Breitbart office in Israel to ensure that the true pro-Israel story would get out. What is being done to Steve Bannon is a shonda…” [That means shame.]
Another rightwing Israel supporter who is sucking up to Trump: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the consigliere for the Israel lobby who helped Samantha Power get her job, has also leaped to Bannon’s defense, saying he is not anti-Semitic.
I am aware that in a contentious divorce proceeding he is said to have uttered something about his daughter not being with Jewish students.
I have no idea about the veracity of the statement and as a marriage counselor, I know that in a divorce, harsh things are often alleged. Aside from that, I don’t think even the most hostile media can point to a single reason to consider him anti-Semitic.
PS I have no doubt Bannon has made anti-Jewish cracks, but what do we make of Jennifer Rubin broadbrushing Christians? “Evangelical Christians owe their fellow Americans something better.”
With Schumer leading on the Right and Trump on the Left…what’s that you say? I got them mixed up? You mean they’re not interchangeable?
The U.S. government is a hornet’s nest of Zionists and Neocons pooping all over the American people’s democracy. We’ve all become powerless.
Schumer, Mr. Iraq war, Anthony Weiner’s ticket to politics, cheer-leader for Netanyahu, and he can’t wait til Trump tears up the Iran deal he opposed. F….KING TRAITOR.
Who’s the Democrat…who’s the Republican? You can’t tell one side from the other; they’re all in the service of one nation: ISRAEL! I’ve never seen it as obvious as it is today. We’re all screwed and especially Palestinians, Syrians and Iranians. These Zionists and Neocon bastards running the world are going to destroy us all.
So now Trump’s supremacists and ZOAs supremacists are going to party together. They’re going to celebrate the new supremacist manifesto on how to suppress minorities so that Zionist Christians and Jews get to rule the planet from the extreme right…into the ground. Okay, I’m having a bad day, first it was a choice between Hillary and Trump. Now, we’re getting the new Zionist leader of the Senate planning the next WWar with the head of the soon-to-be Fascist police state, America and Netanyahu couldn’t be more pleased to see America moving in his direction; the extreme right direction.
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The traditional foes of the ashkenazi jew has come from the right wing. From the czar to hitler from Lindbergh to pat buchanan. Hatred from and towards the left wing is a more complicated relationship. Marx and his reduction of the jew to an economic unit or foul idea, stalin and his senility post ww II , the denigration and suppression of religion, the refusal to accept Jewish identity as something other than religious, and then of course the case of zionism and the realities of the Jewish state and its constant war. Every Jewish family had a Jewish commie or socialist uncle or cousin, and midstream left was pervasive: FDR was a god to American jews, so the left might be estranged, but it was familiar, from the root word family.
As american jews are concentrated in the cities, I must mention Jewish friction with blacks in the late 60’s as another conflict point between American jews and the left.
In recent years as jews increasingly become jews of no religion, but continue to live in the cities and to vote democratic, the conflict between Israel supporting jews and those who don’t care or oppose has been the headline story. And then along comes trump, with his companion bannon, and they set off every radar that any jew learnt from his parents in terms of George wallace and David duke and pat buchanan and European history and the alarm of Muslims blacks and hispanics backs up our traditional fears and our traditional prejudices and we say, resisting trump and trumpism is our priority now.
Thanks for this interesting collection of statements. The puppet choir changes its tune.
Another statement to consider:
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https://www.rt.com/usa/367082-trump-adviser-james-woolsey/
It seems Trump is way over his head and cannot get his act together. They seem to be unable to hit the ground running, and this is no surprise, because there are no grown ups in his team, mostly demagogues and controversial figures. Apparently Bolton is not officially in the Trump administration, which is a relief, but we cannot dismiss the possibility that he will have an input in some unofficial capacity. I guess like her or not, Hillary would have had a more experience in forming her administration, and they would have done it in a more orderly way. At this stage it is frightening not knowing which way Trump’s administration will take this country, although from the looks of it, the characters and Trumps own words during the campaign, it is not too hard to guess. So far all the despots like Assad, and even Mugabe, seems to be keen to kiss and make up with this new administration who will be representing us. To think Trump is very acceptable and popular with the deplorables here (like the KKK) and outside the US, is frightening.