According to a New York Times poll, 24% of American Jews voted for Donald Trump, yet according to a poll conducted by iVoteIsrael and released in the Jerusalem Post the Republican candidate received 49% of the Israeli-American vote. On Tuesday, November 22, Mondoweiss reporters asked Israelis in West Jerusalem’s Zion Square what they thought about the election of Donald Trump and found overwhelming support for the incoming U.S. president.
“In this difficult time all over the world, it’s time for strong leaders,” says one Trump admirer.
Support for Trump echoed positive statements by members of the Knesset and of the Israeli government right after the election. Naftali Bennett, the Minister of Education, was the most vocal and fastest to celebrate the President-elect. His team issued a press release stating that: “Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state in the center of the country, which would hurt our security and just cause”. The Habayit Hayehudi chairman also said that “the special connection between the United States and Israel will be preserved and even enhanced.”
Israelis interviewed in Jerusalem anticipated that Trump will be a strong ally for Israel on the global stage. “[He] will give Israel a voice. Up until now, mostly in the U.N. but all over the world, I feel like the Palestinians have a voice and Israel doesn’t,” said another pro-Trump Israeli interviewed in Jerusalem.
In 2015, a poll Panels Politics conducted in Israel revealed that 63% of Jewish Israelis felt President Obama was the “worst for Israel in the last 30 years”. A surprising 37% thought that Bill Clinton had been the best for Israel, although these feelings were evidently not shared for Hillary Clinton.
“I’m very happy Mrs. Clinton lost. She’s an enemy of the Jewish people,” said another interviewee who looked forward to the end of the Obama administration. “Obama is a Muslim himself. He supports the Muslim cause against the Jewish cause.”
Watch more of the Israelis’ responses here:
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Israeli persecution complex + corrupt media => clueless peasants.
‘Can’t wait for the reactions when trumpty dumpty shows his true colours post swearing in hoopla. Trumpty’s selection of Breitbart’s racist flunky clearly didn’t register with the eternal victims. And the slamming of the clinton-woman-as-israeli doormat… I would give a whole brand new nickel to know what the woman is thinking in view of her reciprocated betrayal, this time by the masses of the sh **ty little country.
With the israelis, at least the jewish ones, it’s always ‘Is it good for the jews?’
Holy shit I’ve never heard “is it good for the christians? Is it good for muslims? Israelis are the most self-absorbed, paranoid, bite the hand that feeds them people I’ve ever met.the woman around 2:39 is particularly deluded and the brilliant fellow at 3:33 ‘Obama is a Muslim’ blah, blah, blah’. And another brain surgeon ‘Trump will do the right thing. What’s happening all over the world is Obama’s fault.’ Fuck them all.
The videos remind me of the story about the good Samaritan. 9 people walked past. There was one who stopped. 9 morons per 10.
Isn’t it awful? The rapist has the support of the local police force and some members of city council, but all over the city it seems like only the rapist’s victims have a voice. :-(
Fear not,
good peoplerapist and friends! The new mayor will be a strong ally for the rapist on the municipal stage. He will give the rapist a voice. :-)