Our country still faces many problems. And yet there's something undeniably cheering about seeing the left gnash its teeth and shriek hatefully over things like this. "This" being Trump's unique pick of a pro-Israel ambassador to Israel. This being David Remnick, the New Yorker editor who is probably the second most loathsome figure in the media after Jeffrey Goldberg, squirm with frustrated rage.
"Every morning since November 9th, you wake up and read the news and think, This has got to be an issue of The Onion... But, rather than fog the mind and defeat the spirit with the litany of accumulated outrages, let’s concentrate on the outrage of the day: the appointment of a bankruptcy lawyer named David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel. Friedman writes regularly for Arutz Sheva, a pro-settler Web site that is available in English. After reading these columns, you might reasonably conclude that, if Israel decided it was in its interest to annex the West Bank, Friedman would heartily approve and help raise the flag. Ideologically, Friedman is to the right of Benjamin Netanyahu."
Oh no! To the right of Netanyahu? But I thought Netanyahu was already a crazy right-wing extremist. And here Friedman would approve of Israel tossing out Islamic terrorists and reclaiming all of Israel.
Don't we know the Ambassador is supposed to be a State Department cretin obsessed with blaming Israel for the lack of an Islamic terror state to be dubbed Palestine regardless of the historical revisionism. We're not supposed to have a pro-Israel ambassador who thinks Jews can live in '67 Israel. It's not supposed to happen. What happened to David Remnick's sane leftist world?
"Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has been a crucial adviser to the campaign and the transition, and he and his family have an intense interest in Israeli affairs. Their politics on the issue are distinctly right-wing."
Wait. The right wins an election and then appoints a right-wing ambassador. This is not supposed to happen! The right wins an election and then appoints the same old State Dept hacks.
Kushner’s family foundation has, according to Israeli media reports, donated tens of thousands of dollars to West Bank institutions, despite the fact that the State Department has long regarded the settlements there as a barrier to peace in the region
State doesn't consider the Palestinian Authority's funding of Islamic terror to be an obstacle to peace. It considers Jews living in Israel an obstacle to peace. And now, suddenly, no one seems to care what State thinks. No one cares what David Remnick thinks. No one cares what the cocktail party crowd thinks.
Friedman is the son of the late Morris Friedman, a rabbi at Temple Hillel, a conservative synagogue in North Woodmere, Long Island. He graduated from Columbia and the New York University School of Law. His was a Republican family. Rabbi Friedman hosted Ronald Reagan at Temple Hillel, in 1984.
David Friedman, a partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, did work for Trump related to his Atlantic City properties and struck up a friendship with him after Trump paid him a condolence call, in 2005, when Rabbi Friedman died. During the campaign, Friedman, who also has a home in Jerusalem, acted as an adviser to Trump on the Middle East and as a liaison with American supporters in Israel, assuring them that, as President, Trump would never pressure Israel on a settlement with the Palestinians and would move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Chaim Levinson, a veteran Israeli reporter, told me from Tel Aviv that the right wing, and particularly the settlers, are “thrilled” with the Friedman appointment. “But what does it mean?” Levinson said. “Does it mean that, for the first time, an American Ambassador is going to start visiting the settlements?”
And then... and then... your world just crumbles.
Instead of seasoned Israel haters like you, some lawyer you never heard of before today whose father was a Rabbi on Long Island will be setting the tone on Israel.
In his columns for Arutz Sheva, Friedman writes with full reactionary fervor. President Obama, in his view, is guilty of “blatant anti-Semitism.” Obama’s sin, Friedman charges, is his failure to denounce terror and anti-Semitic propaganda in Palestinian circles... Obama might (reasonably) yearn for the Israeli liberalism of an earlier time and have a distaste for the country’s movement toward religious nationalism, but to call him anti-Semitic is vile.
No. Denying the anti-Semitism of Wright's disciple who stands with the PLO over Israel is vile. But so is denying David Remnick's own vileness.
They’re not Jewish. This is a calumny of the most disgusting order. But hardly a new one. Netanyahu, in the hope of solidifying his conservative and religious base, was once overheard whispering in the ear of the Sephardic leader and rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, “The left has forgotten what it is to be Jewish.”
If anyone doubts that, take a gander at Obama's toadies. Take a close look at David Remnick. The left has chosen to hate Jews and to reject Jewish values and ideas.
“What can you say about Trump?” Avishai Margalit, an Israeli philosopher and co-founder of Peace Now, told me. “...The only thing you can say about Friedman’s appointment is that it’s not as if some other Ambassador would make a big difference. It doesn’t matter. There is no peace process, though Friedman may escalate things. The Palestinians have given up in any case. They have lost hope in any solution, and this is another nail in the coffin.”
This bulging heap of lies is typical of the Fake News garbage that the media puts out on the Islamic terror war against Israel.
Step 1. Interview an anti-Israel activist
Step 2. Swallow whole his vile lies about the terrorists having given up because of how awful Israel is
Step 3. Give him the final word unchallenged
It's a reminder of how vile David Remnick and the media is. And how glorious it is to see the vile left stew in their own hatred.