GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM ON AMERICA'S RIGHT

 If one listens carefully in our own conservative circles one can sometimes hear anti-Jewish sentiments at the end of sentences, but this week we heard the vice-president of the United States utter a complete sentence the content of which, if thoroughly implemented, would endanger the very survival of the state he ostensibly champions.

Responding to a preliminary vote taken in the Knesset to reclaim sovereignty over Judea & Samaria Vice-President Vance stated: “If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it…….the West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel.”

Why should he take “some insult” to Israel attempting to rectify the horrendous mistake it made in 1993 with the Oslo Accords? Judea & Samaria were part of ancient and historical Israel. Not one square foot should have been ceded to the newly created Palestinian Authority.

To say one is insulted or offended is an attempt to prioritize one’s own feelings. It is not an argument but a call to end the discussion. It is an admission of intellectual impotence.

President Trump, to whom we have so much to be grateful, gets an A++ for his efforts, but his 20-point Peace Plan is tragically flawed. Its main flaw, you may have spotted it, is that it allows Hamas to survive when eliminating this threat was the whole point of the Gaza War. This is the salient point missed by Steve Witkoff, a graduate of the Instagram School of Diplomacy, and Jared Kushner during their self-serving interview on 60 MINUTES last Sunday.

To make matters worse President Trump reinforced Vance’s statement about Judea & Samaria when he declared, “It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.” Why? Does he plan to create a state for Arab Palestinians out of the original homeland of the Jewish people? All of the land belongs to tiny Israel. This has been the case for over 3,000 years. Besides, In 2006/07 the Arab Palestinians voted for Hamas to govern their affairs in Gaza and we can see how well that turned out.

One can’t help the sinking feeling that some aspects of Trump’s peace plan resemble the disastrous Munich Agreement of 1938 concluded between Great Britain, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy when Czechoslovakia, the country whose fate it concerned, was excluded from the discussions. Making guarantees about the fate of Judea & Samaria is far beyond President Trump's scope of responsibility and he has made them to countries that have been violently opposing and undermining the security of the West for centuries. This is not only strategically unsound it is also obscene.

The total number of Arabs living in the Arab nations is estimated at 366 million. The number of Arabs in countries outside the Arab League is estimated at 17.5 million, yielding a total of close to 384 million. The Arab world stretches around 5,000,000 square miles from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast. Israel is 8,500 square miles with a population of about 8 million Jews and just over 2 million Arabs who are Israeli citizens.

President Trump and Vice-President Vance having tumbled the numbers and surveyed the landscape have concluded that what the region needs is yet another Arab/Muslim state devoted to the hatreds of Islam and its ferocious doctrines sitting right beside Israel, the world's only Jewish-nation-state and an embattled outpost of western values.

Their deliberations, I suspect, have been strongly influenced by the growing contingent of whispering and more vocal anti-Semites on the right whose pied piper is Tucker Carlson. Instead of granting them the slightest credence Trump and Vance should be purging their party of this filth in much the same way as William F. Buckley purged it of the detestable John Birch Society and several years later of the anti-Semitically inclined Pat Buchanan. 

" What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted!

   Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just;

   And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,

   Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/antisemitism-republicans-analysis