President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders related to Israel, Jews, and their enemies only hours after his inauguration on Monday.
Trump lifted all restrictions on the sales of arms to America’s ally Israel, including the supply of 2,000-pound bombs held back by Biden in order to pander to his pro-Hamas supporters. Biden also had frozen a shipment of 134 D9 bulldozers, a decision that cost the lives of numerous IDF soldiers, and refused Israel’s urgent requests for Apache attack helicopters following Hamas’ October 7 assault.
Trump also revoked the Biden administration’s executive order placing sanctions on some Jewish residents of Yehudah and Shomron, a move prompting Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich to publicly thank Trump.
“I thank President Donald Trump for his just decision to revoke the sanctions imposed by the Biden administration against settlers and right-wing activists,” Smotrich stated. “These sanctions were a severe act of blatant foreign interference in Israel’s internal affairs.”
The newly sworn-in President also restored sanctions on the International Criminal Court, whose chief prosecutor, a morally corrupt individual under investigation for suspected crimes, dared to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant shortly after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Ex-President Joe Biden had overturned the sanctions previously imposed on the ICC by Trump in his first term.
Trump also signed an order implementing a 90-day pause on all U.S. foreign development assistance programs to review their “alignment with administration policy,” which will likely lead to funding cuts to the UNWRA and the Palestinian Authority which he imposed during his first term and were reversed by Biden.
Finally, Trump signed an order “protecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public threats,” a move aimed at deporting foreign nationals, especially university students, in the US who support terror.
The order states that the US government must ensure that visa-holders do “not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”
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So much for the Demo-Rats!!
President Donald Trump knows that most American Jews voted for Kamala Harris, even though she would have been a complete disaster for Israel.
Yet even with that knowledge, President Donald Trump continues to prove again and again and again that he is the most pro-Israel President in the history of the USA.
SHAME on the stupid wicked Jews who voted for anti-Israel Kamala Harris!
SHAME on the stupid wicked Jews who hate pro-Israel Donald Trump!
SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!!
Shame on the wicked jews who think being pro Israel is the most important part of being Jewish
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
Anything Trump can do by Executive Order and be undone by a future Executive Order. Act of Congress (which require a majority in the House, and 60/100 in the Senate) are much hard to change.
Happy new year, Square_Root never said that being pro-Israel is the most important part of being Jewish, but protecting Jewish lives is definitely a very important part of Yiddishkeit. As a non-Zionist chareidi Jew living in Israel, I feel like Kamala Harris losing and Trump winning is a Heavenly smile – a הארת פנים. I know it’s not the bunker busters that protect us – אין עוד מלבדו – but Hashem sending arms (via Trump) feels like a love stroke from Him.
We want Moshiach, not Trump, but until Hashem decides that the moment of קץ לגלותנו has come, Trump seems to be the smarter choice.
Israel is not the only issue at all for Jews voting for Harris or Trump. Leftist Democratic policy is BAD for the Jews – and all US citizens, for that matter. Defunding police and open borders make our streets less safe, brainwashing schoolchildren about what the words family and gender mean and cramming DEI (which BTW doesn’t include Jews) down their throats makes the future of the US unstable, supporting BLM makes other lives matter less, and equal opportunity hiring requirement can threaten how yeshivas and frum girls’ schools hire staff…
Kamala Harris belonged to the left that supports the above policies. I’m sure that you can add to this list of why Harris was a bad choice.
Hashem runs the world and לב מלכים ושרים ביד השם but המן coming to power in Shushan, for example, was a bad sign for the Jews. IMHO, it appears that Kamala losing power is good for the Jews. It’s too soon to say if Trump gaining power is good, of course. Despite his shortcomings, he seems way more sympathetic to Jews in Israel being safe and to family values. Let’s see how he proves himself over the next 4 years.
Trump did not restore ICC sanctions. Trump’s executive action terminates Biden’s EO but does not bring back sanctions. It is symbolic but has no practical ramifications.