Posted on 12/31/2025 9:31:59 AM PST by Rummyfan
As Tucker Carlson, the worthy recipient of StopAntisemitism’s 2025 “Antisemite of the Year” award, sucks up public attention, I want to recognize the non-Jews whose words and actions this year defended Jews and Israel.
President Donald Trump has to be at the top of the list. While Carlson earned his award by demonizing the Jewish state, Trump will be honored with the “Israel Award” for his steadfast defense of Israel and its people. Trump learned he was the recipient of Israel’s highest honor during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Mar-a-Lago this week, in a phone call with Education Minister Yoav Kisch. The Times of Israel reports:
Kisch thanked Trump for his “significant and consistent efforts on behalf of the Jewish people in the State of Israel,” citing among his “many contributions” his fight against antisemitism; efforts to return the hostages from Gaza; recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights; moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and “unwavering support for Israel’s right to defend itself, including during a period in which Israel confronted seven active fronts.”
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There’s something sad about the need to ask the question, by which I mean when Jewish friends and Israeli friends and others say, “But I don’t understand, like how come you’re on our side?” I said, “Who wouldn’t be? Who wouldn’t be?” And I think that’s a much healthier way to think of it. … I’ve never found it difficult. I mean, in a fight between a democracy and a death cult, between a society that loves life and a society that worships death, I don’t find it hard to choose.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Israel is a consensual government. It’s surrounded by 500 million people of the Islamic world—Shia and Sunni, Iranian and Arab—that aren’t; they’re not consensual. There’s only one government that is truly a free, democratic government, and that’s Israel. So it has affinities with the United States and interest with the United States that transcends anything to do with the 7 million Americans who are Jewish Americans. That’s just a given. They are not directing American policy. They couldn’t unless Israel was democratic, consensual, Western, and an outpost in a dangerous part of the world that has key resources for global prosperity with oil and, more importantly, is an enemy of our existential enemy that transcends any question of Israeli or Iranian animosity, and that’s the theocratic government of Iran that began its existence by taking Americans hostage and storming our embassy.
Prayers for VDH.
I trust people who can criticize Israel and war in general. I am from the John Lennon Neil Young generation. War is bad. And I am generally aligned with the 55% of Israel that would love to live in peace. And often protest against the Israeli government.
That being said. Hamas are killers. And Germans under Hitler often died as civilians even if they were children or women. Its the cost of a civilization that can’t or won’t take control from the thugs. Might makes right is the law of humanity and evolution. Its not right or pretty but its a fact. Most of the Arab states are built on might makes right. No matter how much we would like them to progress from there. Wanting has nothing to do with it. They have to embrace peace to get peace.
I am a Christian Zionist. I don’t know what other people think a Zionist means.
A Zionist is someone who supports the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland.
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