Kurilla Visit Highlights How a Trump Decision Continues to Protect Israel

Breitbart ^ | 08/05/2024 | Joel B. Pollak

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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Michael Kurilla is in Israel Monday on a pre-planned visit that would not have happened had President Donald Trump not made the decision to include Israel in CENTCOM.

The U.S. divides military policy geographically, with different countries assigned to different areas based on their location. But Israel, while in the Middle East, had long been included in U.S. European Command (EUCOM), in deference to Arab hostility towards the Jewish state.

Pro-Israel groups had argued that being in EUCOM put Israel at a disadvantage, because U.S. military officials in the Middle East had closer ties with Arab states than with Israel.

The Abraham Accords opened up new possibilities — and Iran’s aggression encouraged its targets to unite.

In January 2021, before leaving office, Trump moved Israel from EUCOM to CENTCOM. The Wall Street Journal reported:

President Trump has ordered that the major U.S. military command for the Middle East be expanded to include Israel, in a last-minute reorganization of the American defense structure that pro-Israel groups have long advocated to encourage cooperation against Iran, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The move means that the U.S. Central Command would oversee American military policy involving both Israel and Arab nations, a departure from decades of U.S. military command structure put in place because of acrimony between Israel and some of the Pentagon’s Arab allies.

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration policy moves to shape the national security agenda President-elect Joe Biden will inherit. The change was recently ordered by Mr. Trump but hasn’t yet been made public. A Biden transition official declined to comment on the move.

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The Buzz is Democrats are in a panic over Jewish voters
World Israel News ^ | 5/24/24 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 5/26/2024, 1:41:02 PM by Roman_War_Criminal

After tossing Jewish voters overboard to accommodate the Hamas supporters of Dearborn, Michigan,
Democrats are starting to get nervous about the choice they made.

Beginning with Schumer’s delirious speech in the Senate blasting Israel, and various liberal Jewish surrogates, including Rep. Jerry Nadler, vocally opposing the campaign against Hamas, the Democrats did not manage to sell Jews on Biden’s betrayal.

Biden’s declaration that he would stop providing military support to Israel if it continued to pursue Hamas into Rafah touched off a major backlash from mega-donors, like Haim Saban, from celebrities, like Michael Rappaport, who has said he could vote for Trump, in addition to ordinary Jewish donors.

There’s no accurate polling of Jewish voters because there are too few Jews in much of the country to be captured by conventional polls (polls surveying Jews are usually run by simpatico leftist groups), so Democrats have suddenly begun to sweat the Jewish vote.

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