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December 8th, 2015 
Awake Goy So far, Trump is the only candidate who appears likely to introduce an independent view of Israel into the election. He’s pandering to the right-wing mob right now, but, if he wins the Republican nomination, if he’s serious about gaining power (I think he is), he will re-discover various issues that made him a Democrat for much of his life – pro-choice, e.g., And he’s already stood up and told the Republican Jewish Coalition that I know you’re not going to support me, you want a candidate you can control with your money, I understand that because I respect people who know how to make deals, and I’m not hear to be bought, [like these other candidates], and, “I don’t know that Israel wants peace.”
Half the Democratic party believes the US should use its support for Israel as a lever to force change in Israeli policy toward settlements, the floor at the Democratic convention booed Obama’s force-thru of the Jerusalem-as-Israel’s-capital plank, all representing Democratic votes that Trump can go after, once he’s focused on getting out in front of and demagoguing the whole mob, not just the right-wingers. So Mondoweiss should reflect on the old adage: be careful what you wish for (a wide open debate on Israel in the 2016 election), because Trump bashing Rubio and then Hillary for being bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby may be what we get, bragging that only he can cut a deal in the Middle East because only he is prepared and capable of negotiating with “the Big Jews” who back Israel and own Congress, because only he isn’t taking their money, isn’t even asking for it.
The Elite Establishment isn’t prepared for a fully open discussion about Israel, and Trump can channel both right and left wing frustration over that fact to change the conversation. Phil like David Brooks has predicted Trump’s demise over and over, but the frustration over the lack of accountability within the elite establishment is very widespread – only the elite establishment are immune to it because they’re willfully blind to it – and Trump is the only candidate who’s prepared to talk truth to the power-base funding the elite establishment. That entire elite establishment is now united in bashing Trump – Hitler-like picture of Trump at the RJC just an example, so far to little effect – and his elite enemies may just be his super-power.
Wait till he’s got the Republican Party nomination, if he gets it, and his anti-immigrant pitch can be expanded to go after both white blue collar workers and the African-American voters, many of whom deeply resent undocumented workers taking low-wage work, and legal immigrants climbing the economic ladder above them. His anti-Jihadist/anti-Muslim pitch can be expanded to go after Neocons and messianic Zionists, both Jewish and Christian, who crave a clash of civilizations – why would we buy a clash of civilizations? I don’t want a clash of civilizations, that would be “stupid” as Obama also said [don’t do stupid stuff]. I still think his thousands of Muslims cheering in New Jersey remark, coupled with his claim to have the best memory in the world, was tied to a specific broadcast that I think was on Fox and that coupled images of thousands of Palestinians cheering in the Middle East, with the story of the five Israelis cheering in New Jersey. Those four broadcasts have now been “disappeared,” but here’s Justin Raimondo’s discussion of them way back when on Antiwar.com: link to antiwar.com
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