Israel Loves Donald Trump - With Good Reason

For Israel, how refreshing to welcome an American President as a friend.

by Jack Engelhard
May 25, 2017

President Trump’s visit to Israel was a reminder to Israel, a nation of miracles, that miracles still happen.

For the longest time – those eight long years of Obama – it must have seemed that the nightmare would never end.

Enter Trump and everything is different. America is back, and so is Israel. The slump is over, finished.

For Israel, how refreshing to welcome an American President as a friend.

The moment Trump stepped off the plane, the entire nation was reinvigorated. He didn’t have to do anything or say anything.  As we say – showing up is 80 percent of life.

For Trump the New Yorker, Israel is no strange place. (What’s it doing in Asia we sometimes ask ourselves.) More like the days when he’d duck into the corner deli where the waiters tell you what to eat and the same pastrami sandwich costs different every time.  The place is always teeming and lively and if people argue once in a while, so what, it’s home.

Heimish is the word, the Yiddish word for some…