Israel deserves a better friend than President Trump

 https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/10/israel-deserves-a-better-friend-than-president-trump/

 

Whether he likes it or not, Foxman still finds himself someone to whom American Jews turn to ask the age-old Jewish question: who and what is “good for the Jews?”

Presidential elections inevitably spawn this question, and this one is no exception. Asked whether it is President Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden whom American Jews should support, Foxman misses even fewer beats than usual. “I have always been asked before every election: who is better for Israel and the Jews?” Foxman says. “And my answer is always the same: Israel and the Jews need a strong, stable, credible and caring America. So vote for the candidate that will secure such an America.”  No longer encumbered by the need for discretion that comes with running a major nonprofit organization, Foxman says aloud what other Jewish leaders cannot. “There is no question in my mind,” he continues, “that the answer this time to all those concerns is Joe Biden.”

Foxman rightly observes that Jewish communities around the world are served well by an America that is democratic, respected and even feared, and served ill by an America that has lost its way and looks weak. Trump, himself a weakling, has turned America into one as well, the object of international derision. Beholden to Vladimir Putin and afraid to confront him, even when it comes to the subversion of American elections, Trump has made America not great but pitiable. Instead of pressing China when COVID-19 emerged, he gushed about it. His ring-kissing of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un hasn’t been merely embarrassing. It has been pathetic.