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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today

Monday

August 26 2019. I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary back from

nine days in Israel with me as always

senior editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe hi John associated there with no

harassment. I know a welcome back John and in Washington, senior writer Christine Rosen,

heikrstein hi John so you guys for board discussing the topic of

Donald Trump loyalty Jews Ilhan Omar Rashida Taleeb and all that until until my return. I've

just posted on the we've just posted on the commentary website a ludicrously long blog post by me

on this subject that if any of you in the hearing of my voice get from the beginning to the end I

will give you a cookie. It's very long and very self-intelgent and I apologize for for that but I

am jet lagged and this is how it how it came out anyway. So let's just let me just give my view of

this matter simply for the historical record as commentaries of course the 70-odd year old

monthly of intellectual analysis political property and cultural criticism from a conservative

perspective. A magazine created for the purpose of explaining America to American Jewry and

explaining Jewry to America and therefore this is a topic that is near and dear to our hearts and

very close to our mission and all of that and I will lay it out very succinctly. Donald Trump is

one of the best friends that Israel has ever had in the White House period. How do you know this

because he's nice to Israel and he in acts policies that are friendly to Israel and to twist

this around to say that he's not or that he's doing so with anti-Semitic intent or something like

that is to bury yourself in excessive complexity and contradiction. Ockham's razor is the truth here.

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