Sunday, October 16, 2022

FOR SURE, TRUMP HAS BEEN THE MOST ISRAEL-FRIENDLY U.S. PRESIDENT SINCE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN BECAME THE FIRST WORLD LEADER TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE ISRAEL

Is Trump the Most Israel-Friendly President Ever?

The Zionist Organization of America decides to present “rarely given” award to Trump for his unprecedented support of Israel.

 

JNS 

Donald Trump at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the first US president to ever pray at Judaism's holiest site. Donald Trump at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the first US president to ever pray at Judaism's holiest site.

 

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Friday announced that it will honor former President Donald Trump with its Theodor Herzl Medallion.

Trump will receive the honor, which ZOA said it “rarely gives,” at the organization’s national award dinner in New York City on Nov. 13.

ZOA stated in an email that it is honoring Trump “for being the best friend Israel ever had in the White House.” It listed a number of items in the context of Trump’s pro-Israel and pro-Jewish record, including:

  • Brokering the Abraham Accords;
  • Relocating the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem;
  • An executive order strengthening Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students;
  • Recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights;
  • Pulling the US out of the Iran deal;
  • Halting US funding of the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA;
  • Recognizing the legality of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria;
  • Becoming the first US president to pray at the Western Wall; and more. 

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech before the newly-unveiled sign for the new settlement of "Ramat Trump", or "Trump Heights"In June 2019, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a new settlement in the Golan Heights, named after US President Donald Trump.


At the same event, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will receive ZOA’s Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Defender of Israel Award. Miriam Adelson will present both Trump and McCarthy’s the awards.

 

U.S. President Harry Truman was the first world leader to officially recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state on May 14, 1948,

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