Response to Heritage Foundation

When President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he was recognizing a decision that Israel made in 1948. He did not declare Jerusalem as the capital.

Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.

Thank you,

Alex O’Connor

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Alexander OConnor
Intern - Development - Membership Programs (Online)
The Heritage Foundation
 


My Comment: 

 I do not remember contacting the Heritage Foundation.   I am a strong progressive as well as a strong Democrat who was very much in support of Hillary Clinton for president.  Needless to say I was sickened by the outcome of the 2016 so called "election."  I never saw it coming nor did I ever on planet earth realize that Russia could have played a part in it. I am further incredulous how other Republicans once vociferously against Russia as a hostile nation could now stand with the alleged corrupt Trump no matter what he advocates and no matter how much indictable evidence is piling up against him with respect to his ties to Russia and the Putin oligarchy.  Surely Russia is no friend of the Jew.  My grandparents who emigrated from Shepatovka Ukraine because of Russian pogroms could have told you that!

I am against everything Donald Trump does, has done or says he will do.  I fear for my country.  His latest attempt at the removal of Andrew McCabe is just another no surprise action.  McCabe, a blemish free patriot, agent in the FBI had the temerity to be married to a Democrat who, from what I have read, was responsible for contributing to the HRC campaign.  The evidence against this profane creature who occupies the sanctity of the oval office, this misogynist, this corrupter besmirching the reputation of the presidency and the institution of marriage, this hypocrite who has sullied Israeli soil by walking on it proclaimed the capital of Israel as Jerusalem?  

I do not care what was created in 1948 the year of my birth.  I care about Israel now.  I cared about an action that could inflame the actions of Israel's opposition when negotiations with Palestinians seemed possible.   The art of the dealer sought to crush the art of the deal with Palestinians.  I saw this as a deliberate attempt of a president who knows nothing about foreign policy, even less about the state of Israel and who does not have a scintilla of desire to learn about it or really about anything of substance to subvert our nation making it the least great in our history. 

Donald Trump is -- to use John Dean's Watergate words -- a cancer on our body politic who if not removed from office soon will kill our beloved nation, its Constitution
and its Bill of Rights.  Moreover, all the right wing nationalist extremists are helping him do just that. 

My left of center politics was shaped when at 10 years old as I viewed a documentary on the Holocaust and the liberation of the camps.  I actually threw up
in the movie theater where I saw it.  Nationalism of a German variety gave us that history.  The fact that your organization supports a man who thinks that Tiki Torch carrying
neo-Nazis yelling "Jews will not replace us" has some "very fine people" in it is nauseating.  Really, Mr. Trump, really?   The Heritage Foundation should be ashamed as I am that our nation has

become the laughing stock of the world because of our tweeter-in-chief.  Proclaiming Jerusalem as Israel's capital by an American president does not help us, does not help the west, and surely does not help peace in the Middle East. Worse still, Trump's action is a direct threat to Israel itself and a spit-in the face to all good men whose tireless efforts through the decades to perfect the better angels of our nature and craft a solution with respect to the Palestinians and Jerusalem, the world's most vexing and threatening problem is for naught.

Perhaps someone either gave or you saw some of my opinions which were against declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel even if it was declared in 1948.  Or perhaps I will give you the benefit of the doubt that I sent my opinion to you.  1948 was then and 2018 is now. 

I am or surely once was an ardent supporter of the State of Israel even contributing to the IDF in support of it.  I will not do that anymore unless the flypaper of Trump that is stuck to the shoes of a body politic which loathes him as much as I, can ever be extracted from the swamp his administration has constructed. Perhaps we will have learned a lesson as to what the ugliness of nationalism is all about.  It surely does not put America first but it does put America last.  One by one we are vociferously resisting him and hope our imbalanced immune system will right itself thereby never letting this nationalist malady and nightmare in the body politic strike again!