Thank you, Mr. President, for your attention to this matter
Is this as good as it gets? Maybe. The high water mark of the first Trump administration came with the firing of a ninja missile into the car of IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, avenging the murder and maiming of so many American servicemen. That was followed, unfortunately, by the spread of the China virus and the cascading disasters of Black Lives Matter, the election of Joe Biden, and the self-inflicted humiliations that followed: the collapse of the southern border, the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the aggression it invited in Ukraine and Israel.
Removed from office, the Democratic Party and its proxies waged an unrelenting campaign of lawfare against Donald Trump. They sued him, they indicted him, they prosecuted him in courts at every level, all over the country.
Trump overcame all that to vanquish his enemies—and now to vanquish ours. He is waging war against the anti-Semitic thugs who overtook college campuses. He lifted the arms embargo on Israel imposed by the Biden administration. And he delivered a crippling blow to the Iranian nuclear program in a strike that resolved once and for all the nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship under this administration.
When Trump emerged to deliver the news on Saturday night, he reminded the American people of events he himself had not forgotten—the taking of hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the murder of U.S. Marines in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Trump remembers it all, and he holds the grudge that every American should.
He declared that he and Bibi Netanyahu are a team, “maybe the best team ever.” There have been countless stories over the last six months about friction between the American president and the Israeli prime minister. Most of that turns out to have been total bullshit, some of it leaked by those inside the White House who abhor Trump’s affection for Israel, some of it leaked quite deliberately to confuse the world about what was coming.
It is true that the American right contains a faction of isolationists and, among those isolationists, a faction of genuine anti-Semites. Trump may take their calls, but he showed where his heart lies with a half-million pounds of American-made high explosives.
The pleasure we and so many others have taken in watching the Jew-haters squirm is hard to put into words, but sublime comes close. In an attempt to salvage what little dignity they can from a moment they so clearly misunderstood—we are still awaiting the outbreak of World War III, which they have spent the past several months breathlessly prophesying—they now imagine that Trump has imposed some kind of unbearable peace on Israel.
That said, though this war ends in the realm of total victory, it has not come without a heavy cost for our friends in Israel. They deserve to lay in their own beds at night, undisturbed by sirens as they reflect on the collapse of the once feared “axis of resistance.” Hamas and Hezbollah routed, Iran humiliated, its conventional and nuclear weapons programs all but destroyed.
No victory is permanent for the Jews. There will be more wars to fight, maybe against the reconstituted forces of Iran, maybe against a new threat we can’t yet discern. But this victory is a sweet one, and we will savor it.
And while we are in awe of the Israeli planning, courage, and fortitude that made it possible, American Jews should thank the American president who delivered the coup de grâce, who made it possible with his steadfast support and the ability of American military power to coerce, to deter, and to destroy.
We’ll start. President Trump, we thank you for your attention to this matter!
