Opinion  Orly Azoulay
Trump’s visit: The messiah isn’t coming to Israel
Orly Azoulay
Published: 17.05.17, 15:21
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1. Why to write such a narrow review?
(05.17.17)
In reality, Trump is the first president who allows the US military to go on the offensive against Russia.

Is it bad?

As a result, most Arab leaders seek cooperation with Israel.
2. cold as ice
Cameron   (05.17.17)
3. Obama was a friend, Trump is not!
Mark Jeffery Koch ,   Mount Laurel, NJ USA   (05.17.17)
Israeli's lambasted OBama and will come to regret all the false accusations of Obama being an anti-semite. Here's a few things that Trump has done that Obama never did. On Holocaust Memorial Day Trump failed to mention Jews and when this was criticized he doubled back refusing to use the word Jew or Jewish. His press secretary denied that chemical weapons were used in the concentration camps which he referred to as "relocation centers." Trump's National Security Advisor refused to answer yes to repeated questions as to "is the Western Wall (Kotel) located in Israel?" Trump's two top advisors, Steve Bannon and Steve Miller are anti semites and white supremacists. Some right wing Israelis got all excited because Trump's daughter is married to a Jewish man and his lawyer (that he appointed the ambassador to Israel) is Jewish. None of these things make someone pro Israel. No matter how much the right wing hated Obama he never did anything as horrible as Trump has done. Obama's main crime was that he intensely disliked and did not trust Netanayhu. If that makes someone an anti semite there are a great, great many other leaders in the world who feel the exact same way about Israel's Prime Minister. If Obama was so bad why did he give Israel every weapon it requested, give Israel the largest aid package America has ever given any country, and prevented Iran, which was six months to one year away from having a nuke? Obama was not a Muslim. Obama was not an anti-semite. Obama was good for Israel and history will show that he was no less a friend to Israel than Bill Clinton or George W. Bush was.
4. what universe does Azuolay inhabit??
david ,   hadera   (05.17.17)
of course, no mention of Trumps achievements against the hysterical and paranoid left-wing democratic hypocrites. And, "Obama thoroughly understood....".....And, "the main obstacle is the '67 borders"...only in the mind of Azoulay. No sane Israeli will want Hamas on the hills of the West Bank, overlooking Jerusalem and the center of the country.
No, Azoulay, you inhabit a parallel universe,..time to wake up to reality
5. Your "friend" Obama wants Iran to build nukes!
Chaim ,   Israel   (05.17.17)
Mark, you truly live in an alternative universe. You call Obama a "friend" of Israel, though Obama's ludicrous treaty with Iran allows Iran to build nukes. Obama tried to humiliate Israel, and her P.M., many times and displayed his clear hostility to Israel continuously. Since Trump has become U.S. president, America is standing up for Israel at the U.N. and being a far better ally.
6. Yes but will all Israelis receive USA passports?
Israela ,   Israel   (05.17.17)
I mean really that would be wonderful! don't ya' think?
and what about Jonathan Pollard...why is he still struggling?
POTUS 45 needs to:
1. release Pollard immediately
2. move the USA Embassy to Jerusalem
3. let Co-Prime Ministers Bennett and Shaked build, baby build build! and
4. Make Secondary Prime Minister Netanyahu his First Adviser on the Democracy in the Middle East...
only then will we know that POTUS 45 is our mighty true friend!
LOL! LOL! LOL!
7. An ASSHOLE is coming...
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (05.17.17)
8. The Messiah is already in Israel. I felt His chord on my
Rivkah   (05.18.17)
heartstrings like the Torah Scroll set to music. Only one person can have that holy a chord and that is the Messiah, the Son of haShem. He is someone everyone in Israel knows or knows about. He is Gilad Sharon.
9. Trump is not the Answer
Tova ,   Canada   (05.18.17)
No one will bring peace between Israeli & the Arab World
We know it. They know it. America needs Israel. Without
Israel America is doomed. No president will support Israel fully
and Israel like always will fight to end like they did in 1948, 1967,
and all the years in between.

To suggest that Jerusalem is not Jewish territory by the
American deligation is not an error. They meant to say that.

Trump is the beginning that will start the end. Obama never had
interest in Israel. And no matter how much an American President may
love or hate Israel. None will succeed.
10. No better proof to the contrary is needed than your own post
Jake   (05.21.17)
You have a long established track record of posting viciously anti-Israel diatribes, indicative of a visceral anti-Zionism and abject hatred of Israel.
Nothing can more effectively give the lie to the claim that "Obama was a friend of Israel" than the fact that this claim is being trumped by Mark Jeffery Koch.
11. The election of Trump is due to the failed Obama presidency
Jake   (05.21.17)
Think about it. Trump is such an unlikely POTUS, he would never have been elected as president except under exceptional circumstances, namely as a reaction to something extremely rotten that preceded the election...in this case the catastrophic failed presidency of Barak Obama. It is the the Obama era that spawned Trumpism and the rise of Trump.
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