Opinion  Nahum Barnea
Israel must make sure it doesn't catch the Trump virus
Nahum Barnea
Published: 24.12.18, 23:34
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1. Nachum: GREAT ARTICLE! Best to you for the New Year!
Rafi ,   US   (12.25.18)
2. only Israel will be safe in anarchic world
avrom   (12.25.18)
Zacheriah CH 14v13 predicts anarchy in the whole world apart from Israel "And it will come to pass on that day that there will be great consternation, sent by the Lord upon them; each one shall seize the hand of the other, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of the other".
Zacheriah predicts that The Christian world will fight the Muslim world and The Sunnis will fight the Shia ,the Arab spring and the forthcoming anarchy in the "civilised" world
The numerical value of the superfluous word " Hand" in Hebrew is 14.The UN resolution authorizing force against Saddam Hussein was 1441 the numerical value of HAND and HAND.Therefore the only safe place to live and put your money is Israel (Israel's cyber security is great)The proof is that Israel was only mildly effected by the dot.com crash, the crash of 2008 and 2014 and Israel.s economic boom as compared to the economic crisis in the rest of the world.
As regards the occupation and the failed two state solution.Leftists should be honest and recognize that the two state solution will never happen as Israel will never commit suicide Bennett's and Glick's plans perpetuate the occupation and lay Israel open to the false charges of occupation and Apartheid. So we should be saying NO to occupation and YES to transfer Population transfer of millions of ethnic Germans helped cement the peace in the aftermath of the Second World War Similarly it should help bring peace to the Middle East which is what we all want.
Continuation of the conflict brings death and destruction both to ordinary Israelis and Palestinians Since the peace treaty with Egypt in 1978 Israel has made huge sacrifices for peace in terms of dead and wounded.It is only fair and just that the Palestinians make sacrifices for peace
The history since 2003 has shown that as Ehud Barak as said is that Israel is the villa in the jungle .When Ehud Barak made that statement the jungle he referred to was the Middle East .He should have realised "the jungle referred to the whole world..

3. As Seinfeld said: A piece about nothing aka derangement
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (12.25.18)
Barnea is not only an Imbecile but senile too.

Netanyahu prevented Israel from catching Obama virus and makes sure it doesn't catch any other virus.
4. Globalist
Jerry Syder ,   Los Angeles   (12.25.18)
The columnist contradicts himself by lauding the same liberal democratic system that is currently wreaking havoc in Westeen nations. Liberal democracy is a great idea, as long as it’s adherents provide for the very people who make up the nation state, and not for a global economy that induces migration, outsourcing, stifling political correctness, and a phony liberal agenda to slake the consciounce of those who gain the most.
5. Corbyn, Clinton, Obama, Castro, Mau, Stalin, left cause deat
(12.25.18)
Name one left wing ruled country with freedom of speech, private rights, citizen rights over criminals, equality under the law followed. What nonsense.
Look at venuseilla to see why the left does to a successful nation.

In my lifetime it has been the left wing oppressing the people, control of media, education has should who is to blame if any side.

Its left wing governments supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran.
Its left wing governments shutting down opposition and using their power often unelected like the EU leadership to free their ideology on the population.
Arresting journalists and comics, using terror laws to harass those fighting for real freedom.

Its the left wing who ally with Islamist Jew haters and often encourage them.

Bennett says the same as Rabin did its disgusting how journalists supposed to have integrity get so lost in their own bubble, reality disappears, and its all ideology.

The lies about Israel in left wing media is one of the main proponents and causes of Jew hatred.

NYT, AP, Afp, BBC, CNN,....... ALL LEFT WING SPREADING LIES ABOUT JEWS AND GIVING A VOICE TO TERRORISTS WHILE PRETENDING THEY ARE ANOTHER OPINION.

I speak of the Western world where the majority part of the EU are not democracies by any definition. Over 50% of laws in UK are decided in Brussels.

Get educated on freedom and democracy and realise how good it is in Israel.
I have lived all over and felt most free in Israel in most cases.

who is really supporting evil??????
6. Doesn't Ynet ever get tired of itself?
Tony ,   H   (12.25.18)
Doesn't Ynet ever get tired of itself?
7. some valid points..
mike ,   earth   (12.25.18)
..but some of the statements are with a "left" angle..."global village" never worked and never will due to many factors....
8. The Truth Is...
Robert Blum ,   new albany   (12.25.18)
The TRUTH is, President Trump supports, expounds and wants to implement the so called "Bedrock Values "that this nation was founded on. The obstacles toward accomplishing this, is that over the past several years, the Leftist-Liberals have established a new and perverse set of values, which they jam down the throats of our citizenry as being the actual values that America was founded upon. This has become the "NEW" American value system, including the destructive 'Political Correctness', Multi-Culturalism and Globalization, which are destroying us from within, and creating a mindless, clueless younger generation that insists upon those values as being the ones that we must all adhere to. Recently, Henry Kissinger stated, “Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen before”! The former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gives us a new understanding of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and predicts its success: “Liberals and all those who favor (Hillary) Clinton will never admit it. They will never admit that he is the one true leader. The man is doing changes like never before and does all of it for the sake of this nation’s people. After eight years of tyranny, we finally see a difference.” Kissinger knows it and he continues with: “Every country now has to consider two things: One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president, basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their own assessments of their necessities. And secondly, that there is a new president who’s asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. And because of the combination of the partial vacuum and the new questions, one could imagine that something remarkable and new emerges out of it.” Then Kissinger puts it bluntly: “Trump puts America and its people first. This is why people love him and this is why he will remain in charge for so long. There is not a single thing wrong with him and people need to open their eyes.” When he boasts that he has a “bigger red button” than Kim Jung Un does, he so transcends the mealy-mouthed rhetoric of the past, thereby forcing a new recognition of American power. Kissinger once wrote: “The weak grow strong by effrontery – The strong grow weak through inhibition! ”No sentence better captures the U.S.-North Korea relationship. Trump is discarding the inhibitions and calling the bluff on North Korea’s effrontery: His point is that the contrast of American retreat under Obama and its new assertion of power under Trump creates a new dynamic that every one of our allies and of our enemies must consider. Our allies grew complaisant with Obama’s passivity and now are fearful due to Trump’s activism. And they must balance the two in developing their policies: They realize that the old assumptions, catalyzed by Bush 43’s preoccupation with Iraq and Obama’s refusal to lead are obsolete. So, Trump is forcing a new calculus with a new power behind American interests. Those — here and abroad — who rode the old apple cart worry about its being toppled. But, as Kissinger so boldly stated: “Trump is the one true leader in world affairs and he is forcing policy changes that put America first! ” President Trump knows that Islam is evil. He understands that Islam wants to replace us and replace our democratic values and laws with Sharia. It is great that the Supreme Court understands that regarding such parasitic opportunists that are bent on our destruction, we must be discriminatory! President Trump is doing unprecedented things with North Korea to assure peace. He is building the wall to keep out unwanted exploiters from Mexico and from Latin America who drain our Welfare system, bankrupt our hospitals, and undermine our public education. President Trump is standing up to Canada and to other countries who tax our farmers 121% for their dairy, and for other U.S. products. Support him! He is trying to make U.S. Great Again!
9. How amusing
Michael Lederman ,   Arlington   (12.25.18)
You loved Trump when he moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
You loved Trump when he approved a $38 million aid package.
You loved Trump when he appointed a pro-Israel ambassador to the U.N.
You loved Trump when he pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal
You loved Trump when it was expedient for you to do so.

Yet now you turn like the fickle friend no one likes, do this and then continue to wonder why more and more American Jews turn on Israel.
10. The king of ynet has struck again.
Tehraniporou   (12.25.18)
Excellent article I agree with everything except that the public needs to see me with shaked and her sexy legs and her program will change. Let’s give a chance to killer eyes and sexy legs with a revamped program
11. One thing Shiffer got right: Look at Poland, Hungary, Italy&
(12.25.18)
LEARN!
That's how you get rid of Lunatic Leftism that's been eroding West for tens of years now.
12. The only virus NO ONE should catch is the one Barnea has got
(12.25.18)
13. Why idhoogical nonsense sterheotypes?
Avram Goldsmith ,   Toronto -Kiriat Gat   (12.25.18)
14. What Israel should be worry is the OLD FAILURED DOCTRINES
Avram Goldsmith ,   Toronto -Kiriat Gat   (12.25.18)
Incompetent ex-SENIOR SECURITIES politicianns which any wisdom and expereince to run a ministerial complex system with 3D vision and long planning aims.
There is no greater irony than the spectacle of scores of ex-senior security officials, who spent their adult life defending Israel, now promoting - as if they are geo-stratetic experts - a political initiative that will make it indefensible.
15. Trump's hateful legacy will reflect on Israel for many years
Roni Steinburg ,   new York   (12.25.18)
16. tough for the left to have an election without foreign help
Mordechai   (12.25.18)
First time in a while without an american leftist anti Israel President planning on interfering in our elections by sending anti Israel political experts to help the left.
17. This author is off key
Lee ,   LA   (12.25.18)
By not deporting the families of terrorists, by not building the wall, by not killing off the kite flyers, by not demolishing terrorists homes is exactly what is killing Jews. Trump is in office because the American public was tired of excuses as to why no wall, China taking jobs, and no America did not want the moslems that Hilary wanted. Then there is Europe. They only wish they had Trump.
18. Never loved trump
Sara ,   Haifa   (12.25.18)
Nobody I know here in Israel has the time of day for either trump or bb - we just alaugh at all the morons who support either of them
19. High court
Don Saliman   (12.26.18)
Please let not have our higher court be filled with only the left and heaven forbid anyone from the right should have the power that the high court has.

I am being sarcastic in this post

Like in America, the Democrats want only a left-leaning Judge and the right wants only right-leaning Judges.

My plan put the best people on the higher courts that rule what the law says and not their political views
20. Chips - here comes the bogeyman
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (12.30.18)
Making up fairytales in the hope they come true?
Be careful what you wish for mr author
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