"Almost as soon as president Joe Biden announced he would halt a weapons shipment to Israel, Steve Witkoff’s iPhone started buzzing.
'Every one of my friends started calling and asking, "What can I do for Donald Trump?"' Witkoff, a pro-Israel donor and fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign, told The Bulwark."
Seems like many American Zionists are also fascists.
"Almost as soon as president Joe Biden announced he would halt a weapons shipment to Israel, Steve Witkoff’s iPhone started buzzing.
'Every one of my friends started calling and asking, "What can I do for Donald Trump?"' Witkoff, a pro-Israel donor and fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign, told The Bulwark."
@ferryoons You mean you think that Witkoff is making things up? That might well be. But I read his statements after spending time this past weekend with my niece, who works closely with a Jewish colleague (one of many) who told her only in the past week that the Jewish community in her city, a mid-South US city, is leaning strongly in Trump's direction, and that she believes the Jewish vote will (rightly) give Trump the election.
@ferryoons I would hope that's not the case. One poll after another for some years now show US Jews voting heavily Democratic. But what's been happening in the Middle East seems to be unsettling many traditional political alignments in a disturbing way, I also realize.
@wdlindsy ah yes. Finally an excuse to expel those pesky Palestinians who have the nerve to live on land we want.
Ethnic cleansing is not a pretty thing.
I was a youngster at the time of the 1967 war, and I respected and believed my elders. Only much later did I realize how racist much of the discussion I heard in the late 60s & 70s was.
@conflicts Indeed. And in supporting Trump, they're also very much supporting yet another fascist criminal — Netanyahu — who is cut from the same cloth.
@wdlindsy I have to say as a #Holocaust/ #WW2 research professional, I am continually stunned by #Israel's leadership and it's historical insensitivity. They should be SO MUCH better. I would never have that same expectation of #Russia & #Putin.
@conflicts I agree. It's always disheartening to see people who have experienced longtime grotesque oppression turn around and oppress others, when in a position to do that. But it happens drearily often in history.
“'It was a notable shift,' Witkoff said. 'I personally received and helped secure large Jewish donors over the last two weeks . . . and I’m not talking four-figure donations. I’m talking six-figure and seven-figure donations.'”
@timo21 No, they don't. And as the article says, many of these high-flying financiers want Trump in office because they like his coddle-the-rich economic plan, and have been looking for any excuse at all to support him.
@cra1g Yes, that's it in a nutshell. And though seeing and saying this may not be new, it still needs to be seen and said while a close election in the US tells us that Donald Trump and his party may regain the White House — with dire consequences for the whole world.