Israel dodges a bullet
by Melanie Phillips:
Donald Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance.
A nightmare has been averted, both for Israel and the west.
With the stunning re-election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Israel has dodged a virtual bullet just as Trump himself was saved this summer from a projectile that came within an inch of assassinating him.
Israelis had been bracing themselves in dread for a Kamala Harris victory. This would have been the fourth administration in which former President Barack Obama, many of whose officials subsequently served the Biden administration and whose worldview has remained dominant within it, was pulling the strings of an anti-Israel, anti-west and anti-white agenda.
There were grave fears that Harris would have thrown Israel to the wolves at the United Nations, cut off arms supplies during the desperate war the Jewish state is fighting for its survival and activated more vindictive sanctions against Israelis, of whose attitudes to sovereignty over the land the Democrats disapprove.
Instead, America will have a president who in his first term was the greatest supporter of Israel ever to have occupied the White House. He will take a far tougher stance towards Iran; he won’t try to prevent Israel from achieving total victory over Hamas and Hezbollah; he will take a very dim view of the United Nations over its support for Hamas; he may sanction the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice in The Hague over their persecution of Israel; and he is likely to defund the UN Relief and Works Agency, whose very existence delegitimises Israel and which works hand in glove with Hamas.
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