Protect America from our enemies; Protect Israel from her friends

By Allen Menkin, MD, Project Manager, CAMERAS Naples Partnership of Christians and Jews

Last Oct. 7, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Hamas franchise invaded Israel and committed unspeakable atrocities. On April 14, a coalition of the unlikely prevented an even greater massacre by the genocidal Islamists in Teheran. It was a bloody nose for the IRGC and a shock to its hired guns across the region, but it certainly was not the “great victory” touted by our president, and defense alone does not win ball games or wars. Israel must defeat her enemies, or they will eventually destroy her.

That puts the Obama/Biden Administration in a political bind. The lynchpin of its foreign policy, that Teheran could be appeased and bribed to “achieve peace in our time,” has been exposed as a fantasy, a fraud and a failure. Its companion delusion, that the 100-year-old Palestinian war of extinction against the Jews is about settlements or borders and can be resolved by an unworkable, serially rejected “two-state solution,” is risible. If President Biden lets Israel prevail, he may lose Michigan and the election. If he lets Israel fail, his presidency will forever live in infamy. So, American warships and fighter jets help protect the Jewish State while his proxies, the Jewish Secretary of State and the Jewish, Democratic Senate Majority Leader, publicly label her a human rights violator on par with Hamas, Russia and the Islamic Republic, and demand regime change in Jerusalem.

For its part, the Republican controlled House of Representatives is a partisan shambles that irresponsibly slow walked Israel to the edge of the precipice before finally passing a military appropriations bill.

Let us be clear. Israel is America’s ally, not its satrapy; and it is on the front lines, fighting our battles in the Middle East. No American administration should ever betray her or force her to fight with one hand tied behind her back. Full stop.

Lost in election year posturing, this administration has willfully ignored signs that the long-promised attack on the American homeland has begun, and that “students” spewing hatred and stoking the fires of antisemitism are its shock troops. They shut down our roads, bridges and airports at will. They burn our flag and shout, “down with the USA,” “the Al-Qassam are coming” and “death to America” with impunity. They occupy campuses and public spaces, chanting, “Go Hamas; We love you; We support your rockets too,” and “Say it loud; Say it clear; We don’t want no Zionists here.” They brazenly assault and terrorize our children and grandchildren without fear of consequences. They are Jew Haters and domestic terrorists. In an earlier era, they would have been labelled “a fifth column.” They would have been arrested and prosecuted to the limits of the law. Now, college presidents cower and grovel before them, the ACLU sues to protect their First Amendment rights and the president sees justice in their cause.

We have not yet experienced the worst of this. Like their foreign and domestic masters, the campus radicals mean every word they say. Today, they post reels on TikTok; in five years they will be Congressional staffers, “trending celebrities” and “investigative reporters” for the NYT and WAPO. Lesser forces toppled the Johnson presidency, turned Chicago’s ‘68 Democratic National Convention into a combat zone, and torched Portland and Seattle in the name of racial justice and equity.

We must support Israel, but we also need to realize that the war has reached our shores and be prepared “in our town and in our time” for what we hope will never happen; we cannot do that if we are divided, and we cannot do it without allies. Our Christian partners understand that. They are Zionists and patriots, and they are here to help.

There is a role for charismatic speakers and public rallies. They gain attention and raise both morale and funds. Creating a partnership is more tedious and less glamorous. You must build it block by block, and it will only be as strong as the relationships within it. We are holding a series of small, informal get togethers over the summer to do just that. Please join us! Contact Tricia Miller at tricia@camera.org to sign up.