MIKE PENCE: No place for antisemitism in America today, tomorrow or ever

The blimpish question has recovered itself successful a play of disorder successful caller weeks. Former friends quarrel, acquainted institutions are successful turmoil, and immoderate voices, some caller and old, connected the close person begun to wonderment aloud whether the United States should inactive basal with Israel. 

That question deserves a resolute answer, and the reply is this: for our security, for ideology successful the Middle East and for the precise destiny of our nation, America indispensable basal with Israel.

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Americans should ever beryllium unfastened to statement however we walk our wealth overseas and whether our overseas argumentation genuinely serves nationalist interest. The rising procreation successful peculiar demands rigorous answers beyond bare platitudes.  

But lately, it seems that thing deeper, thing darker, has driven those questions. After decades of struggle successful the Middle East, immoderate are tempted to clasp isolationism, to dainty motivation clarity arsenic naïveté, and to spurn our allies arsenic unwanted burdens nether the strain of monolithic nationalist debt. For others, it is thing much than antisemitism.  

A protester burns an Israeli flag  successful New York City, Friday, November 10, 2023. Over a 1000 pro Palestine protesters march from Columbus Circle astir midtown Manhattan, ending up astatine Grand Central. (Stephen Yang for Fox News Digital)

The acceptance of antisemitic voices connected the near and the right, from the halls of Congress to societal media, represents a vile and unsafe inclination successful American authorities and it indispensable beryllium forcefully opposed wherever it appears. There is nary spot successful the blimpish question for antisemitism.

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For astir 80 years, the enslaved betwixt the United States and Israel has been much than a diplomatic arrangement. It has been a covenant of escaped peoples who stock the aforesaid ideals: religion successful God, content successful quality dignity and gratitude for the blessings of liberty. Israel’s endurance has ne'er depended connected our charity; it has depended connected our partnership, and that concern has made America safer and paid dividends. 

Centuries earlier the founding of modern Israel, our Founding Fathers championed the instrumentality of the Jewish radical to Israel and made peculiar proviso for the Jewish religion successful America. George Washington assured Jewish Americans that the fledgling United States "gives to bigotry nary sanction, to persecution nary assistance." John Adams supported "the Jews again successful Judea" arsenic "an autarkic nation." Elias Boudinot, the president of the American Revolution’s Congress, boldly suggested that "God has raised up these United States… for the precise intent of… bringing his beloved radical to their ain land." Even the famously thrifty Benjamin Franklin erstwhile opened his coffers to assistance a section Philadelphia synagogue upwind fiscal difficulty.  

But the lawsuit for Israel is acold much than historic.

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Today, Israel stands arsenic an oasis of ideology successful a Middle East wherever dozens of its neighbors are Islamic states oregon inactive signifier monarchy. It is simply a cruel irony that, successful a satellite of 46 majority-Muslim nations, the beingness of a azygous majority-Jewish federation is seen by galore of Israel’s neighbors arsenic 1 excessively many. Thirty-one countries inactive garbage to admit Israel connected their maps. Some of those would emotion thing little than to spot Israel wiped disconnected the representation altogether. And yet Israel persists.  

Thanks to Israel’s courageousness and the decisive onslaught connected Iran's atomic facilities by the United States, we nary longer unrecorded nether a atomic sword of Damocles wielded by a authorities that chants "Death to America." From the Stuxnet cyber cognition that crippled Iran’s enrichment program, to Israel’s assistance with U.S. airstrikes, and to galore heroic covert operations, Israel has repeatedly helped hold Tehran’s advancement toward obtaining atomic weapons. Those actions protected not lone Jerusalem and Tel Aviv – they protected Washington, New York and each American metropolis wrong scope of Iran’s hatred. 

That whitethorn not substance overmuch to a conception of the New Right that confuses isolation for safety. But the remainder of america cognize better. We recognize what it would mean if the world’s starring authorities sponsor of coercion ever possessed atomic weapons.  When Israel takes the combat to Iran’s panic web proxies similar Hezbollah, Hamas and the Revolutionary Guard, it is not simply doing our bidding; it is doing what conscience and communal consciousness require. It stands betwixt civilization and chaos. Israel’s origin is our cause.  

When Israel succeeds, arsenic it did successful 2024 by decapitating Hezbollah’s enactment successful a precision pager-bombing campaign, America is safer. The applicable lawsuit for our confederation is clear.

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Centuries earlier the founding of modern Israel, our Founding Fathers championed the instrumentality of the Jewish radical to Israel and made peculiar proviso for the Jewish religion successful America.

But the bosom of American enactment is inactive a substance of shared values and faith. We basal with Israel due to the fact that we judge successful close implicit wrong, successful bully implicit evil, and successful liberty implicit tyranny. Israel indispensable beryllium empowered to decorativeness the combat against those who would harm her, terrorists who fell down women, children, hospitals and beatified places arsenic they motorboat rockets indiscriminately into Israel. Peace and justice, wrong Gaza and without, necessitate that Hamas beryllium destroyed. 

In the end, Americans person ever supported Israel due to the fact that the precise beingness of this enduring federation bears witnesser to God's faithfulness. And the enactment of millions of Americans passim the generations has been built upon the past words recorded successful Genesis wherever God promises to "bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I volition curse, and each peoples connected world volition beryllium blessed done you."

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For 250 years, America has been blessed similar nary different state successful history. As we hole to observe our blessings arsenic a nation, I judge we indispensable ne'er forsake that committedness oregon our cherished ally. If the satellite knows thing else, fto the satellite cognize this: America stands with Israel. 

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