“I am Yahweh; that is My Name! I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)
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The Hill—President Trump’s incredible friendship with Israel is one to applaud:
The news on Wednesday afternoon that President Trump had commuted the unjust 27-year sentence of Shalom Rubashkin followed Trump’s warning to United Nations member states that those who vote against America’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would be punished by a diminishment of American foreign aid.
At first glance, these are issues that primarily affect the Jewish community. Rubashkin was the largest provider of kosher meat in America, and Jerusalem is the 3,000-year-old central city of the Jewish people founded by King David. But, in truth, these are universal stories that affect all people, with Jews merely serving as canaries-in-the-coal-mine.
First, Rubashkin: A Hassidic Jewish father of 10, he was a significant philanthropist and communal activist noted for his fair and reasonable prices to make kosher meat more affordable and available throughout the United States. But when he was found guilty of more than 80 counts of financial fraud, this first-time non-violent offender was essentially given a draconian life sentence, much longer than big-name corporate CEOs convicted of major financial crimes. To give you an idea of just unjust Rubashkin’s sentence was, Mark Turkcan, the president of First Bank Mortgage of St. Louis, misapplied $35 million in loans, an amount similar to the Rubashkin charges, and was sentenced to one year and a day in prison. Sholom Rubashkin, however, was sentenced to 27 years, scheduled for release at the age of 74 in 2033.
In the fall of 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court — ignoring six amicus briefs urging the court to review the case, including 86 former federal judges and Department of Justice officials, two FBI directors, four deputy U.S. attorneys general and one solicitor general — formally declined to hear Rubashkin’s appeal.
Many alleged anti-Semitism in the unbelievable sentence and, for years, Rubashkin’s treatment was a terrible wound in the orthodox Jewish community. But with the stroke of a pen, and citing vast bipartisan congressional and legal support, Trump commuted the sentence without pardoning Rubashkin, making him a free man after eight years served. There was jubilation in the streets of Monsey, Crown Heights, and Boro Park, where orthodox Jews gave thanks to Trump for correcting a monstrous injustice and allowing justice to be served.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
President Trump really is a friend of Israel. After 8 years of Obama, that’s a relief.
I find it difficult to believe that some intelligent Jewish people still insist that Obama isn’t anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. Short of a military assault on Israel, he couldn’t have done more to put the tiny state in harms way. If he didn’t intend to do it, a highly unlikely possibility, his ineptitude caused it to happen.
You can’t say that Obama is a very intelligent man in one breath and that he inadvertently did harm to Israel consistently for 8 long years in the next breath. That’s ridiculous.
Obama is rotten through-and-through. His Justice Department was corrupt from top-to-bottom. The deep state that he installed is alive and well. It will continue to function until the Senate approves all of President Trump’s nominees, and they take office and investigate what went on during the Obama years.
Draining the swamp is no easy task. Republicans control the Senate. They can expedite those confirmations. Why don’t they?
The House of Representatives is beginning to take action. See “House Republicans quietly investigate perceived corruption at DOJ, FBI”. The DOJ is starting to do its job, too. See “An Uranium One investigation? Trump’s Justice Department Talking to FBI Agents about Alleged Hillary Clinton Scandal”.
We shouldn’t be satisfied until we get some answers. If AG Sessions continues to drag his feet, he should be fired. President Trump needs an energetic and aggressive AG, not a dandy.
As we close out the year, I am encouraged by the latest developments. 2018 should be the year we get the answers we need.
No matter what happens, tough, the Israeli people can rest easy for the time being. President Trump has their back.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
