Interview opportunity with Israel Mayor David Rubin
Intro:
There’s a new sheriff in town, so to speak. An odd and extremely diverse coalition of opposing factions has banded together with the single-minded goal of ousting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To that end, they compromised and agreed to having a rotating pair of Prime Ministers–without Netanyahu being one of them. Here to explain the nearly unexplainable politics in Israel and how it will likely impact us in the USA, is David Rubin, a native New Yorker, dual citizen, former mayor of Shiloh, Israel, and author of the new book, “Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel.”
Q&A:
1. Reuters reports https://www.reuters.com/world/arab-islamist-helps-clinch-israels-new-anti-netanyahu-government-2021-06-03/ that according to Israel’s new coalition agreement, $16 billion will be spent on “infrastructure” and “crime reduction” in Arab areas. But can we really trust such a large infusion of hard cash, that none of it will be funneled into the hands of terrorists?
Answer: I believe that some of it will. From the radical Hamas-supporting perspective of the new Arab coalition partner, Mansour Abbas, wiping the Jewish state off the face of the map is the definition of “crime reduction.” I will guarantee you that those funds intended for crime reduction will not be used to quell the Arab pogroms and riots carried out against Jews in Israeli cities.
2. During the Trump presidency, there was a sharp reduction in terrorism in Israel. Why was that?
Answer: Trump cut off all funding to the Palestinian Authority, which was paying monthly salaries to terrorists. Biden, in contrast, restored hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, with no restrictions whatsoever. The result? Thousands of Hamas rockets flying from Gaza into Israel. Now, in the shadow of those rockets, Arab Israelis, many of whom identify with Hamas, will be getting $16 billion, and much of it could end up in the hands of Hamas. Simultaneously, the Biden administration is insisting that Israel allow “the rebuilding of Gaza”. What that means is many more billions of dollars flooding into Gaza, which is totally controlled by Hamas, known terrorist organization. Once the cement trucks are allowed in, Hamas will be rebuilding underground weapon smuggling tunnels, for sure not building homes for civilians.
3. Now that this fragile coalition, which was built only on anti-Netanyahu sentiment, is being established, what will be the glue that will bind it together?
Answer: Its mission has already been accomplished. Netanyahu is out. As we saw in America, most people who voted for Biden really were voting against Trump, not for Biden. Similarly in Israel, there were just barely enough different factions who hated Netanyahu to form a very fragile coalition consisting of an amalgam of political enemies. The phrase that ruled the day is, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But that won’t be enough to hold it together for too long once they actually have to govern and don’t agree with each other on anything.
4. You are saying that this new governing coalition will be dependent for its very existence on an Arab Islamic party, led by Mansour Abbas, that has supported Hamas terrorism and doesn’t even accept the Jewish foundations of the State of Israel?
Answer: That’s right. And when Israelis wake up from the dubious victory in removing Netanyahu, they will realize that the cure was far worse than the perceived disease, and that will most likely result in early elections–again.
5. What will happen to this coalition, if and when Hamas again starts to fire rockets again at Israel’s cities and towns and what will happen when Arabs again riot and burn synagogues and Jewish-owned cars and businesses?
Answer: The coalition will fall apart at the seams. Bennet will try to mobilize the army and police to crush the Muslim radicals, but Abbas, his anti-Israel Arab partner will not allow it. Either Bennett will defy him, or the government will fall, as a result of this paralysis.
6. Tell us about your new book, “Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel.”
Answer: It was just released and is available at Amazon.com.
BIO: David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh Israel, is the author of the new book, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel. Rubin is the founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, established after he and his then three-year-old son were wounded in a terror attack.
Websites: www.DavidRubinIsrael.com (to find out more about David’s many books) or www.ShilohIsraelChildren.org (treating the victims of terror)
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