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ISRAELI Opinion. Tradition. STRIKER'S KUDOS TO TRUMP WHO STAR OF FOR IGNORING IS DAVID MCMASTER HONOURED? HAIRCUT A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2017 | 12 ADAR 5777 VOL. XLV NO. 2298 Israeli Defense US News & World Report: Israel 30th Minister Lieberman ‘Best Country’ in Meets Mattis at World, 8th Most Pentagon Powerful BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY Israel was ranked 30th (out of 80) on US News & World Report’s newly-published 2017 list of “Best Countries.” Switzerland headlined the list, followed in the top 10 by Canada, the UK, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the US, Australia and France. Th e categories on which the countries are ranked include Adventure, Citizenship, Cultural Infl uence, Entrepreneurship, Heritage, Movers, Open for Business, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis greets Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Photo: Ariel Hermoni / Israeli Defense Ministry. Tel Aviv. Photo: Ana Paula Hirama via Wikimedia Commons. BY BARNEY BREEN Mattis discussed common security Tillerson while in Washington, DC. Power and Quality of Life. -PORTNOY issues facing Israel and the US. After his first meeting with In the “Power” category — ranking the globe’s most “Strategic cooperation between Mattis last month — on the infl uential nations — Israel fi nished 8th, behind only the US, Israeli Defense Minister Israel and the US is vital and critical sidelines of the Munich Security Russia, China, the UK, Germany, France and Japan. Avigdor Lieberman was hosted at to not only Israel’s security, but also Conference — Lieberman stated, “Israel, the only Jewish nation in the world, is a small the Pentagon on Tuesday by US the security and stability of the entire “The three main problems we country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea,” US Secretary of Defense James Mattis Middle East,” Lieberman wrote. must handle are Iran, Iran and News & World Report wrote. “For its relatively small size, the — their second meeting since the Israel’s Channel 10 quoted Iran. We must build a genuine and country has played a large role in global aff airs. Th e country Trump administration came to Lieberman as saying on Tuesday, effective coalition to deal with the has a strong economy, landmarks of signifi cance to several power in January. “We need an active US in our region.” terrorism it [Iran] spreads around religions and strained relationships with many of its Arab In a Facebook post after the Lieberman was also set to the world, the development of neighbors.” meeting, Lieberman said he and meet with Vice President Mike missiles it is engaged in and its Pence and Secretary of State Rex nuclear arms race.” Where the ShabbatCalendar Parshat TETZAVEH Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 5:40pm | Shabbat Ends: 6:39pm פרשת תצוה Brave Are Quiet P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2017 Opinion. Kudos to Trump for Ignoring McMaster’s Advice Against Using Term ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ over them to head their party thawed. Not So much has only had the real estate magnate who talks changed since the RUTHIE BLUM from the cuff and shoots from the hip led Vietnam debacle, TEL AVIV them to sweeping victories in the House of both politically and Representatives and the Senate, but he began militarily, but one appointing real conservatives to top posts, thing remains the including the Supreme Court seat vacated by same: Democracies the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. are always at a disad- Despite his impeccable military and Flynn, with his staunch stance against vantage when fighting other credentials, US President Donald Islamists in general and Iran in particular, rogue groups and Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. was among this group. But since he left states with no morals H.R. McMaster, began his job — the one almost as soon as he assumed his job, or rules of engagement. he got as a result of the resignation of Gen. someone had to be found to replace him. Even Israel, Michael Flynn — with a whimper. If reports That person was McMaster, and he also whose government are correct, McMaster told Trump last week seemed to fit the bill perfectly. and military have that he should cease using the term “radical H.R. McMaster with President Donald Trump. Photo: Twitter. In his 1997 book Dereliction of Duty: had no choice but to Islamic terrorism,” so as not to alienate Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confront the often eliminated terms such as “radical Islam” and Muslim-majority countries allied with the and the Lies That Led to Vietnam — written as impossible task of killing terrorists without “terrorism” from his administration’s lexicon. United States. a doctoral thesis — McMaster examined the resorting to their methods, is often at a loss Indeed, the self-described “leader from behind” There were those of us who had argued, failure of the White House and Joint Chiefs of when it comes to asymmetric warfare. But of the free world tried to alter reality with a prior to Trump’s inauguration, that the only Staff to provide a successful plan to defeat the it does not hesitate to identify and call its pencil eraser — all the while working furiously thing Americans and Israelis had to fear about North Vietnamese Army. enemies by name. toward inking a nuclear deal with Iran. the sui generis leader, if anything, was that “The war in Vietnam was not lost in the When Obama took office in January 2009, The electoral ouster of the Democrats he would end up more like his predecessor, field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The two days after the end of Israel’s Operation was due in large measure to the above. Why, Barack Obama, than the “alt-right” fanatic they New York Times, or on the college campuses. Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza, he made it then, would Trump’s national security adviser were making him out to be. It was lost in Washington, DC, even before his business to reach out to radical Islamists, tell him not to mention it in his address to the “He’s not a fascist, a racist or an Americans assumed sole responsibility for rather than defeat them. This move was born joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening? antisemite,” I would say confidently. “But the fighting in 1965 and before they realized out of a dim view of American power and the Kudos to Trump for doing it anyway he was, up until recently, a member of the the country was at war,” McMaster wrote. accompanying belief that the US was hated by and reassuring us that he has no intention of Democratic Party.” It is thus odd that his first piece of advice to the mullah-led regime in Tehran and terrorist emulating Obama. Once Trump started announcing Trump was to suggest he tone down his rhetoric organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood Ruthie Blum is the managing editor of his picks for cabinet and other positions, against the West’s sworn enemies, rather than with good reason. The Algemeiner. however, even the die-hard Republicans who coach him on how to put it into action. In keeping with this policy, Obama initially froze over the fact of his leapfrogging Antisemitism Isn’t Caused by the Political Left or Right public pronouncements on the subject, you a bloodsucker.” According to the indict- the including in his recent speech to Congress. ment, Thompson perpetrated the crimes in Algemeiner Journal RAFAEL MEDOFF/ But the arrest and indictment of a St. order to pin them on his ex-girlfriend. JNS.ORG Louis man for making “at least eight” of the Sure, it’s convenient to blame one’s polit- (USPS 927800) is published weekly recent anti-Jewish bomb threats pulls the rug ical opponents for antisemitism. But it would (except for the week of Passover out from under the politically oriented “expla- make more sense to blame the antisemites and Succos) nations” of antisemitism. themselves. Thugs who threaten Jewish insti- Subscription rate $40 per year The suspect, Juan Thompson, is not a tutions or desecrate Jewish gravestones are The recent attacks against the Jewish Algemeiner Journal “white nationalist.” He was not inspired or not usually motivated by some policy position community have revealed a surprising encouraged by Donald Trump. Nor was he of a president. They assault Jewish institutions 508 Montgomery Street abundance of self-proclaimed experts on the protesting the president’s support for Israel or or Jewish property because they hate Jews, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 causes of antisemitism. the UN resolution, or emboldened by those because of deep personal problems or due to For example, a Jewish ex-New York Periodicals Postage on the political Left. some combination thereof. Times reporter, writing on the op-ed page of Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. He’s an African-American journalist with Antisemitic incidents will not end with the Washington Post on March 3, declared and at additional mailing offices extreme political views that predate Trump, the arrest of Juan Thompson. So how will all that “the growing examples of antisemitism … and that are unrelated to Israel. Thompson’s of our experts “explain” incidents that occur POSTMASTER: [were] enabled, if not inspired, by [President Twitter profile features this Malcom X quota- months, or years, after some presidential Send address changes to Donald] Trump’s white nationalism.” tion: “You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show Continued on Page A3 In another case, the leader of one Jewish Algemeiner Journal progressive group recently suggested that P.O.