Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
Donald Trump has many times reiterated the claim that what happened
on October 7 in Israel would not have happened had he won the 2020 election. I
completely agree. Which is why, to a degree, I blame Donald Trump for what
happened on and in the wake of October 7.
If Trump hadn’t been such a rude bully, perhaps Joe Biden
would not now be pretending to be executive in chief with Kamala Harris waiting
in the wings while contemplating the great significance of the passage of time (why
Joe wasn’t pushed down a flight of stairs and said to be dead from COVID long
ago, I have no idea).
You don’t need me to tell you that Trump is (in)famous for
his ad hominem attacks on his opponents. Trump delights in inventing creative attack
nicknames for his competitors, among them:
·Little Marco
·Lyin’ Ted
·Crooked Hillary
·Ron DeSanctimonious
·Low Energy Jeb
·Pocahontas
·Crazy Joe Biden
·Sleepy Joe
·Comrade Kamala
·Tampon Tim
The mean nicknames no doubt delight many Trump voters. For
them, it’s all a part of Donald Trump’s charm. But what about those who take
offense at the name-calling? They also vote. If Donald Trump really cares about
America, shouldn’t he want their votes, too?
Aside from the rude and childish name-calling, there was his
mockery of the way the now-deceased John McCain used his hands. Love or hate Donald
Trump, you have to admit that making fun of the disabled is repugnant, pure and
simple. But it’s even worse when that disabled person is a former prisoner of
war and war hero, whose disability is the result of maltreatment and torture. Is
someone who mocks the disabled, someone who behaves in this fashion, worthy of
being elected to the highest office in the land—a land that John McCain defended
with his body?
My dad was an American hero. An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history. I cannot buy a bagel without someone approaching me about how much they loved and miss him.
Trump is a piece of shit, election denying, huckster whose own wife won't campaign with him. https://t.co/f3RlWLqT9B
The name-calling, crude references to manhood/menstruation,
and public mimicry of the disabled are all problematic and, it must be acknowledged,
at least in part to blame for Trump’s loss to Biden in 2020. Many are now
warning Trump that here too in 2024, he stands to lose voters because of his coarse
behavior. And then we’re really in trouble, because God forbid, we’d end up
with two YUGE antisemites running the show, Kamala Harris and Tim
Walz.
As Victor Davis Hanson explains it, there is only a short
window for Donald Trump to define himself for the voters. When Trump calls
Harris “stupid” without saying why, he only looks churlish. It’s a missed
opportunity to present his case at a time when time is running out, or as
Hanson put it, “No time for invective.”
Despite his at times unpresidential behavior, Trump was a damned
good president according to just about every measure this author can think of.
Think back to what your grocery cart looked like then compared to now, under the
Bidenomics of which Kamala is so proud. Picture the signing of the Abraham
Accords, and then see in your mind’s eye how Biden, instead of fostering peace,
gave Iran the wherewithal to finance Hamas brutality while staying Israel’s
hand from its own defense:
“I will end every single international crisis that the
current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and
Ukraine — which would have never happened if I was president — and the war
caused by the attack on Israel, which would have never happened if I was
president,” said Trump at the RNC.
“Iran was broke. Iran had no money. Now Iran has $250
billion. They made it all over the last two and a half years,” he adds, saying
the Biden administration has provided Tehran sanctions relief.
“I told China and other countries if you buy from Iran, we
will not let you do any business in this country.”
These are not empty boasts. I believe Trump when he says
these things. And he’s right; Hamas would not have attacked Israel on October 7
had he been in office. They wouldn’t have dared; and now they remember all too
well how things were when Trump was in office—and tremble. As they
should.
Trump starved Iran of money, making it impossible for the
Ayatollah to support his proxies, including the one in Gaza, Hamas. Joe Biden,
on the other hand, has fed Iran a constant diet of cash, even as he stays Israel’s
hand from obliterating this cruel enemy. There’s no reason to think this policy
of emboldening those who murder, rape, and brutalize Jews won’t continue under
a Kamala Harris presidency. And by now we must acknowledge that Joe cannot
possibly be running the show. The unseen handler of Joe is likely to become the
handler of Kamala Harris as well, if Trump fails to make his case.
Here in Israel, we feel the terrible strain of the hostage situation.
We pray for the best, but anticipate the worst, and it is unbearable. That
makes me—and I’d venture a lot of other Israeli Jews—feel kind of desperate about
the American presidential election. We are desperate for Donald Trump to win.
And angry that this might all have been avoided, had Trump behaved a little
better in the run up to the last election. Who knows how many lives would have
been saved had Trump kept a civil tongue in his mouth? It makes me ache to
think of it. A good president who won’t behave, and people died.
And still, it is a pragmatic fact that Trump must win,
because he is the president who will act decisively, and extract a price from
Hamas for what it did and continues to do to Americans and American allies both
dead and alive in Gaza. In spite of his rough behavior, it’s obvious that Trump
has a strong sense of right and wrong. He feels the disgrace of what it means
for Biden to have allowed this state of affairs to continue even as Joe helps
it along—helps the terrorists along. Trump also feels the disgrace of
America throwing an ally, Israel, under the bus.
Kamala, on the other hand, will be worse than Joe. She has
expressed sympathy for supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah, again and again.
So we watch and worry. We worry that Trump will say more
nasty, childish thing and that this will affect his chances at the polls. What
will be of our hostages if Trump can’t shut his mouth and restrain himself. “Save
it for Putin!” we want to shout.
Yet we know that in spite of any mean-spirited behavior to
the contrary, in the bigger scheme of things, Trump has more morality in his
little finger than there is in the entire Biden White House.
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Tim Walz just can’t seem to get enough of the imam Asad
Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MAS Minnesota). We should
examine why Walz is a fan of the cleric of an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. Does
the man who may become vice president of America share the philosophy and goals
of the Muslim Brotherhood? Or is the association of Walz with the imam—an avowed,
Hitler-loving, Hamas-loving antisemite who wants to eradicate the Jews—completely
innocent?
To give the devil his due, Walz may be using his relationship
with Asad Zaman only to curry favor with his Muslim constituency. But it’s awfully
difficult to overlook the implications of the more than $100,000 Walz has contributed to
MAS Minnesota. Walz must want something for that cash payout, unless of course,
he deeply admires Zaman’s worldview.
It was Gabe Kaminsky, investigative reporter at the Washington
Examiner who brought the affiliation between Tim Walz and Asad Zaman, to
light:
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least
five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who
celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and
promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington
Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of
Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting
about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman
also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the
governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In
April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months
after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press
conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted
for Ramadan, social media posts show.
For the first time ever, we will have chaplains of 3 different faiths deliver the invocation at #MNSOTS tomorrow. I am humbled to welcome Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Imam Asad Zaman, and Bishop Patricia Lull – three faith leaders who truly understand the meaning of #OneMinnesota.
More from the Washington Examiner about the worldview of
Walz’s friend, the cleric Zaman (emphasis added):
Zaman, who is from Bangladesh, said on
Oct. 7 of last year that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians
against Israeli attacks.” That day, which saw 1,200 Israelis murdered by
Hamas terrorists, he also shared an image of a Palestinian flag on
Facebook in response to a post by Yusuf Abdi Abdulle, director of the
Islamic Association of North America,declaring that “Palestine has the
right to defend itself.” The Biden-Harris administration, Abdulle wrote in
the post, was “on the wrong side of history” in “supporting the extremist
Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”
Asad Zaman’s loyalty to “Palestinians” should be translated
as “loyalty to Hamas,” since he once shared a Hamas press release. The
occasion? The 2016 hanging of Motiur
Rahman Nizami, a Bangladeshi Islamic leader, after he was convicted of genocide,
rape and torture.
One of Asad Zaman’s favorite things, of course, is Hitler.
Zaman even shared a link to the website of the pro-Hitler film, The Greatest Story Never Told.
Here is a text from the website of this 6-hour documentary
on Hitler:
Since the mid-20th century, the world has only ever heard
one side of an incredible story. The story of a boy from an ordinary family
whose ambition it was to become an artist, but who instead became a drifter.
His destiny however was not to drift into the awaiting
oblivion, but to rise to the greatest heights of power, eventually to become
one of the most influential men who ever lived.
Now for the first time, here is a documented account of a
story many believe to be…
The Greatest Story NEVER Told!
Learn the untold story about the most reviled man in
history. Adolf Hitler, The Greatest Story Never Told is a 6-hour Documentary by
TruthWillOut Films.
This ground-breaking documentary chronicles the rise of
Germany from defeat in World War I, to communist attempts to take over Germany;
hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic, widespread unemployment and misery,
and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
It also reveals a personal side of Adolf Hitler: who he was,
his family background, his artwork and struggles in Vienna and what motivated
him to come to power.
There’s so much hidden history to recount; FDR Pearl Harbor
conspiracy, Soviet brutality, betrayal and treachery on all sides. Do we really
know the true cost of war? Do we really possess all the facts?
Watch this series and uncover the real root causes of World
War II. Do your own research and decide what you choose to believe. Think
differently.
The Washington Examiner explains that the 2013 movie is
popular among antisemites, citing an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson. “Imam
Zaman has a troubling history of playing into classic anti-Jewish themes and
justifying violence against Israel.
“He also has justified violence against Israel, including
from terror groups. Given his hurtful remarks post-Oct. 7, and absent any
recognition of the pain he has caused the Jewish community, we urge all public
officials and leaders to avoid meeting with him in the future. Those who have
met with Imam Zaman should clarify that they don’t agree with his toxic views
about Jews and the Jewish state.”
After a terror attack, it is always meaningful to see who
rushes to support the Jewish State; and all the more so after the slaughter of
October 7. On that black day, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) was quick to offer
sympathy and support to Israel and the Israeli people. At the other end of the
scale was Asad Zaman, who asked Porter if she were willing to “reaffirm the
right of Palestinians to defend themselves.”
@RepKatiePorter. Do you also condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civilians and children? Do you also stand with the Palestinian people? Do you also reaffirm the right of Palestinians to defend themselves?
Beyond Porter, there is Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Party Chairman Ken Martin, who wrote on social media that he was “beyond
heartbroken” to hear about Israeli acquaintances “brutally killed or kidnapped”
on Oct. 7. Of course, Zaman was there to respond with the threat that his group
would be shunned by the Muslim community, that it “cannot be joined at the hip
to apartheid Israel and still hope to court the Muslim vote.”
Ken. Did you visit Gaza? Did you visit any Palestinians living under apartheid in the West Bank?
The DFL cannot be joined at the hip to apartheid Israel and still hope to court the Muslim vote.
When can we see a similar expression of grief over Palestinian children suffering?
The Zaman way is to twist the truth, equating Hamas terror to
Israel defending itself. Because this is how they roll at the Muslim
Brotherhood offshoot known as the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. On October
7, MAS Minnesota issued a statement that it “reaffirms its unwavering support
for the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation.” We
don’t wonder that MAS Minnesota expresses its support for Hamas, a fellow branch of
the Muslim Brotherhood; but why has the Walz administration forked over more
than $100,000 in funding to MAS Minnesota?
Sam Westrop, a terrorism researcher and
analyst at the Middle East Forum think tank, told the Washington Examiner that
Walz’s ties with Zaman suggests that the Harris-Walz cabinet will be filled
with anti-Israel extremists.
“It is astounding that with all the available public reporting
and information about the iniquities of Imam Asad Zaman and MAS Minnesota that
Gov. Walz has repeatedly given public platforms and taxpayer money to this
extremist,” said Westrop.
“Across the country, Islamists hungry for government support
will surely welcome Walz as vice president.”
Note that the Muslim American Society has been described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as
the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.” In the United Arab Emirates, the Muslim Brotherhood was designated as a terrorist group in 2014. There
was a brouhaha in 2019 when a video surfaced online of children at an event
held by MAS Philadelphia calling to murder Jews.
“We will chop off their
heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque,” recite two
young girls, reading from a prepared text.
How does Tim Walz describe his pal, the pro-Hitler movie fan
Asad Zaman? Walz calls Zaman a “master teacher” who offers Walz lessons whenever
they spend time together.
“I would like to first of all say thank you to imam,” Walz
said at the MAS Minnesota 2018 event, standing next to now Lieutenant Governor
of the Gopher State, Peggy Flanagan:
“I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it.
Over the time we’ve spent together, one of the things I’ve had the privilege of
is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher, to try and
get the understanding. It was imam talking [saying that] ‘in those times is
where we find who we are, in those times is where we really see.’
“That brings me to the second lesson that imam taught me,” said
Walz, going on to accuse Congress of feeding on “fear more than hope” and
“division.”
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Walz—in footage unearthed by @dcexaminer—called Hitler-promoting imam Asad Zaman a “master teacher” who offered Walz lessons over the time they “spent together"
The footage further contradicts the Harris campaign’s claim Walz has no personal relationship w/ Zaman pic.twitter.com/F1lKcJyzI1
Ben Shapiro spoke with Gabe Kaminsky after his exposé of
Walz’s friendship with Zaman. During the interview, Kaminsky said that MAS
Minnesota had been deemed a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot as far back as 2008, in
a terrorism financing case.
“But this individual, Asad Zaman, has a controversial
history on social media, on his Facebook page. He has, in one case, promoted a
pro-Hitler movie, a movie that glorifies Adolf Hitler. On Oct. 7, when 1,200
Israelis were slaughtered in the Jewish state, his immediate response was to
say that Palestinians had a right to resist, a right to defend themselves. And
this individual has promoted other conspiracy theories on his social media
history.”
Fox
News also asked for clarification from the Harris campaign regarding Walz’s
links to the imam. The Harris-Walz campaign responded to Chicago-based
correspondent Mike Tobin by lying, telling him that "Gov. Walz does not have
a relationship with [Zaman],” though Walz has hosted Asad Zaman on numerous
occasions.
For the first time ever, we will have chaplains of 3 different faiths deliver the invocation at #MNSOTS tomorrow. I am humbled to welcome Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Imam Asad Zaman, and Bishop Patricia Lull – three faith leaders who truly understand the meaning of #OneMinnesota.
The campaign also said that Walz "strongly condemns
Hamas terrorism.”
Fox's Tobin expressed his concerns:
We start to see more appearances with Zaman and Gov. Walz in
2019, January, April and May. At one point, Zaman delivers an invocation to the
state of the state address.
He appeared with Gov. Walz in May of 2020, calling for calm
in the George Floyd riots, and again in 2023 following a string of vandalism at
mosques.
Sam Westrop of The Middle East Forum says Gov. Walz has been
willfully ignorant of Zaman’s radicalism because he relies on the Arab or
Muslim voting bloc and cannot do anything that would make him appear Islamophobic.
Westrop said, “This is a serious problem. Under a
Walz-Harris ticket, given Walz's ability to embrace really just the worst kind
of radicals within the Muslim community, one can only imagine this will be
replicated at the White House level. Walz clearly doesn't want to know about
the extremists he embraces.”
Even the Dem-friendly CNN
wants to know what’s up with Walz and the imam. They got the same response from
the Harris campaign’s Lauren Hitt, who told CNN that Walz and Zaman do not have
a “personal relationship.”
“The Governor and he do not have a personal relationship.”
Is Hitt getting around what is now known by all, by qualifying
the nature of the Walz Zaman relationship? It’s not “personal.” Does Hitt mean
they’re not gay, they’re only friends?
Hitt, still sticking to the script, blah-blah-blahed the
same thing she’d said to everyone else who’d inquired. “Governor Walz strongly
condemns Hamas terrorism,” said Hitt to CNN.
Zaman separately told CNN that he does not have a “personal
relationship” with Walz. Pressed by CNN about his antisemitic social media
posts, he said that sometimes he shares links “without fully looking at them.”
“People, myself included, will sometimes pass along social
media items without fully looking at them. I support organizations, leaders and
efforts to bring greater justice, equality and wellbeing to all people whether
Muslim or Jewish, Christian or Hindu, believer or atheist. Desiring harm to
people is against my faith and my personal convictions,” said the imam to CNN.
Asad Zaman isn’t the only terrorist with whom Tim Walz has
fraternized. There’s also Hatem Bazian, an antisemitic academic. Bazian has
been an ever-abundant and dependable source of antisemitic propaganda in the
wake of October 7. Naturally, this is someone Walz wants to cultivate. In
fact, Walz cozied up to Bazian the Jew-hater for a photo
opp in 2019, at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) event. The views
of CAIR and Bazain were transparent even then.
CAIR, much like MAS, was labeled by federal prosecutors an
unindicted co-conspirator of Hamas in a terror finance case from 2008. In 2017,
Bazian was compelled to apologize for posting an antisemitic meme depicting a Jewish man with the caption,
"Mom look! I is chosen! I can now kill, rape, smuggle organs & steal
the land of Palestinians Yay #Ashke-Nazi."
Walz posed for photos with this man, Hatem Bazian. What does
this say about Walz? By now we know. He likes hanging out with known antisemites.
And giving them money.
Meanwhile, you won’t get any kind of admission from the Harris campaign about the vice presidential candidate and his close associations with terrorists. When questioned, all they do is lie. Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition was blunt not only about Walz’s relationship with Asad Zaman, but how the Harris campaign responds when confronted with the evidence:
It is an outrage to the American Jewish community that Tim
Walz would champion Hitler-promoting cleric Asad Zaman of the Muslim American
Society of Minnesota. On Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel was suffering the worst
massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Mr. Zaman disgustingly asserted that he
‘stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.’ Appallingly,
under Tim Walz, Minnesota has awarded over $100,000 in funding to Zaman’s
Israel-hating organization.”
At a time of spiking antisemitism here at home and as Israel
faces an existential war for survival, it is essential for the American Jewish
community to have confidence in our leaders—and it is clear that we cannot trust
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Their priorities are not our priorities, and the
American people will reject their radicalism and extremism in November.
Beyond the stolen valor issue and more, the American public has
begun to notice Tampon Tim's affinity for terrorists. Florida Senator Rick
Scott spoke out about Walz hosting a Hamas-affiliated terrorist who celebrated
October 7 on some five occasions, saying that Harris/Walz is the “pro Hamas
ticket.”
As Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz — on at least 5 occasions — hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) meanwhile questioned the
response of the Harris team: “Why did Tim Walz lie about his obviously friendly
relationship with a Minnesota Muslim cleric who promoted Hamas and Hitler?
“Weird—and disqualifying.”
Why did Tim Walz lie about his obviously friendly relationship with a Minnesota Muslim cleric who promoted Hamas & Hitler?
Many are the accusers who call Donald Trump “Orange Hitler”
with no proof. There’s just a call that goes out to the echo chamber, and the media
and its audiences, fall in. Meantime, in Walz we have a potential VP who has
the very bad habit of legit hanging out with genuine Hitler fans. Donald Trump
told Elon Musk that any Jew who votes for Harris should have his head examined;
and in truth, an examination of the facts about Walz and his Muslim cronies can
lead to only one conclusion: Walz is a terrorist sympathizer.
If you vote for Harris, you’re voting for Walz.
And if you vote for Walz, you’re voting for Jews to die.
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