What scares the Jewish leaders in the USA? Hint: it has to do with Donald Trump

The president of the Hartman Institute in North America, Dr Yehuda Kartzer chat this morning (fifth) with Udi Segal and Anat Davidov in their program on 103FM and commented on the victory of the designated US president Donald Trump in the elections.

At the beginning of the interview he said: “I’m disappointed. We learned from the 2016 election not to be shocked by the results. It was a very close contest, most of us thought we wouldn’t know the results for a few days, but Trump’s victory was so quick and big, and it was surprising.”

“I am a Zionist, and I was very affected by the war, and the Biden government stood by Israel throughout the war,” he continued. “There were arguments here and there, but in the last 50 years there has not been a president who came to Israel in the middle of a war, and his support for Israel was absolute. We see between the Democrats and the Republicans, almost everyone in the administration supports Israel. The problem is that we hear a lot from the extremists, and this does not characterize the party We hear the extreme left of the party. There are strong voices there.”

“I am concerned in a different way about the democracies in the US. Democracy is not only elections, it is the preservation of the rights of minorities, and loyalty to the American Constitution. Trump is so strange in the political system, a character we haven’t seen in a century in the US, and it’s scary. In his previous government, he’s just Destroy the bureaucracy, he changed all the laws and we don’t know what will happen. There are very important issues and matters in America right now: abortion and illegal immigration. Trump says he will destroy the Ministry of Education in the US tomorrow. You never know what will happen, I fear for democracy”he added.

At the end of the interview, he said about Trump and Israel: “Trump said unequivocally that he is not interested in being at war with Iran, and he wants the war to end by the time he gets to office. At the end of his first term, he was very angry with Bibi for supporting Biden. Everything is personal for Trump. I thought If Harris were to come to the office after Biden, she would continue his policies, and now you can’t tell.