{"id":582,"date":"2016-10-02T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschulman.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2016-10-02T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:55:24","slug":"some-random-thoughts-before-rosh-hashanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/02\/some-random-thoughts-before-rosh-hashanah\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Thoughts Before Rosh Hashanah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its been a while since I wrote a blog piece.\u00a0 For the last month since I stated working for Emerging Market Reports plus started MYIsraelNews I have gone from writing one or two articles top for Newsweek plus a blog piece or two every week, to writing on average ten stories a day.\u00a0 While I am enjoying it and Emerging Markets is helping to pay our bills,\u00a0 writing a blog article which is more writing sometime seems like a mountain too high to climb. Since we are effectively in the midst of a five day weekend in Israel and I cannot imagine there will be any economic news until Wednesday to write about and hopefully no political military news, I thought I would take a few minutes to share some thoughts. Furthermore I am hopeful that this will be a quiet week and my Newsweek article long planned but not yet written will be this week\u00a0about the Jewish vote in the US.\u00a0 On Wednesday we will have been back in Israel for five year, I hope to reflect on that then, so here are some random thoughts that I did not want to write for Newsweek as a new Jewish year begins<\/p>\n

First on the decision of the Joint Arab List not to attend Peres funeral: it was in my mind one of the stupidest\u00a0 things I have seen lately, and while they are not part of the traditional left in this country it is another example of the left committing collective suicide.\u00a0 The Left including the Arabs seem more concerned about being right than accomplishing anything.\u00a0 Accomplishing something is a matter of convincing voters.\u00a0 You do not convince voters this way.\u00a0 You do not convince the average Israelis that is ever a chance at reconciliation when you effectively say that even Peres who spent the last quarter of his life trying to find a way to achieve peace cannot be forgiven for earlier \u201cmistakes\u201d than how do you ever reach peace.\u00a0 It was terrible decision and will effectively delegitimize the Joint List further.<\/p>\n

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The decision of the White House to correct the Email to the press: I am officially a member of the White House press corp- (because of my section on the web site on the Obama Presidency. ) I along with the rest of the Press Corp received Friday night an Email that corrected an earlier E-mail with Obama remarks at the funeral.\u00a0 The original one said Mt Herzl Jerusalem, Israel the corrected one marked out Israel .One has to keep in mind this has been US policy since Harry TrumanI checked back at all my E mails from the earlier visit and everything said Jerusalem without Israel. My daughters passports say Jerusalem and not Israel as place of birth. The US never officially recognized any de jure borders beyond the 1947 partition plan and Jerusalem was suppose to an international city under that plan, This time it was a mistake that should have just been left alone. President Obama left behind good will with his speech, it was partially undermined by this correction<\/p>\n

A few thoughts on the death of President Peres: Israel faces a real crisis.\u00a0 When I was speaking to Herzog on Thursday night he compared it to the US after the Founding Fathers, but I mentioned to him that did not go that well for the US- He agreed and said that was our challenge.\u00a0 It really is a problem for the country, after Netanyahu the other leaders of Likud are not very competent people to say the least.\u00a0 That does not bode well for the future. They say the whole world suffers from a lock of leaders, our suffering is worse than many places.<\/p>\n

One comment on the US elections: I am astounded that there are people who are actually planning to vote for Trump.\u00a0 Its seems inconceivable that anyone can think after all we have seen that this man should be in the Oval Office.\u00a0 There has never been someone less prepared and less suited for the Presidency.\u00a0 You can agree or disagree with policy but I am not sure how anyone can disagree about the man fitness to be President.\u00a0 A further issue for\u00a0 Jews remains the fact that he brings out the worse in Americans, including a level of anti-semitism that we may have all thought existed but are shocked to see out in the open the United States<\/p>\n

My last thought Before Rosh Hashanah relates to Syria.\u00a0 As an American and as an Israelis I am ashamed.\u00a0 We have been spending the past 70 years saying never again, and yet when it comes down to it, its Never Again only when its easy- or maybe when its Jews, I am not sure which.\u00a0 There are only two countries that could have stopped the at least part of the slaughter in Syria, the US and Israel. The US for reasons I will never fathom did not because of President Obama\u2019s unwillingness to use conventional force, has led to his decision not to even threaten the use of forces, and Israel because it\u2019s not in our interest.\u00a0 From the Israeli perspective we need to stop talking about how the world did not do enough during the World War II\u00a0 to stop the holocaust.\u00a0 It was not in their military interest to do more, even if they could have, which is a highly disputed historic point . It\u2019s not in our national interest to get involved, but if we wanted to we could ground the Syrian air force in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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