Right-Wing MKs Getting A Little Carried Away With Trump Election Implications

“It’s quite possible Mr. Trump will shut down the hostile United Nations, nuke Iran to smithereens, and increase military aid to us by several billion dollars annually.”

Jerusalem, November 10 – One day after Donald Trump soundly defeated Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States, cabinet ministers and members of the Israeli Knesset have been getting a bit carried away with the anticipated new felicitousness with which a Trump administration will treat Israel.

Lawmakers and officials from Likud, Jewish Home, and Yisrael Beiteinu spent Wednesday and Thursday waxing ecstatic about the implications of a Trump presidency, from a promised move of the US embassy to Jerusalem to unequivocal endorsement of Israeli policies toward, and control of, disputed territories. Some even went as far as to declare the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict effectively dead, while still others predicted Israeli carte blanche in the Eastern Mediterranean.

“This is the final nail in the coffin of a Palestinian state,” declared Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, the Minister of Education. “We wish the incoming president well, and trust he will fulfill his campaign promises to stand steadfastly behind Israel and thwart, once and for all, any attempts to establish a terrorist entity in our heartland. And, I might add, it’s quite possible Mr. Trump will shut down the hostile United Nations, nuke Iran to smithereens, and increase military aid to us by several billion dollars annually.”

“I think you’re selling him short,” responded Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Liberman, Minister of Defense. “We should just assert sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, and maybe reestablish the communities in the Gaza Strip we destroyed in 2005. Trump will be fine with that.”

Jewish Home MK Betzalel Smotrich foresees American executive support for even more far-reaching measures. “We should take this opportunity to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, imprison its terrorist leadership, and while we’re at it, deport the bulk of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria to Jordan, which is already majority-Palestinian anyway. Trump will shield us in the UN from any action.”

Others offered a more circumspect view. “It can’t all be one-way,” argued Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Oren Hazan of Likud. “We’re going to have to provide some tangible payback for the support, even though it’s all based on shared values. It won’t do to have Americans grumbling about not getting anything out of the diplomatic and political backing, which will obviously come at a price in other international arenas. I might humbly suggest that we get the Rabbinate to actually recognize the Jewish conversion of Mr. Trump’s daughter as a legitimate Orthodox procedure.”

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