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By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President
(November 20, 2022 / JNS) “Democracy is at stake” was a major theme voiced by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party throughout the recent U.S. midterm elections.
For instance, during a November 2 speech entitled “On Standing Up for Democracy,” in which Biden accused “MAGA Republicans” of voter intimidation, the president asserted: “Democracy is fundamental.… Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.… Autocracy is the opposite of democracy. It means the rule of one: one person, one interest, one ideology, one party. … Democracy is under attack because … [of the] refus[al] to accept the results of the 2020 election … the will of the people. … Democracy means the rule of the people—not the rule of monarchs or the monied, but the rule of the people.”
He admonished, “The lives of billions of people, from antiquity until now, have been shaped by the battle between these competing forces: Between the aspirations of the many and the greed and power of the few, between the people’s right for self-determination and the self-seeking autocrat, between the dreams of a democracy and the appetites of an autocracy.”
Unfortunately, the Biden administration doesn’t seem to believe in those principles when it comes to accepting the results of the Jewish State of Israel’s November 1 election. Instead, the Biden administration is acting like an autocrat—dictating to Israel’s democratically-elected representatives who should become Israel’s defense minister and what policies Israel’s government must or must not adopt.
Israeli Jews are sick of weak responses to and appeasement of the Palestinian Arab terrorism that has destroyed the lives of so many innocent Israeli Jews. During the first nine months of 2022, Arab terrorists perpetrated 1,781 terror attacks. That’s almost seven attacks every single day. This is an intifada terror war. And it is continuing. Just this week, an Arab terrorist murdered three innocent Jews (including the beloved father of six children, Tamir Avihai) and injured another eight innocent Jews in a vicious car-ramming and stabbing attack in Ariel.
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