For the past week, I have been in mourning. Truth be told, I am still saddened and very concerned by US President Donald Trump's exit from the White House. This strange man defended Israel as no one ever had. For four years, the Iranians were made to feel the way that we always do. What didn't he do for us? Striking precise and sophisticated blows against all of our enemies, while convincing old enemies that the time for hostility had passed and now was the time to move on. For four years, I felt like a friend of the biggest bully at school. It was a great feeling. "Just you wait till my brother gets here," or something along those lines.
Trump was a man who was hard to love. He talked a lot of nonsense, hurt people unnecessarily, and discounted people he shouldn't have. Most notable among them the late US Senator Jon McCain, the noble prisoner of war, who despite being offered the opportunity to go home, remained in captivity until the last of his soldiers was freed. Yet Trump, a man who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War, mocked McCain, saying he preferred soldiers who aren't taken captive. It's not easy to forgive him for comments like that, or for his foolish and even criminal attitude toward the coronavirus, which has resulted in more Americans dying from the virus than was necessary.
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All of that is true, but it makes no difference to me. I couldn't care less what who is sent from heaven to defend Israel. God works in mysterious ways. I have no idea how Persia's King Cyrus treated his people. The important thing is that he was the man who enabled a return to Zion some 2,500 years ago. The rest is water under the bridge.
What joy there was in the studios on the evening when the news channels declared, whether legally or not, that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was the winner. What smiles, what words of satisfaction, derision, and scorn. I watched, and I was sad. Where is your gratitude? How ungrateful can you be? Someone changed your strategic world, and you rejoice at his downfall? How disconnected from the good of your people can you be? Do you really want a hostile Susan Rice to replace Mike Pompeo as secretary of state? Is that what you're interested in – a renewal of US pressure to move forward on a path that doesn't end well? To once again be threatened by a wealthy and borderless Iran? Your smiles, my colleagues, are as if to say, "What fun! Things are going to be more difficult for Israel, and that's a good thing."
Go in peace, our benefactor. In peace, but not with a Nobel Peace Prize. After all, you don't run in the right circles. But do know that you are a real brother. A deranged brother, perhaps, but a brother who nonetheless took the time and made an effort, and who dealt a real blow to our enemies. And that is something we will never forget.
