JTA is reporting that US President Donald Trump, once again, in a phone call with prominent Jewish leaders in the USA told them that "we love your country", referring to Israel.
Trump was cajoling them to vote for him and to encourage others to do so. He is bewildered by the automatic 75% Jewish vote for the Democrats and he went into a diatribe of why they should support him and why the Democrats are bad, with a large part of it being about Israel.
We love your country. Trump is, once again, telling American Jews that their country is Israel, not the USA.
This attitude upsets many Jews in the USA. Many American Jews see the United States of America as their country. The USA is a country of immigrants. nobody is a guest there. It is everyone's home. They get upset being told, or reminded, that they really are just guests there and that their real country is Israel.
Sometimes it is good to be reminded of what we prefer to forget. Nobody is chasing them out. Just reminding them that they are guests; guests with full citizenship and equal rights and unprecedented power and influence, but still guests.
And that is coming from someone who has shown himself to be a real friend and ally of the Jewish community and of Israel.
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