http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-lessons-of-Roosevelts-failures-480065
The lessons of Roosevelt’s failures
ByCaroline B. Glick
30 January 2017 21:50
The current media and left-wing uproar over the executive order US President Donald Trump signed on Saturday is extraordinary on many levels.
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Specifically, the order states, "The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law. In addition, the United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including 'honor' killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from their own) or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation."
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This then brings us back to Roosevelt's immoral policies toward the Jews of Europe and to the question of who has learned the lessons of his bigotry.
The American Jewish uproar at Trump's actions shows first and foremost the cynicism of the leftist Jewish leadership.
It isn't simply that left-wing activists like Hetfield and Eisner cynically ignore that Trump's order is based on Obama’s policies, which they didn’t oppose.
It is that in their expressed concerned for would-be Muslim refugees to the US they refuse to recognize that the plight of Muslims as Muslims in places like Syria and Iraq is not the same as the plight of Christians and Yazidis as Christians and Yazidis in these lands.
The "Jews" in the present circumstances are not the Muslims, who are nowhere targeted for genocide.
The "Jews" in the present circumstances are the Christians and Yazidis and other religious minorities, whom Trump’s impassioned Jewish opponents and Obama's impassioned Jewish champions fail to defend.
Trump's executive order is far from perfect. But in making the distinction between the hunters and the hunted and siding with the latter against the former, Trump is showing that he is not a bigot.
Unlike his critics, he has learned the lessons of Roosevelt's moral failure and is working to ensure that the US acts differently today.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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