Josh Goldberg

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@liveon4legspod Do the new lighting arrangements and video screens add or subtract from the show?

[Frum TikTok @FrumTikTok]

Nicol Metkalov, an IDF soldier, completed her conversion to Judaism. ✡️

It's truly awe inspiring to see the raw emotion and joy she experiences as she recites the Shema prayer to complete her conversion.

Welcome to Am Yisroel, we love you! ❣️

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@liveon4legspod Especially sounded like potato tonight. The sound in the arena wasn't great and lyrics were a bit muffled.

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@demetriosns Forgive me if I don't get excited until they're on stage Saturday night.

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@allison_b216 @liveon4legspod In the same boat. But I don't fly until day of.

I'm optimistic though. If they waited to cancel London until now, maybe they think a few days of recovery will be enough. By Tuesday, things may be different.

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@liveon4legspod Immortality!

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@SOLAT_Pod Um, Around the Bend?

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This says it all really 😔

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@Israel 🇮🇱

[Associated Fress @AssociatedFress]

AF - To Counter Hillel Houses On Campus, College Activists Opening Shammai Houses

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

Thinking of Amos Oz right now

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@BruceTourNews @SpringNuts_ Hope Rosie is in there somewhere.

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@EasterbrookG @WSJ How many of those 300 of anything actually made it to Israel's borders?

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@Retorico_R Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder.
Spin the Black Circle.
Low Light.
Force of Nature.
In the Moonlight.

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@Retorico_R Um, Black?

[Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast @liveon4legspod]

Check out this week’s episode featuring the Copenhagen show from 2022! We’ll talk to @JoshGoldberg613 and his daughter Yonat about sharing their first Pearl Jam live experience together, and a tribute to Roskilde victims 22 years afterwards.

https://t.co/EOIFfFi4LL

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

@liveon4legspod Oh man, it was fun to relive a great night. Thanks!

[Josh Goldberg @JoshGoldberg613]

Ahem.

[Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast @liveon4legspod]

Tomorrow’s episode is for all of you parents out there that try and get your kids to become Pearl Jam fans, as we’ll get to hear a sweet story of a father and daughter experiencing the band live for the first time together. Also, a Denmark show, so you all know what’s coming…

[Uri Pilichowski @RationalSettler]

The Strength of the U.S.-Israel Relationship

I’ve spent the past twenty years studying, teaching, and strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship. I’m not sure the qualifications that make someone an expert in the area, but I feel comfortable claiming to have a better than a layman’s knowledge about the subject matter. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, and this will be the subject of this essay, the relationship has its ups and downs, but it always recovers past the tough times.

Many people aren’t aware of how rocky the U.S.-Israel relationship has been in Israel’s history. President Truman, the President who famously rejected just about all his advisors’ objections to recognizing the state of Israel when it declared its independence and recognized Israel a mere eleven minutes after David Ben-Gurion announced the new Jewish state, also spent months pressuring Ben-Gurion and other Zionist leaders to postpone declaring independence for two years in the hopes America could negotiate a peace deal between the Jews and Arabs. Ben-Gurion declared independence in defiance of America’s wishes, not with its support.

After Israel went to war with Egypt in 1956, President Eisenhower was so infuriated with Israel he threatened Israel with war if they didn’t withdraw their forces from Egyptian territory. Israel was winning a war against its primary enemy, had freed the Suez Canal for its shipping, and strengthened its relationship with England, and its primary arms supplier France, and President Eisenhower risked all these gains by threatening military force against Israel. Under threat of war with America, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion succumbed to American pressure and withdrew Israel’s forces.

Although President Kennedy was the first American president to give Israel American financial and military support – until the early 1960’s France was Israel’s primary source of support – he too threatened Israel over his suspicions that Israel was building a nuclear arms program. President Kennedy forced – through threats – Prime Minister Ben-Gurion to allow American nuclear inspectors to visit Israel and verify that Israel wasn’t developing a nuclear weapon. The distrust between the two men did not fortify the U.S.-Israel relationship.

President Lyndon Johnson watched the Six Day War develop, and although Israel’s principal source of weapons, especially crucial fighter jets, France, refused to help Israel, did nothing to help Israel. At the time, Israel’s future was uncertain and American aid in the face of Soviet arms being given generously to Israel’s Arab neighbors could have prevented war, President Johnson didn’t help Israel at her time of desperate need.

President Nixon saved Israel from an existential threat by airlifting tons of military supplies during the Yom Kippur War, but he was an antisemite who made life incredibly difficult for Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The contentious relationship between America and Israel during the Nixon-Kissinger era is well documented. President Nixon’s successor, President Gerald Ford, famously threatened a reassessment of the U.S.-Israel relationship after he felt that Israel and Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was impeding a peace deal with Egypt.

President Jimmy Carter brokered the Israel-Egyptian peace deal. This was arguably the most important peace deal Israel has and might ever sign. At the same time, the U.S.-Israel relationship under President Carter was anything but strong and healthy. Although President Carter later claimed it was a mistake, American Ambassador to the United Nations voted against Israel at the United Nations Security Council. The resolution called for Israel to dismantle its settlements in occupied Arab territories [SIC]. The American vote angered Israeli officials and had fellow Democrats condemning President Carter.

President Ronald Reagan corrected many of the policies that the Carter administration had instituted that made the U.S.-Israel relationship contentious. Even with his corrections, his disdain for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir was well known. Many officials in his administration and his Vice President and successor President George H.W. Bush’s administration, including chief of staff and later Secretary of State James Baker made openly antisemitic comments. President Reagan criticized and voted against Israel in the United Nations after Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear weapons facility, Tammuz I. President Bush held up loan guarantees for Israel and pressured Israel not to defend itself when it was rocketed by Iraq during the first Persian Gulf War.

President Bill Clinton probably had the closest relationship any American president had with an Israeli leader with his friend Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. At the same time, President Clinton pressured Israel into many concessions Israel was not comfortable with during the Oslo Accord negotiations. The most frequent foreign leader to visit the Clinton White House was Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat. President Clinton has also admitted to interfering in Israeli elections by openly campaigning for Shimon Peres in his candidacy to reelection against Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

President George W. Bush was very vocal in his support of Israel. He was great friends with the two Israeli Prime Ministers, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, that served during his two terms as President. President Bush also forced Israel to cut short its war against Hezbollah after only thirty-four days, voting against Israel at the United Nations. President Bush’s successor, President Barak Obama funded the life saving Iron Dome project and until his last month in office had a perfect voting record at the United Nations in support of Israel. At the same time, the record of contentiousness between him and Prime Minister Netanyahu is well-known and doesn’t need delineation.

I’ll refrain from writing about Presidents Trump and Biden and their relationship with Israel in order to avoid participating in this combative election. Both presidents boast of their love of Israel and arguments can be made for the health of the U.S.-Israel relationship under their tenures.

President Biden’s abstention on the United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages has many claiming that the end of the U.S.-Israel relationship is imminent. During a week when America has recommitted to over four billion dollars in military aid to Israel, when further restrictions where placed on American funding of Palestinians, UNWRA funding has been cut off until past 2025, and the American Secretary of Defense is hosting the Israeli Minister of Defense in Washington, and in light of the history I’ve outlined of the seesaw U.S.-Israel relationship, concern that the two nations are breaking apart are premature.

The strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship extends past the two nations’ joint enemies, strategic objectives, military, intelligence, and technology partnerships. The primary reason the U.S.-Israel relationship always recovers past its challenging and contentious disputes is because as Democracies built on the ideals outlined in the Bible, the two nations share values. No matter the leaders and events at any given time, the values America and Israel share ensure their continued partnership.

[Gutgezugt @gutgezugt]

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