Now if you could get the oil companies to quit funding the protesters of the Canadian Oil Industry we would appreciate it.
Wake Up, America! Wake Up! PLEASE!!
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Now if you could get the oil companies to quit funding the protesters of the Canadian Oil Industry we would appreciate it.
Religions were created by man. So there within are lies. The liberal path is the way to destruction. Alieaster Crowley... Do as tho wilt... Right, Light, same devil. Two different horns. Pic your poison.
Imaginative attack on Trump @MacNfries ? but did you realize that the late Rod Serling was Jewish? And since he was I suspect he would have a soft spot for Trump after how he stands for Israel.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling )
And Israel is controlling the white House. Think about it. *******-in-law. *******-in-law
Not Jewish here but due to my religious beliefs I stand with Israel. I know that you and others feel differently @Orion Pax. But I get where you are coming from.
Which Israel do you stand with?
The true Israel is not the people who occupy that land.
You are inquiring about something which might be outside of the scope of this thread so may I private message my response as I frequently encounter those on this site uncomfortable with religious tangents with conversations?
Please enlighten me as to why we spend $40 billion a year on Israel's loyalty. What type of reciprocal agreements does Israel provide the US? I've asked B2W to give you additional 'white space' here to list all they do for the US.
Only thing I recall that is worth noting is that they invented copper wiring, did you know that?
(story is from 1922)
Amah and Eliakim were two Jewish lads who grew up together as "best friends". They did practically everything together ... dated & married two look-alike sisters, went to the same university & majoring in the same subjects, and then started a profitable business together. They ate lunches together all the time; you never saw one that you didn't see the other.
One day Amah & Eliakim were walking to one of their favorite restaurants for lunch while discussing a new business deal opportunity, when both their eyes glanced down to the pavement below, and caught sight of this very shiny, new penny. Both sets of hands reached the shiny penny at same time and a struggle began, which turned into an argument, which turned into an actual fight between these two. Both had hold of one end of the penny with one hand while swinging their fist with the other. The story goes that they fought for over 30 minutes right there on the street; a hugh crowd gathered, astonished to see these life-long friends fighting.
Finally the fight ended with both men totally exhausted and laying on the ground still holding on to their end of the penny, but, then they noticed that the penny was actually a penny no more, but one long strand of wire about 6 feet long. They dropped the ends of their penny, dusted themselves off and went on to lunch. Aharon was standing nearby, picked up the long strand of wire, wound it around his index finger, dropped it in his pocket, and went on to his little electric shop business. A couple years later the announcement of the conduciveness of copper wire in electronics was announced and Aharon went on to become a millionaire 10 times over.
The Insider | Israel secretly sells American nuclear weapons to China
Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China
Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense official to resign.
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Okay @MacNfries again my personal reasons to support Israel is of a religious nature that I have stated before. If you need a refresher for those reasons that to you may annoyingly support Trump feel free to go here: https://www.blacktowhite.net/threads/go-trump.160047/page-16#post-2447046.
For other more tangible reasons Israel benefits America a lot. Remember you asked for it @MacNfries...
The movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (often referred to as BDS) hopes to economically isolate the Jewish state to the point that it is pressured into permitting the creation of a Palestinian state under conditions that would threaten Israel’s security and even its very existence. Those of us who fight against this support Israel’s right to exist and are usually motivated by religion, a specific worldview, or a moral code. But when boycotts hurt Israel’s economy, they hurt America as well. Israel makes massive and often unknown contributions to America’s economy and quality of life. If the boycott movement were to achieve its aims, Americans would lose regardless of their position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the last few presidential election cycles, the economy has ranked among the top two most important issues to voters, and this year will likely be the same. This means that this fight is much bigger than the pro-Israel community, and the coalition to fight boycotts of Israel should expand to include those concerned about American domestic policy as well. Americans needs to understand that this hurts them too.
The U.S.-Israel alliance is expansive. Pro-Israel advocates understand that the alliance contributes to America’s security and its position as a moral, democratic leader in the world. Decades of polling show Americans outside the foreign policy establishment support Israel because of the democratic, liberal values shared by our two nations. But the alliance is much deeper than that. As of December 2015, according to the World Bank, Israel is the 37th largest economy in the world by gross domestic product (GDP), an extraordinary accomplishment for such a young and perpetually beleaguered nation. But last year Israel was also America’s 23rd largest trade partner. From Israel, America receives unusually high amounts of investment; helpful and profitable technologies and services; and advancements in science, agriculture, the environment, and healthcare that improve the quality of and, in some cases, quite literally save our lives. Our exports to Israel create jobs in America. Through Israeli innovations and collaboration, our scientists and medical professionals become smarter and more effective at their jobs, and our agriculture and environmental sectors become more efficient and productive. The impact of the alliance is as wide as it is deep.
In the summer of 2014, the Israel Allies Foundation (where I am Director of Congressional Affairs) was planning the launch of a massive effort to combat the anti-Israel boycott movement through state legislatures. At the same time, we were considering what needed to be done in Congress to support that effort, so I convened a meeting with staff from six congressional offices, three Republican and three Democratic, several of them senior, and all of them pragmatic supporters of Israel and human rights. We talked about the inherent anti-Semitism that drives the movement, and concluded that the movement was doing and would continue to do more harm to the Palestinian cause than good. Above all, we agreed that it must be stopped.
Toward the end of the meeting, a staffer raised their hand and asked if there was any positive argument to be made against it—that is, is there more to combating boycotts than beating the anti-Semites and supporting Israel? Thus began a project that led to House Resolution 551, “Recognizing the importance of the United States-Israel economic relationship and encouraging new areas of cooperation.”
HRes 551 was introduced by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), whose leadership attracted three very powerful co-sponsors: House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the committee’s ranking Democratic member, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and the chair of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-Proliferation, and Trade, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas). At the time of this article, it had attracted 81 co-sponsors and passed through the Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously.
The resolution notes a number of successes in the U.S.-Israel alliance:
• The U.S.-Israel free trade agreement (FTA) was America’s first FTA when it was signed on April 22, 1985.
• Over the following 30 years, trade has multiplied tenfold to over $40 billion annually.
• Through government-funded U.S.-Israel collaborative research and development programs in science, energy, agriculture, security, technology, and numerous other areas, America has become a more environmentally friendly, healthier, better fed, more advanced, and financially stronger nation. The lives of people in America and Israel have been tangibly improved because of the two countries’ alliance.
The reason Congress spent time on HRes 551 was simple: America derives critical and unique benefits from its economic relationship with Israel. The findings of the resolution lead to two important conclusions: First, the U.S.-Israel economic relationship matters. Second, targeting the Israeli economy also targets the American economy, with potentially devastating results that reach beyond economics and into basic quality of life. Understanding how this negatively impacts America’s economy becomes easy once the full extent of the economic connections between Israel and the US, and the benefits from them, are made clear. And once that understanding is reached, it becomes painfully obvious why every American should oppose boycotting Israel.
The U.S.-Israel alliance’s backbone is the two countries’ macroeconomic ties. America has FTAs with twenty countries. Through our exports to those countries, 17,638,294 American jobs were directly supported between 2009 and 2014, according to the Department of Commerce. Of that total, trade with Israel contributed 254,562, the eighth-largest contribution among the 20 trade partners. When the data is further examined, however, it turns out that exports to Israel generate the highest amount of export dollars per job.
While Israel’s economy does not offer the sheer volume of market opportunities for American products and services that FTA partner economies like Canada, Mexico, and Australia do, the quantity of export dollars generated by each American job supported by trade with Israel is far more significant than those larger economies on a per job basis. As demonstrated in the graphic below, US jobs supported by exports to Israel represent the highest value per job of any of the 20 free trade partner countries. This number is found by taking the dollar amount of trade between the U.S. and a given country, then dividing it by the number of jobs supported by that country.
One reason that U.S. jobs supported by exports to Israel provide so much bang for the buck is the nature of the goods and services provided. It is no secret that Israel has one of the most advanced economies in the world. The “Startup Nation” is among the world’s top innovators and its work touches the lives of people around the globe in nearly every imaginable sector: Mobile and computing technology and services, healthcare, food and agriculture, scientific research and development, water, environmental protection, and defense. And as citizens of an advanced nation, Israelis are also users of these advanced technologies and their applications. This makes the Israeli market ripe for the kind of exports that create and sustain high-paying jobs in America. The top American export categories to Israel by dollar value in 2014 are among those considered blue- and white-collar industries: Precious stones, electrical and mechanical machinery, aircraft, and optic and medical instruments.
Another reason high-paying American jobs are tied to trade with Israel is the amount of foreign direct investment Israel sends to America, which is primarily concentrated in the human capital-heavy manufacturing sector. According the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Israel’s cumulative investments in the United States through 2013 are more than economic giants like China, India, Russia, Hong Kong, and Brazil, not to mention major oil producer Venezuela, mutual defense treaty partner Taiwan, and all of Africa’s individual countries. Inasmuch as foreign investment factors into American foreign policy, this consideration should rank higher for Israel than any of those countries, which is a striking statement when you consider how much leeway countries like China, India, and Russia in particular receive from our government on human rights concerns the boycott movement claims to care about.
We have data on the impact of the economic relationship with Israel on individual states as well. Every state in the union has its own economic ties to Israel. At the very lowest level of economic engagement, Alaska still did over $287,000 in trade with Israel as of 2014, not to mention the more than $2.7 million received in 2012 alone by the Alaska defense industry in purchases made through Foreign Military Financing (FMF) provided by the U.S. to Israel through bilateral assistance.
At the top end of state economic ties with Israel is New York, which enjoyed over $6.3 billion in trade with Israel in 2014, making Israel its fourth-largest trading partner. Five years prior, the state signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel that builds industrial cooperation and provides assistance to companies seeking financial support for research and development projects, while also establishing information and personal exchanges in nanotechnology, biotechnology, and security. Major companies operating in New York like GE and Eastman Kodak count Israel as an important market, while medical companies like J. Jamner Surgical Instruments consider Israel a key market because of the high value Israel places on providing quality health care to its citizens.
Annual exports to Israel in thousands of dollars.
The 48 states between New York and Alaska have similar stories to tell: Profitable economic ties that sustain many jobs. This is one of the main reasons these states are adopting laws that prevent their taxpayer dollars from going to companies and pension investment funds that participate in anti-Israel efforts. Last year, South Carolina adopted the first law in the country that requires companies seeking contracts with the state to certify that they will not participate in boycotts, divestments, or sanctions on the basis of national origin for the duration of the contract.
South Carolina did over $120 million in trade with Israel in 2014, 22 percent more than the year prior. Several companies in the state received substantial business through FMF, including Zephyr International LLC, Woven Electronics, and North American Rescue. Terex Cranes sells construction cranes and lifts to Israel. Amida Industries exports its mobile floodlight towers and has a local agent located in the Jewish state. Carolina Steel and Wire Corporation, Kigre, Inc., and Clark-Schwebel Fiber Glass Corporation are just some of the more than 30 South Carolina companies who do business in Israel. The economic considerations are substantial enough to have compelled the state to protect these ties through public policy.
However, the South Carolina law is about more than just dollars and cents. It is an extension of the values of the state’s citizens, and this was one of the reasons why the Israel Allies Foundation launched its national effort to pass state-level anti-boycott laws in South Carolina. The scope of the South Carolina law covers national-origin discrimination and other categories like race and gender. Because it is not Israel-specific, the law makes clear that South Carolina is uncomfortable with the concept of discriminatory business practices in multiple contexts. The boycott-Israel movement is an inherently discriminatory movement because it targets Israel, the only Jewish state, on charges that are far more appropriately applied to other countries. The movement’s inherent racism is given away by its use, sometimes deceptive and other times plainly overt, of anti-Semitic arguments, tropes, and images, which belie its claims of seeking “justice.” The South Carolina law is at its core a means of protecting the state’s citizens from unwittingly supporting discrimination, and while it is most obviously applied to efforts against Israel, it is written so that it can be adapted to other discriminatory efforts.
Trade with Israel is crucial to many states’ economies, which explains why so many are passing laws to prevent boycotts from occurring.
Shortly after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed the bill into law, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill that forbids state and local pensions from investing in parties who promote boycotting Israel. Illinois maintains ten foreign trade offices abroad, one of which is in Israel. At the 2015 Water Technology and Environmental Control Exhibition and Conference in Tel Aviv, the Illinois state government ran a pavilion to showcase Illinois companies. Illinois sent nearly $200 million worth of exports to the Jewish state in 2014. And, like South Carolina, the ties go deeper than money. In just one example, the University of Chicago signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University in March of 2013 that formalized a number of joint research partnerships, including one that focuses on developing water production and purification technologies that can be sent to regions around the world where fresh water resources are lacking. The purpose of this U.S.-Israeli project is to combat what many predict will be one of the next, and extremely devastating global humanitarian challenges: Water scarcity.
It is quite telling that two very different states, liberal Illinois and conservative South Carolina, decided independently to enforce their citizens’ desire to oppose the bigoted practice of economic boycotts motivated by ethnic and religious discrimination. Shortly after the successful effort in South Carolina, the Israel Allies Foundation began laying the groundwork in Florida for passing what would be another historic step: A law that combined the contracting provision of South Carolina law with the pension provision of Illinois law. On February 24, Florida made history by passing it. This combination law is the strongest legal statement on the subject yet made by any government, state or federal. In 2014, Florida had the fourth-highest gross domestic product of any state, ranking one slot ahead of Illinois (South Carolina ranked 27th). Combined, these three states represent 18.5 percent of U.S. GDP. Their individual decisions to signal their support for Israel send a very strong collective message that anti-Israel movements must be combated.
The anti-discrimination movement will not end in Florida. Working with its partners, the Israel Allies Foundation has worked to introduce legislation in New York (over $6 billion in exports to Israel in 2014), California (over $2.3 billion), Georgia (over $250 million), Arizona (over $234 million), and Iowa (over $40 million). These states, combined with the three that have already passed laws, account for 32 percent of America’s trade and over 37 percent of U.S. GDP—and these are just the states that have gone public with their bills. At the time of writing, there are more in the works.
Congress and federal court rulings support what the states are doing. The Export Administration Act (EAA) of 1977 and the Ribicoff Amendment to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 were both explicitly designed to combat the Arab League’s boycott of Israel, and these acts extend to secondary and tertiary boycotts of firms doing business with Israel—as is being attempted today. The boycott-Israel movement’s main tactic is the politicization of America’s economic engagement with Israel, but the EAA is a particularly strong statement in support of depoliticizing U.S. trade. This sets the movement against official U.S. policy.
The findings and declarations contained in the EAA, which lay out the rationale and importance of the binding legal changes the law makes, echo sentiments that were critical to healing a broken Europe following World War II. They are as important for the world today as they were then.
During the first half of the 20th century, European countries implemented a variety of trade barriers and engaged in currency wars as a means of achieving political and military objectives. This was particularly the case in the 1930s. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill believed that these economic conflicts strongly influenced the drift toward world war. The two leaders thought that economic cooperation needed to be encouraged in order to avoid future conflict. Understanding that cooperative economics build cooperative politics, Roosevelt and Churchill conceived of a new global economic and trade system based on a single set of rules. This was something Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad attempted to do on a much smaller scale. He was supported in his endeavor by America and Israel until PA President Mahmoud Abbas ****** Fayyad out of politics in early 2011. Unfortunately, neither Abbas nor the boycott-Israel movement understands this critical piece of statecraft.
Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor Shalom Simhon (right) speaks at the 2011 World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Geneva. Photo: World Trade Organization / flickr
Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor Shalom Simhon (right) speaks at the 2011 World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Geneva. Photo: World Trade Organization / flickr
One of the key elements of Europe’s cooperative economics following World War II was the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947, which later became the founding document of the World Trade Organization (WTO). GATT explicitly de-linked trade from politics and conflict by requiring trading nations to follow the same free trade-oriented practices with all other GATT nations. Today, this includes all WTO nations, or put another way, practically the entire world. By requiring every nation to follow the same rules of trade, countries are severely limited in their ability to use trade to hurt other countries, making economics a ******* for peace among nations.
The EAA is clearly written with this GATT priority in mind. Its very first finding states, “the ability of the United States citizens to engage in economic commerce is a fundamental concern of United States policy.” Its very first declaration of policy is “it is the policy of the United States to minimize uncertainties in export control policy and to encourage trade with all countries with which the United States has diplomatic or trading relations, except those countries with which such trade has been determined by the president to be against the national interest.” With Israel being America’s longest-running free trade partner, efforts to put economic distance between the U.S. and Israel clearly contradict fundamental U.S. economic and foreign policy priorities.
The EAA and the Ribicoff Amendment ground anti-boycott laws like those in South Carolina, Illinois, and Florida in established federal law, while federal court decisions support their consistency with these laws. In 2004, a district court found in Karen Mar. LTD. v. Omar International, Inc. that “Congress enacted [the EAA] in response to the longstanding Arab boycott of Israel. Section 2407 [of the EAA] was intended to stop the secondary and tertiary boycotts that Congress considered detrimental to both the United States and Israel.” The ruling in 1983’s Bulk Oil A.G. v. Sun Co., Inc. states that the law was “specifically aimed at taking a ‘stronger stand’ on the problem of the Arab boycott of Israel and its impact on United States business.” This suggests that laws targeting other boycotts of Israel follow the spirit of the laws that targeted the Arab League boycott.
There are numerous precedents for upholding state-level laws that prevent boycotts of Israel.
Other court decisions make clear that these anti-Israel laws cannot be challenged on constitutional grounds, as boycott supporters have argued. The chief judge in 1975’s General Electric Corporation v. New York State Assembly Committee, Etc. wrote that the plaintiff’s free speech challenge to the State Assembly’s investigation into companies’ participation in boycotting Israel does “not merit extensive consideration. It is unclear to me how these investigations will impair rights of association and free speech as we regard those rights under settled law.” Briggs Stratton Corp. v. Baldrige stressed in 1984 that federal courts have found there is no First Amendment right “to answer questions asked by Arab boycott offices pursuant to the Arabs’ trade boycott of Israel,” whilblocke 1983’s Trane Co. v. Baldrige found that EAA Section 2407 “violates neither Fifth Amendment procedural or substantive due process rights, nor the Ninth Amendment rights, of American businesses.”
With states lining up to prohibit their tax dollars from supporting the anti-Israel boycott movement (sometimes known as BDS), and Congress’ recognition through HRes 551 that the economic relationship with Israel matters, the Israel Allies Foundation and its partners stressed the importance to Congress of taking the next step in showing its support. On February 10, 2016, Congressmen Bob Dold (R-Ill.) and Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) and Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) introduced the Combating BDS Act of 2016. Similar to the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the Combating BDS Act authorizes state and local governments to pass these anti-boycott laws and protects them from federal preemption concerns.
Another level to the U.S.-Israel economic alliance, but no less important to it, are the three U.S.-Israel binational programs: the Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD), and the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Foundation (BARD). These programs were started in the 1970s by the American and Israeli governments with the initial goal of strengthening the U.S.-Israel alliance through fostering Israel’s then-nascent technology industry. The three programs have been more than successful in meeting this goal, helping to lay the foundation for Israel’s success as one of the world’s leading scientific, industrial, and technologically advanced nations. They have also accelerated advances in similar industries in America. These programs receive equal funding from both countries and then distribute those funds through competitive processes into joint American and Israeli research and development efforts. The results have been staggering, and they have undoubtedly contributed to better quality of life—including basic life expectancy—around the world, in addition to driving American and Israeli societies forward.
The BSF funds nonprofit collaborative research by U.S. and Israeli scientists that can become the basis for commercially viable technological developments. Grants are made through a peer-reviewed process juried by leading scientists from around the world. Thirty-eight Nobel laureates have received BSF funding. In 2004 alone, six of eight Nobel Prize winners were BSF grantees. That year, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and Irwin Rose of University of California, Irvine (incidentally, a bastion of the anti-Israel movement) for their BSF-funded discovery of the ubiquitin system for protein degradation, which opened up new research opportunities on cancer treatments, neurodegenerative disorders, and more. Two of BSF’s projects, an algorithm that has revolutionized online auctions and advertising, and the Positron Emitting Tomography, a diagnostic tool that identifies cancer, have had such commercial success that they’ve paid for the entire BSF program several times over. According to a 2011 Economic Strategy Institute (ESI) study on the three binational programs, scientists in 47 of America’s 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, had received BSF grants.
Nobel Prize laureate Avram Hershko delivers the keynote speech at the convocation ceremony at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Photo: Rebecca Zeffert / Flash90
The BIRD Foundation promotes non-defense industrial research and development jointly conducted by Israeli and American companies with an eye toward commercialization. Different from BSF and BARD, if a BIRD project is successful and generates revenue, the grant must be repaid by the recipients. As of 2011, the ESI study found that 384 of the 826 BIRD-funded projects have been repaid, representing about a third of the total amount invested. Return on BIRD’s total investment was 600 percent as of 2011, while recipients of BIRD funding were spread across 41 states.
BIRD successes abound. One BIRD-funded project contributed to the creation of the digital signal processing chips that have become essential to a wide variety of electronic products, including the multibillion-dollar digital camera industry. Another American corporation turned a $675,000 grant in 1992 into annual sales of $100 million, profits of $20 million, and over 500 jobs. All told, BIRD-sponsored projects have produced over $5 billion in global sales and $100 million in tax payments to the US government. BIRD has had several medical successes as well. One is the development of Krystexxa, a ******* that treats chronic gout in adult patients. Another is a joint project between the pharmaceutical company Kamada and the American Red Cross (a member of the historically anti-Israel International Committee of the Red Cross) that produced a breakthrough on treatment of Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, a genetic disorder that causes lung and liver disease.
In 2007, Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act, which included funding for BIRD to expand its work into the energy sector, creating BIRD Energy. The program provides matching financial contributions from the U.S. and Israeli governments for joint U.S.-Israel private sector energy research and development. Projects have thus far focused on energy efficiency, hydroelectric energy production, lowering energy consumption in water treatment, energy optimization in manufacturing, wind energy storage, fuel efficiency, carbon dioxide emissions reduction in tractor-trailers, and noise control for distributed power generation.
Israeli-American programs like the BSF, BIRD, and BARD greatly contribute to the economy and welfare of both nations.
The BARD program competitively funds and promotes collaboration by U.S. and Israeli scientists on agricultural research and development projects that aim to increase agricultural productivity and emphasize plant and ******* health, food quality and safety, and environmental issues. Although commercialization is not a factor in BARD grant-making, ten BARD projects, with a total BARD investment of $2 million, have resulted in $1.7 billion in economic benefits to the U.S., according to the ESI study.
Other successful BARD projects include the development of a machine that screens for a wider variety of pesticides and chemicals in food, which allows government agencies to maintain security of the food supply; a zero-discharge intensive aquaculture system for fresh and sea water fish that prevents environmental pollution (two have already been built in New York and Washington state); a preservation method for the transport of cut flowers that reduces costs and environmental impact; the creation of a database for cows that allows farmers to optimize breeding; and genetic mapping of fruit so scientists worldwide can study aroma, taste, and quality. Want to know why tilapia fish has shown up on nearly every restaurant menu and grocery seafood section? The answer is in large part a BARD-funded project that researched selective breeding in tilapia that helped launch the industry in America. The ESI study found BARD recipients in 47 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.
According to the ESI study, “a very conservative estimate of the historic number of jobs created in the United States by the investments of the [three] binational foundations is 18,000-50,000. But it could well be in the 200,000 or more range.” The study found that total economic benefits to the United States totaled $7.7 billion, and $700 million in tax revenue for the U.S. government. Researchers will be hard pressed to find better-performing federally-funded projects.
All things considered, one would be hard-pressed to find an alliance more effective than the one between the United States and Israel. The Jewish state is a small country in population and size, but the benefits America realizes from its trade and collaboration with Israel are often comparable to much larger and wealthier nations, and in some cases may even exceed them. From individual states to the national economy, Israel’s impact is outsized: Hundreds of thousands of jobs, technological improvements, and science and healthcare advances that boost our material and physical quality of life.
Looked at this way, it becomes easy to see that the BDS movement’s attack on Israel’s economy, not to mention its encouragement of academic and scientific boycotts, directly hurts Americans. Just as the movement claims to be helping the Palestinians, but in fact harms Palestinian interests, it also harms what is perhaps America’s most important interest: its economic success. Regardless of your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if you support a stronger American economy and workforce, you should oppose boycotting Israel. It is important for Americans to know this, and for the anti-boycott effort to expand to include them.
( http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/ )
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Because the site gave me a message about limiting my post within 50000 characters @MacNfries here are other technologies, inventions, and discoveries that come out of Israel as well that America benefits from as well:
Drip irrigation at an Israeli nursery
Rooftop solar hot-water system
A laser projection keyboard used with a tablet.
Iron Dome rocket interception system
This is a list of inventions and discoveries by Israeli scientists and researchers, working locally or overseas. According to Joel Landau, there are over 6,000 startups currently in Israel.[1]
Mathematics[edit]
Chemistry[edit]
Model of quasicrystals, discovered by Nobel prize winner Dan Shechtmanof the Technion
See also: Category:Jewish physicists
Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
Pillcam endoscopic capsule developed by Given Imaging
See also: List of Jewish American biologists and physicians
Computer hardware[edit]
USB flash drive, originally marketed as the DiskOnKey
IMI Tavor TAR-21
Epilator
Rummikub
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_inventions_and_discoveries )
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Drip irrigation at an Israeli nursery
Rooftop solar hot-water system
A laser projection keyboard used with a tablet.
Iron Dome rocket interception system
This is a list of inventions and discoveries by Israeli scientists and researchers, working locally or overseas. According to Joel Landau, there are over 6,000 startups currently in Israel.[1]
Mathematics[edit]
- Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, a mathematical result concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space contributed by Joram Lindenstrauss.
- Development of the measurement of rigidity by Elon Lindenstrauss in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory.[2]
- Proof of Szemerédi's theorem solved by Hillel Furstenberg
- Expansion of axiomatic set theory and the ZF set theory by Abraham Fraenkel.
- Development of the area of automorphic forms and L-functions by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.[3][4]
- Development of Sauer–Shelah lemma and Shelah cardinal.
- Development of the first proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecture.
- Development of Zig-zag product of graphs, a method of combining smaller graphs to produce larger ones used in the construction of expander graphs by Avi Wigderson.
- Development of Bernstein–Sato polynomial and proof of the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures by Joseph Bernstein
- Generalization of the marriage theorem by obtaining the right transfinite conditions for infinite bipartite graphs. He subsequently proved the appropriate versions of the Kőnig theorem and the Menger theorem for infinite graphs by Ron Aharoni.
- Development of the Amitsur–Levitzki theorem by Shimshon Amitsur.
Chemistry[edit]
Model of quasicrystals, discovered by Nobel prize winner Dan Shechtmanof the Technion
- Discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman of the Technion.[5] The discovery led him to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[6]
- Discovery of the role of protein Ubiquitin by Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion Institute (together with the American biologist Irwin Rose). The discovery led them to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[7][8]
- Development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems by Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt of the Weizmann Institute of Science (presently at University of Southern California and Stanford University, respectively), together with the Austrian-born American chemist Martin Karplus. The discovery led them to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[9]
See also: Category:Jewish physicists
Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
- Prediction of Quarks by Yuval Ne'eman of Tel Aviv University (together with the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann).[10]
- Discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm.[11]
- Formulation of Black holes Entropy by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[12][13]
- World's smallest video camera – a camera with a 0.99 mm (0.039 in) diameter, designed to fit in a tiny endoscope designed by Medigus.[14]
- Development of the "Pillcam" by Given Imaging, the first Capsule endoscopy solution to record images of the digestive tract. The capsule is the size and shape of a pill and contains a tiny camera.[15]
- Line free single power bicentric prismatic spectacle lens for correction of anisometropia. Sydney J. Bush UK patent no. 1539381.
Pillcam endoscopic capsule developed by Given Imaging
- Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – a notation system for recording movement on paper that has been used in many fields, including dance, physical therapy, ******* behavior and early diagnosis of autism.[16]
- Development of Azilect, a ******* for Parkinson's disease, by Moussa Youdim and John Finberg from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and commercialized by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
- Development of the Copaxone immunomodulator ******* for treating multiple sclerosis. It was developed in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel by Michael Sela, Ruth Arnon and Deborah Teitelbaum.[17][18]
- Development of the Interferon proteins by Michel Revel from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.[19]
- Development of taliglucerase alfa (Elelyso), a recombinant glucocerebrosidase enzyme produced from transgenic carrot cell cultures.[20] Taliglucerase alfa won approval from the U.S. Food and ******* Administration in May 2012 as an orphan ******* for the treatment of Type 1 Gaucher's disease.[21]
- Development of Chimeric Antigen Receptor
- Work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem explaining irrational human economic choices.[22] The work led Daniel to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.[23]
- Developments in Game theory. Israel Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this field.[24]
- The Rubinstein bargaining model, one of the most influential findings in game theory, refers to a class of bargaining games that feature alternating offers through an infinite time horizon. The proof is from Ariel Rubinstein1982.[25]
See also: List of Jewish American biologists and physicians
- Nanowire – a conductive wire made of a string of tiny particles of silver, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Developed by Uri Sivan, Erez Braun and Yoav Eichen from the Technion.[26]
- World's smallest DNA computing machine system – "the smallest biological computing device" ever constructed, according to Guinness Book of Records, which is composed of enzymes and DNA molecules capable of performing simple mathematical calculations and which uses its input DNA molecule as its sole source of energy. Developed in 2003 in the Weizmann Institute of Science by professor Ehud Shapiro and his team.[27][28]
- The concept of nondeterministic finite automatons, introduced by Michael O. Rabin[29]
- Amir Pnueli introduced temporal logic into computing science
- Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm, a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv of the Technion institute, together with the American Information theorist, Terry Welch.[30]
- RSA public key encryption, introduced by Adi Shamir with Ron Rivest, and Leonard Adleman[31]
- Differential cryptanalysis, co-invented by Adi Shamir[citation needed]
- Shamir's Secret Sharing, invented by Adi Shamir[citation needed]
Computer hardware[edit]
USB flash drive, originally marketed as the DiskOnKey
- USB flash drive – a flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. The Israeli company M-Systems (in partnership with IBM) developed and manufactured the first USB flash drives available in North America.[32] This claim is challenged by multiple companies in the following four countries who also independently developed USB technology: Singapore (Trek Technology), the People's Republic of China (PRC) (Netac Technology) and the Republic of China (Taiwan). See USB Flash drive § Patent controversy.
- The Intel 8088 – the first PC CPU from IBM that was designed in Israel, at Intel's Haifa laboratory.
- Quicktionary Electronic dictionary – a pen-sized scanner able to scan words or phrases and immediately translate them into other languages, or keep them in memory in order to transfer them to the PC. Developed by the company Wizcom Technologies Ltd.[33]
- Laser Keyboard – virtual keyboard is projected onto a wall or table top and allows to type handheld computers and cell phones. Developed simultaneously by the Israeli company Lumio and Silicon Valley startup company Canesta.[34][35][36][37] The company subsequently licensed the technology to Celluon of Korea.[38]
- TDMoIP (TDM over IP) − in telecommunications, the emulation of time-division multiplexing (TDM) over a packet switched network (PSN), developed by engineers at RAD Data Communications[39]
- the first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) based PC to Phone software solution – developed by VocalTec.
- Babylon, a single-click computer translation, dictionary and information source utility program, developed by Amnon Ovadia.[40]
- GetTaxi, an application that connects between customers and taxi drivers using the its proprietary GPS system, enabling users to order a cab either with their smartphone or through the company's website. It was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shahar Waiser and Roi More.[41]
- ICQ, an Instant Messaging software developed initially in 1996 by the Israeli company Mirabilis[42] and later procured by AOL.
- Mobileye, vision-based advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) providing warnings for collision prevention and mitigation.[43] Many companies developing autonomous vehicles, such as BMW, rely on Mobileye's technology.
- OrCam MyEye, is a portable, artificial vision device that allows the visually impaired to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback describing what such people are unable to see.[44]
- Umoove, a high-tech startup company that invented a software only solution for face and eye tracking is located in Israel.[45]
- Viber, a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones.[46] Developed by American-Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco, Viber reached 200 million users in May 2013.
- Waze, a GPS-based geographical navigation application program for smartphones with GPS support and display screens, which provides turn-by-turn information and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over the mobile telephone network.[47] Waze Ltd., which was founded in 2008 in Israel by Uri Levine, software engineer Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar, and is now available in over 100 countries, was acquired by Google for a reported $1.1 billion.[citation needed]
- WeCU (pronounced 'We See You') Technologies, is a technology able to pickup, analyze, and identify people in real time. WeCU is being implemented in airports around the world to help identify potential terrorists.[48][49]
- Wix.com
- ReWalk a bionic walking assistance system that enables paraplegics to stand upright, walk and climb stairs.
- Development of robotic guidance system for spine surgery by Mazor Robotics.
IMI Tavor TAR-21
- IMI Tavor TAR-21 is an Israeli bullpup assault rifle.
- The Uzi submachine gun was developed by Maj. Uziel Gal in the 1950s.
- Python a short-range air-to-air missile.
- Desert Eagle a short range *******.
- Protector USV is an unmanned surface vehicle, developed by the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is the first of its kind to be used in combat.[50]
- Iron Dome – a mobile air defense system in development by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. On April 7, 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from Gaza, marking the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted.[51] The Iron Dome was later utilized more fully in the Israeli-Gaza conflict of 2012, where it displayed a very high rate of efficiency (95%–99%) in intercepting enemy projectiles. Further production of the Iron Dome system will be financed and supported by the United States government.[52]
- Arrow 3 is an anti-ballistic missile defense system capable of shooting down ICBMs and other long range missiles.[53]
- David's Sling is an air defense system capable of intercepting enemy planes, drones, tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles. Along with Arrow 3 and the Iron Dome, it makes up Israel's defense "umbrella."[53]
- MUSIC (Multi Spectral Infrared Countermeasure) – a system that counter surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles. It is manufactured by Elbit Systems.[54]
- MagnoShocker – combines a metal detector and a taser to immediately neutralize a dangerous person, developed by the mathematician Amit Weissman and his colleagues Adir Kahn and Zvi Jordan.[55]
- Wall radar – a unique radar utilizing Ultra Wide Band (UWB) to allow users to see through walls. Developed by the Israeli company Camro.[56]
- Injured Personnel Carrier on YouTube A unique evacuation method developed by Israeli company Agilite Gear, comprises a strap allowing you to carry the wounded person on your back.
- The Emergency Bandage is a first field dressing which can be applied and secured with one hand to prevent ******* from battlefield injuries.[57]
- Golden hamster – first domesticated for pet use by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem zoologist in 1930
- Drip irrigation systems – The huge worldwide industry of modern drip irrigation all began when Israeli engineer Simcha Blass noticed a tree growing bigger than its neighbors in the Israeli desert, and found that it was fed by a leaking water pipe. Netafim, the company founded in 1965 to commercialize his idea, is recognized as the worldwide pioneer in smart drip- and micro-irrigation. It has revolutionized the agricultural industry.[58]
- Hybrid cucumber seeds – In the 1950s, Prof. Esra Galun of the Weizmann Institute developed hybrid seed production of cucumbers and melons, disease-resistant cucumbers and cucumbers suitable for mechanical harvesting. Galun and his colleagues invented a technique for producing hybrid cucumber seeds without hand pollination.[59]
- Grain cocoons – invented by international food technology consultant Professor Shlomo Navarro, the GrainPro Cocoons provide a simple and cheap way for African and Asian farmers to keep their grain market-fresh, as huge bags keep both water and air out, making sure the harvest is clean and protected even in extreme heat and humidity.[60]
- Biological pest control – invented in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu by a company called Bio-Bee, it breeds beneficial insects and mites for biological pest control and bumblebees for natural pollination in greenhouses and open fields. The company's top seller worldwide and especially in the U.S. is a two-millimeter-long, pear-shaped orange spider that is a highly efficient enemy of the spider mite, a devastating agricultural pest.[60]
- AKOL – a Kibbutz-based company which gives low-income farmers the ability to get top-level information from professional sources.[60]
- Reusable plastic trays – a Tal-Ya Water Technologies invention used to collect dew from the air, reducing the need to water crops by up to 50 percent.[60]
- "Zero-discharge" system – an invention of the Israeli GFA company which allows fish to be raised virtually anywhere by eliminating the environmental problems in conventional fish farming, without being dependent on electricity or proximity to a body of water.[60]
- TraitUP – a new technology that enables the introduction of genetic materials into seeds without modifying their DNA, immediately and efficiently improving plants before they're even sowed. It was developed by Hebrew University agricultural scientists Ilan Sela and Haim D. Rabinowitch.[60]
- Judean date palm – oldest seed ever to be revived, restoring an extinct cultivar
- The Tomaccio cherry tomato was developed by several Israeli laboratories, the dominant ones being those led by Professor Nahum Keidar and Professor Chaim Rabinovitch from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Campus.[61][62]
- Super iron battery – A new class of a rechargeable electric battery based on a special kind of iron. More environment friendly because the super-iron eventually rusts, it was developed by Stuart Licht.[63] of the University of Massachusetts.[64]
Epilator
- Epilator (originally "Epilady") – an electrical device used to remove hair by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out. It was developed and originally manufactured at Kibbutz HaGoshrim.[65][66]
- Wonder Pot – a pot developed for baking on the stovetop rather than in an oven.[67]
- Micronized coating instant hot water pipes developed by A.C.T.[68]
Rummikub
- Rummikub – a tile-based game for two to four players invented by Ephraim Hertzano.[69][70]
- Hidato – a logic puzzle game invented by mathematician Gyora Benedek.[71]
- Taki – an Israeli card game invented by Haim Shafir.[72][73]
- Mastermind – an Israeli board game invented by Mordecai Meirowitz.
- Guess Who? – a two-player guessing game invented by Theo & Ora Coster (a.k.a. Theora Design).
- Ptitim, also called Israeli couscous worldwide, is a wheat-based baked pasta. It was initially invented during the austerity period in Israel when Rice and Semolina were scarce.
- Safed cheese or Tzfat cheese is a semi-hard, salty cheese produced in Israel from sheep's milk. It was first produced by the Hameiri dairy in Safed in 1840 and is still produced there by descendants of the original cheese makers.
- Jerusalem mixed grill is a grilled meat dish considered a specialty of Jerusalem. It consists of chicken hearts, spleens and livers mixed with bits of lamb cooked on a flat grill, seasoned with onion, garlic, juniper berries, black pepper, cumin, turmeric and coriander
- Sabich is a sandwich, consisting of a pita stuffed with fried eggplant and hard-cooked eggs. Local consumption is said to have stemmed from a tradition among Mizrahi Jews, who ate it on Shabbat morning.
- Karat Caviar is a Russian Osetra caviar brand farmed in the Golan and has won several international awards. The Russian Osetra fingerlings were imported from the Caspian Sea.[74][75]
- Limonana is a lemonade enriched with spearmint leaves
- Bamba (snack) is a peanut butter-flavored snack food manufactured by the Osem corporation in Holon, Israel.[76]
- Water-Gen, is an Israeli developed device that offers a low cost method of turning air into water.[77][78][79][80]
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_inventions_and_discoveries )
A lot of generalities spoken here, STIFF ... but their economy is strong because we GIVE THEM $40 billion (and growing) each year in cash & technology that they don't spend a dime R&Ding themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT against Israel as an ally, but, you spilled a lot of random crap about WHY Israel helps us create jobs by OUR supporting THEIR country with these goods & services. I can assure you IF we began to cut our continually growing budget to Israel, they would take their friendship elsewhere. I can't recall the year (back in the 1990's) they asked the US to increase its funds to $25 or so billion, we increased it from $12-14 billion to $18 billion and they got PISSED at us for not giving them what they asked. I mean, their hands are always open for more, more, more from the US.
What research & development technologies do they provide the US ... weaponry, agriculture specifics, etc. ?
I would not expect Trump and Bernie Sanders to be in full agreement, but there are several Jews he gets along with like Benjamin Netanyahu?
Traditionally Jews vote Democratic but this article alleges that it may change in 2020 @subhub174014:
Orthodox millennial model heads the drive to poach Jewish Democrats for Trump
Elizabeth Pipko feared her support of the president would hurt her career, but now that she’s come out conservative, she’s the face of an effort to change the Jewish vote
By JOSEPH WOLKIN26 July 2019, 4:10 am13
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Elizabeth Pipko speaks at the Turning Point USA - Young Jewish Leadership Summit, June 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Jonathan Williams) 
Elizabeth Pipko (Courtesy/http://elizabethpipko.com)
Elizabeth Pipko at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City in 2015. As a spokesperson for the Exodus Group, she has called the Democratic party anti-Semitic. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images via JTA)
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The self-styled model and figure skater is now the face of the Exodus Movement, a group that started as “Jexodus” in March to spread a right-wing message in an attempt to sway Jewish voters towards voting red in the 2020 election.
In conversation with The Times of Israel, Pipko says that people are often stymied by her, asking if she’s been brainwashed and why she would support US President Donald Trump so staunchly. At a time when Jewish voters are disappointed in the Republican response to increasing reports of anti-Semitism, the Exodus Movement is not an easy sell.
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A recent poll claims that an unprecedented number of Jewish voters feel less secure with Trump at the helm, with 59% of Jews saying they blame the Commander-in-Chief for the country’s reported rise in anti-Semitism. Further complicating things for conservatives looking to capture the Jewish vote, the survey also found that issues concerning Israel were the lowest priority among Jewish voters in 2020.
Elizabeth Pipko speaks at the Turning Point USA – Young Jewish Leadership Summit, June 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Jonathan Williams)
It’s questionable whether Pipko’s movement will be able to change established voting patterns: Trump received less than 30% of the Jewish vote in the 2016 presidential election, while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton received 71%.
The political arena is not always a pleasant one, and Pipko already faces a backlash. Some people even question her Judaism. Likewise, Pipko, who keeps kosher and observes Shabbat, said she is constantly asked how she could be an observant Jew while pursuing a modeling career.
Elizabeth Pipko, who keeps kosher and observes Shabbat, constantly gets asked how she could be an observant Jew while pursuing a modeling career. (Screenshot/YouTube)
“They think that because I’m modeling in a swimsuit, I don’t believe in Hashem,” she said, using the Hebrew term for God.
But that doesn’t dampen her determination. Pipko is often vocal when politicians on either side of the aisle make anti-Semitic comments. Of late, she’s made national headlines by weighing in on accusations that Rep. Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic, along with other controversial topics about Israel and Judaism as a whole.
It’s a family affair: The 24-year-old Pipko met her husband, Darren Centinello, while working on Trump’s 2016 campaign in New York City. Soon after, the two were married at the president’s famous Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Centinello is currently the director of social media strategy for Trump’s 2020 run, while Pipko travels across the nation, speaking to different Jewish groups to raise support.
Elizabeth Pipko’s wedding to Darren Centinello at Donald Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Largo resort. (Elizabeth Pipko)
The Times of Israel spoke with Pipko from the road via telephone earlier this month, discussing life for her before and after the Exodus Movement took off. The soft-spoken Pipko seldom raised her voice, even when describing anti-Semitic incidents against her. Choosing each word carefully, she broke down the various parts of her multifaceted life as the face of a new movement, a model, and former figure skater.
Despite her gentle demeanor, however, Pipko is clearly on a mission she believes in — and is not afraid to talk about it. The following interview has been edited for length.
It’s been a few months since you started this movement. What’s the experience been like?
It’s been awesome. I just turned 24, so to be in your early 20s and do something like this is overwhelming. But obviously, Donald Trump has changed a lot in our country and there’s a need for this since people are responding so well.
I’ve always been a proud Jew, very involved in American politics and I’m really excited that people are responding so well to what I’m trying to do. I have the platform to do it.
Do you feel the movement has started to make an impact?
100%. We launched our chapter program with chapters in several states. A few states have multiple counties. It’s a nationwide chapter program, but we’re going to continue to expand even more. The fact that we’re able to form these groups, which started as a few Twitter posts and an accidental appearance on TV, and ended up with an actual organization that has chapters in swing states and liberal states, shows I’ve been proven correct. There are a lot of people extremely involved in what we’re doing and passionately involved in getting the ball rolling to make a change.
Elizabeth Pipko on ‘Fox and Friends.’ (Courtesy)
The Jewish vote is historically 75% Democrat, and some polls say that might increase in 2020. If it does, what would that mean for this movement?
Based on the messages I’ve received and the conversations I’ve had, there’s a need for this movement. Whether this changes the number in 2020 or not, I think there’s a need based on what’s going on. Apart from my movement and apart from Donald Trump, the Conservative Jews and Reform Jews are shrinking in number, versus the Orthodox Jews, who are the ones multiplying and vote overwhelmingly Republican.
I think we’re going to see change in the coming years, whether it’s 10 or 20. We’re going to see some kind of political change for sure. Donald Trump has made it very easy to support him, as a Jew.
What happens if you notice during the Democratic debates that a candidate arises who is pro-Israel and has a history of standing against anti-Semitism? What would the Exodus Movement say or do?
Above all, I want my movement to be successful and I want to succeed. I want to see change. I want the best for American Jews and Israel. I think it would be a great thing for the country and that’s my goal.
I’m just not sure it’s going to happen [on the Democrats’ side]. There are so many candidates and they don’t know what direction they’re going. It’ll be a lot easier for us to have an impact once they narrow it down. It won’t be Donald Trump versus 25 people. It’ll be Trump versus A, B and C, and this is their stance on Israel. We can then talk to people, see what they care about and compare it.
Elizabeth Pipko feared that her support of Donald Trump could negatively impact her modeling career. (Screenshot/YouTube)
For you personally, what’s it like to be featured in national and international headlines?
It’s pretty scary. A lot of days, it’s really positive. I have the president’s tweet about me framed on my desk, which helps a lot. A lot of days, it’s negative. I get a lot of death threats, ******* threats and other things I never thought I’d receive. I’m doing this for my people — not to sound cliché — for my parents and grandparents, who escaped to come to America so they wouldn’t have to worry about their children being faced with anti-Semitism. If that’s a worry in the United States, I’ll do anything I can to stop it.
Is it surreal to know you’ve made it to this point?
Some days, if I’m having a bad day or even a really good day, I’ll go through messages I’ve received and I want to cry. People pour their hearts out to me. They say that because of me they feel comfortable showing their support for Donald Trump or they have stronger faith in being a Jew. Some even say they decide to become kosher because I always post that I’m kosher.
To stand up against anti-Semitism and — I don’t talk for all Jews — but being Jewish is my favorite thing about me. People have told me they weren’t even openly Jewish. I don’t even know what that means. Now, they wear a Magen David [Star of David] on their neck or say the Shema [prayer] before bed because I mentioned it in a speech.
The Exodus Movement head, Elizabeth Pipko, with her husband, director of social media strategy for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, Darren Centinello. (Elizabeth Pipko)
Do you feel people treat you differently because you’re a woman or because of your modeling career?
People treat me [differently] because I came out as a conservative and a model. They think because I’m from New York and a Jew, I had to be a liberal. That made people be negative.
People like to criticize in general when someone starts a new movement, especially if it’s a younger person. To come from modeling and say I’m going to make an impact on politics, I don’t blame them for treating me a certain way. I wish it was different. However, I’m totally fine proving myself to people.
What’s the biggest misconception people have about you?
A lot of things. One is that I don’t care about Judaism. A lot of people don’t think I keep kosher or go to synagogue. It’s not true at all. I pray every single day. I have a kosher house. I go to synagogue every Shabbat. All of these things matter to me.
People think you’re either ultra-Orthodox or Reform, and that there’s no in between. People have never seen anyone like me, going out there and talking about my modeling career as a proud Jew. At the same time, I’m covered up in synagogue the next day. People have never seen that, at least in the public eye.
People get really confused and ask questions about why I do it, or how and why I think it’s OK. I think that’s the most confusing thing for people.
( https://www.timesofisrael.com/ortho...he-drive-to-poach-jewish-democrats-for-trump/ )
This thread is for America not the why we should care about Israel thread, but I close on the fact that those that disrespect Israel are in for a universe of hurt, whereas those that bless Israel gets blessed. I recall you said that you are a Christian as well @MacNfries so as you are well aware there will come a time in the future where Israel will become of a "burdensome stone" so it's support will be all the more necessary. And as an exercise I'll let you follow up with that if you so choose.
( https://www.blacktowhite.net/threads/go-trump.160047/page-16#post-2447046 )
I would not expect Trump and Bernie Sanders to be in full agreement, but there are several Jews he gets along with like Benjamin Netanyahu?
Traditionally Jews vote Democratic but this article alleges that it may change in 2020 @subhub174014:
Orthodox millennial model heads the drive to poach Jewish Democrats for Trump
Elizabeth Pipko feared her support of the president would hurt her career, but now that she’s come out conservative, she’s the face of an effort to change the Jewish vote
By JOSEPH WOLKIN26 July 2019, 4:10 am13
- 3,725shares
NEW YORK — Jewish-American voters historically vote overwhelmingly in favor of the Democratic Party, usually in the 70 to 80 percent range. Elizabeth Pipko is looking to change that.
Elizabeth Pipko speaks at the Turning Point USA - Young Jewish Leadership Summit, June 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Jonathan Williams)
Elizabeth Pipko (Courtesy/http://elizabethpipko.com)
Elizabeth Pipko at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City in 2015. As a spokesperson for the Exodus Group, she has called the Democratic party anti-Semitic. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images via JTA)
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The self-styled model and figure skater is now the face of the Exodus Movement, a group that started as “Jexodus” in March to spread a right-wing message in an attempt to sway Jewish voters towards voting red in the 2020 election.
In conversation with The Times of Israel, Pipko says that people are often stymied by her, asking if she’s been brainwashed and why she would support US President Donald Trump so staunchly. At a time when Jewish voters are disappointed in the Republican response to increasing reports of anti-Semitism, the Exodus Movement is not an easy sell.
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A recent poll claims that an unprecedented number of Jewish voters feel less secure with Trump at the helm, with 59% of Jews saying they blame the Commander-in-Chief for the country’s reported rise in anti-Semitism. Further complicating things for conservatives looking to capture the Jewish vote, the survey also found that issues concerning Israel were the lowest priority among Jewish voters in 2020.
Elizabeth Pipko speaks at the Turning Point USA – Young Jewish Leadership Summit, June 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Jonathan Williams)
It’s questionable whether Pipko’s movement will be able to change established voting patterns: Trump received less than 30% of the Jewish vote in the 2016 presidential election, while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton received 71%.
The political arena is not always a pleasant one, and Pipko already faces a backlash. Some people even question her Judaism. Likewise, Pipko, who keeps kosher and observes Shabbat, said she is constantly asked how she could be an observant Jew while pursuing a modeling career.
Elizabeth Pipko, who keeps kosher and observes Shabbat, constantly gets asked how she could be an observant Jew while pursuing a modeling career. (Screenshot/YouTube)
“They think that because I’m modeling in a swimsuit, I don’t believe in Hashem,” she said, using the Hebrew term for God.
But that doesn’t dampen her determination. Pipko is often vocal when politicians on either side of the aisle make anti-Semitic comments. Of late, she’s made national headlines by weighing in on accusations that Rep. Ilhan Omar is anti-Semitic, along with other controversial topics about Israel and Judaism as a whole.
It’s a family affair: The 24-year-old Pipko met her husband, Darren Centinello, while working on Trump’s 2016 campaign in New York City. Soon after, the two were married at the president’s famous Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Centinello is currently the director of social media strategy for Trump’s 2020 run, while Pipko travels across the nation, speaking to different Jewish groups to raise support.
Elizabeth Pipko’s wedding to Darren Centinello at Donald Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Largo resort. (Elizabeth Pipko)
The Times of Israel spoke with Pipko from the road via telephone earlier this month, discussing life for her before and after the Exodus Movement took off. The soft-spoken Pipko seldom raised her voice, even when describing anti-Semitic incidents against her. Choosing each word carefully, she broke down the various parts of her multifaceted life as the face of a new movement, a model, and former figure skater.
Despite her gentle demeanor, however, Pipko is clearly on a mission she believes in — and is not afraid to talk about it. The following interview has been edited for length.
It’s been a few months since you started this movement. What’s the experience been like?
It’s been awesome. I just turned 24, so to be in your early 20s and do something like this is overwhelming. But obviously, Donald Trump has changed a lot in our country and there’s a need for this since people are responding so well.
I’ve always been a proud Jew, very involved in American politics and I’m really excited that people are responding so well to what I’m trying to do. I have the platform to do it.
Do you feel the movement has started to make an impact?
100%. We launched our chapter program with chapters in several states. A few states have multiple counties. It’s a nationwide chapter program, but we’re going to continue to expand even more. The fact that we’re able to form these groups, which started as a few Twitter posts and an accidental appearance on TV, and ended up with an actual organization that has chapters in swing states and liberal states, shows I’ve been proven correct. There are a lot of people extremely involved in what we’re doing and passionately involved in getting the ball rolling to make a change.
Elizabeth Pipko on ‘Fox and Friends.’ (Courtesy)
The Jewish vote is historically 75% Democrat, and some polls say that might increase in 2020. If it does, what would that mean for this movement?
Based on the messages I’ve received and the conversations I’ve had, there’s a need for this movement. Whether this changes the number in 2020 or not, I think there’s a need based on what’s going on. Apart from my movement and apart from Donald Trump, the Conservative Jews and Reform Jews are shrinking in number, versus the Orthodox Jews, who are the ones multiplying and vote overwhelmingly Republican.
I think we’re going to see change in the coming years, whether it’s 10 or 20. We’re going to see some kind of political change for sure. Donald Trump has made it very easy to support him, as a Jew.
What happens if you notice during the Democratic debates that a candidate arises who is pro-Israel and has a history of standing against anti-Semitism? What would the Exodus Movement say or do?
Above all, I want my movement to be successful and I want to succeed. I want to see change. I want the best for American Jews and Israel. I think it would be a great thing for the country and that’s my goal.
I’m just not sure it’s going to happen [on the Democrats’ side]. There are so many candidates and they don’t know what direction they’re going. It’ll be a lot easier for us to have an impact once they narrow it down. It won’t be Donald Trump versus 25 people. It’ll be Trump versus A, B and C, and this is their stance on Israel. We can then talk to people, see what they care about and compare it.
Elizabeth Pipko feared that her support of Donald Trump could negatively impact her modeling career. (Screenshot/YouTube)
For you personally, what’s it like to be featured in national and international headlines?
It’s pretty scary. A lot of days, it’s really positive. I have the president’s tweet about me framed on my desk, which helps a lot. A lot of days, it’s negative. I get a lot of death threats, ******* threats and other things I never thought I’d receive. I’m doing this for my people — not to sound cliché — for my parents and grandparents, who escaped to come to America so they wouldn’t have to worry about their children being faced with anti-Semitism. If that’s a worry in the United States, I’ll do anything I can to stop it.
Is it surreal to know you’ve made it to this point?
Some days, if I’m having a bad day or even a really good day, I’ll go through messages I’ve received and I want to cry. People pour their hearts out to me. They say that because of me they feel comfortable showing their support for Donald Trump or they have stronger faith in being a Jew. Some even say they decide to become kosher because I always post that I’m kosher.
To stand up against anti-Semitism and — I don’t talk for all Jews — but being Jewish is my favorite thing about me. People have told me they weren’t even openly Jewish. I don’t even know what that means. Now, they wear a Magen David [Star of David] on their neck or say the Shema [prayer] before bed because I mentioned it in a speech.
The Exodus Movement head, Elizabeth Pipko, with her husband, director of social media strategy for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, Darren Centinello. (Elizabeth Pipko)
Do you feel people treat you differently because you’re a woman or because of your modeling career?
People treat me [differently] because I came out as a conservative and a model. They think because I’m from New York and a Jew, I had to be a liberal. That made people be negative.
People like to criticize in general when someone starts a new movement, especially if it’s a younger person. To come from modeling and say I’m going to make an impact on politics, I don’t blame them for treating me a certain way. I wish it was different. However, I’m totally fine proving myself to people.
What’s the biggest misconception people have about you?
A lot of things. One is that I don’t care about Judaism. A lot of people don’t think I keep kosher or go to synagogue. It’s not true at all. I pray every single day. I have a kosher house. I go to synagogue every Shabbat. All of these things matter to me.
People think you’re either ultra-Orthodox or Reform, and that there’s no in between. People have never seen anyone like me, going out there and talking about my modeling career as a proud Jew. At the same time, I’m covered up in synagogue the next day. People have never seen that, at least in the public eye.
People get really confused and ask questions about why I do it, or how and why I think it’s OK. I think that’s the most confusing thing for people.
( https://www.timesofisrael.com/ortho...he-drive-to-poach-jewish-democrats-for-trump/ )
again there are always those few....as for NETNYAHOO....he is playing trump like a fiddle......after all crooks of a feather
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Amen! I totally agree and it's shameful and sad that Congressman Mitch McConnell will block 2 bills that will ensure protection from foreign adversaries impacting our elections. The dumb-ass republican trump supporters thinks that this type thing is okay. Little do they know, they are welcoming countries like China, North Korea and others to do the something that Russia did in our last election. And that's not a Democrat or Republican thing that's them compromising our democracy.
Mitch is only looking after Mitch ... he's up for re-election this cycle, he knows (or thinks) protecting Trump also protects him in this Trump dumb state. He goes against Trump's wishes, voters will replace him. He already has a Republican adversary running against him. Mitch's wife has a government job, too, and is using it to help her husband's private sector income; it all comes down to money. It always does.
Just heard on the news yesterday that there are 14-16 states that still use Win7 or older OPs software in their voting systems. Its ridiculous how antiquated companies are with their software. Heck a 5th grader could hack those old systems. I just worked a huge, nat'l grocery store chain (180 stores) who's central offices & stores were still using old computers that take 5 inch discs, can you believe that? I had a couple product updates to give them and had to send it to an e-mail address.
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