TRUMP CALLS JEWISH DEMOCRATS DISLOYAL.

I served 10 years in the Naval Reserve and 24 years in the Coast Guard Reserve. Fifteen of them were on active duty. I retired from active duty the day before my 60^th birthday. In all that time I only encountered one anti-Semite, a commander who in 1993 pulled by security clearance for a year because I had (with permission of Coast Guard Headquarters) moved to Israel the previous year after an 18 month active duty stint. What did I do in Israel? I did my Coast Guard drills at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and I worked on Biblical research. A decade after my loyalty was challenged the same exact office at Coast Guard Pacific Area brought me back on active duty at the age of 55 to do the same exact job that I did before – writing war plans for them. So you can imagine how I felt when Trump challenged the loyalty of Jews who vote Democrat. And yet sadly I had similar thoughts before the President made his accusation. I have written before about all Democrats possibly being infected with the ATCV-1 stupidity virus, I have wondered if they are being brainwashed, or poisoned, and I have questioned their loyalty. Our President has pointed to a real problem. This issue is also highlighted in the Torah Code, but Trump should stay away from spouting theology that he doesn't understand.

STATISTICAL AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MATRIX. On Figure 1 the axis term is DEMOCRAT. At the same absolute skip are JEWISH and BETRAYS. JEWISH is the most significant a priori key word. It was found at a special case skip (+/- 1 or the absolute skip of the axis term) against odds of about 99.7 to 1. There were several synonyms sought for DISLOYAL. The one found at a special case skip was (BETRAYS) was found against odds of about 13 to 1. The terms found at skip +1 (normally the best case skip) were ISRAEL (touching JEWISH), PRESIDENT (and the guy complaining about being betrayed our President) and NETANYAHU. Anti-Semites like to complain about Prime Minister Netanyahu, but when they do they often mean that they hate him, his country, and all Jews. A good example of a true anti-Semite who uses Netanyahu this way is Nancy Pelosi. When Netanyahu came to a Joint Session of Congress, Nancy stood up and turned her back on him. Yet when a motion came up to condemn anti-Semitism she changed the words to only condemn hatred. In doing so she ensured Rashida Tliab. Ilhan Omar and AOC could continue to spout diatribes again Jews and Israel without being singled out. On Figure 1 PRESIDENT is directly above and touching NETANYAHU.

       Although ISRAEL is at skip+1, the Torah is about Israel. Since it occurs 591 at skip +1 in Torah, it's easy to find this way. It had about a 52% to be on the matrix. It is however noteworthy that it touches JEWISH, but I don't add value to the basic calculation for this fact. If you want to know what the odds are against having ISRAEL in 30 letters with JEWISH, it's about 17.7 to 1 if we don't consider the issue of conflicting letters.

       PRESIDENT is on the matrix at skip +1 against odds of about 12 to 1. The same word means PRINCE and in the open text that is its most common meaning. NETANYAHU is present at skip +1 against odds of about 50 to 1. Overall the matrix was found against odds of about 1,519,311 to 1. 

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP AND JEWISH DEMOCRATS. Frankly, I understand President Trump far better than I do liberal Jews who oppose him. It's fairly easy to understand the President because he says exactly what he thinks without worrying about political correctness. An exception here is that he has a sarcastic sense of humor, so you need to look at his facial expressions or listen to his tone of voice to make sure you have his meaning right. For anyone who has doubts about President Trump's love of our (Jewish) people, they only need focus on his actions. He gave his daughter, who converted to Orthodox Judaism, to a Jewish husband. Trump has Jewish grandchildren, he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, he moved the American embassy there, he recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that they captured from Syria in 1967, he pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Accord and brought Iran to the verge of bankruptcy. The President is the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel world leader that has been seen since Cyrus in ancient Persia helped the Jews return from exile to build the Second Temple.  Anyone who says that this President is an anti-Semite is a liar. But the president is absolutely right to question what in hells blazes Democrats are thinking when they vote against him. If Judaism and Israel are important to Jewish Democrats then their votes make no sense. But, alas, most Jews in America are not traditional or Orthodox. Many are, in fact, atheists or at best agnostics. So they are voting based on non-religious related issues.

HOW TRUMP'S DISLOYALTY COMMENTS FIT IN WITH THE BRANCHES OF JUDAISM. The split between Orthodox Jews who back Trump and all other Jews who do not mirrors the national split between blue states and red states, or really high population density metropolitan areas and low population density, rural areas. This deep division between political conservatives and liberals threatens to drive this country into a civil warhttp://arkcode.com/photo5_61.html. But before proceeding we should briefly look at some terms because they can be confusing. A conservative Jew is generally not a conservative politically - he or she is usually a liberal. For a detailed discussion complete with Torah Code matrices see WHO IS A JEW?

      A few highlights of the divisions within Judaism are as follows:

1. Reform Judaism rejects all Torah-mandated ritual, as well as prohibitions such as those against pork and against homosexual behavior. It rejects them because it rejects the Torah as a book dictated by God to Moses. That means that Reform Judaism does not recognize the deed to Israel given to the Jewish people by God, so it's not surprising to learn that Reform Jews are not overly concerned about Obama's hostility toward Israel. or Trump backing Netanyahu or whoever else runs Israel. In America 35% of Jews are Reform.

2. Conservative Judaism. This is supposed to be a Middle Way somewhere between the Reform rejection of Torah Law and Orthodox obedience to it. In Israel neither Reform nor Conservative marriages are allowed to take place. Their conversions are not fully accepted. Reform and Conservatives accept gay rabbis, Orthodox do not. Reform and Conservatives rabbis have no right to perform marriages there. I was raised in a nominally Conservative Jewish home. The services were in Hebrew, which I didn't understand then. The bar mitzvah was about monetary presents that I thought were for me, but which wound up paying for the expensive affair. I had no clue about the meaning of the Sabbath; let alone how to observe it. Pork was often on the dinner table. However, the Jewish relative referred to above had an excellent education by conservative standards kept kosher at home, and has always been supportive of Israel in terms of trips taken there. His wife was a Jewish school director and so together they have led many Jewish teenagers and adults to visit Israel. There is great variation among Jews. As the first Prime Minister of Israel (David Ben Gurion), said, "For every 2 Jews there are 3 opinions." He underestimated. I do not see any variation between Jewish support of America and that of other groups, but there clearly is generally more support for Israel among all but the most extreme Orthodox than there is in secular or non-Orthodox Jewish communities. About 18% of U.S. Jews are Conservative.

3. Orthodox Judaism. About 10% of American Jews are Orthodox. I am Modern Orthodox. Orthodox, like Fundamental Christians and President Trump, believe that God gave Israel to the Jews. This helps to explain the natural alliance of Orthodox Jews to President Trump. However, if we basically put all but 3% of the 35% Reform Jews in the Democrat columns because Israel is not important to them and environment issues and gays rights are, put two thirds (another 12%) of the Conservative Jews in the Democrat column (20% of the Orthodox with the Democrats (another 2%) plus 30 of the remaining 37% secular or non-religious Jews in the Democrat column we have 76% of Jews for the Democrats. The actual Jewish vote for Democrats starting with Bill Clinton in 1992 and ending with Hillary Clinton in 2016 was 75.85. See Table 1 below. Jews only started to slowly awaken and rebel after Obama's first term. Still, in 2016 71% voted for Hillary and only 24% voted for Trump. If he did not yet have a right to be pissed off at us in 2016, he does now given all that he has done for us. However he must be careful. Crazy Joe Biden makes a gaff every day. They are putting his nomination in question. Likewise, President Trump needs to get control of his Tweeting habit. It is precisely because most American Jews are not loyal to Judaism, nor followers of Jewish laws that he cannot take the Jewish vote for granted. As the Torah says in Exodus 4:9 and Deuteronomy 9:13 we are a stiff-necked people.

        ARE DEMOCRATS SUCKERS FOR PROPAGANDA? Obama's theme was hope and change. Yet, as the Atlantic magazine said in its story of January 30, 2014, The DECLINE AND FALL OF HOPE AND CHANGE, "President Obama's achievements are many. But he has utterly failed to keep a promise core to the rationale for his candidacy." Then went on to conclude that, "President Obama's achievements are many. But he has utterly failed to keep a promise core to the rationale for his candidacy. Obama is now a creature of the Washington, D.C., establishment. He is captive to its loyalties and prejudices, and committed to safeguarding its interests. That doesn't mean he hasn't or won't accomplish anything worthwhile, but there are whole categories of problems that he won't try to fix. Hope and change are dead. And that's a shame. Americans are unlikely to support a politician making similar promises in the future because Obama has made them impossible to believe. His tenure has made systemic change less likely than when he began." Jews have always been big on hope and change. The problem is not just that they never had anyone work as hard as Trump did to give it to them. Rather, when Trump gave them damn near all they could ever hope for they largely failed to notice because like Obama so many were blinded by loyalties and prejudices from the past. Trump tweeted:

“When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said ‘I am the chosen one,’ at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a ‘Messiah complex,’” Trump tweeted. “They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just having fun.

“I was smiling as I looked up and around,” he continued. “The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH…And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!”

In truth, we have had many presidents who have had dreams of being the Messiah, but all of them were disqualified by the simple fact that they aren't Jews descended from King David. Trump's Orthodox Jewish son Jared Kushner could take a shot at the job, but he would have to at least build the Third Temple and end war of Earth permanently to get any consideration from Jews who believe in God sending a Messiah. By the way, the term Messiah (Mashiach) is Hebrew for Anointed. The concept was invented by Jews, and it has never had anything to do about dying for other peoples' sins or saving souls. Of course, as with the remark by Ben Gurion, where there are two Jews, there are three opinions, Trump may hope that traditional Judaism is wrong and that he can not only help bring our Embassy to Jerusalem, but also help to restore the Temple.

Here it's appropriate to review Jewish beliegs about the Messiah.

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism maintains the 13 Principles of Faith as formulated by Maimonides. Number 12 is the main principle relating to Mashiach. Orthodox Jews strictly believe in a Messiah, life after death, and restoration of the promised land:^[37][38]

I believe with full faith in the coming of the Messiah. And even though he tarries, with all that, I await his arrival with every day.^{[note 8]}

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Jews has a particularly strong and passionate belief in the immediacy of the Messiah's coming, and in the ability of their actions to hasten his arrival. Members of Hasidic communities are sometimes inclined to regard their dynastic rebbes as potential candidates for Messiah. Many believe there is a person born each generation with the potential to become Messiah, if the Jewish people warrant his coming

Chabad messianism

Deceased Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson declared often that the Messiah is very close, urging all to pray for the coming of the Messiah and to do everything possible to hasten the coming of the Messiah through increased acts of kindness^[39]. Some Chabad Hasidim, called "have not yet accepted the Rebbe's passing"^[42] and even after his death regard him as the (living) 'King Messiah' and 'Moses of the generation', awaiting his second coming. Note: I left a synagogue where the rabbi had this position which I saw as a dangerous rip-off of Christian theology. It is vehemently opposed by all other Orthodox Jews. in Florida and elsewhere Chadad us buying up regular Orthodox synogogues. This is is forcing the Orthodox to either accept them, or in many cases pray without a synogogue (our choice). I live  in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The nearest Orthodox synagague is 153 miles to the south in Palm Beach. It's a 2 hour 21 minute drive. Orthodox Jews do not drive on the Sabbath unless necessary to save a life. While on active duty in the Coast Guard I rarely had to drive on the Sabbath, but did so when it was required for national defense.

Conservative Judaism

Emet Ve-Emunah, the Conservative movement's statement of principles, states the following:

... We do not know when the Messiah will come, nor whether he will be a charismatic human figure or is a symbol of the redemption of humankind from the evils of the world.  Judaism teaches us that every individual human being must live as if he or she, individually, has the responsibility to bring about the messianic age. Beyond that, we echo the words of Maimonides based on the prophet Habakkuk (2:3) that though he may tarry, yet do we wait for him each day.^[44]

Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism

Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism generally do not accept the idea that there will be a Messiah. Some believe that there may be some sort of "Messianic Age" (the World to Come) in the sense of a "utopia", which all Jews are obligated to work towards (thus the tradition of Tikkun olam). These views are likely to coincide with liberal political views.

Jews for Jesus.

CAUTION IS NEEDED HERE. These people are not Jews. Period. They are Christians who either hypostasized or are people with active imaginations who imagine that they are Jews. Their support is likely to match that of other Christians, namely the Evangelicals. Trump issued his problematic remarks and tweets in response to Wayne Allyn Root who is a supposedly an ex-Jew turned Evangelical Christian. If Trump wants to capture the Jewish vote he would do well to stay away from these people. Here are the troubling words Trump wrote after being influenced by Root:

“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him....

....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for.....

.....all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job.” Wow!

       The President needs to be educated about what Jews believe. Many Jews have no religious beliefs, but the belief in a second coming of a deity is clearly outside the bounds of Judaism. If he were to continue to try to impose Evangelical Christian beliefs on Jews he would lose my family's support. That is because I am Republican and because I am loyal to Judaism. I care about Israel the way I do for other relatives. I have, however, never been loyal to the Israeli Government. True, I attempted to move to Israel in 1992 after I got off active duty, but I did not go as an immigrant. I went on an A-1 Temporary visa which requires leaving the country every 6 months. I tried again in 2007 after my final retirement from the Coast Guard at age 60, but stopped the effort again because the Israelis would not grant me a second A-1 visa. I wanted to be eligible for a recall until I turned 62. Now I am 72. We're not in a hurry to get there, but my wife and I plan on being buried in Israel because, as Orthodox Jews, that's where we believe the Resurrrection will begin.