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Former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn made some outrageous comments about the Holocaust recently. He said that there were “thousands of them and not many guards,” implying that the Jews could have fought bare-handed against machine gun nests and survived.

On September 1, the American political season begins in earnest. In 2016, the Republican Party had the largest number of candidates to vie for the nomination of either party ever – 17. President Trump was the eventual nominee.

I just got back from visiting Israel with Governor Mike Huckabee and about 30 Americans, most of whom had never been to Israel even once. Without exception, they all felt it was a life-changing experience. The group was diverse. We had a CEO from Utah whose grandmother escaped pogroms in Odesa, a former South Carolina Congresswoman who found her family listed at Yad Vashem as having been murdered by the Nazis, and we had the largest grower of watermelons in the United States who marveled at the agricultural accomplishments of Israel. All on the trip were true patriots. None of them winced at traveling to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron or visiting Ateret Cohanim in the Old Jewish Quarter (the so-called Muslim Quarter). This is the new and at the same time old reality of Israel.

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexican desert. The world has never been the same since. A movie devoted to the father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, is currently a hit at the box office, marking 80 years since that fateful day. Oppenheimer apparently said, when watching the explosion, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Oppenheimer had his regrets, but World War II was finally brought to an end because of his efforts.

After five elections since 2018, Prime Minister Netanyahu was able to cobble together a coalition of 64 members in December of 2022. Seventy percent of the Israeli population voted. In the United States, only 62.8% of Americans voted in 2020. The year 2020 saw the largest turnout ever for a Presidential election at 158 million.

As the 30^th anniversary of the Oslo Accords approaches, more and more will be written. It was Israel’s overarching attempt to make peace. It backfired. Instead of peace, Israel has gotten unbridled terrorism. Unlike the Abraham Accords, which have been more of what a peace agreement with the Arabs should look like, the Oslo Accords have only brought grief to Israel. The very same Leftists who are attacking Prime Minister Netanyahu today were the ones who constructed the Oslo Accords and gave guns to terrorists.