The Obama-run Biden administration has decided that the best way to attack the Jewish people in Israel is via financial pressure applied against individuals, and soon, entire groups of people in countries that are America’s allies. It seems like an easy-to-apply solution in a targeted fashion that bypasses dealing with foreign governments. Just decide who are the problematic people in each individual country and cut off their ability to use the American banking system. It is quick and effective, without causing any major uproars. But it is also grossly immoral and against the entire concept of freedom that America is based upon.
The United States was founded by people who resented all forms of tyranny and aimed at advancing freedom in the Western hemisphere. This meant limiting the control of religious institutions on the institutions of government. Similarly, it meant limiting the exercise of control by the government on the people. Therefore, rights such as the right to vote, the right to bear arms, the right to exercise freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, have always been cardinal principles of the American democratic political system.
All of these were created in order to insure that the government would not control it’s citizens, but the will of the citizens would be represented by the government that has checks and balances. The Obama administrations spent eight years enlarging the power of the government of the United States to unprecedented levels. This was part of it’s intentions to socially engineer the lifestyles of millions of Americans in order to help the weaker and poorer elements of American society. Similar to LBJ’s “Great Society” project, which created a massive government infrastructure, Obama massively increased the government footprint across the United States.
But on the foreign policy level too, Obama continues to hold controversial opinions that have led to the application of a weakened American foreign policy in the Middle East, with Russia, and China in the Far East. To many in Israel it seemed absurd that Obama would actually care about handfuls of caravans that are part of an age-old religiously based land dispute between some Israelis and Arabs. But the fact is that for eight years during Obama’s administration and for the 4 years of the Biden administration, that is exactly the case. The anti-Israel lobbyists and the demonstrators aross American campuses have never stopped fighting tooth and nail over every acre of land in Judea and Samaria. They are backed by State Department officials who have placed financial stumbling blocks along the way of any Jew who dares resettle the ancient Jewish homeland.
But these brave Jews, such as Ari Abramowitz, are fighting for ancient Jewish land that Arabs have absolutely no serious claim over. There are weak or fictitious claims by Arabs who lived nearby during the 19 years that Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria from 1948 to 1967. But they have a far weaker claim than the Jewish claims that go back thousands of years.
It is time that the Israeli government not merely protest, but fight back with it’s own financial pressure. There is no reason that Israel should allow anti-Israel non-governmental organizations to work freely and harass citizens of the State of Israel. They should lose their non-profit status and their ability to function freely if they are found to be aiding the enemy.