Trump and Netanyahu

Regarding “Netanyahu’s pandering to Trump is a serious threat to Israel’s longterm security” (December 3), what’s the difference between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pandering to US President Donald Trump and any other prime minister pandering to any other American president these past 70 years?

I’ll tell you. Trump is the friendliest US president since 1948, as MK Michael Oren said recently in Ma’aleh Adumim. So, what should Bibi do? Ignore Trump? Insult him, as president Barack Obama did to Netanyahu on numerous occasions?

For all his faults, our prime minister has made great inroads with establishing and strengthening Israel’s foreign relations with countries like India, Russia, China and many in Africa, to name just a few. Thank God he went to the floor of the US Congress to blast the pending Iran nuclear agreement. Bibi has been speaking about the threat of Iran to the free world for decades already, usually as a lone voice in the wilderness, but now he has in Trump a comrade who shares his views.

I pray for the day that Israel will no longer be dependent on any US or any other foreign government’s aid to ensure its existence. We have a very close friend in the US now, especially with Trump, but God help us if the liberal-progressive-socialist wing of the Democratic Party ever takes control of the government in America.

NORMAN DEROVAN

Ma’aleh Adumim