There are many reasons to vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton on Election Day.

But I believe one being missed too often is the importance of restoring and enhancing the critical relationship between the United States and Israel. If this is something you endorse, Donald Trump is the clear choice.

There are at least five aspects of the crucial US-Israel alliance that Trump understands better than Clinton:

Strategic: Israel shares a common enemy with the United States — radical Islamic jihadism — and is on the front lines of the battle against it. Israel’s cooperation with the United States on intelligence and security is essential to keeping radical Islamists off American shores and away from Israeli targets.

Military: The Israel Defense Forces work closely with all branches of the US military. All US military aid to Israel is reinvested in American manufacturers, and Israel improves the products it purchases as well (a recent example being the F-35 fighter plane).

Each of the two nations’ respective armies is stronger because of this cooperation.

High-tech: Technological advancements drive our commercial future, and the United States and Israel are the Western world’s two technological superpowers. Their alignment is essential to compete against nations like China, India and Russia.

Moral: Israel is a robust democracy surrounded by rogue nations, terrorist states and dictatorial theocracies. It is the only nation in the world that permits (Arab) members of its parliament to advocate the overthrow of the state.

Israel is the vanguard of Arab civil rights, but the only non-Arab nation in the region. And, from Haiti to Thailand, its medical SWAT teams are the first to land on foreign soil after a natural disaster — something the Obama administration conspicuously ignored when crediting foreign nations for their Haiti response. Trump would never hesitate to remind the international community of Israel’s moral example.



Religious/historical: The United States was founded upon Judeo-Christian values, rooted in the Old Testament and other sacred texts. In the very beginning of the Old Testament, God promises the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. That covenant still means something to many Americans, and even non-believers recognize the ancient right of the Jewish people to the Holy Land.

People who take one or more of these principles to heart constitute the “pro-Israel” crowd. And these are the principles held dear by Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump believes in keeping Israel strong, safe and secure, in never pressuring Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians and in moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital.

Trump suffers no confusion as to who is a friend and who is a foe. He remembers how the Palestinians celebrated in the West Bank and Gaza after the 9/11 attacks, and he remembers how the Israeli people mourned — so grief-stricken that their painful experiences were now being felt by their closest ally.

Secretary Clinton, in contrast, is no friend of Israel despite her protestations to the contrary. She will continue all of President Obama’s worst policies — threatening Israel, insulting its leaders, nuclearizing and funding Iran, excusing terrorists and projecting weakness throughout the world — and then she will make matters even worse.

Just look at the emails she tried to keep secret: They show her complementing the radically anti-Israel views of Max Blumenthal and considering a plan for the United States to organize Israeli Arabs to engage in anti-Israeli protests. And one can’t ignore her willingness, as secretary of state, to accept financial contributions to the Clinton Foundation from rogue nations in exchange for government favors.

Simply put, Clinton perpetuates all of the anti-Israel activity of the Obama administration, but her demonstrable lack of a moral compass makes her even more dangerous.

Pro-Israel voters can enthusiastically get behind Donald Trump. They should run like the wind from Hillary Clinton.

David Friedman, an adviser to Donald Trump, is a regular columnist for Israel National News and president of the American Friends of Bet El Communities in Israel.