BENJAMIN NETANYAHU FOR PRIME MINISTER AGAIN There's a reason President Trump endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu but twice. As he said, Prime Minister Netanyahu is an extraordinary leader and partner, and we need him to help us at this time in both of our nations' histories. Israel is our only democratic ally in the Middle East. Even more, unlike too many of our allies in Europe and elsewhere, Israel has an extraordinary society and a world-class military and intel apparatus more than willing and able to defend itself. For the United States, there simply is no better partner against enemies that seek the destruction of both our nations. We also have a shared heritage and values -- the Judeo-Christian values that undergird our societies, and which were born in the Holy Land. Our Islamist enemies seek to destroy our ancient ties to Israel and Israel itself, as it destroys other parts of the Middle East and the West and chased and murdered Christians who were once the majority in the Middle East. Our joint war against the Iranian regime is a righteous and noble war of survival. The enemy seek nuclear weapons in order to destroy both countries. It has made this clear. And unlike other adversaries and even enemies with nuclear weapons, this enemy is driven by a 7th century ideology and fundamentalism that compels it to use weapons of mass destruction against us, not just to threaten us. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu understand this, while most the rest of the world and even people in America either do not or do not care. Thus, the alliance of these two men, and our two countries, is truly extraordinary and vitally important. President Trump knows this, especially given what must be done to the Iranian regime in the months ahead. Israel will never again have an ally like President Trump, and has never had an ally like him before. The long list of actions he has taken in support of Israel is too long to present here. Conversely, we will never have an ally like Prime Minister Netanyahu, a courageous leader and warrior and, even more, a man of intellect and history who has seen and warned about the Iranian regime's threat for decades -- longer than any leader anywhere. Citizen Donald Trump has also warned about the Iranian regime for decades. Prime Minister Netanyahu has had to go it alone most of the time, including during the Obama and Biden administrations. Indeed, Netanyahu is actively preparing his nation for the day when the Democrat Party, and certain members of the Republican Party, come to power and seek to isolate and undermine Israel, like too many in Europe. Hence, he is actively laying the foundation for building a military and economy that is more self-sufficient than ever, plus build new alliances around the world, including with India. This will require a proven leader to pull off, but he can do it. HIs political opposition cannot and will not. They will accede to the demands of other countries and international organizations, which will weaken Israel. It would be a huge and historic blunder if Israelis do to Netanyahu what the British did to Churchill in 1946 -- that is, vote in a weak, socialist government when the world was still sorting itself out after WWII. Of course, the war with the Iranian regime is not over, which makes this election even more important. The United States military is still armed up and poised to eliminate the regime. The Israeli military remains on high alert. Despite the appeasers and worse in my country, a Netanyahu-led government is essential if we are to eliminate this threat to our nations and the world once and for all. Of course, elections are not held in a vacuum. When you look at the opposition parties in Israel, you see a crazy and troubling mess of mostly opportunists and worse. The only way they reach the number of seats necessary to control the government is including the Arab parties in their coalition, which is exactly what they intend to do. The Arab parties consistently criticize and vote against Israeli military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. They include socialist and Palestinian nationalist factions, challenge the definition of Israel as a Jewish state, and accuse the hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis living in Judea and Samaria, Israel's ancestral homeland, as occupiers, and demand a Palestinian state. Obviously, these parties would make securing Israel against its various enemies very difficult. The coalition would include perennial candidates leading small minority parties who hope to use the Israeli electoral process to weasel their way into the prime ministership or a ministry position. Among them: Naftali Bennett, who was PM for a very short period of time, and is widely seen as unprincipled and a chameleon; Avigdor Liberman, who leads a secularist (supposedly) hawkish party, whose political career consists mostly of trashing Netanyahu and smearing the large religious parts of the Israeli population; and the newest PM wannabe, Gadi Eisenkot, another former chief of staff of the IDF seeking the highest office, who is considered indecisive, cautious, and without core principles. Hence, his desire to form a government with the Arab parties, leftists, and others who've long been Netanyahu opponents, as well as old-guard socialists, who've always resented the rise of Likud and the conservatives in Israel. (Eisenkot and his family have suffered unimaginable losses in Gaza, having lost his son and two nephews in Gaza). Israel faces enormous challenges in the months and years ahead. Those challenges didn't arise because Netanyahu is the PM, as his enemies and opponents would have you believe. They arose because Jew-hatred is spreading like poison around the globe and Israel, and Netanyahu has refused to negotiate with it or bow to it. And by that I mean, Israel under Netanyahu has stood strong against the UN, the ICC, the odious Obama and Biden administrations, Europe's quislings (in France, the UK, and others). Netanyahu himself is uniquely qualified to talk to the English-speaking world, especially the people of the United States, in Israel's defense, which is a huge asset. Eisenkot is not. Like it or not, it may not be a definitive issue, but it matters. There is no doubt in my mind that if another PM or government had been in power, Israel's security would have been negotiated away at least in part, the opposition government would have sought more empty agreements with the UN, Europe, and mediators for Iran and its surrogates, a Palestinian state would be on the table, and Israel would be in a much graver position today. For the left and center-left, there's always another Oslo around the corner. They hope to buy some kind of peace by surrendering more sovereignty and security. Look, I could go on at greater length but not here and not now. The Israeli election is hours away. Like President Trump, many of us urge the Israeli people to stick with Netanyahu because we earnestly and strongly believe that it is in both of our nation's best interests, and in the best interest of the Western civilization. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder.