By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO─ Angered by Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and late campaign renunciation of support for the Two State solution, President Obama waited until two days after the Israeli election to phone the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his victory. To add insult to injury, it was a collect call.
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Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president. One of his priorities is to relocate the capital of the United States to Atlantic City and reopen Trump Plaza as the new White House. Trump also questioned whether Ted Cruz could serve as president because he was born in Canada prompting Cruz to found the “earther” movement to check whether Trump was born on this planet.
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Starbucks cancelled its campaign to promote discussion about race relations in the United States after a number of its baristas were scalded by bigoted customers who spilled coffee on them.
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President Obama praised other countries for mandating voting and remarked that “it would be transformative if everybody voted – that would counteract money more than anything.” Fox News editorialized that this would violate the constitutional right to be apathetic.
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Representative Steve King of Iowa commented that he doesn’t “understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel along the line of just following their president.” Jewish Democrats responded by enrolling King in a crash course on American Jewish history from the Czar to FDR.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com . San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.