Article Reflection [Trump vs Israel]

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Is Donald Trump the friend Israel Needs?

     The article I have chosen discusses the disdainment of race and gender due to a place's own language and culture. Donald Trump won the Presidential Election of 2016, and with this power he is soon to grasp, he wants to take the side of Israel. He planned to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, however this entails a withdrawal of Israeli sovereignty to be sinful, one of the reasons being that potential violence can erupt. Since forty percent of Israel considers themselves secular, their attitudes are reflected amongst their own cultures and beliefs. Trump professed his so-called 'friendship' with Israel, which further increased the extremist movements in Israel, even though he considers himself to be a true friend, all it did was increase the suspicion on him. The correlation is that Trump's language is only insulting to the Israelian culture and race, because it questions the stability of the nation and their believes, take for example Zionism. Zionism is, for example, a rhetoric, as for it revolves around independence and free-will, its plan is to build a modern Hebrew-speaking civil society. This is the importance of race on language, because the way people speak can alter the way advocates or politicians are seen, such as Donald Trump. His character is questioned because of the friendship he cared to develop with Israel. As for gender, the article reflects on nothing specifically about women, which shows that women are particularly neglected when it comes to topics like this. When it comes to politics or world issues, women don't have a voice, everyone in the article mentioned were men, such as Mr. Kerry and David M. Friedman. This may be one of the reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the election, which tells us that due to the disdainment of gender, the future of our nation could be different, and the same goes with racial and linguistic issues.

~Jessica Wong

Thank you for reading! Regards, Jessica

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