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Ben's alliance is clearly to Israel. Always has been.

Totally fine, but the people who think like him are the ones who should fund the wars and go there to fight and not drag the rest of us into it.

I was left with a similar feeling. At the end of his rant I thought: why doesn't he pick up a rifle and fight for Israel? I can't help but feel this type of outrage from people that have not and will not pick up a rifle or get some skin in the game, is just a display of cowardice.

I went to war for my country. Ben should do the same if he's that bothered. I suspect however, that it's just not that important to him, to where he would blister his hands digging fighting positions, going on patrol, etc. But, if Americans tote rifles in defense of his interests, I'm sure he'd be ok with that. I mean, these are people from flyover country after all, not people with genius IQ's from Harvard. We can't spare the Ben Shapiro's of the world, but we can spare the sons and daughters of others without an Ivy pedigree.

I thought this was an awful display from Shapiro and it has changed my view of him.

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Posted by momentoftruth87

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Posted on 10/13/23 at 4:19 pm to POTUS2024

Here is an article discussing him being questioned at a previous cpac event

Ben Shapiro explains why he has not made ‘aliyah’

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Jews should live where they can be a light to the nations and for me as a person with millions and millions of followers in the United States promoting what I think are values that are eternally good, living in the United States is a point of morality for me,” he said.

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(July 20, 2022 / JNS) At the sold-out International Conservative Conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, The Daily Wire’s editor emeritus Ben Shapiro explained why he has not moved to Israel.

After being asked the question by journalist Amit Segal, Shapiro told the more than 2,500 attendees that living in the United States is a “point of morality” for him.

Because the fundamental principles [of the United States] are good, eternally good, and worth upholding, and my fight to do that as Jew is deeply important not just to people who are not Jewish but particularly to Jews,” he said. “So, in other words, my Jewish mission does not conflict with my presence in the United States or my citizenship in the United States or my loyalty to the United States.”

When Segal pushed Shapiro, asking if all Jews should live in the State of Israel, the American Jewish conservative political commentator and columnist said he believed that he is doing good in the United States with his large audience.

Jews should live where they can be a light to the nations, and for me, as a person with millions and millions of followers in the United States promoting what I think are values that are eternally good, living in the United States is a point of morality for me.”

The event was co-hosted by the U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Tel Aviv International Salon, Shibolet Press and Sella Meir Publishing.

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