There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.
Jeffrey GoldbergIf you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews
Jeffrey GoldbergI would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.
Jeffrey GoldbergI would say that to vote for Trump was to at least overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a record of misogyny and racist invective. And so that is what is troubling to a lot of people and that's what makes this election, among other things, makes this election very different than others is that those good, decent people over - at least overlooked a very, very sorry record of prejudice.
Jeffrey GoldbergBarack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.
Jeffrey Goldberg