This is the most problematic aspect of his candidacy and frankly, it's a deal breaker for me.

His paean to Israel “as the only Middle East democracy” is glib lip service when Israel, like the US, has spent decades violating international law and human rights protections that were established to prevent a recurrence of the extermination of Jews, Poles and multiple others carried out by Nazi Germany. Fascism is fascism and trying to paint one variation as materially different from another variation and then defending it is exactly why it keeps rearing its ugly head.

His unacceptable stance on this is compounded by the rapidity with which he caved to the pro-Zionist lobbying groups and mouthpieces. Americans have had a bellyful of these entities dictating our foreign policy and suppressing our first amendment right to freedom of expression, which includes the right to promote a BDS movement to address apartheid in Israel the same way it dealt with apartheid in South Africa.

All of it smacks of hypocrisy and double standards, and it promotes the so-called "rules-based order" that privileges some countries with impunity while condemning other countries for acting in the exact same way.

You don't create a better world by leaving the rotten foundations intact and pretending they're sound. They're not only rotten, they're toxic to humanity and need to be eradicated.