President Bush already sits at the top of the pantheon of friends of the Jews. In 2,000 years, Jews have never had a friend like President George W. Bush. Only a few others in 2,000 years have entered the pantheon at all. The few members of the pantheon are all recent. Members include those who saved thousands of Jews, such as Rauol Wallenberg and Sugihara, Chiune and those who saved individual Jews, such as the saints memorialized in the line of trees at Yad Vashem. The Danes, as a nation, are in the pantheon of friends of the Jews..
President George W. Bush not only publicly supported the Jews when their enemies began indiscriminately killing Jews in September 2000 but adamantly vilified and punished the leader of the enemy camp. To this day he has never hesitated to support the Jews and vilify Arafat, the perverted leader of the enemy camp. President Bush has never spoken to nor met this evil man.
At the same time that President Bush joined the pantheon of friends of the Jews, former President Clinton gave a speech in the Fall of 2000 at Hebrew University calling on the recently victimized Jews of Israel to "be patient." The sub-text that I read into Clinton's indifference to murdered Jews is ' my long time friend Yasir tells me that killing Jews is only a temporary situation that he is trying to fix.'
Now here is my notice to all living and future Jews:
President Bush is the first president of the United States and the first leader of any major nation at any time in history to demand an end to European anti-Semitism.
I suggest that President Bush is no longer at the top of the pantheon of friends of the Jews, he has become the Zeus of the pantheon. I predict that President George W. Bush will become the most beloved figure in Jewish history and will be as important a part of future Passover services as Elijah is today.