Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism Is Finally Pushing Jews to the Right
A Republican win in an historic Democratic congressional district in New York and an art exhibit canceled, after public outrage, at a children’s museum in Oakland, California, seem to be unrelated events.
But the relationship between these events would be apparent to anyone who took note of the claim of Svein Sevje, Norwegian ambassador to Israel, that the lives of Norwegian children slaughtered by a crazed fanatic were worth more than the lives of Jewish children slaughtered by Palestinians. Or anyone who observed that, this month, the government of Turkey conspicuously separated Israeli passengers arriving at the Istanbul airport, had them strip searched, held them incommunicado for ninety-minutes, and then released them without explanation.
For Jews, it is the 1930s all over again. We are living in the early days of the garden of beasts, although this time the appellation is not about one country, but about much of the world.
The various campaigns against Israel have long ago crossed the line from legitimate criticisms of a state’s policies to demonizing the Jewish people. The signs are everywhere, from the rhetoric of the good people at the local “peace and justice” brigade, to the flagrant anti-Semitism at our colleges and universities. These institutions have decency and sensitivity codes to protect every identity group, but find anti-Semitism the one hate speech protected by the First Amendment.
When the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), a Bay Area group known for its virulent hostility toward Israel, sponsored an “art show” titled “A Child’s View from Gaza” at Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA), the museum agreed to accept the exhibit. I have no doubt that if a group of yahoos decided to have a children’s film festival showcasing films that looked terribly like the racist The Birth of a Nation, it would have taken the museum directors six frames to decide on the inappropriateness of the subject matter, especially for a museum whose mission is to make all children feel safe and comfortable.
Yet, initially, the museum had no trouble accepting the exhibit, allegedly the work of Gaza’s children, 8-11 years-old, that depicted Israeli soldiers committing grotesque acts of violence on “innocent” Palestinians. The exhibit was a crude propaganda display. It attributed to Israeli soldiers what Palestinian terrorists routinely do: target children. There was Ma’alot with 22 children dead out of 25, the attack on the nursery at Kibbutz Misgav Am with 2 children dead out of 3, the Dolphinarium bombing with 21 teens dead, and the long inventory of children and young people purposely targeted at discos, fast-food restaurants, and malls. Palestinian terrorists conduct willful campaigns of genocide by deliberately targeting children and places where young people are known to congregate. The Palestinian Authority celebrates these murderers as heroes, names public places after them, and holds them up as role models. The propaganda display at MOCHA turned reality on its head.
And much of the “art work” seemed far and away too advanced for the age group. People who have some expertise in these matters saw the art as the work of much older and more sophisticated hands.
Would Jewish children have felt safe and comfortable viewing this one-sided exhibit? Would the Jewish community have been then permitted to launch an exhibit titled “The Art of Jewish Victims of Terrorism,” depicting the consequences of death and destruction wrought by suicide bombings and rockets? And would that have made Arab children feel safe and comfortable?
The exhibit was canceled because of the strong efforts of the Jewish community’s official organizations. Left-leaning to a fault, incredibly cautious about anything remotely looking like censorship, the community groups finally recognized that a line leading straight into the depths of perdition had been crossed. The Jew haters were hijacking a children’s museum for their filth. Those who had far too long tolerated the anti-Semitism of the Berkeley Daily Planet, the hostile environment on the Berkeley campus, and the transformation of the local Hillel into a propaganda mill for the pro-Palestinian campus groups now saw something that even for them had gone too far.
It reminded me of a scene in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. When the secret police came for a village’s children, the usually compliant villagers were suddenly transformed into a murderous mob turning on the police.
The hatred spewed by the exhibition’s supporters on the museum’s Facebook page proves that this exhibition was never about art.
At last, the official Jewish community, the epitome of caution and restraint, ever optimistic to the point of being foolish, was mobilized. Neither the activists nor the people who militated against the community’s frequent stupidity and inertia could have engendered this reaction, but the gaggle of Israel bashers and Jew haters caused the official community, finally, to take notice.
Meanwhile, in New York’s 9th congressional district, many Jewish voters finally confronted the Obama administration’s lengthy record of attacking Israel. Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, asked Jewish voters to send President Obama a message, and with Robert Turner’s win, it is apparent that they did.
Only 64% of Jews who contributed to Obama’s 2008 campaign say they will contribute to his 2012 campaign. And while conservatives quip that if Obama nuked Tel Aviv, he’d lose only 8% of the Jewish vote, it is clear that a pattern of demanding everything from Israel and nothing from the Palestinians has finally caused even some of the most die-hard Jewish Democrats to reject Obama.
In his first address to the UN General Assembly, Obama drew parallels between living conditions in Gaza and rocket attacks on Israel, causing one to wonder if he thought that living conditions in D.C.’s Northeast neighborhood would justify a Qassam rocket attack on Pennsylvania Avenue. The diplomatic and rhetorical abuses of Israel by this administration are long in number and amply documented. Only those Jews who are true believers will refuse to acknowledge that the man who spent 20 years at the foot of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and saw Rashid Khalidi as an objective voice on the Middle East is now executing Middle East policies consonant with those experiences.
Jews are not single issue voters. What is pushing many Jews over the edge into the arms of the Republicans is the worldwide growth of anti-Semitism as inspired by leftists and Islamic fundamentalists. That is why the “selection process” in the Istanbul airport, callously and purposely reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camp procedure, is going to make a lot of Jews for whom Israel is irrelevant rethink that point of view.
I have an acquaintance who mouths almost every tired cliché created by George Soros’ J-Street. She belongs to a synagogue where the J-Street message is embraced. She mouths these talking points with a smug pseudo-sophistication as if they were the product of an erudite belief system, but she is incapable of understanding in any detail much of what she says. She never voted Republican. And even if the Almighty himself were placed on the ballot with an “R” before his name, she wouldn’t vote for him. She talks endlessly about Israel taking risks for peace, but would cringe with fear if she knew her grandchildren got on the Chicago L and went to the south side after dark. She raged against the invasion of Gaza and lamented each Palestinian casualty. I never once heard her show an ounce of compassion or concern for a Jewish victim of either a suicide attack or rocket launched from Gaza. They were beyond her realm of concern or the ability to get status affirmation from her liberal friends.
Israelis call these American Jews “unJews.” They will follow Obama like lemmings. They are more concerned with killing a fetus than saving the life of a living fellow Jew. They smugly refer to Evangelical Christians as “American Hezbollah.” They think Islamophobia is a greater problem than anti-Semitism. They are attentive to politics, but only to what reaffirms their liberal belief system. But one day their grandchildren might fly into an airport someplace in the Muslim world, be separated from everyone else, stripped naked, held incommunicado, and treated, as in Istanbul, like they don’t exist.
The Muslims and the virulent anti-Semites never cease to give me hope.
I agreed with all of this article, but then I read the last sentence, “The Muslims and the virulent anti-Semites never cease to give me hope.”, and I was rather repelled.
Prof. Miller, I think you were trying to be ironic in some dark way, but it didn’t work.
I agree with you on that. The irony will be lost on some, purposely used to bad effect by others.
Dear Diana: Miller’s comment “The Muslims and the virulent anti-Semites never cease to give me hope.” did work for me. Miller’s choice of words was an excellent way of driving home the point that sometimes meaningful and significant political progress is assured by outrageous behavior. In this case Miller was saying that the extreme Muslims and virulent Jew haters galvanize political opposition against their point of view: i.e., extremism is not the political resource that radical Muslims and anti-semites hoped it would be. I recommend you take a political science course that explains the basics of political conflict.
I agree. This is the same as Barack Obama turning out to be a blessing because he revealed the misguided views of the left like nobody else could have. The man is performing a public service after all: Not the way he intended it, but useful anyway: This candidate would never have been elevated to the highest office without an electorate stupidly entranced by the talking points of the left, towards which they had not been adequately critical. Now, many of us come to realize their mistake, which would not have been possible without this disastrous experiment. Of course the same applies to the jews, because this president’s policies put Israel at great risk, without good reason.
So in other words no experiment is an utter failure as it can always be used as a bad example!
They never cease to give him hope that the Jewish “true believers” (in O) will finally see the light and be driven to the right.
No, if there’s hope it’s because we in the blogosphere keep plugging away to rouse the public’s anger against the likes of George Soros and the nefarious J Street.
Israel has the idea that they can treat others like s*hit and they would thank you for it. Now, that definitely is a wrong idea. Profiling passengers is a common practice and Turks had been mistreated for a long time. I know that does not excuse Turks to mistreat Israeli tourists. It is a common courtesy though that you treat others as you want them to treat you.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/foreign-ministry-officials-admit-turkey-citizens-routinely-humiliated-at-israel-s-airport-1.382663
Wake up and remember please. This is happening again, and we need to wake up. Please review the following wartime work of one Theodore Geisel, later to become known as Dr. Seuss:
The Archive is at UCSD and is accessible online…
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm
Every Jew can always come and live in Israel, enjoy our high standard of living, excellent and fairly priced universal health care, kosher food, every kind of Jewish religious expression, and the joy of living among one’s Jewish People.
All a Jew has to do is arrive at ben Gurion airport and ask to be a citizen of the greatest country in history, Israel!
Ken: I’d never fit in in Israel. First, I was raised Reform, and today am not at all observant. So, I am not considered a “real Jew” – or welcome there – by much of your defacto leadership.
Second, America is my country, not Israel. I live an American life, exercise many US customs, and am a mountain man at heart. Most of my friends are gentiles because so many Jews here are like the woman described in the article. I speak virtually no Hebrew.
Thanks for the offer, but I refuse to run. Jews have been running for centuries. I won’t. This is my country. If I leave her, it will not be because the Berkeley or the Dearborn crowd runs me out.
Hey Hon, Some of us understand and agree. Dearbornite Granny
Grizzly, Your response is uninformed regarding Israel and Israeli society. Have you ever visited Israel?
As a Christian American I don’t want you to leave – or ever feel like you have to. The day Jews feel unsafe in America is the day we Christians declare full-on war against the left.
Amen, lolly. And, sadly. that time is coming.
Amen.
Count me in. A proud supporter of Israel.
The decision to live as a Reform Jew and observe or not to observe the faith is a luxury only because Israel exists. History harshly reminds us that assimilation did not protect European Jewry nor did it protect Daniel Pearl.
Maybe, but European Jewry and Daniel Pearl did not have millions of bitter-clingers and their guns behind them.
Dear Sadie.
Religious freedom in the US has zero to do with Israel. No law does or can exist in the United States of America to force Grizzly to adhere to or follow any religion.
You could look it up.
Israeli law or Israeli political power is irrelevant to his religious freedom.
History reminds us that assimilation did not protect European Jewry?
History reminds us of no such thing. What doomed Jews — and a lot of other Germans — was that assimilated Jewish Germans, unassimilated Jewish Germans, and non-Jewish Germans all lost control of their government and Germany was taken over by a bunch of vicious, lunatic radical leftists (that’s the “socialist” part in “National Socialism”). Again, this is something you can look up on the internet.
That government then conceived of several homicidal ideas — just like radical leftist Soviet, Chinese and Cambodian regimes that thought it should be state policy to eradicate “the bourgeoisie,” “landlords,” “running dogs of imperialism,” or “anyone with eyeglasses.” Take your pick.
The National Socialists (focus on that word) had two equally lunatic ideas, namely, (1) kill off Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and all regime opponents, inter alia, and (2) wage aggressive war against a massive country with a massive population off to the east. Both of these ideas resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews, gypsies, etc. AND it resulted in the death of millions and millions and millions of non-Jewish Germans. All this because Germany came to be a totalitarian regime and worshiped political power.
So, despite your considerable intelligence, which I do NOT doubt, the tragedy I see in your post is that your self-imposed blinders cause you to see the world in Jew-goy monochrome. Mr. Grizzly gets it about what America is all about but you don’t. The American experiment with a constitutional republic sought to prevent fanatics and lunatics from being able to do what the National Socialists (that word again!) did in Germany and what communist regimes did elsewhare. Once power is concentrated in few hands ANY social, political, military, economic, racial, eugenic, cultural, or religious idiocy can take root and become official policy without the check of other power holders, the press, or public opinion.
You, having allowed the foolishness of “Israel our real protector” to take root in YOUR mind, thus have manifestly failed to understand what political problem the Framers tried to solve. I’ll go out on a limb, furthermore, and take a wild guess that you support every radical left-wing party, politician, and initiative here in the U.S. and, so, do your utmost to ensure that the rule of law is undermined, that union thuggery is unopposed, that election fraud and intimidation is ignored, that communists and socialists are poured into the federal government, and, above all, that the Supreme Court’s evisceration of federalism is celebrated at every opportunity. In short, I predict that you support in every way possible the accumulation of untrammeled federal government power so that we risk becoming a state in which the people lose control of their government and lunatic ideas can be implemented.
But Sadie, you go right ahead and hold fast to that idea that Israel is your true protector and that non-assimilation is the way to go. I take it you are unassimilated, yes?
On Daniel Pearl, note that he foolishly allowed himself to fall into the hands of Muslim killers in a remote and primitive region of the world that is far from Israel or the United States (his homeland). Tell me more how Mr. Pearl’s decision to be an assimilated Jew in the U.S. led to his not being protected. And, while you’re at it, let me know where you stand on Muslim immigration to the U.S., please. Surely, you think that’s a huge mistake, right?
I love the United States and feel a strong loyalty to my country. It is a great place to be Jewish. I love Israel and feel a strong pull to my people. I never intend to leave the U.S. but it sure is nice that we Jews have a place to call our own.
Grizzly you’ve clearly never been to Israel. 80% of the country is secular. Only in the U.S. and Europe are all the synagogues full on Yom Kippur but in Israel, unless you are living in a religious enclave, you’ll be lucky to find more than a handful of people attending kol nidre for instance and they’ll all have grey hair. I’m very loosely reform and the only time I went to services in the US were for the high holy days (where you always had to get tickets in advance to assure you’d get in) but have given it up after trying for several years to find a ‘non-seniors’ service in huge but empty synagogues in Tel Aviv and surroundings.
Grizzly, There is reason why you don’t fit in Israel, Reform Judaism along with same Hasidic nuts had objected The creation of the State Of Israel in 1930′s. Unfortunately Reform Judaism have turned 3000 years of Jewish traditions up side down. And you are the perfect beneficiary.
The day that a Jewish person feels unsafe in Dearborn Mi.just get on this site and ask for help….There are a lot of “USA Hesbollah”, err, I mean Born Again Christians that will be more than willing to Drive to Mi. or any other state in USA to Aid the Chosen…The Day that a Jew in this country feels they need help against evil hate mongers, Is a sad day indeed…NOT IN MY LIFETIME.>>…Good Jewish friends, we True Christians were there for you 70 plus years ago…Shalom..Jimi
The emancipation that started in Europe in the 1850s and from which the Jews were not excluded gave rise to an unprecedented optimism among the Jews. The great Zionist leaders like Hertzl and Nordau were convinced that the end of the mass-murdering of Jews had come and the idea of the Jewish State was less related to Israel becoming a sanctuary and more a place where Jews could realise their great potential for themselves. They were wrong. We all know what happened in Europe form 1930 to 1948. The next shoah is coming. And the Jews who are weakening Israel with criticism will be the first knocking on the door of the only sanctuary we have.
Any support for the chaotic, undemocratic, half-literate, religious fanatics in the west-bank of Jordan and in Gaza is killing Jews by proxy.
My (now very) elderly friends in Zion, Illinois would say, “Never again…) and those who know their history would understand. It is time for all of us to say “Never again!”, and begin by cleansing the White House and putting America back on track as a bastion of FREEDOM for the world.
The key is FREEDOM, including the Freedom of Religion. The Left wants to kill Religion as it conflicts with their God, the State. I believe the Evangelicals began to defend Israel and the Jewish faith as they saw themselves also persecuted.
We need in the US to promote the FREEDOM of Religion, for each of us to practice our own with as little interference as possible. The Government keeps making laws to control our morality where is suits the state, and to promote immorality where it likes.
Defining marriage as between all and sundry by law, when the religious ceremony is between a man and a woman is a perfect example. It was done as prior laws conferred rights to the spouse not available otherwise. Instead shouldn’t we have done Civil Unions and slowly rewrote the laws to confer rights on that. Marriage is a religious item, not a state item. A perfect example.
I wonder how long the Jewish community will support and promote its enemies.
We did do civil unions. It wasn’t enough for the gay community. This was never about equal rights – just like the pal situation isn’t about statehood. What the gays actually want is to destroy the church. They want the ability to sue the churches if/when they refuse to marry them (gays). It’s just another tactic of the left to get Christianity out of the public eye. To nullify it – to secularize everything.
It seems that History is repeating itself.
It looks as if too many have forgotten what that History looked like.
This J-Street Jewish friend shows, sadly, how it was possible for the German Jewish Council in the 3rd Reich to appease -appease -appease, boot-licking the monster bureaucrats, not helping their fellow Jews for fear of rocking the boat … until the time came for them as well to board the freight wagons to Auschwitz.
When will people learn?
From the article: “Only 64% of Jews who contributed to Obama’s 2008 campaign say they will contribute to his 2012 campaign.”
“ONLY 64%”?!?!? Oy gevalt! As Paul Newman said in “Nobody’s Fool” — “I thought Jews were supposed to be smart.” But, evidently . . . not so much. If past generations had been as willfully blind as the current one, we never would have lasted 4,000 years. How on earth could 64% of ANY group support such a failed administration?
The very same 64% who never read the Ten Commandments. Thou shall have no other G-d before you.
Liberal Jews have built their very own idol – they worship at the alter of progressive politics.
Absolutely right. The real Jewish religion — the actual faith-based practice of most Jews (who don’t believe in God, according to an atheist Jewish friend of mine who attends shul for ethno-cultural reasons) — is leftism. The idea that 64% would still contribute to O is nothing short of appalling.
I will third the motion re: “only” 64% will give money to Obama’s campaign.
You have got to be kidding me. This is simply astounding. I can only surmise that many american jewish folks are literally suicidal or simply totally ignorant of history or perhaps so wedded to the religion (and I mean that in every sense of the word) of liberal progressivism that absolutely nothing can sway them.
For some jewish americans (I guess it’s that 64% at a minimum) they are still being fooled in the belief that arbeit macht frei.
Jews have always been left-wingers. In the first half of the 20th century, they were active in socialist labor movements of their own founding (e.g., the “Workmen’s Circle”). Jews were prominent in the Communist Party too. Saul Alinsky was a Jew. Many Jews actually saw a congruence between Judaism and socialism.
Jewish women were instrumental in launching the feminist movement–women like Andrea Dworkin, the ultra-left-winger Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan.
Tom Wolfe coined the phrase “Radical Chic” to describe how Leonard Bernstein and his fellow Manhattan liberals fell in love with the black militants of the 1960s.
And even the state of Israel was originally founded as a democratic but socialist republic, with its network of collective farms (kibbutzim).
So Jews and leftism have been intertwined since Karl Marx (who was also a Jew).
It was possible to be a liberal or even a leftist and still be pro-Israel, as long as leftism was concerned with economic bread-and-butter issues. But starting in the 1960s, the New Left switched its focus to cultural and multicultural issues, siding with Third World peoples against Western peoples. They now openly cheer the Palestinian “people of color” fighting the Israeli “apartheid”, as if Jews are like South African whites who came to a land they had no history in.
Never again. Live free as a conservative or die a stupid liberal.
Jews everywhere should start reading the prophets of Israel….Yechezkel (Ezekiel 38) is happening in the middle east RIGHT NOW…just look at the players and notice that these people REALLY ARE going to cross the Golan Heights (mountains of Israel)to attack the only jewish state in the world which is foretold in graphic detail by the prophet who lists the very countries that are currently involved in “democratic” change which is a collosal farce since islam is rule by allah NOT rule by the people, thus a giant califate with the quran as the constitution and khomenis running things in true muslim form with swords and bomb belts.
here is a list of the players in Ezekiel chapter 38 (notice the last verse in the chapter says…THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT I (G-D OF ISRAEL) AM THE L-RD
cush = ethiopia, somalia, sudan
put = lybia, algeria, tunisia, morrocco
gomer = eastern europe
togarmah = turkey
GOG = leader of MAGOG (RUSSIA)
PERSIA = IRAN
Meshech = Moscow
Tubal = Tobol ‘sk
Of special interest is what country is missing from that list – Babylonia = Iraq.
Oops – Babylonia = Babylon.
Rule by Allah = rule by Satan.
Since Barry Goldwater I’ve been sneered and smirked at, ridiculed and smeared by pseudo intellectual smug progressive/liberal/communist metro-Jews.
Though a long time lover of Israel, a judophile declared a “righteous goy” by Israeli and American Jews, I for one shall get out of bed if that cabal tries to slide over to my side.
There is a history between Jews and the GOP that provides context. Country club republicans were very exclusionary (not just Jews). Dems were not. Of course that has changed a lot but it takes time for the prejudice and suspicions to dissipate. In the meantime, the Democratic party has been completely hijacked by the left. All the moderates have been kicked to the curb or under the bus. This gives the GOP a real opportunity to make inroads in previously excluded groups. I pray that sanity prevails, even in the democratic party.
Today’s GOP has to show that it has rid itself of that snooty WASP country-club gated-community snobbery. (“I have nothing against Jews personally; I just don’t feel they belong in my country club.”)
That it’s possible to be a blue-collar worker and be welcomed in the GOP. That it’s possible to be black or Hispanic or Jewish and be welcomed in the GOP.
Just having one or two national politicians to show off, like Herman Cain or Eric Cantor or Marco Rubio, is insufficient. It has to be evident at the grass-roots and local races as well.
Cantor, Rubio and Cain are not tokens, as you seem to think. The tea party has been putting up all sorts of conservative candidates in minority districts. But the missing piece of the puzzle isn’t the gop – it’s that PEOPLE have to vote for those candidates. In many cases they have shown they would rather have a crooked D than an uncle tom/race traitor R.
Cain and Cantor are sincere, but Rubio is the real deal. He’s going to become President one day.
It’s comments like this one that simply boggle my mind. Seriously, do you really think that there is some kind of bouncer screening who is allowed to be a member of the GOP? Do you even know how to join a political party? You just mark down your affiliation on your voter registration card, and NO ONE is going to tell you that you’re not allowed to join.
What this is really about is hand-outs. It’s not the GOP that’s refusing entrance to anyone. It’s the minorities and blue-collar workers who are refusing to join the GOP! And why do they refuse to support Republican candidates? Because Republicans believe in the founding principles of this country: freedom, independence, and self-sufficiency. That means Republicans aren’t handing out welfare checks and supporting union thuggery.
But blue-collar workers and minorities can count on the Democrats to buy their votes with hand-outs and union jobs. And so minorities and blue-collar workers scream that the GOP is “for the rich” and “racist,” all because the GOP is supporting our Constitution instead of socialism. Just look at the immigration issue! The GOP wants to follow the rule of law (which is exactly what the majority of Americans also demand). But the Democrats want all those Hispanic votes. So the GOP is labeled as racist, and the Democrats push for amnesty so they can add 20 million new Democrats to the voter rolls.
Why did black people vote 96% for Obama, and yet they ignore Alan Keyes when he is on the presidential ballot? Keyes has been a candidate before, and he was a candidate in 2008 too. But blacks refuse to vote for Keyes. Why is that? It’s because they would rather vote for a white Democrat than for a conservative black man. Why would they do that? Because the white Democrat buys their votes with welfare checks, and the conservative black Keyes expects them to get a job.
My congressman is a Hispanic Republican. What’s pathetic is that he represents a mostly-Hispanic district, and yet when he ran for congress before, he lost to a non-Hispanic white Democrat who was promising welfare. Other Hispanics refused to vote for him because he campaigned as a conservative Republican who expects them to work instead of living off the government. He finally won in 2010, during the backlash against Obama.
The reality is that most minorities are brainwashed in some fashion. They are either brainwashed to think they can do no better than welfare, or else they have jobs are are brainwashed by Democrats into thinking that the GOP is racist. Just like you. Here you are insisting that the GOP doesn’t want any Jews, blue-collar workers, or minorities in the party. You’re so brainwashed you think Cain and Rubio are the only minority Republicans on the planet. What about my congressman? I bet you never voted for Alan Keyes, but I did.
What about my hometown, which is 95% Hispanic, and the local Republican party consists of hard-working Hispanic businessmen? Yes, at the grassroots level, the GOP is all Hispanic. Of course, they never win elections, because the rest of the town always votes for the Democrats and their handouts. It doesn’t matter that the Republican candidates are Hispanic just like all of the voters. The voters want handouts so they vote for the Democrats, and then they yell that the GOP is racist.
The last Tea Party held in my hometown featured 10 speakers, and 8 of them were Hispanic (one of the non-Hispanic speakers has a Hispanic wife). What amazed me were all the Democrats who did not attend the event, but they all talked about how those horrible racist Tea Partiers were at it again. I think my favorite reaction was from a white woman who made a sign calling the Tea Party racist; she drove around the park where we were meeting, playing loud mariachi music. Unfortunately, she was so busy screaming about racism that she didn’t notice she was interrupting a speech by a Hispanic judge….
Just how thorough is the Democrats’ brainwashing? It is so thorough that when George W Bush was president, he appointed more minorities than any previous president, including the first black Secretary of state (Colin Powell) as well as the first female black Secretary of State (Condi Rice). And yet people will still tell you that Bill Clinton appointed more minorities than any other president. And they will tell you that Bush hates black people.
Just so you know, Democrats are not compassionate. They don’t love minorities and the poor. They just want power! They know they can stay in power by buying votes through welfare and amnesty.
In reality, Democrat policies destroy peoples’ lives. Poverty in America was on the decline until Lyndon Johnson instituted his Great Society of massive welfare. Poverty has steadily climbed, and the black family has been destroyed by Johnson’s programs.
Hey, let’s take a further look at that. Who freed the slaves? A Republican president. Who forced the Civil Rights laws through congress in the 1960s? The GOP, while Democrats were in the KKK. And who forced the affirmative action law through Congress? The GOP.
So why do minorities vote for Democrats? Welfare. The result of welfare? Government dependency and destruction of the family. In 1963, 23.6% of black women were having babies out of wedlock. In 2008, 72% of black women giving birth were unmarried. Why marry when the government will give you another welfare check for every fatherless baby you have? Why go to school when Uncle Sam will pay the bills?
And by the way, you remember the “first black president,” Bill Clinton? My brother-in-law worked in the White House during Clinton’s presidency. The Clintons are racist pigs! My brother-in-law was apalled by the horrible racist and anti-semitic things that Bill and Hillary used to say when the press wasn’t around.
No, my dear, Democrats are not compassionate people who love the poor and minorities. They are racist pigs who keep minorities dependent on welfare checks so they can buy their votes and stay in power.
It wasn’t just country-club Republicans who were antisemitic. Lindbergh had a large following in the hinterlands and small towns. See this blog:
http://clarespark.com/2011/06/03/neo-isolationists-and-the-jewish-problem/. But we don’t even teach about antisemitism in the schools, for Jews are not held to be in a victim class, but as the chief oppressors of non-whites and “Main Street.” I attempted a list of all the sources of this manifest or latent antisemitism here: http://clarespark.com/2010/11/14/the-abcs-of-antisemitism/.
Having grown up around those exclusionary country clubs, I can say that it was not a GOP stronghold. It was a money and birth family issue. The Republicans that were members, were almost exclusively liberal Republicans. (Think Nelson Rockefeller) Neither were they Christian. Any church going was strickly for show, not as a lifestyle. If you belonged to the wrong church (i.e. one that followed a Christian lifestyle), you were also excluded.
They were quite proud socially though, that they were “enlightened” enough to allow Jews, Baptists, Catholics, Blacks, Italians, Irish, etc to work at their country clubs and be in their presence. I had the privelege of working as one of their caddies. Our pay was tips, and generally, they would pull out a large tip ($5-10 at the time), only to withhold it and give me a quarter or two, telling me that I would be tempted to spend that much money inappropriately, so they would spend it for me to better provide for my needs. (My food and rent never seemed to fit into their idea of my needs.)
History is being rewritten enough by the progressive/liberal factions, that it does not need to be done here.
Early history of mankind found the agrarians develop communities and live peaceful lives in valleys or plains until barbarians from the mountains would come to kill them, pillage, rape and dominate the survivors. Eventually, future generations would civilize them and they would become benign until new Barbarians from the mountains and forests invaded. Inexplicably, Jews represent the benign agrarians who have an ability to blind themselves to the past and to reality as peace-loving, comfort-loving bourgeois always do. To a degree we are all like that. The Spirit of ’76 exists only in rare pockets and homes of America today. The vast majority of Americans would never take up arms against the most atrocious imposition. The best we will do is what I am doing now, write a comment. Jews tend to make a religion of bourgeoisie. Even Jews in Germany in the 1930s continue to pooh-pooh Hitler until it was too late. In this millennium in America they reveal an ironic relationship to their genetic cousins, the Arabs, who produce suicide bombers while the Jews produce suicide voter.
I hope you are right about the Jews finally awakening. I watched the movie The Debt and there was a both profound and sickening scene in it. The prisoner says to one of his captors that they knew they could do anything they wanted to the Jews when they only had to use four armed guards to march 1,000 Jews into the gas chambers. Even when they took their children away from them, the Jews did nothing. I hope as many people as possible see this movie.
Oldguy,
I haven’t seen the movie “The Debt” yet but one thing I remember from my history lessons is the trouble the Nazis ran into in Warsaw. The resistance was so heavy it took them almost as long to subdue the Warsaw ghetto as it did to subjugate the rest of the country. The Nazis walked in expecting the Jews to submit but were handed their hats. They had to back off and use artillery to reduce the ghetto to rubble and even then were afraid to go in there.
As a Roman Catholic, I have lived a life mystified by American Jews passivity toward Israel. Many times I find myself the defender of Israel to my Jewish friends.
Anyway to Perry’s comment, read “Mila 18″ by Leon Uris. It’s the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It’s an absolutely chilling read and one of my most favorite books ever.
Never forget.
The love affair with the Democratic party is over for this Jewish guy. Israel is just one of many issues. The true Obama came out this week-the old tax and spend routine. Beat up the mean old corporations and rich guys. It is not going to work.
Saw it all at Hopkins in the 60′s: the Nassau County Crowd never changes.
Simply put, they and many others put ideals, inculcated in their closed communities far above experience. There is no compassion for those who do not fit the mold.
If Israel dies, it will be because many Israeli follow the Marxist view, which played a large role in founding the country. I might say many Jews are like so many Bourbons: they forget nothing and learn nothing.
Israel cannot die. God Himself promises that. 2/3 of the Jews will perish in the coming time of Jacob’s Trouble, but as for the third part, they shall be purged of all iniquity and live with their God. And don’t think this is anti-Semitic: the Jews are getting off light compared to other nations, whose death toll could easily exceed 90% or even 99%.
Wake up Jewish people. This was never about being anti-semitic. Don’t use this race card AGAIN to justify bad treatment of the Palestinians (whom are also semitic by the way). America is tired of supporting the Israeli government’s destructive antics in this 60+ year conflict. Notice how I did not say Jewish people !!!! One holocaust does not justify another! Lets reverse the roles. Lets say Palestine is still a country run by Arabs and 6 million Jews were currently squeezed into the West Bank and Gaza, would there be outrage? Hell yeah! Point is, let the Palestinians live free and govern themselves just like America did in 1776 when the British pushed the colonial people to the brink.
Before you get pissed and write something stupid, just remember one thing; ALL of us are tired of being played against one another and want this conflict to be resolved. When Palestine is formed the end result will be this…. Israel WILL be recognized by all who currently oppose it. A sovereign Palestine will no longer be a place worth risking protracted conflict over. Meaning,there is no longer a need to fight for something you have. Jewish people here and abroad the message is clear; We support your religious beliefs and your culture. Call your representatives today and proclaim that the fighting needs to stop. Tell them to support the formation of Palestine. I am proud to say that some of my best friends are Jews (family doctor, my BEST friend from high school and too many to name) ,and guess what, I am of Palestinian decent. Go figure!
Evil, anti-semitic (this word actually comes from Germany and is recognized as pertaining ONLY to the Jews) troll. If you have been paying attention and listening to Abbas then you would know that the arabs will never recognize Israel and have as their intention to not only drive all those Jews into the sea but to kill every Jew on the planet. They have said so.
The only true palistinians are the Jews – so named by the Romans. The arabs now occupying Judea, Samaria and Gaza are Egyptians and Jordanians. As such they have the right of return – to their own respective countries. If those countries will not have them back please feel free to take that up with those countries or the UN.
So the alternative is to keep fighting ? I have a saying in my line of work which is “take away the objections” If Palestine is granted a state, what argument do they have to commit violent acts? Jews live among many people in this country and the world and how many have you PERSONALLY known to be KILLED much less persecuted? Probably ZERO. MOST Jews are killed in ISRAEL by people that the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT oppresses. Big distinction. I just think both Israeli Jews and Palestinians are tired of living in fear, tired of the next attack from either side. As for technical inferences to what the Romans called Jews, I could care less. Lets fast forward into the present for once and find a solution to the current disagreements. What’s the worst that could happen? Palestine does not get formed and the violence continues unchanged. How does this make any sense? God forbid that one day Israel becomes an ally of Palestine. After all, which country now stands by America through any conflict?
The opposite of war is not peace – it’s slavery. Israel does not oppress the arabs – but arabs oppress Jews. Israel have offered the arabs everything (except right of return) they asked for and the arabs refused at least twice. Yet in your odd world the fault lies with the Jews and not the arabs. You think that once they have their state the problems go away. I say the arabs are all about faux grievances. They WILL find something else to demand of Israel. Abbas himself said that statehood was just another baby step in creating a one state solution – a state without Jews. He also said that as soon as Israel was destroyed and there was not another Jew in the region they would immediately declare themselves to be Jordanians. This is not about a pal state – it’s about arab intolerance.
lolly,
Your inference regarding war, peace and slavery is non-sense. Did the Palestinians then become slaves in 1948? NO. They have just adapted to a really bad circumstance, but I wouldn’t call them slaves by any means. I don’t think a newly formed Palestine would risk a reprisal from the US or worst the Israeli military either for Jerusalem or any additional territory. Lets fast forward 50-100 years. Lets say Palestine is fully established and has a vibrant economy. Violence is non-existent. It now trades freely with Israel with same arrangement Canada has with the US. Once again, why risk that scenario, particularly with a military as capable as Israel’s? Bottom line, nothing really changes the way things stand now. At least with a Palestine you have a chance.
Dear Lord! You actually think that once a piece of dirt is actually called palestine that all violence will stop? You, sir, are stark raving mad!
“people that the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT oppresses.”
Dear God, what a deluded fool.
if you bothered to read the whole thread you would have noticed that I was simply making a distinction between Jewish people and the Israeli Government. I do not confuse/blame Jewish people with the policies of the government of Israel as they pertain to the economic and military oppression of the Palestinian people located in GAZA and the West Bank. I also do not agree or condone violent acts taken against Israeli citizens from GAZA, the WEST BANK or Lebanon. To pretend that no one was killed in the last 60 years of conflict on either side is the only thing that is foolish. Please notice that throughout all of this debate I have yet to call anyone a fool. Try to do the same.
Michael, if I take you at your word, you seem like someone Israelis could make some progress with. You don’t sound like a religious extremist who has been brainwashed since childhood to hate Jews. But one of the problems is that Israel is surrounded by quite a few unreasonable people (like the fundamentalists of Hamas, or those who brainwash children in the West Bank to hate Jews and deny Jewish history) or those who make impossible demands (like the Right of Return, or relinquishing Jewish holy sites). Plus there are despots in the region (like the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad and the sword-brandishing hothead Erdogan) who are allied to Palestinians and pay lip service to their cause for aggressively anti-Israel and pro-Islamic reasons. What trust can there be in this context? What leaps of faith can be taken? Israel sees what happens when it relinquishes territory: Hamas moves in and suddenly the Iranian mullahs have an outpost. It’s bloody dangerous (and naive) for Israelis to make concessions when their partners for peace are not Michael the reasonable American Palestinian, but the type of people I describe.
I’m curious to know what you think of the “Jordan is Palestine” idea. When the Brits divided the territory a while back, it’s the area now known as Jordan which was intended to be the Arab portion of Palestine. Since most of Jordan is Palestinian already (about 70%, I think, ruled by a Hashemite minority), and since it’s a much larger territory than the West Bank and Gaza (which together don’t comprise a viable country, being two tiny disconnected zones with two different governments), and since Israel can’t take the chance of having no military presence in the Jordan Valley or allowing the Palestinian state to be armed… maybe the idea of Jordan becoming the Arab Palestine it was intended to be makes some sense. Perhaps this could happen with compensation for Palestinians as well. It seems to me that this scenario would provide a sense of security for Israelis and a big solid territory for Palestinians. Remember that the million or so Jews who had to leave Arab lands in 1948-49 made a home in Israel and didn’t insist on carving a second home for themselves in those same Arab lands. Perhaps it’s time for Palestinians to consider that Jordan should now be their home and put an end to their unrealistic insistence on carving yet another home for themselves right in 9-mile-wide Israel’s face, with all the dangers and risks and insurmountable obstacles that notion involves.
The problem we have is that prior to 1948 we, along with most Palestinians, had land and title in Palestine, not Jordan. My family still possesses a title to a house (my grandfather’s)in Haifa that became null and void after ’48. Imagine for a minute if a group came in to your state (or country) and declared it a separate country. What would happen to your rights to your property? How would you feel? Would you fight for it? Would you flee? Well most with any sort of money, (including my family) fled to Lebanon. Some went to Jordan and other parts of the Arab world. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not a good melting pot. America and most of the west is the exception to this rule because of our economic system. I can tell you from experience of being there that Jordan is not a good alternative for a Palestinian state in the same way that Europe would not be a proper place for a new Israel. Israel will remain where it is as will the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The roots are too deep and, as such, the 2 cultures must be allowed made to melt into one. For God’s sake, we eat the same food ! If you really think about it, the people there are more genetically related too each other then they think. Can you imagine killing someone you are related too? My ultimate dream is for a merger, a unification. Call it UPI (United Palestine-Israel) or whatever. Germany went through it after the economic conditions favored it. Do you remember how toxic the relations were between West and East Germany prior too 1989? What can’t this happen?
@Michael – you know, your people allied themselves with the losing side in a war. People – millions of people – were displaced (you make no mention of the 800,000 Jews displaced from every Arab country and forced to walk to Israel) and don’t whine about it. Get over it. The sooner you people cease to allow the arabs to use you the sooner you will prosper as a people. Unless, of course, this really is about hating Jews.
Reply to Michael:
“The problem we have is that prior to 1948 we, along with most Palestinians, had land and title in Palestine, not Jordan.”
My point is that the entire area (Israel, West Bank, plus Jordan) was once considered Palestine. Jordan is just another part of historic Palestine.
“My family still possesses a title to a house (my grandfather’s)in Haifa that became null and void after ’48.”
And what of the million Jews whose property was appropriated by Arab nations when these Jews were displaced in 1948-49, after living in Arab lands for centuries? I’m sure they didn’t all want to pack their bags and move to Israel the day it was established. Why don’t we hear about Jews demanding their historic piece of those Arab lands?
It seems to me that there’s been tremendous pain on both sides, but only one side perpetuates the conflict forever. And not just for reasons of land rights, as in your case, but for reasons of religion, as in the case of the many Muslims who consider a Jewish state to be an affront to Islam.
This conflict isn’t just about folks like you who have deeds to property and keep complaining about it. Carving two states where there’s barely even room for one is a recipe for a disaster far worse than the one we witness every day.
“I can tell you from experience of being there that Jordan is not a good alternative for a Palestinian state in the same way that Europe would not be a proper place for a new Israel.”
But it already is a de-facto Palestinian state, because the vast majority of Jordanians are Palestinian. Also, Jordan wasn’t the scene of the extermination of millions of Palestinians, or the persecution of Palestinians for centuries. That’s what Europe represents to Jews. I don’t think they can be reasonably compared.
“Israel will remain where it is … If you really think about it, the people there are more genetically related too each other then they think”
It’s nice to hear this from someone of Palestinian descent. But how common do you think your views are among the Arabs actually living in the region? Why don’t the Palestinian representatives voice sentiments like this? Why don’t we hear these reassuring words from Hamas and Fatah, not to mention Hezbollah and the Mullahs? Until your point of view is mainstream among Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims in general, there won’t be anything more than pockets of friendship. The conflict will continue to rage.
“My ultimate dream is for a merger, a unification.”
This is another nice sentiment and it makes logical sense IN THEORY, because both peoples are attached to the same land. But in practice, it’s not realistic or even possible. There’s too much bad blood, too much extremism, and no leaders or widespread movement advancing such views. It would sound like a pipe dream to most people. Also, Jews want a state where they feel certain to exist in a majority, because history hasn’t been kind to Jewish minorities. It seems to me that was the whole point of re-establishing a Jewish homeland, but it’s too often misrepresented as “racism” by the anti-Israel side.
I think the side-by-side idea is much more sensible and likely than the merger idea. And if the 2 peoples are to live side-by-side, it sure would make things easier if Jordan was Palestine, as it was originally. In the end, Jordan will have absorbed the displaced Palestinians, and Israel will have absorbed the displaced Jews. And everybody lives happily ever after, in two ample territories, out of each other’s hair.
Indeed. The Jews of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq … all woke up!
Let me rephrase that: They were awakened and told to “get out.”
Abu Mazen in his own words:
“We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it,” Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.
It has never been about a two-state solution – it’s always been about a one-state solution – the one without Jews.
No wonder you’re so clueless.
It IS about antiSemitism, it IS about Jihad, and if some of your best friends are jews well, gee, get ready to help defend them if you care about them!
Of course, if you’re using that phrase only to show how terribly multiculturallly accepting you are, then your declaration means nothing.
If things are so great now, how come every few months you hear of a bus bombing or mortar attack followed by an air strike or mossad assassination? Enough is enough already! I don’t to fight you or any one and neither do my relatives in Israel or Lebanon. By the way, my “multiculturalism” was pointed out to make it know that Jews and Palestinians can become BEST friends if given a stable environment. Try to see this point.
There is only violence because of the arabs. If the arabs disarmed there would be peace. If the Jews disarmed there would be no Jews.
Lolly,
I am up for debating the merits/disadvantages of a two state solution. Nothing more. This idea has never been tried so how do you know it would not work? What exactly does Israel give up in your opinion? How would this stop the violence? These are topics of this debate. Furthermore, how does making an argument for a Palestinian state make me anti-Jewish ? Stop the name calling and debate the issue. If you can’t debate the issue and have to resort to name calling then just abstain. Gobbo and Keith are much better are offering solutions and offer some historical perspective to boot.
Mike, being 50% Italian I’m friends with Austrians, Germans, French, heck maybe even Byzantines.. other peoples who’d conquered/controlled Italy.
‘Go figure’, right Mike? I must be so ‘enlightened’ too.
As for ‘America supporting the Israeli’s..’ it is an act of good will or diplomacy amongst our allies. Not something I agree with yet understand.
The whole freakin’ world HAS to ‘support’ the Trans-Jordanians or ‘people that no one in the Arab world wants’ via UN/UNESCO and every other empathy seeking, counterproductive ‘non-profit’ out there.
Heck, Trans-Jordanians receive MORE aid than ANY country on the dark continent!
It’s ‘economy’ and ‘hands out’ approach is worse than post-quake Haiti, Zimbabwe, Congo.. Burkina Faso!
‘..tired of being played against one another’. Interesting comment, considering the Trans-Jordanians have not recognized 1 concession, don’t have ANY type of anti-terrorism unit (quite often their ahem, ‘security forces’ collude with terrorists), have NO sense of justice system even when provided with BILLIONS of dollars/aid annually for.. what? Much of that cash goes to FUND terrorism.
Oh well, I’m sure Arafat’s widow living high on the hog in Paris will move back to Gaza or West Bank if it does become a recognized country. Whereas Ms. Arafat will FINALLY put the billions she and Yasser stole, err, ‘earned’ and ‘wanted’ so badly to share with his fellow countryman.. riiight.
If you haven’t noticed, the Arab world is going through a version of a renaissance, a rebirth so to speak. Bit by bit, the old regimes in these autocratic countries are being ousted. For the first time in many decades those people have a sense pride and freedom because of self governance. You should have seen the happiness at my house over the removal of the regimes in Egypt, Yemen and soon to be Syria. Recovering stolen money is and will be an afterthought compared to gaining freedom by having a country of your own. How do you think Israelis felt after Israel was formed? I accept that Israel isn’t going anywhere. That being said, israel should not restrict another group’s right to the very thing it was granted in ’48. Wouldn’t that be a bit hypocritical?
Renaissance? No, the Arab world is goi8ng through something like the Iranian revolution- or perhaps the Reichstag elections of 1933.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Your arab spring is already winter and it’s not democracy they want – it’s sharia. This is just the beginning of a region wide caliphate. The muslim brotherhood was behind the whole thing and it’s going to get ugly for any and all non-muslims in those contries. Also, rather than call those of us who don’t think arabs need yet another terrorist country why can’t you people call a spade a spade and ask the same of the arabs. Why can’t the oh-so-many arab countries absorb these people. They’ve got plenty of room. Why does teeny Israel have to give up yet more of their land? Judea and Samaria belong to Israel. Gaza is part of Israel. Israel gave up Gaza and what a disaster that’s turned out to be. Now you want to turn Israel into an indefensible entity that’s only a few miles wide at some points.
Dude – I just think you’re an anti-semite. You hate Jews. Go on – you can fess up. Nothing else makes any sense.
“Palestine,” even with the achievement of an actual, sovereign “Palestinian” state, has no intention of living in peace with Israel. NONE.
There has never been a more malignant, depraved group of people in modern history as an aggregate. Individual “Palestinians” who are decent, good people count for nothing against this evil, hate-filled backdrop that is “Palestine.”
The history of the Jews and Israel did not begin with Zionism or with the destruction of European Jewry. In fact there are Jewish communities in Israel that have lived on the land continuously for more than 2000 years. The graves of our ancestors still are Holy places of worship to us and have been continuously for almost 4000 years. In fact the Jewish Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is the oldest public building in continuous use in the entire world.
From 1400 to 1900 CE the Turks ruled but did not live in what was commonly called territorial Palestine. The Muslim Palestinians ( yes there are Jewish and Christian Palestinians too ) currently control 80% of the territory of Palestine. On that 80% they have three operating governments. One in Jordan, one in the West Bank and one in Gaza.
Despite the fact that Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years Muslims refuse to recognize any Jewish rights what-so -ever.
Hebron is a case in point. The Jewish neighborhood in Hebron comprises only 3% of the town. In that neighborhood 800 Jews live surrounded by 30,000 Muslims. Hebron and its religious sites have been holy to Jews for 2700 years before Mohammed was even born. Yet the Muslims wish to deny Jewish rights to worship in Hebron. The Israeli army is not called in to harass the Muslim population. It is there to prevent a repeat of the 1929 massacre when the Muslims rioted and murdered Jewish men, women and children.
It is time for people to look at the history of Palestine and ask themselves the following- Why do the Palestinians require more than the 80% of Palestine they already control? Why do the Palestinians refuse to recognize Jewish rights to areas that were Jewish before Mohammed was born? Why are the Palestinians so interested in building on top of Christian and Jewish Holy sites? Why have the Palestinians driven the Christian community from Bethlehem? Why do the Palestinians indoctrinate their children to hate rather than live in peace?
You are HIGH on some 60s physoc. drug….or a troll, probably both, to think that there is any chance for Israel to survive under those conditions….I say that the IDF should extract 100 PLO lives for every Rocket fired toward them…The only thing that EVIL understands is brute and permanent force…
I agree with commenter Harris Abrams, 64% of the Jews for ’08 Uhbama will be for ’12 Uhbama? WTF?
The antisemitism policies mentioned in the highlighted WSJ article are just from this administration. It didn’t touch on Uhbama’s antisemitism prior to his Presidency.
As for the ‘smug pseudo-sophistication’ of your dumb yenta friend, I don’t even waste my time with ‘em. Some of which were friends. Light’s on but nobody’s home types.
Jews are wrong to fear Christian Evangelicals. Of all the Christian groups, they are the most supportive of Israel.
They dont fear them, they despise them. They may be wrong to despise them, but that doesnt change a thing. Jews are hostile to the Christian majority, which is why they are buried deep in the minority victimization identity politics and general Anti-European, Anti-Christian, Anti-Western Civiliztiaon of the Left.
There is nothing that we can do, short of disempowering ourselves and committin cultural suicide that will please them, subjugating our culture to theirs and all others. Which is what we have been doing since the Holocaust. And its lead straight to our importing millions of Muslims into our countries and the rise of Anti Zionist Anti Semitism amongst the Left, as the Jews defend their Israel as a Jewish State.
A fine pickle they have themselves in now.
Perhaps Jews will reverse course and defend the Christian West and its culture and values against moral cultural relativism, the predations of hostile minority cultures, but I wont be holding my breath.
Of course when it comes to Israel, its a Religio-Ethnic State, not a multicultuarl balkanizing suicidal state, which seeks to empower minorities over the majority. Most Jews are hypocrites of the highest order…well, not really, they are for the Jews, Jewish well being and interests.
Time the Euro Christians learned from the Jews, I say.
The warning signs were twenty years ago. The Madrid conference for Mid East Peace with the two sides arguing versions of history was the snapping point. From then on, there was nothing to talk about, the incitement kept rising and the world not only said nothing, Jews were told, we would get peace in the Middle East, the Arabs just need to vent their anger. Instead the anger has fed on itself to the point that the West reflexively does not speak out against antisemitism, the left walks hand in hand down the boulevards with nazis (there are no neo-nazis, a nazi is a nazi, period) and Islamists howling for Jewish blood.
Orwell lamented of the last man in Europe, that was Margaret Thatcher, from then on, it has been straight downhill for the Jews of Europe and Israel-European relations leaving Israel with two friends, Micronesia and the US.
While don’t trust Obama on Israel it is not because I think he has some hidden evil plan to destroy her, I just think he is so clueless on foreign policy and has surrounded himself with leftist advisors whose ideas just fail in the real world, that the effect is the same: in the face of a rising tide of bigoted hatred, you have a President who doesn’t stand up and say, you can criticize Israel for not moving fast enough on peace but the single greatest barrier to peace is hatred. When Israel feels safe, peace can happen, when Israelis see the Islamic world calling for their genocide, they rightly question the peace process.
Many have often wondered how a group of people could be so hoodwinked to the point of their own extinction. Hitler disposed of six million Jews and the world wondered how could this have happened. It’s happening again. How? Because those who are marked for death wittingly or otherwise are committing suicide. The Jews are waking up you say? Really? There are plenty who stand solidly with their would-be killers. They did so in the 1930′s and they are doing so again today. They are destroying themselves. Edward Koch apparently has no problem with the monstrosities heaped upon America by Obama, but he gets all riled up why? Because of Obama’s apparent distaste for Israel. HE WAS WARNED by of all people, JESSE JACKSON. Who was surprised by any of this? Apparently most of the Jewish population. And those non-Jews who warned them were regarded as RACISTS and RIGHT WINGERS. Please don’t insult the intelligence of your readers by suggesting that presto! a majority of the Americans Jews are turning on Obama now. Some will, most won’t. They would rather re-do the Holocaust than vote for the right or relinquish their century old religion of Marxism, for that is where their true allegiance lies. The right has been slandered by the left wing Jewish Marxist mafia for decades, questioned about their love for Israel because after all, evangelicals only want Israel to survive in order to facilitate the Second Coming and blah, blah, blah. The world has been blessed with Jewish culture, Jewish achievements, Jewish intellect and compassion. So. How come they are still so STUPID?
“The right has been slandered by the left wing Jewish Marxist mafia for decades, questioned about their love for Israel because after all, evangelicals only want Israel to survive in order to facilitate the Second Coming and blah, blah, blah. The world has been blessed with Jewish culture, Jewish achievements, Jewish intellect and compassion. So. How come they are still so STUPID?”
You just described most of my family. Why are they so stupid? I wish I knew!
What my lefty Jewish friends (i.e., almost all of them) don’t seem to get is that Jew-hatred is a feature, not a bug, of radical leftism. Maybe at least some of them are finally starting to understand, though.
Betina,
Jews are smart intellectually and creatively, due to the culture, which generally encourages open mindedness, humanity, creativity and good living as a human being plus acceptance and compassion for the “stranger”.
This has nothing to do with street smarts, unfortunately, which is a whole different skill set.
So, that takes care of the Jewish side of the question.
Now for the non-jrewish part of it. A whoe bunch of non-Jews, including blacks, whites, Hispanics, Christians, non-Christians, are engaged in orchestrating and aiding their society’s destruction by teaching their univeristy student offsrping to be Marxists by paying for Marxist lecturers and by studiously IGNORING or FACILITATING the Marxists/Islamists takeover of America and Europe, etc.
they are far more numerous than the Jews. So you tell me – what accounts for THEIR suicidal “compassion” for the Muslims? What makes the Church decide to support the Muslims and incorporate Islam into their Church, their cities their universities??
(Actually I know the European answert to this – the EuroArab Dialogue, but for arguments’ sake I’ll continue.)
The Jews may have been targeted for destruction by the Nazi Muslim alliance of WW2, but over 50 million people died in it, most of them nonJews, and many non Jews will die/ be assaulted and persecuted by Muslims/Marxist alliance, as for example the Chrsitians persecuted in Muslim countries today.
So tell me – They support Muslims, as do their governments, they POUR money onto these thugs. So, having had their parents and grandparents survive the Nazis or having lost parents and grandparents in the War,
How come THEY are still so stupid????
Jill,
You forgot to mention the elephant in the room: THE HOLOCAUST. There is stupid and then there is really really really STOOOPID. I stayed on topic. That might answer your question. To say one group of people is pathetically moving inexorably towards those who have demonstrated hatred does not excuse all others. But the Jews ARE different. They are the ONLY group of people who have been targeted over centuries, in all different geographical locations and they suffered severe losses to their numbers less than a century ago. At the hand of NAZIS who are the ROLE MODELS of their would be murderers today. THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER. To pretend otherwise is to engage in a intellectual fraud of because no matter how you attempt to portray it, the Jews are NOT in the same category as the rest of the victims of IslamoFASCISM. They have been there and done that and apparently are going to do it all over again.
In the same way as many women and gay people are now crowding around, nay, worshipping islam (we are radicals so we must love all the ‘oppressed people’ even as they are getting ready to kill us) so of course certain Jews will do the same. It’s part Stockholm syndrome, part normality bias. (Normality bias means: The sun is shining, I’ve got my radio on and the coffee is percolating. How can anything bad possibly happen? )
The Jews are still stupid for the same reason that most western Gentiles are still stupid: Nothing bad has happened to us (personally) so far, therefore nothing ever will.
It’s not about Jew/Gentile – it’s about human nature. People WILL go back into the burning building to retrieve their Post-It pad. They WILL do anything to pretend everything’s all right, in the face of any kind of proof of the opposite.
As soon as these people wake up and face the danger, they will act like they’re meant to biologically: By fight or flight.
“…Turkey conspicuously separated Israeli passengers arriving at the Istanbul airport…”
My wife returned from Israel last week on a Turkish Air flight scheduled months earlier. Following the official Turkish government terrorism of Israeli passengers you recount, the plane my wife returned on was virtually empty. Big plane burning lots of expensive jet fuel. Economics rule.
“…the hostile environment on the Berkeley campus…”
At UCSD, the political environment is very different than at Berkley. UCSD is a huge science and technology center including a medical school, an engineering school, an oceanographic institute, etc. My daughter, a graduate student, attended a lecture there by an Michael Oren that was disrupted by Palestinian students. The response by an overwhelmingly Gentile student and faculty body was outrage reflected in student publications and meetings after the event. The Palestinian students were forced to recant and publicly apologize for their behavior.
“…a synagogue where the J-Street message is embraced…Israelis call these American Jews ‘unJews’…”
I caught a segment on NY1 very recently featuring a debate on Jewish support for Obama between Dov Hikind and a beady eyed, horse-faced Jewish social climber with wannabe WASP mannerisms representing J-Street who goes by the unlikely moniker of Alexandra Stanton.
To Hikind’s reasonable and modest assertion that, though Obama would inevitably carry the Jewish vote in 2012, he would certainly lose a substantial percentage of his Jewish support he enjoyed in 2008, this elitist Jewish mieskeit responded with a quote from the late great Daniel Patrick Moynihan that “you’re entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.”
This insult to Hikind and malicious abuse of the long departed Moynihan was followed up with the perfidious insistence that Israeli security is at the bottom of the American Jewish voters’ concerns etc, etc. Her purchase on the moral high-ground, Ms Stanton informed NY1 viewers proudly, was secured by her father who served in WWII.
We Jews are a family, gushes Ms. Stanton warmly. Were it so, this batty yenta would be locked away in our familial Jewish attic.
What is to be done about Ms Stanton and her degenerate and seditious like in the Jewish community, never so brazen and so numerous? How do we handle careerist Jews who readily sell out their fellow American Jews and the State of Israel for one more inch up the greasy pole? What is the antidote to Jewish journalists like Thomas Friedman and Roger Cohen and Peter Beinart who continually engage in Jew baiting, poking the Jewish community in the eye to fill the editorial mailbags and justify their six and seven figure salaries to their editors and publishers?
A quick and sketchy internet search reveals that Alexandra Stanton is the professional name of a New York divorce lawyer whose married name is Alexandra Natapoff, wife of Sam Natapoff. The Natapoffs are a Power Couple. Friends of Bill and Hillary. J-Street rep Alexandra has served in various minor political posts—Chief of Staff for this mediocre pol and that. Sam is an economist who served along with his wife on Bill Clinton’s World Economic Council. (Which spouse brought the other on board and created a second place at the public trough is hard to ascertain.) Sam is also a booster and lobbyist—official or otherwise–-for the Turkish government.
Alexandra’s mother, Domna Stanton, is President of the Modern Language Association, an organization described by critics as a “mammoth academic bureaucracy” which has radically politicized the study of language and literature since the Nineteen-seventies. MLA conferences typically concentrate on such lofty issues as race and gender studies with scholars presenting such papers as “The Epistemology of the Queer Classroom.” Domna Stanton’s own literary output is said to read like something “written by committee.”
Momma Stanton is a society lady at whose South Hampton home Andrew Cuomo met his current girlfriend. The Stantons are social butterflies on everyone’s invitation list and the Internet is replete with photos of the mishpacha at various elite social functions. Any PJM reader interested in attaching a face to the lefty socialist elite undermining and ruining America ought to have a look. See if you can distinguish the oleaginous lefty Jews from the oleaginous lefty WASPS in the group shots. (Their names are no clue; names are merely flags of convenience for this crowd.) You can always distinguish J-Street rep Alexandra Stanton by her toothy and beatific smile. Makes you want to pat her on the nose and feed her a carrot.
With the next election, the American political pendulum will swing far to the right. For the first time in years, Americans will have an opportunity to clean house. Our institutions are rotten with lefties and in need of fumigation. Americans, especially American Jews, are rightfully leery of purges but a purge the nation must have. Comes a time for torches and pitchforks.
For the Jews specifically, this demands a Tikkun Bayit—a repair of the Jewish home. Begin with the Tikkun Olam and J-Street crowd and hypocritical careerist Jewish posers like Alexandra Stanton and Sam Natapoff. Strip them of their positions and their pretensions. Expose them for the enemies of America and the enemies of Israel they are. Insist that Jewish criminals like Barney Frank and George Soros be put behind bars where they belong. Be a good and loyal American like Alexandra Stanton’s GI Daddy.
Thank you David. America needs more of your sensibilities, guts, and honesty. It is the lies and deceit which are killing all of us. And they are being promulgated by one side of the political spectrum as they have been for generations. The time for choosing is now. If not now, prepared to be swept away.
Thanks, Betina. The real outrage is that in their schizophrenia, these sophisticated unJews (post Zionist, post racist, post nationalist post everything, been-there-done-that) harbor two incompatible impulses. On the one hand, their shame and self-hatred compels them to assimilate and escape their Jewish roots as fast as possible. On the other hand, their grasping ambition demands that they dominate the Jewish community and lead us all to join in their defection.
What to do? The unJews are cowards by definition so hanging one or two by piano wire from lampposts or sawing their heads off would surely silence the lot and send them scurrying. But happily, we’re not Fascists or Muslims so these options are unthinkable.
My fantasy is several busloads of Jews in blackest Chasidic garb arriving in South Hampton where Soros and the Stantons live on a bright Sunday morning in July and having a rowdy kosher BBQ on the beach behind the Stanton home. Preferably when the Stantons are having several hundred of their best friends and neighbors in for brunch. Klezmer music and Zmiras. Kosher beef and beer.
What say, Betina? Care to help me organize it next summer?
Be still my heart. What that be wonderful or what???? You have nailed it. And watch the usual suspects squirm and wail about those in attendance. The biggest anti-Semites I have encountered are those whose social mobility depends upon their distance from the religious Jews and whose conceit, arrogance, and condescension are boundless. Love your idea. We could have a boatload of belly laughs. And do we need it.
I’m listed under my wife’s first name in NYC. Make a note to call me next spring. I may have the kosher connections to pull it off. We’ll have a blast.
David,
You think you Jews have a bad case of self hating, sell outs. Try being a European Christian….especially a WASP.
Hear ya, EV. My sympathies. It’s a condition bred of cowardice.
Time for the American Jews to arm themselves. Obama is planting the seeds for an atomic war in the Middle East. When the price of oil skyrockets Jews will be blamed.
I’m not as pessimistic, AJ, but any Jew who doesn’t own a twelve gauge pump isn’t doing right by his family.
It never works out that way, though. Reagan didn’t clean house enough, and neither did either Bush. And judging from the DoJ, Obama’s packing hard-core Marxists in to the career bureaucracy as fast as he can. I don’t thing [fill in the blank] will be able to undo that in one term, and it won’t be a priority, anyway.
We’re hosed.
I’m not so sure, Snork. Imagine a future congressional committee led by Darrel Issa under President Rick Perry, examining the crimes and misdemeanors of the current administration. Televised trials of voter intimidating Black Panthers, George Soros, Barney Frank and assorted co-conspirators,etc, etc.
Not likely, I’ll grant you. But could happen.
I’m not so sure, Snork. Imagine a future congressional committee led by Darrel Issa under President Rick Perry, examining the crimes and misdemeanors of the current administration. Televised trials of voter intimidating Black Panthers, George Soros, Barney Frank and assorted co-conspirators,etc, etc.
Not likely, I’ll grant you. But could happen.
It’s a matter of will. We can fire entire departments arbitrarily if we have the will to do so. The right to unionize Federal workers was given by executive order, and by executive order it can be taken away.
“They think Islamophobia is a greater problem than anti-Semitism.” I watched O’Reilly last night talk to a CAIR leader from Chicago, and he mentioned that the 2009 FBI stats showed 900+ hate crimes against Jews and 107 against Muslims. The CAIR said, it’s because muslims are afraid to report the crimes. Yea right.
As long as the Left-Democrat Party is the home of Anti Christian political policy, agenda, and rhetoric, most American Jews will remain in the fold.
Their hatred of Christians and Christianity is greater than their love of Jews and Judaism.
It’s as simple as that.
and Israel.
Not hatred, EV. Fear and paranoia. The wicked flee when none pursueth. The Christian Evangelicals are the best friends and protectors of American Jews and Israel we have.
The operative distinction is this: Jews who support a robust Israel, support a robust America. Disaffected Jews are disaffected Americans. Reflexively seditious and cowardly by nature. Traitors to their bone and their marrow.
ONLY 64% of American Jews will vote for Obama in 2012? What in h*ll does he have to do to get on their bad side? It chills ME what he’s already done and I’m not even Jewish. I don’t get it – how can a culture which treasures education as highly as Jews do produce a pack of voters that are this stupid?
Here’s how you fix the middle east:
Let’s face it, this is an intractable situation that’s going to require some out-of-the-box thinking. Those who have followed all the peace agreements inevitably leading to dashed hopes have finally come to realize that the Palestinian people will simply never accept a Jewish state and any Palestinian government that acquiesces to a peace deal are dead men walking. There is no end to this and will almost certainly one day result in a cataclysm for the Jewish people, the Middle East in general, and perhaps even the world.
So, If the Muslims are so irate about the existence of Israel on “their land,” fine, we’ll propose a swap. And since the Turks have decided to become involved in all of this–as they should, in that they governed the area for centuries–let’s start there.
The part of Turkey lying to the west of the Bosporus was not only occupied by Europeans from time immemorial, they built one of their greatest cities there, Constantinople. Constantinople’s historic boundaries encompassed everything west of the Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles (The waterways separating Europe from Asia) to the boarders of Greece. In fact, by all historic measure this land should be a part of Europe but isn’t because of the Ottoman Turk invasion around 1500.
So, for the sake of peace this land is offered to Jews in exchange for the current lands of Israel. Any movement of Turkish Muslims from that area of the historical part of Constantinople in present-day Turkey can choose to migrate to Palestine or move across the straight to Muslim Istanbul. For those Turks who choose to move to former Israeli lands, their homes can be swapped for Israeli homes and land of equal value. Palestine can choose either to become part of Turkey (which they were not long ago) or divide the land into a Turkish-ruled possession and a separate Palestine that ideally would link Gaza and the West Bank.
Now, think of the symmetrical beauty of the exchange. The lands are roughly the same size, they both encompass beautiful, historical holy cities, and have Mediterranean-accesible harbors and shorelines.
And the elegance of this solution might just serve to settle some old scores. The seat of Eastern Christianity is Constantinople. Certainly, Christianity has a thing or two to atone for for its prosecution of the Jews over time–including both the Holocaust and the primarily East European pogroms. Here the Christians give up a share of their historic land to the Jews as compensation.
The Turks swap dead even, but get good-will points in exchange for ruling it over Europeans not only in the former Constantinople but for 500 years of atrocities committed on Christians in the Balkans and, more recently in Armenia as well. If the Turks want to start up the old Ottoman Empire again, what better way than maneuvering themselves into the position of being “The Saviors of Palestine” while attaining a foothold back in the holy land?
The Jews have a lot to give up in this equation by accepting to leave Israel, but they also have at least as much to gain. They would now be living in a safe, Jewish land (easily worked into NATO). A promised land with no former claims that would be far richer as an eternally safe, prosperous, and self-ruled Jewish state that could never be threatened or taken away again. And I have the feeling the promised land is far more resemblant to a nation like this than as a place inhabited by them over a thousand years ago.
Would the Jews ever come to accept the apparent waste of all the sacrifices to obtain the holy land once again? Many never would, but they can be consoled knowing that those sacrifices have brought the world to an understand that they have a right to a homeland and have themselves sacrificed plenty in order to achieve it. Plus, all the turmoil the establishment of Israel has produced has lead the entire world to see the logic of accepting some level of sacrifice by all parties involved in order to obtain it.
The Palestinians should be overjoyed by this arrangement but would have to accept that a large part of Israeli land now becomes part of Turkey.
One more element to this plan’s acceptance is one of the heart, in that it might just save every last Jew in Israel from the next apocalypse, most of the crazy Arabs from themselves, and quite possible the world from nuclear winter. If accepted, it might just also produce a situation that is about the closest proximity to “peace on earth” ever. Not a bad compromise from all parties that they could forever be proud of.
What the hell do Christians have to do with the halocaust? Christians were wiped out too. Hitler and his little band were freakin pagans. And I’m not going to apologize for what some moron did in the name of religion. There is nothing in the religion that told them to do that – nothing.
Here’s a clue – God gave the land of Israel to the children of Israel. Why don’t we obey God and try not to be clever in this regard. Abraham and Sarah tried to be clever and we got Ishmael and the whole muslim curse to deal with to this very day.
If everybody follows the letter of their God, we’re all dead.
“What the hell do Christians have to do with the halocaust?”
They didn’t do anything about it, that’s what. Sure, there were some who tried to protect Jews, but the vast majority of them just stood by and let it happen. Some participated, too.
Are you sure of that statement, that is the dumbest statement that I have read today….Who do you think went to Europe and stayed there for 4 years, that is if they managed to live that long…..Man, you should apoligize to every family in America that lost a member in that WW2…Christian or Heathern….
What you deem “a promised land with no former claims” would be coveted by Turkish Muslims who would think it a sin to forfeit land (particularly to Jews) conquered and held for centuries in “dar-al-Islam”. It’s unlikely that Israelis could find any piece of land with “no former claims” outside of Antarctica, or perhaps Pluto. Moreover, it seems highly unlikely that Jews would just pack up and live in territory with no historical Jewish connection or meaning. Jews in Israel don’t see themselves as powerless pawns on someone’s chessboard. The very idea that it’s the Jews who would have to relocate–AGAIN!–would insult them tremendously. It would feel like yet another expulsion after a history rife with them, with the ironic twist that, this time around, they’d be expelled INTO Europe!
The way things are going, it’s more likely that the rash fool Erdogan will start trouble with Israel, ultimately leading to a highly INVOLUNTARY relinquishing of Turkish territory, some of it to a future Kurdistan. If Egypt’s military junta joins the adventure, Israel might find itself some new territory–not in Constantinople, but in the Sinai.
Sad to say, but it’s generally WAR that results in major redrawings of the map, rather than well-intentioned, ambitious peacetime gestures.
While I may have overstated “no prior claims,” certainly in a hypothetical situation where Turkey agrees to the swap, there would be far less uproar than the current situation. Also, there is just something deeply psychological about geography. Look at a map and see the area I’m referring to. It undeniable lies within Europe and never was anything other than considered European until the Ottomans took over. Compare that to where Israel lies today, and I think you’ll understand what I’m getting at. One more thing, Constantinople was built there originally because it is an extremely strategically defensible area. Especially when you consider NATO is covering your back. The exact opposite is true of Israel’s location–and always will be.
Positioning the land of the Jews between the Muslim and Christian worlds might also prove to be highly symbolic in itself. After all, the Jews are no longer exclusively people of the Middle East as they were two thousand years ago, but rather are more a product of western culture, not to mention a great deal of western bloodline. Quite simply, the Jews are not the same people who walked out of the holy land.
Finally pushing Jews to the right? If you buy that line I have a bridge I want to sell you. Jewish voters are first and foremost liberal Democrats. It does not matter who the Democratic candidate is, Jews by the millions will vote for and donate huge sums to, that candidate. It never fails! And, it never fails to amaze even me!
God has better ideas.
I have this horrible feeling that if Obama is re-elected and serves four more years, there will be no more Jews. Anywhere.
Liberal “unJews” = Kapos.
My fellow Jews who continue to support progressive liberals, trusting they have our best interests at heart, is like hoping the SS guards will have a chair for us in the gas chamber.
What a great forum with so many thoughtful comments…
Re MECA “Middle East Children’s Alliance. This is a pro-PLO operation run by an old marxist named Barbara Lubin. She’s been around since the invention of dirt, involved in many documents marxists fronts and causes in California. SOme of this information can be found at the database website, http://www.keywiki.org, search under her name.
She is an evil person and an enemy of both the U.S. and Israel. She ranks up up there with the KAPOS Gail Pressberg, Libby Frank, and Medea Benjamin. I’ll throw in an actual WW2 KAPO into this pot, George Soros.
Know your enemies in order to defeat them.
Abraham Miller wrote “Israelis call these American Jews “unJews.”
I just call them kapos myself. As ‘Terry in Eilat’ routinely points out in the comments of PJM, what about the self-loathing know-nothingness among Israeli Jews? How to explain the Oslo accords in the first place, only self-loathing and wilful blindness that had to be pervasive, and it’s thanks to the Oslo accords that we now find ourselves where we are now (Palestinian ‘final solution’ UN bid).
The Israeli universities are sunk deep in leftist rot, and the media likewise (print and broadcast). The schools are a joke. Some of my family in Israel are self-loathing leftists (uncle, aunt, aunt’s new husband, at least one cousin). This is not unusual, in fact it’s the norm among Ashkenazi Jews (in Tel Aviv this is most apparent, but it’s country-wide). It’s the Ashkenazi Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora who are guilty of this, NOT the Ethiopian Jews, the new Russians, the Jews from the Arab world (Morocco, Iraq, Yemen), the new French arrivals. Sure the Ashkenazi Jews made the country of Israel, but they never rejected the self-loathing they had internalized in Europe. They took it with them to Eretz Yisrael. This is not something that the early Zionists (Herzl included) appeared to take into account, the enemy within. Although everything is so much easier to see in hindsight of course.
It’s long past the point where I give a damn for ‘Jewish’ leftists, I despise them with such a deep passion (especially if they are over thirty, youngsters have the excuse of not knowing any better) that it could easily be misconstrued as anti-Semitism on my part (if taken out of context)! I have more empathy and concern for the average non-dhimmi non-Jewish American and Canadian struggling to get by, and *genuinely* moderate Muslims who through no fault of their own were born where they were (and are understandably afraid to speak out because it can mean getting your throat cut, losing your job etc); than I do for Jewish kapo leftists, wherever they may be.
The only comfort I take in any future horrors that may befall us, is that they will befall ‘Jewish’ leftists too. It’s not much comfort, but it’s all I have. To right-thinking people everywhere (Jewish or not), don’t ever let the Left rewrite history (as they will desperately do) and pretend they weren’t in alliance with Islam against the West, the Jews, humanity itself.
Hi Larry. Elliott Abrams of The Weekly Standard has an EXCELLENT piece regarding Bill Clinton’s, as well as in many instances your relatives, colleagues and neighbors in Tel Aviv fictitious history and moronic ideology of Israel’s Netanyahu.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-reinvents-israel_594067.html
There are so many issues more important to be thinking about than this. Antisemitism is not the enemy. The political movement known as Zionism is the enemy.
“Zionism” is the enemy? So, the Jews suddenly shouldn’t have a homeland? Disgusting antisemite!
Now I know you’ll instinctively say, “what’s to like” when you read my post above, but give it a chance and–if you can–assume that it was acceptable to all parties involved. I’m curious to know what your response would be.
We were told long ago this would happen. Our job is to be vigilant to the end.
I agreed with Professor Guvinoff, no failure is a failure if you can learn from it. Socialism doesn’t work but it takes personal experience for most Americans to realize it.
If and when a Palestinian state comes about, I presume it will be as successful as all the other Islamic states around it.
#43 Michael T -
Probably LESS successful, the “Phakestinians” are considered to be riff–raff outcasts by much of the Arab World – further, their leadership who could have been George Washingtons and James Madisons chose rather to be the Tony Sopranos of the West Bank and Gaza, stealing everything not nailed down. Not an auspicious start to say the least.
Dr. Shalit
Did I stumble into a some kind of front for The Onion, or are you really trying to pretend that the President – who is actively thwarting the legitimate claims of the palestinian people – is somehow the front for a big neo-Nazi puscht to eliminate all jews, everywhere?
“The 1930s all over again”? Are you determined not to be taken seriously by any intelligent person who hasn’t been thoroughly brainwashed?
Ask her, and I’ll bet Nicole thinks 9/11 was an inside job.
Obama’s Latest Gaffe: Jews and Janitors
There’s long been more than a sneaking suspicion that President Barack Hussein Obama is a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite although there’s no doubt he is more prone to gaffes than even George W. Bush. His closet anti-Semitism may have met his “gaffery” over the weekend at the Congressional Black Caucus awards in Washington.
Quickly scrubbed from the official transcript of Obama’s speech advocating class warfare–technically, he was addressing what he called a growing disparity of wealth in the United States–the president mixed up Jews and janitors before he realized his Freudian slip but he had already been caught by the tale of the (video)tape.
I guess it’s easy to confuse the two. After all, both words begin with a “J.”
Not that much of the mainstream media will make mention of Obama’s “Jews janitors” flub; they’re still more interested in Bush gaffes.
The Jewish vote is, of course, critical to his re-election, not as critical as the black, union, and homosexual votes but very significant nonetheless. He needs money from all of them to hit his goal of a billion dollar campaign chest.
Blacks, unionists, and gays are guaranteed supporters but those Jewish backers have been slip, slip, slipping away in view of the administration’s policies on the Mideast and his kowtowing to Arab potentates and catering to Muslim interests at home. The last thing he needed at this point was to demean Jews but he did so anyway, assuming that confusing Jews with janitors is demeaning.
In Obama’s talk to the CBC, he was in the middle of another rant against the rich when he blurted out, “If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew uhh as a janitor . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5558)