The Chutzpah of the National Jewish Democratic Council
Last week’s Jerusalem Post op-ed piece by Marc Stanley, chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council, gave American Jews some interesting advice: even if President Obama is screwing Israel, we should just lie down and enjoy it.
The Democratic chair’s myopic “no matter what” support of President Obama’s policy toward Israel is wrong for the United States, the future of Jewry in America, and Israel.
Stanley tries to take on Jews disappointed with the president’s performance using name-calling and quotes without context. He bashes any Jew who has the nerve to criticize the president:
The small anti-Obama wing of the Jewish community has long found refuge in Web sites like American Thinker, where their fictional understanding of the presidency is confirmed (a representative title: “Obama’s hostility to Israel is clear”). But there are some times when elements of their argument spill into more respectable platforms, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Maybe Mr. Stanley’s problem is that he gets all his news from the Times and Post, because he proceeds to tell half-truths about Obama’s actions regarding Israel:
U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration are making an unprecedented effort to reach out to the Jewish community. The president has made moving the Middle East toward peace a priority and has spoken of the “unbreakable” bond we share with Israel. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons “futile,” and last week Obama had some of his most senior foreign policy figures meet with top Israeli officials — in Israel.
Let’s take a look at that paragraph. True, the president has spoken of the unbreakable bond we share with Israel — so did most U.S. presidents since 1948, including Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush.
What Stanley ignores is that it’s the actions that matter. After expressing his “love,” Obama proceeded to make Israel a pariah of nations, breaking a preexisting agreement with Israel over settlements and publicly bashing Israel for sticking to the agreement regarding natural growth of settlements. Clinton did call Iran’s pursuit of nukes “futile,” but then she went on to say that America would protect its allies with its defense umbrella, indicating that the U.S. would accept a nuclear Iran. And last week’s visit from his senior advisors was not a friendly meet and greet, but an arm twisting session. The four horsemen of the “Obamalypse” visited with two purposes in mind: to prevent Israel from defending herself against Iran and to strong-arm Israel into not adding to existing settlements and to stay out of Jerusalem.
Stanley also takes issue with a Times op-ed:
One can’t get past the title of Benn’s op-ed in the Times without being struck by the question he poses: “Why won’t Obama talk to Israel?” Benn asserts that “neither the president nor any senior administration official has given a speech or an interview aimed at an Israeli audience.” He then dramatically writes, “The Arabs got the Cairo speech; we [Israel] got silence.”… If Benn did not hear that Obama aimed elements of his Cairo speech at Israelis, he was not listening.
Here I agree with Stanley — Obama was talking to Israel from Cairo. He flipped them the bird and threw them under the bus.
Obama can do anything he wants because he knows the Jewish vote is his. When it comes to self preservation Jews appear to have a missing gene.
Attn. Mr. Stanley: The ‘small anti-Obama’ crowd is growing quite nicely, thank you. Particularly in Israel. And here in the States, discontent among Jewish Democrats is increasing. Not all of us limit ourselves to the drivel expounded by the editorial board of the NY Times. The Times has repeatedly betrayed this country publishing state secrets and endangering Americans. It is time for the Gray Lady to enter an assisted living facility. Perhaps end of life counseling is also in order.
“their funding from George Soros”
Good piece Mr. Benoit and with the quote above you said it all!
Marc Stanley is not alone. The far more famous Alan Dershowitz basically holds the same views. He will do anything to find an excuse to continue supporting Barack Obama—because the abortion issue apparently is of greater importance. These individuals are mostly practical atheists who are contemptuous of traditional Judeo-Christian values. Abortion is their god, and they bow down to its altar and pay homage. And don’t let them try to tell you anything different. When push comes to shove, it is abortion!
What you don’t see and hear are the benefits he is getting “under the table”.
Overall, I agree.
I would avoid weak arguments, like this, though:
“Clinton did call Iran’s pursuit of nukes “futile,” but then she went on to say that America would protect its allies with its defense umbrella, indicating that the U.S. would accept a nuclear Iran”
That’s a wild twist of interpretation to conjecture that her “America would protect its allies” statement as accepting a nuclear Iran. How is defending accepting? That is what America will do if Clinton’s opinion, “futile”, is wrong and comes to fruition.
Furthermore, if you assert defending IS accepting, then NOT defending is rejecting a nuclear Iran? If that’s not what you meant, don’t word it that way.
David, you beat me to it. The Phillips/Dershowitz kerfuffle bared all. That’s the entire issue and phenomenon in a nutshell. Social liberalism is paramount; Israel is expendable.
How did American Jewery get to this point?
These liberals are mostly conservative and deformed Jews, not Orthodox. They don’t even really qualify as Jews, I don’t know what they are. I tried out one of their synagogues, and on a Friday night dinner, instead of serving challah and kosher food, they had El Pollo Loco.
All of America’s allies are going under the bus. Obama wants Muslim and Marxist allies,even to support him against the American people and military. The progressive-left wants this and the O-toids want this,but Americans do not want this. But they will get it if they don’t do something.
Usual idiots… willing to sell the rope that will be used to hang them.
As a long time reader of Sammy Benoit’s essays, I’m delighted to see one of his essays here.
Sammy, you are of course absolutely correct in calling out Marc Stanley. He is obviously shilling for the antisemitic policies of Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama’s actions speak far louder than ever his words can. He is marvelous and arresting when he has a teleprompter, but I would love to see him debate you on the need to support Israel.
Well done Sammy, damn well done and please keep up the good work.
The National Jewish Democratic Council is not demonstrating chutzpah, but outright hostility and ignorance of all concerns that actual Jews have. They do not view themselves as Jews, in any way, except to keep the name in order to lend some sort of legitimacy to their anti-Jewish, anti-American, anti-Israel views. We have seen this kind before, as Jews have never lacked for a sizeable percentage of self-hating members.
Decades ago these same people would have changed their last names, moved out of Jewish neighborhoods, and just pretended that they had never even heard the word, “Hebrew”, but now they try and cynically cash in on their tenuous ties to Judaism, using them to forward their leftist ideas and put some soprt of moral authority to the anti-Israel position that their modern-day idiot messiah espouses.
The fact is that leftist Jews are embarrassed and ashamed by Israel’s existence. They hope, every single day, that it will be Israel’s last, so that they no longer have to be ashamed in front of their leftist friends. The leftist, faux-Jews’ dream is that Israel gets destroyed, they get to cry and act as if they cared, and then they will be rid of the anchor of a Jewish state. They are ultimate scum who hate themselves (and thus, the rest of us) more than any reasonable person could ever even imagine possible.
These leftist, self-hating Jews represent the most serious threat to Judaism in the world (the entire world, as we all got to see what the world is just itching to do when reactions to the minor Gaza operation went well over the top). Jews had better recognize this threat and let any leftist, self-hating Jews know what slimeballs they are.
These leftist, self-hating Jews do not have chutzpah, they have emotional problems stemming from illusory, uncontrollable guilt that turns them against themselves, their heritage, their country, and the country of the Jews, without which all Jews will be at serious risk.
There were Jews who said, “We have to co-operate with the Nazis, because _________”.
Those Jews sound a lot like the Jews mentioned in this story, but with a twist: “We have to co-operate with Obama, because _____”.
Those Jews give the Jews who live with eternity as reality, as bad a name as those “men” who beat women gives all men.
In other words, their Jewishness is based only on
ancestry, instead of the “I and Thou” relationship that Martin Buber wrote about in the
20th Century, which sheds far more light as to what makes a Jew tick.
My buddy Sammy has hit the big time… Congrats Sammy, proud for ya!!
Great article too…
Sammy Benoit is right on. I have found my Jewish friends to be Democratic robots. They will support whatever the Democratic Party does, regardless of the consequences to them as American Jews or to Israel. Obama is desperate to make a historical imprint on the Middle East and is willing to sell Israel out to do so. My prediction is that the majority of Americans, not just Jewish Americans, will not tolerate this and will turn against Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid and gang on this issue.
There were Jews like Stanley in Hitler’s concentration camps as well. They worked for the Nazis!
Sammy Benoit has a keen and analytical mind, and he is so on the mark here (as usual). I will never understandthe self-destruct motivation of the (too)liberal mind, whether it be today’s Obamanuts or yesterday’s capos. Keep up the good work, Sammy. You make all Zionists proud!
Maybe if more Jews were in powerful unions Obama wouldn’t have been so quick to sell out Israel. When will people wake up and stop voting against their own interests?
thanks for posting a piece by sammy benoit. he does exceptionally in-depth research and understands his topics very well. his pieces on israel and the jewish people always ring true with a clarity that cuts through the fog of liberal denial. “no, honey, they don’t want to really kill us, they just act like that because they’re upset”.
i hope that you’ll publish more of his pieces as they shed an invaluable light on crucial current events.
Sammy: Absolutely correct, it’s actions that matter, and we are seeing that from Obama there will be no positive action for Israel.
Also correct comment 13. David W. Lincoln:
There were Jews who said, “We have to co-operate with the Nazis, because _________”.
p.s. Sammy, one last thought. Obama is good at words, but we have learned over the past 6 months of his presidency that his words mean NOTHING. They all have expiration dates. He’s a liar who will say anything to get what he wants. He sat in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years, can we expect Obama to be a loving, Israel-supporting President? No way.
Great job, Sammy
Obama would never have been elected U.S. President if he had been white. Most of us have years, decades more experience in politics and history than he does, and we certainly have the right to criticize his mistakes and faults.
Nu, Sammy, you hit the big time. Mazel tov!
But the bottom line here is that if these Obama-supporting Jews have the values of Nazi kapos, we Jews in Israel should cut them loose. We do not need them. They are bilge, garbage holding the rest of us back, and dragging us down to their filth. And guys like you should get out of America and come home, also cutting yourself free of the influence of this trash. America’s government was never an ally – though many Americans themselves may be.
It’s about time you admitted the hard and painful truth. Israel is and always has been alone in the world, and no chasing after whores in Babylon will change that fact. G-d mandated it to be so – and it is.
Great article about the kapos
I only recently began to take notice of Pajamas Media. Now that Pajamas has published this excellent essay by Sammy Benoit (I count on him for news and analysis daily), it has lent more credibility to Pajamas Media for me.
Who knows what (so-called) Jews like Marc Stanley think they have to gain when they cozy up to Obama, but whatever it is they stand to be disappointed. Appeasement only emboldens an anti-Semite.
The most important point I hope all readers take away from this essay is that Mr. Stanley does not reprsent ALL American Jews. The leftist (and most often anti-Semitic) media loves a self-hating Jew like Stanley. But Marc Stanley no more represents me than Barack Hussein Obama does!
American Jews with ties to the Democrat party and other and left-leaning organizations are beginning to realize that they have been dangerously duped.
Thank you Pajamas Media, for allowing the ‘best of the best’ Sammy Benoit, to discredit Stanley’s harmful lies.
What else is new?! American Jews, en masse, voting for leftist democrats out of guilt. BORING and an old story. You got what you deserved, and I for one have no more sympathy left for American Jews. Suffer along with the rest of us as this megalomaniac in the White House destroys America!
Mr. Benoit is so on the money with his take on this. Why Americans and Jews in particular continue to vote for Democrats who despise Israel and can’t wait to end the so called “Arab/Israeli Crisis” by giving Israel to the Palestinians and by extention to Iran is beyond me. I am 58 years old and Israel has been fighting for its freedom since before I was born. I think that it is time this BS stopped and leave the state of Israel alone or else. Obama should be tossed out office for his lack of respect for the Constitution and for breaking every campaign promise that he made. If you voted for him you must have been high or just plain stupid.
lainvestorgirl:
Stick to being a Cali plastic person and ripping people off in your scams but save your peurile evaluation of who is a Jew for your Stormfront posts!
Once again, everyone is on board for a two state solution. So what arab leader in his right mind would consent to a network of independent Jewish cities and roads in his state? That is like giving the Indians their reservation, but with white only resorts, roads and shopping centers all through it.
Keep up the the classic right wing paranoia, Mr. Benoit, the mental midgets here get upset when something isn’t in a childish primary color or better yet black and white.
Hey Horace
Are there any facts with what you said? Because,I have never heard Israel suggest what you are saying
‘After expressing his “love,” Obama proceeded to make Israel a pariah of nations”
Right. Before Obama, Israel was beloved worldwide.
“He talked about the 60-plus years of Palestinian suffering, taking the Palestinian view that the very creation of Israel was bad.”
No he did not.
“He discussed Gaza as an occupied territory. Maybe the president didn’t read the newspapers in August 2005, but Israel pulled out of Gaza almost four years ago.”
Yeah, but since Israel controls air and sea access, it’s not an outlandish characterization. I must add, however, that Israel’s continuing control of Gaza’s borders (with Egyptian help) is absolutely necessary for security purposes.
‘Obama’s Jewish defenders, including J Street, Americans for Peace Now, NJDC, and others, are interested not in Israel but in their personal career advantage, their funding from George Soros, or their own vision of “peace.”’
Nothing like some silly insults to show the writer’s true colors. And what’s your “vision of peace,” Sammy — Meyer Kahane’s?