Ephraim said, “I never thought I’d live to see the day, but the Democrats have become the anti-Semitic party of record.”
Amen.
Michael English, you are trying to impose your distinctly American political analysis on Israel, where it does not apply. In other words, you are ignorant.
Django wrote, “Their vote has reached the point of a ritualized obessession.”
Django, you are correct. I’m a socialist telling my Jewish friends to vote for McCain.
Luke Lea, any compensation to the Palestinians should be off-set against the amount the Arab League owes to the Sephardim – an amount far greater than the Palestinians’.
About Obama:
Allow me to point out that (crudely) the African-American community tends to split into 3 groups:
1. The conservative Christians, who like their evangelical analogues are pro-Jewish and pro-Israeli. MLK might be an example.
2. The liberal Christians, who like wrong Wright & Jackson & so on are anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli.
3. The black Muslims, who are anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli.
Leaders like David Dinkins and Barack Obama fall in between 1 and 2. They are smart and nice guys (and not anti-Semitic) but they have a problem. They cannot denounce groups 2 and 3 yet survive politically. Or, so they think. If they denounce groups 2 and 3 then they would alienate much of their black base and so have to exist on white support, which may be sufficient but scares them.
That’s why Dinkins didn’t stop the Crown Heights pogrom. He’s a nice guy who like Jews, but he was scared of his base to the point of paralysis.
Obama is trying to re-assure Jews without alienating his base. He may or may not be sincere in his statements about Israel, but unfortunately after election he would be like Dinkins – beholden to his base.
Jews should vote for McCain, who like his brother Joe has a conservative Christian’s respect for the Jews and Israel.
History is odd – the Jews are better-off with conservative, believing Christians than with secular liberals and blacks.
