86. Robert Vincent:
“…If Jewish Americans really did not care about Israel, there would have been no need for Obama to engage in the PR charade he did during the campaign to assuage their fears about him concerning Israel…”
If the gun was clearly visible at Israel’s head as it was in i973 most Jews would, indeed, be concerned. The issues at hand are cowardice, willful ignorance and self-delusion by American Jews when those plainly hostile to Jews and the Jewish state claim to be friends acting for the good of Israel and the welfare of the US and the world.
82. Stuart Williamson:
“…why do these socialists form organizations that are identified as “Jewish”?”
Because such folk see themselves as culturally and ethnically Jewish. They have contempt for the Bible and for all religion (save, strangely, for Islam which they view for a radical ally.) They imagine themselves intellectually superior and more sophisticated; first of their fellow Jews and second of Americans at large.
These are “kosher style” Jews who think Jewish history begins with the Holocaust and Judaism translates to bagels and lox and the Sunday Times. Biblical illiteracy is a point of pride and sophistication for this leftist Jewish elite. Straight-talking, physically and psychologically muscular Israelis are an embarrassment. Christian Evangelicals who venerate the Hebrew Bible and respect the Jewish claim to their tiny ancestral homeland are ignorant yahoos whose end-of-world eschatology is more threatening than Islamic terrorism.
Leftist Jews are a corrosive influence on Judaism and America–unworthy of the Patriarchs and the Founding Fathers alike. Nonetheless, they style themselves “American Jews.”
Go know.
