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Silencing Critics for Obama

By on 10.27.11 @ 6:07AM

With their “unity”pledge, prominent Jewish leaders are trying to save Obama from the consequences of his Israel policy.

The President of the United States was being attacked for withholding aid to Israel in an effort to pressure it to stop housing construction in communities established on land Israel won during the Six Day War in 1967.

Jews openly criticized the president’s effort to tie aid to Israel to a freeze on settlements. Anti-Defamation League (ADL) leader Abraham Foxman called the linkage “an untenable position” and declared “the question of Israeli settlement activity is an issue to be resolved at the Arab-Israeli negotiating table.” Indeed, these groups were equally angered and confused by the president’s proposal to use the 1967 “borders” as a starting point for negotiations with the Palestinians.  

In an unprecedented move, Israel’s prime minister publicly criticized the president for this policy, claiming Israel would be returned to the “borders of Auschwitz” if it went back to its pre-1967 frontiers. “The United States really wants to return us to the 1967 borders with minor border adjustments,” he told the newspaper Haaretz.

The American Jewish Congress declared that “this is a regrettable and unwarranted conditioning of humanitarian aid on compliance with an extraneous political goal.… This policy of the United States now compels Israel to choose between aid which everyone believes essential to its absorption needs and a settlement policy which some, at least, believe is essential to its security needs.”

The political fallout of major Jewish organizations criticizing the president and his policies was evident. “There is a great deal of anger among Jews in America about how the Administration is handling things,” said Carol Nelkin, a Houston lawyer active in local Jewish causes. “It seems to me that whether or not you are in favor of settlements or stopping them,” she said, “the tone of the Administration is one that seems hostile to Israel, beyond what is necessary, and that is something I take personally.”  

To be sure, the president sought to win back support in the Jewish community. But “there is anger and dismay in Jewish communities over Administration policy that is increasingly perceived as one-sided and unfair against Israel,” said Jess Hordes, Washington director of the Anti-Defamation League. “I imagine it will be translated into an unwillingness to vote for this Administration or contribute funds.” 

Candidates opposing his re-election claimed before a major Jewish organization that the president has “all but destroyed the historic relation between America and Israel.” Their campaigns had the air of a pro-Israel crusade, with community activists determined to unseat the president at all costs in retribution for his perceived hostility toward Israel. They openly encouraged the crusade atmosphere, regularly attacking the president’s Middle East record and promising a new era in U.S.-Israel ties.

What I’ve described is how American Jews and Jewish organizations responded to President George H.W. Bush’s policies and treatment of Israel. As part of this reaction, Jewish groups and individual voters shifted their support to Bill Clinton. They did so publicly and with a pronounced sense of anger.

So when President Obama pursues policies similar to Bush and evokes the same disappointment from Jewish voters, why are “leading” Jewish organizations rushing to get other Jewish groups to sign a “unity” pledge not to raise the same objections in the same way they were raised in 1992? 

ADL and other groups attacked Bush nearly 20 years ago. But such criticism has been tossed down the memory hole by the ADL and its pledge co-sponsor, the American Jewish Committee. Their pledge reads in part: “The Jewish community has had a strong interest in ensuring that American support for Israel is one of the critical strategic issues that unites rather than divides parties and officials. U.S.-Israel friendship should never be used as a political wedge issue.”

Who really has a strong interest in stifling debate? Abe Foxman clears things up: “We want the discourse on U.S. support for Israel to avoid the sometimes polarizing debates and political attacks that have emerged in recent weeks, as candidates have challenged their opponents’ pro-Israel bone fides or questioned the current administration’s foreign policy approach vis-à-vis Israel.”

Are we to believe that criticism of President Bush and support of Bill Clinton — including that of Foxman — undermined American and Israel interests and that shutting up about Obama’s policies advances them? It is more likely that Jewish groups behind the unity pledge have convinced themselves that being hypocritical cogs in the Obama election machine will strengthen support for Israel. Rabbi Hillel the Elder told his students and fellow sages: “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” Would that the ADL and other groups took their inspiration from him. Instead they were seduced into a pact to silence Jews from speaking out. A shanda fur die Yiddin.

About the Author

Robert M. Goldberg is vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and founder of Hands Off My H ealth, a grass roots health care empowerment network. His is new book, Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used To Hijack Medical Science For Fear and Profit, was published last month by Kaplan.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (68) |

Doctor_X| 10.27.11 @ 7:13AM

I’ve never understood why the Jewish population votes in such large percentages for the anti-Israeli Democrats while the Republican party is the party of Israel!

Drudge Ette Obama| 10.27.11 @ 7:22AM

Cognitive dissonance. American Jews care more about prochoice politics which align them with Democrats and against the "Religious Right" than Israel and its survival.

American Jews would be shunned in their close culture if they acted conservative or criticized progressive Democrats.

Look at Lieberman's straddling the line - somewhat hawkish on Israel and defense issues, but still quite liberal socially.

Most American Jews aren't Orthodox Jews and most American Jews almost ridicule the Orthodox division of their religion - likening it to the evangelistic Christian movement which is equally ridiculed.

The culture prevents American Jews from outwardly supporting the conservatives.

Go figure.

USSAlabama| 10.27.11 @ 8:55AM

The reasons are much deeper than what you write, though I am not saying you are wrong.

Where I live the Jews do not vote for liberal Dems. That comes from the Bluest regions of the country and is where these organizations are.

In those groups of Orthodox, they see the Right as Christian, and promoting for an Israel that will allow return for a Messiah that they do not believe in and any thing done to thwart them is acceptable.

Most people who know this will not say it. Those who know why they do it won't write it or speak it.

That itself is beyond political correctness.

The only time I have seen it addressed in any public way was an article written by Ben Shapiro. If I can find the link to it I will post it.

USSAlabama| 10.27.11 @ 9:36AM

I think it is this one:

http://townhall.com/columnists.....page/full/

DTOM| 10.27.11 @ 10:08AM

Isn't it the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" concept failing yet again?

It fails? You betcha.

Lookit the Arab spring, we now have three new Islamic sharia-law countries, because we thought the enemies of the old dictators were our friends. Wrongo! The Muslim Brotherhood is America's friend like a rapist is his victim's boyfriend. They want us ALL Muslim or dead. Just read their writings.

Remember Joe Stalin in 1942 - 1945. He was a great friend, after all he was Hitler's enemy, right after he was his big ally. Only the impossibly naive and childish, tooth-fairy-believers, ever take these people at face value, the way Hillary, Barack, and (LOOKOUT!!) Ron Paul do. (Dr. Paul swears, he'd just tell Ahmadinejad that'we don't want to hurt you.) How many old teeth do these people have under their pillows? Do they smell? (The teeth, the teeth!)

So the Jews in America close their eyes to the reality of the recent Democrat abuses of Israel because those damn Christians want to take over Jerusalem for themselves. Failing to see the light of day is not a particularly new failing for those folks. Anybody remember in the 1970's and 1980's how the JEws and the Christians seem to play nice around their Holy Lands? And the Muslims don't? You can lead some horses to water, but you may well drown some of these dopes trying to get them to slake their thirst.

Sheesh.

C Smith| 10.27.11 @ 10:48AM

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Seven Other Spirits

When Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander reported "flickers" of al Qaeda and Hezbollah involvement within ranks of the Libyan rebels, he was soundly reproved. National security officials quickly denied the affiliation, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton immediately mitigated the allegation. However, as the Western coalition continues to facilitate rebellion within the Arab League, a vacuum is undeniably being created. The obvious question: what is going to fill the vacuum? There is an obvious answer, but is won't be forthcoming from Obama or Clinton, or Cameron or Sarkozy:

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation" (Mathew 12:43-45).

http://the-day-of-the-lord.blo.....irits.html

Bsg| 10.27.11 @ 3:18PM

What did you expect when we elected a Muslim as prez?

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:41AM

Well, this Jew's voting Republican. And his kids despise Liberals.

RCV| 10.27.11 @ 1:10PM

Well, this liberal doesn't despise your kids.

race_to_the_bottom| 10.27.11 @ 1:34PM

Yes, you do that. Empower those rightwing Christian totalitarian theocrats who "love Israel" and hate the Jews because they killed Christ. You don't believe me? Well, this has always been the logic of Zionism. Divide the Jewish people from their historical allies and herd them into the ranks of their enemies.

MM| 10.27.11 @ 9:05PM

'Bottom' - that's where you are, for you must be stupid.

There is no RIGHT WING (not" rightwing) totalitarian Christian theocrat" whom would be elected for anything.

You don't need to race_to_the _bottom MORON
You are already there.

Bottom feeder.

Should Have Impeached| 10.27.11 @ 10:14PM

"rightwing Christian totalitarian theocrats who ... hate the Jews because they killed Christ."

Please.... You still harbor and spread that lie? People are always making Christians out to be zealots for whom religion is an exercise in exacting revenge on behalf of their favorite martyr. Christianity isn't a "martyr" religion. Except for some badly informed people who "call" themselves Christians, a REAL Christian knows that Christ is resurrected and is not dead. I don't know where you get your definition of the logic of Zionism, but... Think hard here or you'll miss it: The Most Basic Christian Tenet = HE'S ALIVE! Meaning? If he's alive, what's there to be mad about? Who's there to be mad at? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE! (No martyr religion here.) -- and certainly no anger toward the Jews whom U.S. Christians by and large respect, and whose very existence is regarded as proof positive that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lives! Please let go of the "Christ is dead and the Jews did it so the Christians are secretly after them" scenario. This is the very antithesis of authentic Christianity. I'm sure there are anti-Semites who call themselves Christians... but they are misinformed and probably aren't Christians... How can I say that? Because they act like they believe Christ is dead and there's someone to blame for it! That's the very definition of a vengeful non-Christian. And you're stuck in the fantasy that this is the very core of Christianity?

Mattress-V | 2.2.12 @ 10:07PM

Let see the battle in their home.. :)

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:47AM

DTOM. Beautifully put. G-d Bless.

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:47AM

There are many, many things to love about 'Bama, in addition to my wonderful in-laws.

richard ryan| 10.27.11 @ 11:31AM

I don't get it either, X. American Jews are the epitome of knee-jerk liberals (generally speaking-there are exceptions to everything). The holocaust museum says never again, never forget. But I guess this just applies to the murder of other Jewish people? I didn't see widespread Jewish support for ousting Saddam, who was a brutal guy and proven ethnic cleansing murderer. Never again didn't apply to the Kurds I guess.

martin j smith| 10.27.11 @ 8:01AM

I have no use for the ADL or the AJC or most other Jewish communal organizations. I am Jewish--but I have invented an expression: "You may be Jewish but you are not kosher" and this does apply to these and other organizations.

Once I talk a course taught by a Holocaust Survivor about that period of history. Basically she was "saved" by looking and speaking like a native of Poland while living in Warsaw during Nazi Occupation. I think this was necessary at that time because a Nazi or Polish collaborator could take you in at any time with no rhyme or reason. This same mentality applies to American Jews but is far more irrational because we are not yet under Nazi Occupation. In many cases, not all though, American and Israeli Jews suffer this syndrome at the expense of others. It is psychological and not political though it ends up with dire political consequences..
Personally the only thing I can do is separate from that way of thinking and support those with more rational views--those who see the dangers in this world to all of us Jews and non Jews alike as they really are not as we wish them to be.

C Smith| 10.27.11 @ 10:39AM

Est 4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
Est 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

martin j smith| 10.27.11 @ 8:05AM

Sorry in the first sentence the word Talk" should be took.

scythe| 10.27.11 @ 8:19AM

That's because the groups you mentioned are "Marxist" with a convenient overlay of being "Jewish". They out themselves all the time, and few people are fooled anymore. Can you imagine of a Republican president expressed "sympathy" for the groups currently assembled in NYC and elsewhere and their wack job nut bags going on and on about the "jooos"? Abe Fat Ass Foxman would be in high dungeon and would give no quarter. Now he waddles around telling everyone to make nice. Guess what Abe? Your "anti Semitic" schtick will be getting the same treatment that crying racist! does now. Both tactics to control, silence, and ostracize will no longer work. And you Abe have put politics over the threats and the simmering rage being stoked against your members. Do you think anyone in that OWS will give a crap if you tell them how left wing you are and how you stand in solidarity? Just wait. They won't let you. You are a big mouth in the "Jewish" community. You are the enemy.

Louis Jenkins| 10.27.11 @ 8:51AM

You are either Jewish or you are not. Most American Jews have foresaken their heritage, and opted out for soft Hebrewism. Should they really care what happens in a nation several thousand miles away? They've never had it so good. They're not hungry, cold, or on the verge of extinction here in the USA. They've learned how to play the game.

oldfart| 10.27.11 @ 9:03AM

"They're not hungry, cold, or on the verge of extinction here in the USA.”
Not yet - but if the closet Muslim is re-elected watch out.

WJ| 10.27.11 @ 3:03PM

You spout ridiculous garbage. Obama (aks Closet Muslim to you) is a clown in many ways. An anti -semite he is not.

oldfart| 10.27.11 @ 8:08PM

His actions speak so loudly I cannot hear a word he is saying.

hardcard| 10.27.11 @ 9:12AM

I think it's because the Jews that came here from Eastern Europe and the USSR in the early 20th century mainly socialists and communists escaping starvation and pograms. Todays Jews are decendants of those immigrants and have been influenced by tradition and instuction of their ancestors to be left leaning in the politics

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.27.11 @ 9:14AM

Where do ya start? I know. Let's start at the beginning.
He was BORN a Muslim. He was RAISED in Muslim Indonesia, attending their Muslim Schools and Mosques, til he was 11 years old. He knelt on his Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and prayed to a God of MURDER, for DEATH TO AMERICA and DEATH TO THE JEWS.
His first interview, upon becoming President, was to Al Arabia. His first Speeches were in Morocco and in Cairo, and they were APOLOGIES for US, and Praise for them.
He told George Stephanopoulos that "The Muslim Call To Prayer, is the most beautiful sound in the world". And then he recited it.
He BOWS to the Saudi King, and Guardian of Islam's Holiest Sites. He Bitch Slaps the Israeli Prime Minister, forcing him to use a SERVICE ENTRANCE, at the White House, to come and go. "NO PICTURES"!
He welcomed the events in Tunisia. He encouraged the ouster of Mubarak, in Egypt. And he TOOK PART, in the Overthrow of Libya. All of them, semi Secular Muslim Countries, and NO THREAT to either Israel, or the United States. At least they used to be.
Tunisia, Egypt, an Libya, have all promised to become Islamic States (Not Democracies) to impose SHARIA (Not Equal Rights and Inclusion) and to stand with their fellow Muslims AGAINST Israel.
These are the folks that OBAMA supported.
He did NOT offer any support to the people in IRAN, as they were being MUREDERED in the streets, by their own Government. (Obama didn't want to "MEDDLE") He has NOT offered to help the people in SYRIA, as they are being Murdered, by the HUNDREDS, by Bashir Assad. He has refused to intervene in these Countries, even though they are doing WORSE to their own people, than what Khadafy was doing. Our stated GOAL, in Libya, was to Liberate the Libyan people from a Dictator who was Killing them. Iran and Syria have killed MANY MORE of their own people, and yet, Obama does nothing.
Why?
It's simple, really. Iran and Syria are already Enemies of Israel. They have vowed a never ending War, against the Jewish State. Now, 3 more Arab States have joined them. 3 More Muslim Countries to take up Arms against her. And they all got the wink and the nod, from OBAMA. One of them even got AIR STRIKES. Or as HAMAS calls him: ABU HUSSAIN, their DELIVERER.They believe he was "Sent by Allah" to rid them of the JEW, and lead them back to Glory.
Gee. I wonder what ever gave them that idea?
Which brings us back to the AMERICAN JEW.
How STUPID do ya have to be, to continue to support this man, if you're a Jew? Jeremiah Wright? Bill Ayers? Louis Farrakhan? KHALID RASHIDI?
He sat in an ANTI-SEMITE'S CHURCH for 20 Years, listening to his rants about "THE JEWS". And, then he got up, and went to Louis Farrakhan Rallies, and listened to it some more.
What happened to "NEVER AGAIN"?
You keep supporting the Party of the KKK. The Party of The Black Panthers, and "FREEDOM for PALISTINE". It was FDR who turned back the St.Louis, with her Cargo of Jewish Refugees, seeking asylum from Hitler's Gas Chambers. It was FDR who sent them back to certain death. Jimmy Carter is the Jew Hater. Jesse Jackson is Mr. HYMIE TOWN. Jim Moran - Democrat Representative from Virginia - is the one that thinks "All of the Wars in the 20th Century were because of THE JEWS".
The biggest threat to the JEW, is sitting in the Oval Office. Why can't you see this? What's it gonna take? A Yellow Star of David on your breast pocket? Or a trip to the Showers?
WAKE UP.

Mike 3/505| 10.27.11 @ 9:32AM

Tim,

Good stuff. Please help an old guy out (me) and try and put some paragraphs in your posts.

Regards,

Mike

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.27.11 @ 10:02AM

Where do ya start? I know. Let's start at the beginning.

He was BORN a Muslim. He was RAISED in Muslim Indonesia, attending their Muslim Schools and Mosques, til he was 11 years old. He knelt on his Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and prayed to a God of MURDER, for DEATH TO AMERICA and DEATH TO THE JEWS.

His first interview, upon becoming President, was to Al Arabia. His first Speeches were in Morocco and in Cairo, and they were APOLOGIES for US, and Praise for them.

He told George Stephanopoulos that "The Muslim Call To Prayer, is the most beautiful sound in the world". And then he recited it.

He BOWS to the Saudi King, and Guardian of Islam's Holiest Sites. He Bitch Slaps the Israeli Prime Minister, forcing him to use a SERVICE ENTRANCE, at the White House, to come and go. "NO PICTURES"!

He welcomed the events in Tunisia. He encouraged the ouster of Mubarak, in Egypt. And he TOOK PART, in the Overthrow of Libya. All of them, semi Secular Muslim Countries, and NO THREAT to either Israel, or the United States. At least they used to be.

Tunisia, Egypt, an Libya, have all promised to become Islamic States (Not Democracies) to impose SHARIA (Not Equal Rights and Inclusion) and to stand with their fellow Muslims AGAINST Israel.

These are the folks that OBAMA supported.
He did NOT offer any support to the people in IRAN, as they were being MUREDERED in the streets, by their own Government. (Obama didn't want to "MEDDLE") He has NOT offered to help the people in SYRIA, as they are being Murdered, by the HUNDREDS, by Bashir Assad. He has refused to intervene in these Countries, even though they are doing WORSE to their own people, than what Khadafy was doing. Our stated GOAL, in Libya, was to Liberate the Libyan people from a Dictator who was Killing them. Iran and Syria have killed MANY MORE of their own people, and yet, Obama does nothing.

Why?

It's simple, really. Iran and Syria are already Enemies of Israel. They have vowed a never ending War, against the Jewish State. Now, 3 more Arab States have joined them. 3 More Muslim Countries to take up Arms against her. And they all got the wink and the nod, from OBAMA. One of them even got AIR STRIKES. Or as HAMAS calls him: ABU HUSSAIN, their DELIVERER.They believe he was "Sent by Allah" to rid them of the JEW, and lead them back to Glory.

Gee. I wonder what ever gave them that idea?

Which brings us back to the AMERICAN JEW.
How STUPID do ya have to be, to continue to support this man, if you're a Jew? Jeremiah Wright? Bill Ayers? Louis Farrakhan? KHALID RASHIDI?

He sat in an ANTI-SEMITE'S CHURCH for 20 Years, listening to his rants about "THE JEWS". And, then he got up, and went to Louis Farrakhan Rallies, and listened to it some more.

What happened to "NEVER AGAIN"?
You keep supporting the Party of the KKK. The Party of The Black Panthers, and "FREEDOM for PALISTINE". It was FDR who turned back the St.Louis, with her Cargo of Jewish Refugees, seeking asylum from Hitler's Gas Chambers. It was FDR who sent them back to certain death. Jimmy Carter is the Jew Hater. Jesse Jackson is Mr. HYMIE TOWN. Jim Moran - Democrat Representative from Virginia - is the one that thinks "All of the Wars in the 20th Century were because of THE JEWS".

The biggest threat to the JEW, is sitting in the Oval Office. Why can't you see this? What's it gonna take? A Yellow Star of David on your breast pocket? Or a trip to the Showers?
WAKE UP.

Hey Jack.

You're welcome.

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.27.11 @ 10:04AM

I mean: Mike.

DTOM| 10.27.11 @ 10:10AM

In the past, didn't you tell other people they needed to get better glasses when they raised this issue with you? Looks like you're mellowing. That could be good or bad...

USSAlabama| 10.27.11 @ 10:10AM

Finally, Tim! Good job. Guess you didn't see my similar request a few days back.

Look it over and compare the two. See how much nicer it looks and so much more readable.

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.27.11 @ 10:38AM

What can I say?

Old Dog. New Trick.

You know how it is.

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:45AM

Yeah, Tim, but you don't have fleas and play well with kids. ;-)

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.27.11 @ 2:14PM

Was that a Punctuation dig?

Funny guy.

C Smith| 10.27.11 @ 10:31AM

"Why"?

Monday, March 28, 2011
The Gadhafi Precedent

“No,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly stated when asked on “Face the Nation” if the U.S. would intervene in Syrian unrest as in Libya. She defended her position by saying that the situations in Syria and Libya are respectively "unique." Yes, each are unique, but not for reasons mentioned:

Syria's human rights record is among the worst according to Human Rights Watch. Syrian secret police detain, torture, and are suspect in the disappearance of an estimated 17,000 political prisoners. Libya, by comparison, is not even in the ball park.

Syria, according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), supports the following terrorist organizations: Hezbollah, the Iraqi insurgency, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Libya of course is culpable for Lockerbie, but even here Gaddafi personal sanction on the matter is debatable.

Iran and Syria maintain a mutual defense agreement, while Iran and Libya are enemies with the former encouraging the West to arm their anarchist allies.

Syria possesses weapons of mass destruction (chemical and biological) and the capability to deliver them according to U.S.defense and intelligence reports. However, a September 2007 Israeli air strike is generally credited with putting Syria's nuclear program on hold. Libya, in stark contrast, has complied with the "world community," and what was her reward, "decimation":

"On December 19, 2003, Libya announced it would dismantle its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs. Since then, U.S., British, and international officials have inspected and removed or destroyed key components of those programs, and Libya has provided valuable information, particularly about foreign suppliers. Libya’s WMD disarmament is a critical step towards reintegration into the world community.... " (Sharon A. Squassoni and Andrew Feickert (Specialists in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division), CRS Report for Congress, Disarming Libya: Weapons of Mass Destruction, September 22, 2006).

Clinton's unsubstantiated preference of Syria over Libya is not an error in judgment, but rather something more sinister:

Frank Gaffney, a columnist for the Washington Times, recently made the obvious connection in an analysis titled “The Gadhafi Precedent.” Gaffney indicates that the hostilities initiated against Libya might soon be used to “justify and threaten the use of U.S. military forces against an American ally: Israel.” Actually, Gaffney was too restrained in his analysis. The coalition's assault on Libya was a test run or perhaps a dress rehearsal of the "Expedient for Jerusalem":

Palestinian preparations for the opportune moment to initiate anarchy in Israel are complete, pending Secretary Clinton's affirmation of the "Gadhafi Precedent." However, the situations in Libya and Israel are respectively "unique". Secretary Clinton and her coalition are unaware "the LORD hath chosen" Israel (cf. Deuteronomy 14:2), has "chosen Jerusalem" (cf. 2 Chronicles 6:6) and unto Abraham promised: "... all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever" (Genesis 13:15).

Secretary Clinton and her coalition are also unaware the LORD doesn't settles His accounts on Friday, but has chosen one DAY in all eternity to judge the earth. Yet as that DAY draws ever nearer "the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us" (Psalms 2:2-3). And as Secretary Clinton and her coalition covertly prepare ambush for Israel, the LORD bates the pit: "... I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people... and in that day will... make Jerusalem a burdensome stone... And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:2-9).

http://theisraelofgod.blogspot.....salem.html

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:42AM

Tim: you're a peach. Thanks.

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:45AM

Poifect, Tim.

Oldefarte| 10.27.11 @ 1:45PM

Once again, my exact thoughts are explained much more eloquently and thoroughly by TLP. Bullseye, pure gold again! I too simply cannot understand the American Jews' attitude regarding this president. It should be plainly obvious to anyone with a normal IQ as to what/how his administration is orchestrating the eventual demise of Israel, by empowering their Muslim-Arab neighbors via the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia Law victories. As TLP indicated, what does it take for American Jews to WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ISRAEL [and to the US as well]??????????

Howard| 10.27.11 @ 10:21AM

I think the author is reading too much into the ADL statement. I believe that Obama's support among Jews is the lowest that any Democrat since WWII has received. Jews sometimes foolishly vote pro-Democratic in a reflex manner. However, more and more see Obama as not a friend, if not exactly an enemy.

Ted| 10.27.11 @ 10:33AM

Obama's support may be lower now, but he'll still easily take 70-80% of the "Jewish" vote. And the black vote, too.

C Smith| 10.27.11 @ 10:22AM

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Auschwitz Borders

As Netanyahu pleaded, that Israel cannot "go back to the 1967 lines, and that "these lines are indefensible," our president burned in silent rage. Never had anyone transgressed a photo opt by "disagreeing" with the master of the (white) house, and forgoing his due "reverence." That is, except for this Jew. One can only imagine the wrath, were it not for the cameras. And before the Israeli Prime Minister had finished speaking, the lot had been cast!

Amazing how things never really change: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun" (Ecclessiastes1:9).

"After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment? Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring. And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.... And the king and Haman sat down to drink...." (Esther 3:1-15).

http://theisraelofgod.blogspot.....rders.html

JA| 10.27.11 @ 11:11AM

Those jewish groups sucking up to Barry Hussein remind me of the jewish KAPOS in the concentrations camps. The Kapos had no qualms about stuffing in jewish women and children into the gas chambers to save their own hide. Today's jewish "leadership" are the Kapos of the USA; they will sacrifice everything just to promote their real religion ; socialism and neo-communism.
Of course, many Kapos wound up in the gas chambers anyway. Barry HUSSEIN will do the same to the jewish "leadership."

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:44AM

JA: Poifect! TOO TRUE!

Paul Kotik | 10.27.11 @ 11:13AM

A better way to frame the question is "Why are so many Jews socialists?"

A socialist is a socialist first. A Jewish socialist is sort of like a Jewish Buddhist, or a Jewish Catholic ( e.g., Larry Kudlow). A Jew who has adopted the religion other than that of his own people.

Socialism, like Islam, is a religion that is extraordinarily insistent on orthodoxy.

That so many American Jews are socialists is particularly interesting because so many are descended from survivors of Soviet Communism.

I've read in a memoir by a 19th Century clansman of mine that in Russian Empire days it was common strategy for Jews to cozy up to the Czarist regime in Moscow in order to get the regime's protection from menacing local peasants. I guess in an increasingly socialist, centralized USA it's an application of this strategy to wear socialist colors.

Anyway, the mystery is why American Jews are socialists.

Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 11:44AM

Obama will get about 60% of the Jewish vote this time, I think. Romney or Cain will do better among Jews than Perry, unfortunately with regards to Romney. (I like Cain, myself, but I would vote for any of the three mentioned if they grab the brass ring.)

Oldefarte| 10.27.11 @ 1:51PM

OT, regarding my above/previous question, why oh WHY do not Jews understand the detrimental aspects of this administration as to Israel's fate? What is it about the Democratic Party that Jews are so religiously devoted to? As TLP indicates above also, don't they understand who/what he is and his subversive policies are within the middle east? Why would Jews vote 80% for him in 2008 and more so why would they even consider doing so today given his last three year history????????????????????????

ArmyAviator| 10.27.11 @ 11:48AM

Most secular Jews are self-hating. How any Jew can be a socialist is beyond my comprehension as history shows that in EVERY case where a socialist government came to power, the vilification and discrimination of Jews followed!
One dirty little secret from the Nazi experience is that many German Jews actually VOTED for the NATIONAL SOCIALISTS in the 1932 German elections! Most German Jews were 1) Socialists, 2) Germans and last Jewish! However, they were still deported or rounded-up to be killed. Their love of (National) Socialism saw many to their deaths. The same fate awaits Jews if we suffer a Liberal Socialist dictatorship in this nation.

Ted| 10.27.11 @ 2:24PM

"The same fate awaits Jews if we suffer a Liberal Socialist dictatorship in this nation."

I disagree... The reason I disagree is that we have a LOT of people in this country who take the 2nd Amendment seriously. Remember, Germany was disarmed. Our thoughtful Founders recognized that potential problem early in the piece and did some prevention work.

RCV| 10.27.11 @ 6:48PM

I have read an awful lot of history on the Third Reich, but I have never come across an iota of support for the claim that "many Jews actually voted for the National Socialists in the 1932 German elections." Please cite your source for this amazing claim.

marshcope| 10.27.11 @ 10:18PM

In his book on historians of the Middle Ages Norman Cantor has a chapter on a German Jewish historian named Kantorowicz, who has swaztikas impressed on his bookcovers, and had to be dragged out of Germany by his friends,and spent years at the Princeton Center extolling the good sides of National Socialism. He may have been as close to a being Jewish Nazi as possible.

OLDRAY| 10.27.11 @ 12:39PM

Timothy Pennell has it exactly right. I would only add that besides being anti Israel (and a closet anti semite) Obama hates Western Civilization and does everything he can to undermine our allies everwhere .He undermines our fabulous military . He sabotages our great domestic oil and gas potential. He stimulates class hatred. In short HE is the enemy within.

Andrew Golkow| 10.27.11 @ 12:44PM

I sent a note to Mr. Foxman and Mr. Harris, and hopefully they heard many similar comments:

Dear Mr. Foxman and Mr. Harris:

I have read with disbelief your “National Pledge for Unity on Israel”. I don’t think that anyone over the age of 10 really believes that this is anything other than an attempt to give President Obama a pass on his policy toward Israel. I am certain that you well know that there is a growing sense of unease, even anger, in the Jewish community about Obama’s Middle East policy. Certainly, if most people in the Jewish community, and friends of Israel, thought that Obama’s policy on Israel was just great, you wouldn’t have bothered with the “Pledge”. Telling people, in more polite terms, to simply “shut up” will not diminish their unease and anger. I appreciate your most recent clarification that you didn’t really intend to tell people to “shut up” (e.g., the “Pledge” is “not intended to discourage raising questions about a candidate's support for Israel or the policy decisions of the current administration regarding Israel.”) – but when you say that Israel policy shouldn’t be a “political wedge issue”, there is an obvious contradiction.

I believe that all persons running for office must be held accountable for their positions, whether those positions involve Israel or anything else. Whether due to an ambivalence toward Israel, or a misplaced faith in his vast knowledge and experience in the Middle East, the fact is that Obama’s policy on Israel has meandered from clueless to throwing Israel under the bus.

The purpose of the “Pledge” is all too transparent. The reaction to the “Pledge” you actually expected is less clear. If you truly expected the Jewish community and Jewish organizations to simply follow orders and “shut up”, then you have an inflated sense of your own importance. If, on the other hand, you expected all along that members of the Jewish community will do what they think best, without regard to your “Pledge”, and this was simply an attempt to gain favor with the administration, then I suggest that you are mistaken.

A large majority of Jews voted for Obama in 2008. That, however, didn’t effect what Obama actually did with regard to Israel. When you try to stifle debate, either to help Obama get re-elected, or because of a perceived need to avoid antagonizing him, I can’t help but be reminded of the debates in ghettos under Nazi occupation. The “Judenrats” sought to appease the Nazis by their cooperation, and believed that they were helping the Jews in the ghetto by avoiding an even worse fate. Of course, their cooperation did not avoid, or even postpone, the ultimate tragedy. If you succeed in stifling or muting debate about Obama’s policy toward Israel, do you really think that things will get any better in his second term? To believe that is an exercise in self-deception, much the same as that over 60 year ago in Europe.

For what its worth, I decline to withhold my criticism. If you go to your refrigerator, and find that the milk has become sour, do you put it back, thinking that tomorrow the milk will be fine? By attempting to put your thumb on the scale on behalf of Obama, you have damaged the reputation of your organizations.

Andrew Golkow

Joe D.| 10.27.11 @ 12:48PM

It is sad that these Jewish groups have become just like the other socialist/liberal groups in America, HYPOCRATS. NOW, NAACP and Environmentalist.

OLDRAY| 10.27.11 @ 12:57PM

Andrew Golkow!!!!!!!!!BRAVO...The ADL and AJC head the Liberal Lemming Brigade. Thank you.

race_to_the_bottom| 10.27.11 @ 1:44PM

This is a most ridiculous article. Obombya, like previous presidents, knows he must dance to the tune of AIPAC. The incredible fawning speech he gave at the UN got rave reviews from the Israeli foriegn minister, the fascist Avigdor Lieberman. And Foxman is a fraud. He is involved in trying to tar OWS with an antisemitic brush. A big lie. I'm getting really, really,sick, tired and pissed off at these bastards for dragging the good name of the Jewish people through the mud. Curse them!

deserttrek| 10.27.11 @ 2:35PM

As a freedom loving Constitutional Conservative Jew, I have never believed any democrat is a true friend of Israel or Jewish people in general even liberal Jews. clinton was buddies with yasser arafat and he was a frequent visitor to the white house. no its money the demoncrats want and the liberal backers of obama will marchin line to oblivion.

I have seen that movie and will not let it happen again, not to me or Israel.

Chris| 10.27.11 @ 3:13PM

Wandering around the [political] Desert for 40 years unable to grasp the "Red" tidal "Wave" of 2010. Oh Moses, where are you?

Chris| 10.27.11 @ 3:13PM

Wandering around the [political] Desert for 40 years unable to grasp the "Red" tidal "Wave" of 2010. Oh Moses, where are you?

Chris| 10.27.11 @ 3:13PM

Wandering around the [political] Desert for 40 years unable to grasp the "Red" tidal "Wave" of 2010. Oh Moses, where are you?

Chris| 10.27.11 @ 3:16PM

I only hit the post link once, don't know why this happened above?

Ivan Petrovich| 10.27.11 @ 3:17PM

ADl, AJC or whatever do not represent me. They do not represent any of my Jewish friends in my small PA town. A conservative rabbi was invited to our county Tea party townhall meeting to give a presentation on middle eastern politics. He asked the tea partiers "Are any Jews here". 1/3 of the present raised their hands. And I did not even know there was a single Jew in Tea Party, beside me, until then. If I was Obama, I would not count on conservative and religious Jews come next November. No sir.

voted against carter| 10.27.11 @ 4:31PM

If you are Jewish,... Obama and the DemocRATS want you DEAD.

Just like his ARAB buddies do.

They want you DEAD. The SOONER the BETTER.

Barry just said so.

What part of that do you NOT understand.

Oh, and FYI,, to all you LEFTY NON RELIGIOUS JEWS,.. the KEY part of your name is JEWS.

Barry and his ARAB buddies WANT YOU DEAD TOO.

You are a USEFUL IDIOTS to them,…

WAKE UP. Before it IS to LATE. again.

fyi I stand with Israel

RCV| 10.27.11 @ 6:52PM

FYI, I stand with Israel. And I support President Obama.

Pat| 10.27.11 @ 5:04PM

Share a bagel and lox with an American Jew, or even one of those Wall Street 99% Goys and the talk soon turns to President Obama. And a Conservative might be amused to learn some Americans actually believe Obama has done very well during his first three years. For one thing, he has brought purchasing your own home within the reach of many Americans. For example, today’s average price for a home in Detroit, Michigan now hovers slightly below $29,000. Here in California you can’t purchase your own home for less than $29,000; heck, you can’t even purchase a new car for $29,000. So, declining home prices in many great old American cities must go into the Win Column for our president.

And Obama’s Commerce Dept. folks have come up with yet another Stimulus campaign – “Buy an American Home and Charge It on Your Mastercard”. To be followed by a “Charge It on Your Visa” alternative as soon as the printers deliver the flyers. In lovely communities like Detroit, a home purchase today may not even exceed your card limit.

Understandably, America’s mortgage bankers are hopping mad over this buy a home on your credit card program but the Commerce Dept. folks are unmoved by such sour grapes – their boss, President Obama, has much previous community organizer experience with mortgage bankers and considers them all to be heartless skinflints – except of course for those hard-working, honest mortgage lenders, namely Fannie Mae and her twin brother Freddie Mac.

So, if you’re one of those “glass half empty” folks, you might not consider drastically declining home prices to be a presidential triumph, but you could be wrong. The Hope and Change crowd certainly believe otherwise - the glass, they claim, is really half full - although they do admit the other half of the glass will probably need to go for Obama’s recent tax increase proposal.

Nite| 10.27.11 @ 10:07PM

I believe that Christians have an obligation to support Jews and the country of Israel. Obama has insulted and made attempts to destroy Israel for the sake of the Palestinians. This is not acceptable. I will NOT support a GOP candidate that does not support Israel. Israel is the only true friend of the US in the middle East. If the Jews believe the garbage that Obama is spouting, then I suggest they look elsewhere for friends.

POST American| 10.27.11 @ 11:07PM

--------------------BOTTOM LINE---------------------

AS Globalism, EUGENICS, and psychopathic, GOD hating,
USURY is, undeniably, writing the agendas for the next century,
largely upheld by the promise of full-spectrum, state sanctified sodomy

-------------------------whither the TORAH?

Walter | 10.29.11 @ 9:28PM

I once worried about the fate of Israel, now, not so much. If Jews in this country can swallow what President Obama says and does I don't know why I should care. Encouraged and supported by this administration one country after another falls to Islam and Israel shrinks with each one. I don't see how this ends with anything but calamity.

Abu Nudnik| 10.30.11 @ 12:46PM

I think many Jews see their fortunes sustainable only in a "rainbow coalition" which is always ready to throw them to the wolves. Take blacks. Many of them have entirely forgotten the role Jews played in the Civil Rights movement. It's like the Stockholm Syndrome. I call it the Auschwitz syndrome: waiting quietly and politely in line.

BTW: There is no such thing as a pre-67 border: it's the 1949 Armistice Line.

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