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Ben Stein's Diary
Dropping the Hagel Bomb
Obama, Israel, and Chuck Hagel’s nomination.
You really cannot, in fairness, blame President Obama for naming “Chuck” Hagel, one of the most clearly anti-Israel, anti-Semitic members of the Senate (or ex-members in his case) to be Secretary of Defense. President Obama has not changed his views on Israel since his first speech at the Democrat convention in 2004, when he made it clear that his sympathies in the Middle East lay with the Palestinians. In a way, you have to admire his consistency. Of course, he has to pay lip service to Israel when he visits Miami Beach, but how he must laugh at the audiences that applaud him.
He is a charter member of the Chicago angry black man entity, and they — including former pals Jeremiah Wright and Minister Farrakhan — have little love for the Jews. So, again, his contempt for Israel and for Jews is not a surprise.
The parts that are so heart breaking are that:
1.) Most American Jews clearly supported Mr. Obama in his bid for President against a GOP that has been an incomparably stronger supporter of Israel than the modern-day Democrat party. If one is to judge from the stony faces at the DNC whenever Israel was mentioned, and the fervent support of Iran on those same faces, one can clearly see who was Israel’s friend and who was not. Never mind, Barack Obama got two thirds of the Jewish vote. That was decisive in Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. Barack Obama’s most productive fund-raisers, especially at the “millionaires and billionaires” level that Mr. Obama supposedly hates so much, were almost unanimously Jews. How they are going to square this with Senator Hagel’s nomination to a post that is of life or death importance to Israel is anyone’s guess.
But here is a clue: the really committed left-wing Jew does not care much about Israel. Jews in many cases have loyalties that trump their interest to Israel. Their support of Mr. Obama is a case in point. Obviously, it is the right of left-wing American Jews to have contempt for the Jewish state. That’s what freedom means.
On orders from Moscow, American Jewish Communists suspended criticism of Hitler during the August 1939-June 1941 period of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. Violation of that edict was called “premature antifascism” and men died for it. Not for a moment would I compare Mr. Obama to any of the evil names above in this paragraph. I merely point out that those who think all Jews in America consider Israel a high priority are mistaken. The left-wing group-think party line far outranks Zionism for many, many Jews.
You are going to see this in the immediate future, as Mr. Obama lines up his many Jewish friends and supporters to back Mr. Hagel.
2.) I hope the people who are supporting Chuck Hagel know that by confirming him, they are cementing at 100 percent that odds that Iran will get a nuclear capability without U.S. interference. Whether Israel can survive an Islamic bomb is questionable at best. This means a vote to confirm Mr. Hagel is a vote that expresses no interest in whether Israel survives.
As a student of anti-Semitism in Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust, no amount of hatred and loathing for Jews surprises me. Americans who do love Israel should be aware, though, that it is growing much more likely by the moment that there will be a second Holocaust. The only real friends that Israel has on this earth, evangelical Christians, will take note. Whether anyone else will is a big question.
3.) In a few days, we will mark that 100th birthday of Richard Nixon, the best friend in the White House that Jews have ever had. Even now, if you mention Nixon to Israelis, they tear up with gratitude about how Mr. Nixon saved them in 1973. American Jews have a very different attitude. I suspect that Mr. Obama will get away with his contempt for Israel, and that the same Jews who have always put the party line ahead of Israel will still support him. If Iran kills two million Jews in an afternoon (God forbid!) they will find a way to blame George W. Bush.
Poor Israel, poor beleaguered Israel, abandoned by so many people who call themselves Jewish, so alone, so terribly alone.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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Bill8472| 1.7.13 @ 9:02AM
The saddest thing is not that American Jews supported Obama during his two runs for the presidency; the saddest thing is that most American Jews will continue voting liberal when it's becoming clearer and clearer that the liberal party line is not only anti-Israel but antisemitic.
Somehow the Republicans continue to suffer from the mischaracterization of the party as racist and all WASP.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.7.13 @ 10:16AM
All the Jews who voted for Obama had a choice in November to change, but chose to sleep with Israel-haters instead. I will play my violin when these same people start complaining about this evil administration.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 11:05AM
Play the violin for me, my friend. Voted for McCain and Romney.
William R IS antisemitic. I love when Jew haters discuss how they are not when everything they do clearly points to problems. Don't worry, Bill. In a Pat Buckman administration which will follow Iran getting the bomb and blowing up Texas City I will make sure you will be on the list.
Why people think Islamic idiots getting nukes is only Israel's problem is beyond me. Hagel is a bloody idiot. He is OBAMA's nominee, folks. Obama is an American hater. Hmmm...
Al Adab| 1.7.13 @ 12:19PM
Really have to hand it to this president. His pro-islamist, anti-liberty agenda in the middle east is certainly bearing fruit... and no one seems to notice how effective it has been. Just look at all of our new friends, all the new pro-american nations in the region. What a brave new world he has created. It is so much safer now than in 2008.
PaddyL| 1.14.13 @ 1:00PM
I consider your comment to be sarcastic hyperbole. Am I correct?
The Middle East and North Africa are more dangerous to American interests now than any time in history. The entire area is about to explode into internecine civil wars between Muslim sects and other religious groups and failed states like Syria. Obama's foreign policies fueled the fires of instability in the region.
Dr Fouad Ajami describes the situation quite well in an op-ed article in todays WSJ, "The Struggle for the Fertile Crescent."
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 4:00PM
70% of Jews voted for Obama. The vast majority of his campaign funds came from the Jewish ccommunity, as Ben says. To me it means that Hagel is acceptable to most of them. Most Jews by polling were against the Iraq war. Most Jews of my aquaintonship are against an insane attack on Iran. The Jewish billionaires who back Obama want the Middle East settled once and for all. They may be Zionists but are sick of the settlers and people like Bibby Nutanyahoo, who want nothing but a Biblical Israel fromm the river to the river. Carter, Clinton, and now Obama want the Middle East settled with a 2 state solution. Hopefully they realize that a war with Iran would be insanity. Iran is not developing nuclear weapons at this time. The best solution for Iran is what Ben's old pal Nixon did with China. Send an Ambassdar and open relations with them. end immpral and illegal sanctions and negotiate a complete settlement. The Iranians have offered this for at least 10 years.
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 4:20PM
Obama is playing brilliant politics right now. He has the Republicans looking like warmongers, gun nuts, and people who only care about the rich. Now he throws Hagel into the mix. Hagel is a Repubicna realist and war hero along the lines of G. H. W. Bush. He doesn't hate Israel and will grovel sufficently to get the nomination. The reason Obama wants him is because he wants to cut defense spending in a drastic way. He needs a Republican front man to sell sell the idea. The people are sick of foreign wars and endless spending on huge defense budgets. Obama hopes to use these needed cuts and huge tax increases to fund his socialization of American life. It is time Republicans gave up on Israel and let it carry it's own water. Most Jews love Obama. The Republicans never got anything from the Neocon foreign policy of the last 12 years but a destruction of the partry. It is time to go back to an America first policy and let the world run itself. Vote for Hagel, back defense cuts and end to foreign ars and foreign aid. Double down and go for peace. End all of Obama's wars with drones and attacks on American civil liberties. Keep fighting for America and American liberty here, not in places where we are hated like Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Doctor Right| 1.7.13 @ 4:25PM
You are like a broken record.
"Foreign wars," "Israel," "warmongers," "Neocons," etc.
No matter what the topic - water distribution rights in Kenya or Barbie's physical proportions - you NEVER fail to mention these old chestnuts.
Don't you have anything better to do, you tedious old bore?
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 4:39PM
This whole column is about the insane policy of the Republican Party to follow Israel over the cliff. Conservatives get nothing from supporting Israel. We don't get votes, money, or respect. Why the hell do we do it? It is called the Stockholm syndrome, or battered wife ssyndrome. This policy is only about a dozen years old, with the Bush Cheney regime. Before that most Republicans were sane realists like Hagel and Jim Baker. As Baker supposed to have said when he wanted to stand up to the Israeli Lobby. " F. the Jews they don't vote for us anyhow. " It is time to end it not mend it. Stand up to Israel and stand up for America.
Frekki| 1.7.13 @ 7:12PM
"Conservatives get nothing from supporting Israel. We don't get votes, money, or respect"
We get morality, we get truth. I will die on the battlements defending Israel, and I am very not jewish. You are a toad, a seller of lies.
Bill8472| 1.7.13 @ 7:14PM
We get the value of knowing that we are supporting the only democracy in the Near East.
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 7:47PM
Baloney: Israel is a racist, thug state like South Africa, Hitler's prewar Germany, or the segregated American South. They were limited democracies as well, except of course, Germany. Why are we supporting this worthless welfare queen? Israel has sucked hundreds of billions from our tax payers and cost us trillions more in high fuel prices, endless war, endless intrest, and worldwide bad will. Israel has never been worth one drop of American blood or one American tax dollar. This putrid pimple could never exist without massive gifts and subsidies on the backs of the American and German taxpayer. It is time to end it not mend it. Integrate Israel-Palistine with equal rights for all Jew, Christian, and Muslim. As for Hagel, he has voted for every subsidy of Israel possible. He is also going to work for a criminal and murderer like Obama. Who needs him?
Controse| 1.8.13 @ 12:46AM
"putrid pimple" eh? I bet you claim some of your best friends are Jews. It's just Israel that has to go.
Have you taken a look at any elementary school text books from the "occupied" territories lately? You know the ones that teach killing Jews any gender, any age is the way to heaven. They teach 7 year olds the only good Jew is a dead Jew.
One Holocaust not enough for you huh Jack in Wi.
Back in the old country you would be known in polite society as an anti-Semitic bastard. Here in America polite society might label you differently moral.
Jack in Wi| 1.8.13 @ 12:57AM
Everyone who tells the truth about Israhell is called an antisemite. If you love it so much, go and join the IDF. The rest of us are Americans and don't pledge our loyaty to some crappy welfare Queen. It is time to kick the leaches off welfare. The biggest welfare queen in the world is Israel. Let it prove that it can carry it's own water. Otherwise let it go out of business. I believe in equality before the law for all. I also believe in the universal brotherhood of all mankind. Israel is the exact opposite.
jmacleve| 1.10.13 @ 11:23AM
You ARE an anti-Semite. Why spend so much time denying it? I believe in equality, sure. I'm an American, too (not Jewish, one of those evangelical Christians Mr. Stein wrote about) and I'm pro-Israel. Would you be saying these things, Jack in Wi, if it was Iran or Iraq or Jordan under discussion instead of Israel?
Lyneuss Fields | 1.8.13 @ 1:11PM
Hey Jack,
Have you seen your f'n stinky, puny, slimy, drunk buddy Mel lately?
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:19AM
Yes, but you are a very decent person, F.
Jack, on the other hand, is going to learn how fudge should be PACKED for his Jihadist Johns next weekend, as the Packers will lose to the 49ers. He is already an expert at being a Jihadist catamite, but there are always things to learn, right Jack?
Jack in Wi| 1.8.13 @ 12:49AM
Still crying about the Queens Occam. I can stand a loss if it comes. I have seen the Packers win 7 titles in my lifetime. I used to hang around in a bar with a lot of Lombardi's old Packers. I hope the Pack goes all the way. But your team has never won a title ever. Mine has won the record 13. That is why Green bay is called Titletown. Go Pack go, all the way one time for old Jack.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:07AM
You got bullcrap for morality and truth. Google "American Greed" and watch #66.
Never ending war does not equal morality and truth...it equals STUPID.
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 4:30PM
It is time to fight for God, the right of self defense with guns, small government, Life, low taxes, and an end to our destruction of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 10th amendments. Obama and the Neocons are both our enemies. It is time to tell both of them to go to hell and fight for what is right. Israel can just go defend itself with it's own blood and treasure. They could of had peace for decades if they had wanted it.
loulou| 1.7.13 @ 7:41PM
Doesn't the idiot Jacksh*... know that most of Obama's money comes from the unions?
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 7:53PM
The unions dump plenty of money Loulou honey. But I have seen estimates the the Democrat party receives 60% of it's funding from the Jewish community. Ben above, has stated that Obama got huge funding from Jewish billionares. He ought to know.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:21AM
"its own." The stupidity of your argument is made worse by the idiocy of your grammar. Rodgers to get Fudge Packed by the SF 49ers next week.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 9:10PM
The media lie. If you're tired of them picking the worst possible presidents, stop watching them. When their ratings ditch, they'll feel the heat and see the light. They're YOUR eyes. Use them wisely.
thinkingabovemypaygrade| 1.18.13 @ 1:57PM
A lot of people (including far left Jews) just sorta revoted this man in. They must have blind faith which needs no data to keep it going.
OP4| 1.7.13 @ 9:02AM
Guns, Israel, taxes... Obama hasn't wasted any time showing his true colors after re-election.
Louis Jenkins| 1.7.13 @ 9:08AM
Just like he said to Mendive (spl) I'll have more opportunity after the next election.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 9:10PM
That's "Medvedev."
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 11:09AM
What are you talking about?
He's been showing those Colours since DAY 1.
What's he gotta do? Write a Book.
Oh, right. He did that, too.
A Couple of'em.
I'm not Catholic, but I'd say that this is definitely time that everybody got a Saint Jude Medallion, and put it round their necks.
Al Adab| 1.7.13 @ 12:20PM
What did everyone think "fundamentally transform America" meant in 2008?
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 9:12PM
St. Jude is my confirmation name; I picked it during the Nixon Administration, when the media had me convinced the sky was falling. Now the media are trying to tell everyone they never had it so good. I'd trade what we have right now for the Nixon years.
Louis Jenkins| 1.7.13 @ 9:06AM
Shouldn't say that Israel is alone, but from the sound of things it's mighty dismal. Isn't it amazing that the American jews keep supporting a president that hates its homeland? Of note is the fact that Obama, the first Islamic president, while hating the jews, also has American Christianity in his sights. We should be very concerned.
Frank Drackman| 1.7.13 @ 10:19AM
Umm Louis, Generalize Much?,
cause This American Jew hasnt voted for a DemoKKKrat since Zell Miller, and that was only because I thought there was a mistake on the ballot...
and BTW, "American Christians" supported the Muslim-in-Chief to, admittedly at a lower rate than my Christ-Killing Fellow Hook-Noses(it's like the N-Word, it's OK if a Christ-Killer says it)
Frank
WaffenSS| 1.7.13 @ 12:30PM
This is an observed phenomenom, no-one hates a jew more or better than another jew. Why support Israel, no money in supporting Israel. The money is here, in the U.S., where a jew can fuckup and the Government bails his worthless ass out, with tax dollars. Suck up to the party folks. Look at George Sorros, a jew helped the Third Riech strip his fellow jews before the jew was shipped for gassing. Yeah, thats what I'm taking about, no-one hates a jew more or better than another jew. George Sorros, the poster boy for the liberal left. Say it ain't so.
Louis Jenkins| 1.7.13 @ 1:49PM
Actually, sir, you make perfect sense.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:30PM
Waffen---you are totally correct about George Soros, and the capacity of Liberal Jews for self-loathing. (I suspect your name is deliberate irony, unlike Jack in Wi., who claims Judeophilia even as he is an over-the-top purveyor of strong Judenhass.)
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 1:50PM
Isn't it amazing that they continue to support the party of FDR?
The man who sent the S.S. St. Louis, filled with Jewish Refugees, back to Hitler's Europe.
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 3:35PM
FDR would have placed them in his concentration camps, but they were already full of Japanese-Americans.
Happy Days are here again, My friends, and you are my friends.....
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 4:08PM
And Goggling a list of congressional Republicans opposing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II turns up how many names?
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:26AM
During World War II, Colorado governor Ralph Lawrence Carr was the only elected official to publicly apologize for the internment of American citizens. The act cost him reelection, but gained him the gratitude of the Japanese American community, such that a statue of him was erected in Sakura Square in Denver's Japantown.[92]
The Guv was a Republican. The bills for compensationfor Japanese Americans were signed by Reagan and GHW Bush, both Republicans.
Vtwin, first research, my friend. then bloviate.
Jive Bomber| 1.8.13 @ 12:26AM
You may recall that congress wasn't consulted on the matter.
The internment of Japanese Americans has and always will be linked with one politician: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D). He signed Executive Order 9066 which declared parts of the US to be military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded" FDR didn't specifically authorize the internment, but he did nothing to mitigate or stop it, much less rescind his own Order.
BTW, that Order was rescinded by President Ford (R)
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 3:59PM
The Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis were denied entry, why? Because of Calvin Coolidge’s, a Republican, major legislative accomplishment; the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited the number of not Protestants but Catholics and yes Jews that could emigrate from Europe.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 4:16PM
That's B.S. and you know it.
Calvin Cooledge was not in power.
FDR was.
I know that you like to blame the guy who ISN'T in power, for the Screwups of the Democrat that IS in power, but, please.
Get your head outta your ass, at least for 5 minutes.
If that's possible.
Which, it isn't.
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 4:34PM
“Rule of law,” "the law is king, “a government of laws and not of men,” does this mean anything to you?
Drunken Sailor| 1.7.13 @ 4:54PM
Yes, but it doesn't mean a damn thing to Obama.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 6:52PM
FDR could have let them in. He KNEW what they faced back home.
He chose not to.
loulou| 1.7.13 @ 7:43PM
FDR was an anti-Semite as was his State Dept.
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 8:40PM
FDR appointed Henry Morgenthau as the first Jewish Secretary of the Treasury and appointed Felix Frankfurter also Jewish to the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, 15% of FDR’s appointees were Jewish while only 3% of the population at the time was Jewish.
And, tell us loulou where was Obama Born?
loulou| 1.7.13 @ 9:51PM
How should I know where Obama was born?
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:29AM
Yes, and if talent had anything to do with it, it would have been 30%. Vtwin, Jews have comprised 3% of the US population and won 28% of all US Nobel prizes. Roosevelt was responsible for Jewish quotas at Harvard. People like him denied Jonas Salk proper research space FOR YEARS. (High Irony, there)
Obama was born, to the best of our knowledge, in Hawaii, to a Communist polygamous drunklen scumbag of a dad and a leftwing tart of a mother.
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 8:56PM
"We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937
On the "Four Freedoms," "The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941
vtwin| 1.7.13 @ 8:15PM
TLP, please tell us what FDR "knew they faced back home” in the spring and summer of 1939 given the United States didn't know until 1942 of the exterminations that began in 1941 .
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:31AM
Kristallnacht was in 1938 and Shirer's radio broadcasts were also available, vtwin. But they didn't open up the borders even in 1942 to Jewish immigrants, whomever could get here.
This is not an argument you're gonna win, vtwin. I know too many people whose parents suffered under this.
thinkingabovemypaygrade| 1.18.13 @ 2:02PM
My history knowledge is probably not as complete as Occam's Tool (above), but I know these two principles apply...
1, One should not assume that political parties stay the same. Good or bad.
2, One needs to do the research on the area in discussion. Your history book may have been wrong/incomplete.
You will find...that your college history textbook does NOT always present the whole truth! Sometimes it reflects more of the prejudices of its writers than an honest attempt to show what actually happened.
Hardcard| 1.7.13 @ 9:08AM
So what ! these creeps in this regime are all anti-American, anti-semetic, anti-freedom socialists and by the way socialism is the primary concern of the elites, cultural jews are not religious Jews or Christians, get used to it benny boy! You reap what you sew. Take a long nap pal.
CrossingTheDelaware| 1.7.13 @ 10:01AM
Bingo.
They are Liberals first. Liberalism *is* their religion.
William R| 1.7.13 @ 9:17AM
Time to show Stein the road. The idea that Chuck Hagel is antisemitic or anti Israel is absurd. Get rid of this third rate hack.
canuckistani| 1.7.13 @ 10:00AM
Agreed.
It is truly a sad day when AIPAC gets away with stifling all dissent.
Israel has been taken over by Russians and the idle orthodox. The energy of the Israel project has either become so jaded or too old to repel these infestations any longer.
The fact that the American Jew supports BHO in such a major way should give pause to observers here that the Frum/Krauthammer/Kristol axis of guilt-ridden Jews just may be wrong for the project after all.
Bibi has lost the narrative and even Third Templars on here are waking up and realizing that bogus revelatory scripture should not dictate US foreign policy.
Bill8472| 1.7.13 @ 7:16PM
For what? His bourgeois self-indulgence?
Jacob McCandles| 1.7.13 @ 10:01AM
Jews still support the left because the National Socialists were right wing. Because government control of businesses, the elimination of religion from public life, education geared to support the "state", etc. These are all right wing conservative ideas, right?
Well, right??
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.7.13 @ 10:19AM
National Socialists were not right wing. They were an opportunistic mixture of both left and right ideas. Remember the name "national socialist" (Nazi) not only includes "national" but also "socialist."
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.7.13 @ 10:20AM
Oh, sorry, I see now you were being sarcastic.
loulou| 1.7.13 @ 10:33AM
Correct. The Nazis were actually facist lefties. Don't these morons ever read?
Von Mises Jr| 1.7.13 @ 10:55AM
It is an attempt to subvert the language just as Hayek explained that "Freedom and liberalism have become the terms that describe the exact opposite of their original meaning."
There are two jackasses trolling at AT who cut and paste this over and over. Just like the tricks Perp and others use here, they have "likes" that appear to be like minded conservatives, only all the likes are from visitors (other trolls).
Von Mises and Hayek from the Austrian School of Economics (free markets) fled Hitler's Germany for their lives. A review of Hitler’s policies is in lock step with Obama, Hillary and the American liberal/progressive movements.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 1:54PM
Kinda like: The Religious Left. Tough on Crime, and Strong on Defence Democrats, Planned Parenthood, and Shovel Ready Jobs.
Silent Cal| 1.7.13 @ 1:56PM
Not Hardly.
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 3:17PM
Ah Jacob, you misguided fool, you kinda glossed over the socialist part in Nazi. The Nazi's were socialists, the only difference is that the Nazi party was a hybred creature of Hitler's rabid nationalistic zeal.
Same with Mussolini's facism, Mussolini was a socialist. Socialism and Nazism were different sides of the same coin.
And Jacob, I think you meant to say under socialism, government controls businesses, eliminates religion from public life and education to support the "state". This is Obozo's America. Well, right?????
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:15AM
So from what I'm reading, a majority of Jews are not Zionist, planning and plotting for world take over... like Ben Stein.
Ok, my fix of the nasty, poisionous snake for today
Cobalt| 1.7.13 @ 10:23AM
"In ten years, there will be no more Israel."
----Henry Kissinger
Kissinger's office denied he made this statement. However, it was reported in the NY Post, and in other media.
Valerie Jarrett should be included in the anti-Israel crowd. She was born in Iran, and spent the first five years of her life there.
canuckistani| 1.7.13 @ 10:34AM
So what does that mean?
She was there when Iran was a puppet regime of the US created by Ike et al. Her beginnings would suggest an exposure to US hegemony writ large and nothing more.
Perhaps her worldview is a compendium of what not to do with US foreign policy, n'est pas?
As for Israel, Bibi is the greatest contributer to Israeli decline than any force, foreign or domestic. His cynical game of footsy with the Russian infestation is and will be the sole reason for Israeli decline. We would be wise to distance ourselves from this hack. BHO is showing a restraint that was needed over the last 60 years, and Third Templars on here may actually be recognizing that fact, at long last.
loulou| 1.7.13 @ 10:34AM
American Jews don't learn from recent history. They only have themselves to blame.
Useful idiots.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 11:07AM
Well, some of us do, like Frank and me. Of course, both of us have ties to Alabama. Hmmm....
Roll Tide. (And in deference to my father-in-law and you, Frank my friend..."War Eagle!")
Anti-Statist| 1.7.13 @ 12:21PM
Roll Tide!
That "War Eagle" nonsense is blasphemy to this Tider, and "War Eagle" is a ridiculously manufactured fable by Auburn people looking for some kind of tradition to celebrate. I suppose their reality paled next to an Alabama going to the 1926 Rose Bowl and beating a strong Washington squad, becoming the first program from the south to beat an established "big".
From a 1962 Sports Illustrated:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...../index.htm
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 3:22PM
Well OT, you and Frank better be more right about Bama beating N.D. then you guys were in picking Minn. over Green Bay.
Lucky for you guys, Jack in Wi is attending a rally for Chuck Hagel, or he'd be hectoring the two of you.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:37PM
Anthony: yeah, beating GB in GB was always gonna be a push...
And anti-Statist---I'm just trying to be nice to Frank, here...Auburn has TWO National Championships, one more than TCU, last I checked (maybe 3). And, of course, he's an Auburn grad---don't you have pity for people with disabilities?
But seriously, Anthony, 'Bama has got that maniacal coach of theirs...
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:33AM
42-14, Tony. Too bad Jack wasn't on the field for his fellow Irish Catholics.It would have been fun to see the pro-Israel pride of Alabama kick the Irish asses.
Pelleas| 1.7.13 @ 12:01PM
ONCE AND FOR ALL..
Questions and informed objections to current Israeli policies- DO NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST -automatically equal "anti-semitism"
If they did- more than half of my fellow Israelis would be considered "anti-semitic"..!
BTW-- those of the Christian Far Right -Wing who "support" Israel are considerably more anti-semitic then many residents of the occupied regions.. and i would trust my neighbors in Gaza a hundred -fold more than the Christians who "claim" to be "our friends"
Mike W| 1.7.13 @ 1:19PM
Thank you for revealing the prevailing attitude towards many Christians. The evangelicals in this country in particular, are looked up as useful but dumb pawns who can only be trusted so far.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 1:57PM
This, from the Guy who thinks he's a Girl.
Need I say more?
Pelleas| 1.8.13 @ 10:55AM
"That" from a scumbag who believes that the Jews were rightfully murdered by God's command, in the Holocaust-with Hitler being chosen as God's Messenger..
NEED I SAY MORE?
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:40PM
Pelleas: it would help if you spent some time in the deep South and knew some evangelicals...I'm amazed you have ANY trust in any Gazans...makes me wonder about your alleged Israeli qualities...
Mike W: this Jew went to TCU and lived in 'Bama for 7 years---I don't have that prevailing attitude, nor am I a "Jew for Jesus." Nor do I think of Evangelicals as "dumb pawns."
Evangelical Christians will be the salvation of the USA. And Israel.
Pelleas| 1.8.13 @ 10:52AM
OT:
IN Israel, among MOST Sabras ( native -born Israelis) The animosity and distrust we feel towards the nefarious motivations that the Evangelical Christians have , in their "Love" for Israel, is almost as strong as their distrust that Hamas wants to make peace with us.
The Evangelicals are actually more anti-semitic than our neighbors in Gaza.. at least The Palastinians are our Semitic brothers..while the racist/anti-Jewish Right-Wing Christian sects want NOTHING LESS than the destruction of Judiasm--to be replaced by their notion of a Christian "kingdom of heaven"
jmacleve| 1.10.13 @ 11:30AM
I have no "nefarious motivations" that I'm aware of. I believe that God will keep His promises to His people Israel. I am NOT an Anti-Semite. No true Christian is, or can be. Why is that so hard to understand?
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:23AM
Those American Christians are only trusted as long as they are throwing money at Israel and giving their children to fight for them.
Kinda sounds like being "used" doesn't it.
Remember, the Jewish chief priests had Jesus tortured and killed after he threw the money changers from the temple, so that shows how much respect a Christian can expect from a Jew.
Norman Conquest| 1.7.13 @ 12:09PM
Chuck Hagel has been nominated to be the Defense Secretary for the United States, not Israel. Go back to writing about what you had for dinner and how your felon friend is faring in prison. The well-being of Israel and tired charges of anti-Semitism are irrelevant to this issue.
Nightwinger| 1.7.13 @ 12:51PM
Good point. Apparently some here think that butt-smootching Bibi is a requirement for confirmation.
Is America supposed to sub-contract its policy decisions out to Israel for approval ?
Mike W| 1.7.13 @ 1:23PM
Yes, Stein should go back to writing his usual pointless tripe and leave the big issues to younger clearer minds.
When Obama is criticized by the right, his supporters almost always label their criticism as race based. That's an outrageous, hateful debating tactic. Yet, the pro-Israel lobby do the same when anyone declares anything less than complete obediance to AIPAC. The critics become anti-semitic Nazis in their small minds. How tiresome.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 2:07PM
Do you people realize that all of our Founding Documents, as well as our System of Law, is based on Judeo Christian Values?
Do you realize that the Quote on the Plaque, outside the U.N. "Pounding Swords into Plowshares" is a Jewish writing?
Do you realize that, as far as I know, we are the only Country in the world, besides Israel, who Circumsizses their Newborn Male Children?
Do you realize that CHRIST was a Jew.
Do you realize that The Bible tells us that the Jews, are GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, and that HE said: Woe be it to any Nation that stands against MY PEOPLE, in Israel?
Obviously, you don't.
Nightwinger| 1.7.13 @ 3:35PM
Do you realize there is not a single word about "GOD" in the U.S. Constitution?
Not one.
People who want to live in a government-imposed Theocracy are obviously unhappy in the USA----a deliberately secular nation.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 4:19PM
Our Creator.
Even an idiot, like you, should be able to figure that one out.
Maybe.
Nightwinger| 1.8.13 @ 2:52AM
Even this idiot knows that is in the Declaration of Independence, NOT the Constitution.
Try actually reading it.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:43PM
Norman: Chuck Hagel is happy with terrorist loons getting nukes. Clue you in: our ports have crap for security. Live in Galveston for 4 years, like I did. Very, very exposed.
I have concerns for the US if Kerry is SecState, Hagel is SecDef, and Brennan ("Jihad is wonderful") becomes CIA head. One doesn't need to be a "neo-con" to worry about 4 guys with 3 brain cells between them directing our foreign policy.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:26AM
He sure looked like a cry baby when his friends got a dose of karma...back to warmongering from lakeside.
WaffenSS| 1.7.13 @ 12:38PM
How much longer is American Spectator going to let jew boy verbaly flop around with irrelavence.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.7.13 @ 2:29PM
This is the sort of comment that demands deletion.
Pelleas| 1.8.13 @ 11:00AM
Crisler:
So that wakens you up??--- but the many /daily RACIST comments here--and threats to MURDER the President are ---OK??
...Your phony outrage makes me ...BARF..
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:28AM
They can't handle it when they get the same back.
Nightwinger| 1.7.13 @ 1:06PM
Lest we forget ---
It was the Obama Administration that provided Israel with the "Iron Shield" rocket intercept system to defend against incoming missiles.
I don't recall reading they received any "thanks" for that from the protected country. Or from comments on here.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 2:09PM
Lest we forget ---
It was Obama that has promised to send the Muslim Brotherhood led Egyptian Government, F-16's FREE OF CHARGE.
Nightwinger| 1.7.13 @ 3:24PM
Lest we forget ---
Israel has THE BOMB. Although not publicly acknowledged, it's commonly accepted as true.
A U.S. pledge for defense of Israel is one thing, but allowing them to drag America into a war is quite something else.
A Defense Secretary's oath is to the USA, not Israel.
Let's not have the tail waggin' the dog, OK?
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 4:00PM
Lest we forget, a president's oath is to protect and defend the Constitution, a lot of good that's been for America these past 4 years.
Or, as Obozo once said, words..... just words. The damn Muslim was right.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:31AM
Actually they have about 100 of them, I believe.
But we MUST bomb Iran because they MIGHT get one in the future.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:34PM
Nightwinger: the question is: is it good for Israel to USE the bomb? And, in addition, is it good for Islamic maniacs like the Iranian Mullahs to have the bomb, as well, since we are "The Big Satan" to Israel's "Little Satan" for REASONS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ISRAEL?
Ever go down to the Port of Galveston and check out the lack of security? I have---I'm an UTMB grad.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 4:21PM
I pray that they use ALL OF THEIR BOMBS.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:33AM
Of course you do. Thanks for the Tea Party hate position...it did so well in the last election.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:34AM
"Iron Dome," and it started with Bush, and it was Israeli designed, if I recall---joint project.
or the Israelis could always defend my way...
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:35AM
With about 25 % of Israel GDP in war machinery industry...war is great for the Israelis economy....as long as the USA keeps pumping money into it.
E B | 1.7.13 @ 2:10PM
Lump Mormons in with the evangelical Christians. Same basic reasons.
www.conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 3:04PM
Poor, poor Benny, betrayed by his own people. Norman Podhortz beat you to the punch years ago Benny, as to why Jews are leftists, first, second and third.
Oh well, history not learned, is history repeated.
You and your shrink should have a field day with this Benny.
Hey, do you two talk hot chicks as well??
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:31PM
Hell, FDR also did his best to keep Jews out of Harvard.
FDR was a pissant.
TLP| 1.7.13 @ 4:23PM
He did his best to keep them out of the Country.
M.S. St. Louis.
Anthony| 1.7.13 @ 3:51PM
FDR ignored and resisted all attempts in helping Great Britain against the Nazi's until it was almost too late.
His Nazi loving Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joe Kennedy, did his best to help Hitler defeat England.
It took Winny's best girls, daughter-in law Pam, who seduced Avril Harriman and Winny's daughter Sarah, I believe, who seduced FDR's observer of lend-lease, Gov. Wynott, to get America into the war.
Oh yeah, FDR knew of the Japanese plans for Pearl Harbor, just the cover the coward needed to finally take action.
FDR also was a big N.D.fan!!!
atilla| 1.7.13 @ 4:25PM
God has punished Israel for its sins, butGod has also said in the Bible that he with punish Israels tormenters much, much more.
BE WARE!!.....OBAMA, HAGEL AND LEFT WING AMERICA....YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN THAT TORMENTOR CROWD!!
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:40AM
We will all hold our breath in anticipation.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.7.13 @ 7:53PM
My son, Armand Luke Frickey, died on January 6th, 2005 in Taji, Iraq. Three artillery shells in the road out of Taji killed everyone in my son's Bradley. We buried him without a face.
Israel has had its share of our support and money. While we supported Israel all these years, Israel slipped settlers into the West Bank and done other things which make it difficult to support her in the world.
Chuck Hagel seems skeptical that we have to support Israel, right or wrong. And he's right.
The claim of Israel to Eretz Israel, the Biblical borders of Israel, is shaky. Israel, with between 200 and 400 nuclear weapons, is in a very shaky position to tell Iran it can't have any.
Obama , Hagel and our new Secretary of State have to recognize the history of the Levant - and of Israel itself. We can't ignore how Israel was founded - on land which was bought from local sheikhs some times, and taken forcibly from local Palestinians in other cases.
When Israel's origins are discussed, the fight over the West Bank becomes clearer, as does the Arab street's demand that more of Israel be returned to its original owners.
I told my son Luke that the war he was about to fight was a good cause. I think it was. You can't tell me that in a country the size of California, many tons of WMDs couldn't have been buried securely.
I have another son, and grandsons. I'm not going to tell them that fighting for Israel is a good cause, because I don't believe it myself.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:36AM
Your son was a better man than you, Frickey. You're not worthy of him, punk.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 9:14PM
I'll be glad to discuss this face to face with you any time, cuyon.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:43AM
Imagine that, a Jew that disrespects a man whose son died on the front. The protocols ARE right.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:44AM
I'll be right at your side Vance to meet this coward.
My son is in the military defending these warmongers.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:37AM
Israel has never asked the USA to fight its battles. And, it's nice to see that you support child rape and beheading Frackey.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:38AM
Let me know where Israel has ever said it was going to use nukes to wipe people off the planet. I have, but Bibi hasn't, Frackey.
Your son was a good man. You are a POS.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 9:20PM
Occam's Tool, I'm saying what Americans should have been saying all along - that we're not going to have a double standard for our "friends" (who sunk the USS Liberty despite the huge American flag it was sailing under) and our enemies. I have supported Israel most of my life - the "wake-up" moment was Israel's spy operation in which they basically opened up a branch of Kinko's to copy all the classified NSA documents Jonathan Pollard was giving them, and selling overhead photos to the Soviets that they got under Reagan - who basically ordered the NSA to let Israel have uncensored access to our satellite overheads and even give tasking orders for them. And they sold some of the take from those satellites to the USSR.
So you can call me every name in the book, jerk. It doesn't change the fact that our cabinet officers and other politicians swear an oath to support and defend our Constitution and our country - NOT Israel.
obadiah| 1.7.13 @ 8:26PM
Ben, you simply must "compare Mr. Obama to ... the evil names." Obama is like Hitler of 1938, just getting ready for his most evil deeds. He refuses to recognize that God gave the land to the Jewish People in perpetuity and that Settlements and More Settlements must be established. The Hizzites and Jebusites and Ammonites must be exterminated. Ai must be destroyed. God commands it, but Obama rejects God. He is Satan.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:48AM
Read the protocols and learn what public sentiment drove the public to support the madman. You seem to be trying to stir the same emotions.
CHAUSSURES FEMME AIR MAX LTD | 1.7.13 @ 10:32PM
You are going to see this in the immediate future, as Mr. Obama lines up his many Jewish friends and supporters to back Mr. Hagel.
Mnestheus| 1.8.13 @ 1:10AM
Feather booted through the clashy fens the mighty Weekly Standard hunter strides to shoot the lesser crested hagelhagel.
Read all about the deporable creature's demise next week in The Beast !
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.8.13 @ 2:28PM
Even though many paleo-conservatives are supporting Hagel I'm not. His record is not that of a traditional conservative. During the Kosovo conflict Hagel backed Clinton's US led NATO intervention on behalf of Albanian terrorists making way for the 78 day NATO bombardment of Serbia.
We can commend Hagel on his record of military service as a Vietnam veteran who was awarded two Purple Hearts for being wounded in the line of duty. That can't be disputed. Hagel is a war hero, but just like John McCain or John Kerry being a war hero doesn't always make one a good policy maker let alone a good leader on Capitol Hill.
This is a short synopsis of Hagel's Senate voting record from Wikipedia.
Voted for the Patriot Act [31]
Voted for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts [32][33]
Voted against No Child Left Behind [34]
Voted against Bush’s Medicare prescription drug bill [35]
Voted against McCain-Feingold[36]
It must also be noted that like John Kerry, Hagel was FOR THE IRAQ WAR BEFORE HE WAS AGAINST IT. I find nothing paleo-conservative about Hagel's foreign policy record.
Nightwinger| 1.8.13 @ 5:57PM
1. The Defense Secretary is not a policy maker. The job takes direction from the President. So who care's what Hagel's past votes have been?
2. If by "paleo-conservative" you mean policies like threatening, bullying, bombing and invading other countries, then even the Obama administration qualifies.
Chuck Hagel's major job will be to CUT the massive, bloated Defense budget----something all previous Defense Secretaries tried but couldn't do because of powerful Congressional people with lucrative defense contracts in their home venues.
Besides having a former ENLISTED soldier bossing the Pentagon brasshats around is something worth watching if just for fun.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.8.13 @ 6:17PM
Nightwinger I posted his record because many paleo-conservatives who I usually agree with on foreign policy (Pat Buchanan and many writers with American Conservative Magazine) have pretty much applauded Obama's decision to pick Hagel for the job, but I am merely pointing out that his past votes and stands on foreign policy have been far from paleo-conservative.
Secondly bullying, bombing and invading are not paleo-conservative they are neo-conservative and interventionist liberal.
If Hagel cuts the bloated defense budget God bless him, it needs to be cut and yes it would be fun to watch a former enlisted man bossing the Pentagon brass.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:01AM
Interesting how republicans turn on their own when they don't tow the Tea Party hate Obama line and actually agree to work for the country and not against it.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.8.13 @ 6:03PM
Just so Occam doesn't become TOO fond of me I must ask the question why must Hagel or any other American citizen appointed to a Cabinet position in the executive office first have to pass a pro-Israel litmus test? The last time I checked the United States and Israel are too separate nations with their own agendas. Israel is not the 51st State nor is the United States a province of Israel.
Secondly I don't understand why so many so called "truth loving" conservatives get up in arms when anyone questions how the modern state of Israel came into being? I am fair I will question the United States and how it came into being and I will point out that ethnic cleansing of our indigenous peoples as well as slavery are very much a part of American history. To say those things never happened would be revisionism. It is the same with Russian history. I have no qualms saying that the pogroms against the Jews in Tsarist Russia happened and they were wrong. Why then cannot many conservatives and others in America and Israel admit that over 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from Jewish controlled territory between December of 1947 and January of 1949 and even before then Palestinian farmers (tenants, not land owners) were evicted from their homes after European Jews had bought the land from Palestinian land owners. I just want to know why those issues are never addressed or ignored.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.8.13 @ 6:03PM
At least the fanatics on the evangelical right as well as the Jewish Zionist community will say God gave this land to the Jews and the Palestinians were trespassing (even if they had inhabited the territory for a thousand years or more). What excuse do more secular Israelis and more secular American conservatives give for what happened to the Palestinians?
Last but not least I must point out to Mr. Stein that there are sects of ultra-Orthodox Jews who completely reject Zionism and thus reject the Jewish State as a legitimate representative of all things and people that are Jewish. Before the Jewish State was created isn't it true that many Jews held the belief that they would return to the Biblical Israel only after the Messiah had come? If that is true then Zionism (Jewish nationalism) was not a traditional Jewish notion therefore the division between Jews on the issue of Israel is not merely a left-right divide but also a divide in Jewish theological though as well with the ultra-Orthodox who are opposed to the modern state of Israel upholding the more traditional Jewish beliefs on the subject.
Marc Jeric| 1.12.13 @ 12:49PM
There is no such nationality as Palestinians; those folk are former Jordanians and Egyptians. There has never been a Palestinian state, ever.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 1.15.13 @ 2:53PM
That's like calling an Irish Catholic from Belfast British just because they've lived under English occupation for centuries. The Palestinians inhabited that land for centuries. They lived under British occupation during Mandate and were under Ottoman occupation for four hundred years. Before that Palestinians lived under Mamluk, Crusader and Byzantine imperial rule. Just because Palestinians have never had a nation state doesn't mean that they are not a distinct people with a history and heritage.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.8.13 @ 10:05PM
Occam's Tool just showed us the downside of Zionism - it's all about "What have you done for us lately?"
That tool lied about me and my motivations for being an Israel skeptic. I have no illusions about the problems of Israel's neighbors. A scumbag who had no love for Israel pushed a button and killed my son, the other men in his squad from the Louisiana Army National Guard, and two men from the New York National Guard (the 69th "Wolfhounds" Infantry Brigade). So Occam's Chancred Tool lied about me liking child rape, beheading or other practices of Islamist extremists.
Israel isn't alone in having shaky title to some of its land - The Saudis took the Holy Places of Islam and most of the Hejaz Peninsula from Jordan (then "Transjordan"). France and Britain drew up the borders of the Middle East during and after World War I. So the Palestinians' demands are themselves shaky.
But when we spend a few billion dollars in the defense of Israel and they pursue a foreign policy that includes extensive and massive espionage on us through a traitor who is justly still in jail, we ought to back off from a total commitment to Israel's defense.
Contrary to the Suppurating Tool's claims, when Israel demands we "do something about Iran," it pretty much includes a commitment to invade Iranian territory, bomb their nuclear infrastructure, put our warships in harm's way - all for Israel's security. I say that they're demanding a lot more loyalty from us than they've given us.
Troon62| 1.9.13 @ 3:02PM
Brilliantly, and sadly, put, Mr. Stein. These are indeed the very real 'end game' stakes at play with the awful Hagen nomination. What a gallant country is amazing, resolute, brave Israel!
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:51AM
Please hold your breath for the "end" prophecy. We will not miss another religious warmonger that substitutes their will for GOD.
sineperde | 1.10.13 @ 5:15AM
The saddest issue isn't that yankee Jews supported Obama throughout his 2 runs for the presidency; the saddest issue is that almost all yankee Jews can continue choice liberal once it's changing into clearer and clearer that the political party line isn't solely anti-Israel however antisemitic.
www.kanal6.net
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 7:53AM
So anybody that does not support the never ending religious war for Israel is anti-semite. How convienient.
Marc Jeric| 1.12.13 @ 12:44PM
Obama’s program called Arab Spring was designed to bring jihadist governments to Muslim countries. It has succeeded so far in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. It is designed to do the same in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, West Bank, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Coupled with the existing jihadist governments in Sudan, Turkey, and Iran, the program will be able to eliminate Israel, to exterminate all the Jews there, and thus to produce the final state of peace in the Middle East. Obama will then be ready to accept his second Nobel Peace prize. That is the reason for the Benghazi murder cover-up. Nominating Kerry, Hagel, and Brennan will advance this plan of Israel destruction.
TSIndiana| 1.13.13 @ 6:57AM
Finally a president that is not an Israel warmonger. For some reason I bet Ben Stein has no children fighting for Israel on the front line.
I really loved Ben's crying about karma hitting his family and friends...now he's back to warmongering...go Ben.
DAVEBUC| 1.14.13 @ 10:39AM
I am furious that most jews in this country are so thick headed that they will vote for the most blatant anti-israel candidate for president this country has ever had and then act surprised when he nominates someone who is also anti-israel. It reminds me of all the jews who were alive during WWII and went to the concentration camps thinking they were vacation stops or work camps. I am so angry and depressed about this and pray for my children and grand children who be the first generation of americans who will be worse off financially than the previous generation. You idiots voted for Barack Husein and then act surprised that he is pro Arab and anti-israel. It is if an Arab voted for Schlomo Weinstein and then acted shocked that he was jewish!!!
Old Leftie| 1.14.13 @ 7:07PM
Two words:
Jack Lew
Come on, Ben, you're smarter than that. Do you have so much money these days that you can afford to ignore the effect that disingenuousness can have on one's esteem? Or are you just past the point of understanding how stupid it is to accuse the president of antisemitism?
Marc Jeric| 1.15.13 @ 2:59AM
Obama is a marxist Muslim and his anti-Israel policies are quite consistent.
Old Leftie| 1.14.13 @ 7:46PM
Oh, wait, I know. The President is only faking his respect and admiration for Lew so he can blame him and the Jews later for any failures that Lew experiences.. right......
Marc Jeric| 1.15.13 @ 2:56AM
Obama’s program of active support to the movements called “Arab Spring”, including monetary assistance, arms supply, and in case of Libya active war action via bombings of Kaddafi forces, was designed to bring Islamist-jihadist governments to power. The program has been successful so far in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt; it is intended to proceed with the same aims in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Sudan, Algeria, “Palestine”. The Benghazi murder cover-up is consistent a) with the overall Obama’s policy described above; b) with the unscheduled jihadist attack on US diplomatic post there resulting in 4 Americans dead, after Obama’s refusal to provide the necessary help, and c) with the weak and repeated excuses citing an obscure You-Tube film trailer as the cause for that terrorist attack. Obama is now pressuring the jihadist government of Libya to control those unruly elements so as not to compromise the overall aims of the Arab Spring program. What then is the final aim of that program? The destruction of Israel, of course! How can one explain the fact that 90% of American Jews support Obama? Is their love of socialism and communism stronger that their allegiance to Israel? It is certainly not a sign of their blindness and stupidity, since their average education and their inborn intelligence are vastly superior to the national averages. And, of course, this policy is consistent with Obama being a marxist Muslim.
Tyler| 1.15.13 @ 3:59PM
I want to laugh at this because of how ridiculous and foolish this post is. So, Iran getting 1 nuclear weapon makes it likely that Israel will be wiped out? Aren't you forgetting the hundred nuclear weapons Israel already has? Why would Iran attack Israel when it has this kind of capability? It wouldn't. Israel is more than capable of surviving on its own.
thinkingabovemypaygrade| 1.18.13 @ 1:09PM
The far left Jewish person described by Mr. Stein above...probably has more in common with the far left Gentile...They believe the concepts... they were taught in college...or what they heard fromtheir local political action group...what their favorite political bloggers said just yesterday...are more REAL and more TRUE...than what any religious/cultural/historical persons -- even of their own heritage---have to say.
Triumph of the NOW over the Historical, even the Eternal...No real historical memory...No significant influence of the past...