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.
