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We are living through the most anti-Israel U.S. administration in history. Even Jimmy Carter — who is a rabid anti-Semite and hater of Israel in these days of his dotage — was not as bad while in office as Barack Obama and his henchmen, including Hillary Clinton, are.
Recently, Obama told some of the few Jews still blinkered enough to support him that “This administration — I try not to pat myself too much on the back — but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.” I would laugh but I’m too busy feeling sick about the damage that Obama and team has done to one of our most important and strategic allies.
The U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, who is the Jewish son of a Holocaust survivor, is now the center of a firestorm following comments he made on November 30th. A quote being attributed to him, but which is really a reporter’s analysis of what Gutman said, is causing the trouble: “A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned, and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.” Again, this line was part of a newspaper article, not a quote from Gutman himself and the left is falling all over themselves to defend Gutman on that basis.
However, Gutman’s actual remarks, while less inflammatory, are still troubling.
Early on, Gutman says “There is and has long been some amount of anti-Semitism, of hatred and violence against Jews, from a small sector of the population who hate others who may be different or perceived to be different, largely for the sake of hating. Those anti-Semites are people who hate not only Jews, but Muslims, gays, gypsies, and likely any who can be described as minorities or different.”
Really, is there a substantial number of anti-Semites who also hate Muslims? Yes, Europe has its share of neo-Nazis. But what Europe is really facing is a large and rapidly-growing Muslim population. According to a Pew study, “The number of Muslims in Europe has grown from 29.6 million in 1990 to 44.1 million in 2010. Europe’s Muslim population is projected to exceed 58 million by 2030. Muslims today account for about 6% of Europe’s total population, up from 4.1% in 1990. By 2030, Muslims are expected to make up 8% of Europe’s population.” France is already near 8 percent Muslim population, and Belgium 6 percent.
And we’re supposed to believe that anti-Semites are just like (and just as few) as haters of Muslims or gypsies?
Gutman also sees “a tension and perhaps hatred largely born of and reflecting the tension between Israel, the Palestinian Territories and neighboring Arab states in the Middle East over the continuing Israeli-Palestinian problem. It too is a serious problem.”
Notice the word “too”? It implies that the virulent and violent anti-Semitism of Muslims is not the serious problem, but some sort of secondary problem. The use of “too” diminishes the word “serious”. A better construction might have been that anti-Muslim sentiment “is too a serious problem”…except that it isn’t — and certainly not in America.
Gutman continues with the left’s worst bit of moral relativism: Anti-Semitism based on the Israel-Palestine conflict “is the area where every new settlement announced in Israel, every rocket shot over a border or suicide bomber on a bus, and every retaliatory military strike exacerbates the problem and provides a setback here in Europe for those fighting hatred and bigotry here in Europe.”
So, for Gutman, Israelis building an apartment in Israel or retaliating against terrorist targets is as big a problem as the Palestinians’ murdering Israeli civilians.
I understand that the primary religion of most American Jews today is liberalism, not Judaism or Zionism. But at some point, more of my tribe must wake up to the fact that the Obama administration and liberals in general are inclined to side with murderers over the only democracy in the Middle East. Obama and his team are truly giving aid and comfort to the enemy with their words, their moral equivalencies, their apologies, their pandering for Muslim approval.
The danger this causes is not just to Israel, but to western civilization, and I do not offer that as hyperbole. It is time — far past time — for Jews to abandon the ever-less-subtle haters led by Barack Hussein Obama.
[Robert Goldberg has a good article at the American Spectator today discussing these and other issues, including Hillary Clinton’s anti-Israel rhetoric.]
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Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 10:35AM
Sorry to say, Mr. Kaminsky, but most Jews who're liberal are libs first, then Jews. I'm not a strictly observant Jew. I don't keep Kosher, I DO try to get to Temple more than twice a year, but I try to just live my faith as best I can. Liberal Jews are amongst the most willfully ignorant or just flat out mis-informed people in this nation. They fail to realize that leftist/statist policies have killed more of their people over the years than the Muslim could ever HOPE to. Folks like you, Dr. Krauthammer (most of the time), Jonah Goldberg, Ben Shapiro & Debbie Schlussel get it. Folks like Occam's Tool & I get it. The libs who're Jews never will.
I guess I should finally read that copy of Pohoretz's book, "Why Jews Are Liberals" that my wife got me.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 10:36AM
Sorry. PODHORETZ.
Occam's Tool| 12.7.11 @ 10:47AM
Yeah, Con, but you still kick ass.
What irritates the crap out of me is when I hear morons trying to define to ME what constitutes anti-semitism, and who my enemies are.
I'm looking forward to the Iowa primary, because if Paul doesn't win there, where he has the most fruits, um, sorry, "boots" on the ground, his campaign is sunk.
His son is also an idiot.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 12:21PM
Haven't quite formed an opinion on the son yet, to be honest.
Clint| 12.7.11 @ 11:05AM
RINO-CINO Tool Job's The Guy,Who Says He'll Vote For The RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.
Dr. Ron Paul Only Needs Top Tier Three In Iowa.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 12:18PM
Clint's the guy who wants to kick every Israel supporter's ass though cyberspace, & has said that if Ru Paul goes 3rd party, he'll vote for him, thereby casting a de facto vote for Obama. What a "TRUE" conservative indeed. More like one of Thomas Paine's "sunshine patriots" to me.
Clint| 12.7.11 @ 1:37PM
You're A Liar Israel Firster Propaganda Flunkie Stooge, Con Job.
My Post Was:
Do Your Homework.
"WALLACE: So, does that mean that you might then consider an independent run?
PAUL: No, it doesn’t mean that at all.
WALLACE: But would you?
PAUL: I have no intention doing that. That doesn’t make sense to me to even think about it, let alone plan to do that.
WALLACE: Because?
PAUL: Because I don’t want to do it. That’s the reason."
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On The Con Job.
Buck O'fama| 12.7.11 @ 1:49PM
Well then, Clint, it seems Ron Paul won't be running, so who will you be voting for?
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 2:46PM
I'm guessing since he uses the articles from "The Atlantic," he'll be voting for MaoBama.
Clint| 12.7.11 @ 5:34PM
Like I Said, You're A Liar Israel Firster Propaganda Flunkie Stooge, Con Job.
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On Con Job.
W| 12.7.11 @ 2:59PM
Clint,
You can end all this bickering by just telling us you will vote for the Republican nominee whether it is Ron Paul or Mitt or Perry or Newt or Bachman or Santorum or anyone else.
Ed| 12.7.11 @ 11:19AM
Sorry but you aren't going to significantly change the dumbest voting bloc in the United States. They've convinced themselves that Roosevelt actually liked them even though he turned back boatloads of jews prior to the start of WWII. If American jews don't get that the Dems hate them, even with it right in front of their face, why waste one's breath.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 12:15PM
I've given up trying with my Aunt, Uncle & Cousins. It pisses me off too much to even bring up anymore.
james wilson| 12.7.11 @ 12:02PM
For conservatives to date the Jewish vote is to date a tease where the most you can realistically hope to achieve is a dose of the neocon clap.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 12:23PM
And to date the libertarian vote such as one coming from this poster will invariably infect you with a bad case of rectal/cranial inversion when it comes to threats posed to your nation.
Clint| 12.7.11 @ 1:42PM
Ronald Reagan,
" If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 2:44PM
Maybe if you post this shit 100 more times someone will actually give a damn.
But I'm betting on "no." Do you have any original thoughts other than "Israel Firster" & canned robo screeds?
tonypal| 12.7.11 @ 4:47PM
I think you can answer your own question. Meanwhile, I'm off to meet Elmer Fudd at today's Israel-Firster meeting.
Clint| 12.7.11 @ 5:39PM
" Ron Paul Polls 2012: Texas Congressman Notches Another Victory
Ron Paul dominated the Oklahoma Straw Poll, pulling in 46 percent. Herman Cain, who recently dropped out of the race, received 25 percent. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the two frontrunners in larger national polls, pulled in 17 percent and 6 percent, respectively, in the Oklahoma Straw Poll."
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On Con Job.
Sean| 12.7.11 @ 12:24PM
Why would the Republican party want a bunch of Communists?
William R| 12.7.11 @ 12:28PM
Jimmy Carter is an anti-semite. Good gravy Kaminsky, you're a fugging lightweight.
Con Chef (NB) | 12.7.11 @ 1:02PM
Tell us how he's not...
William R| 12.7.11 @ 1:50PM
Tell us how he is??
It used to be anti-semites were people that didn't like Jews. But it has evolved. The new anti-semitism is people Jews don't like.
Ross Kaminsky | 12.7.11 @ 8:04PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....34702.html
OLDRAY| 12.7.11 @ 1:30PM
Obama IS anti Israel. It is part of his world view. He is anti all pro American countries and factions, One of his first acts was to insult the Brits . He dumped Egypt's dictator (no angel but pro USA ) and we'll end up with an Iranian style anti USA Egypt. He is allowing Iran go nuclear . In effect this will threated the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He is anti USA oil independence, anti the Defense industry. You name it. Ifgood for the USA he is against it. He ,by his actions, is a major force building Islamic anti Jewish behavior in the EU by encouraging anti Israel Islamic elements. This is not only the most anti Israel President. Obama is the first anti USA President.
hook| 12.13.11 @ 2:35PM
I think Jews consider Arabs the underdogs and a huge percent have convinced themselves that Obama is wonderful even though he is as anti-Israel as Carter and objectively the worst president in modern history.
As another Amspec writer said. The Revolutionary guards must really have gotten a laugh when Obama said lets wait and see if Iran returns the drone.