Posted on 06/15/2004 11:45:45 PM PDT by kattracks
It's been long enough. For the last two decades, American Jews have shirked common sense and logic in the interest of an ideology that deserted them long ago. American Jewish leftism cannot be overlooked or excused. And in a world teetering on the brink of disaster, blind loyalty to a false cause can no longer be afforded.
Jews have a long history of liberalism in America, dating from a day when conservatives were "country-club Republicans" and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was deified. Those days are long past. Elderly Jews should realize that FDR is dead and that his party no longer stands for tolerance.It was Rep. Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, who claimed that a Jewish cabal stood behind the Iraq war. It was former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a Democrat from Georgia, who took money from anti-American and anti-Israeli terrorist supporters during her candidacy for Congress. It was Vermont's Howard Dean, a Democrat, who labeled Hamas members "soldiers." It was Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, who was once Grand Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan. It was Sen. Ernest Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina, who blamed the Iraq war on pro-Israeli interests. Beyond all the rhetoric about Jewish relatives, the Democratic Party stands for a thinly veiled hostility toward Judaism and Jews.
Jewish resistance to the Republican Party also has roots in an inordinate fear of American Christianity. Many American Jews fear motivation more than action. Though it was Jerry Falwell who powerfully defended America's pro-Israel policy the night of Sept. 11 on national television, American Jews largely fear the idea that, according to some Christians, Jews will go to hell for their rejection of Jesus. So they fight American Christianity tooth and nail. They champion the idea of complete separation between Judeo-Christian ethics and American politics. They join the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Down deep, American Jews fear another Holocaust -- and they've been told that all Holocausts come from the right.
For all the Jews who fear American Christianity, the most tolerant and philosemitic ideology the world has ever seen, I challenge you: Look at history.
It was the Nazis who were the secularists -- their sophisticated secularism led millions of Jews to gas chambers. The waves upon waves of white crosses marking the resting places of American dead pay silent tribute to the fact that American Christians, not secularists, died to liberate the death camps.
It was the communists who were secularists -- their hatred for God led thousands of Jews to the gulag. The fields of white crosses that dot the globe mark the burial sites of American Christians who died to keep the world free from that vicious system of government.
Today, just as then, it is the American Christians who defend the globe from the threat of fundamentalist tyranny. Leftists like to say that all religious people are on the same side, but no bigger lie has ever been told. The open, life-affirming quality of the American Judeo-Christian ideology is directly opposed to the murderous ideology of radical Islam.
And today, just as then, it is secularists who pose the most extreme threat to the Jewish people. It is the secularists of France who ally with Muslim fanatics bent on a second Holocaust. It is the American secularists who defend the rights of terrorists bent on murder and destruction. It is the moral relativists of the American left who excuse terrorism based on the notion of diverse worldviews and hold up the United Nations as a moral paragon.
President Bush and the American right have been the best friends to the Jewish community in the annals of modern history. It is President Bush and his administration that have staunchly maintained their support for Israel, even in the face of withering attacks from the world community. It is President Bush and his administration that have stood up against the neo-Nazi ideology of Islamism. It is President Bush and the Republican Party that have fought for American morality; it is they who zealously guard the Judeo-Christian ethic that has made America the greatest power in world history. It is they who uphold the concept of a culturally, economically, morally strong Jewish people.
It's about time the Jewish community recognized that fact and realized that allegiance must be to principles, not to parties.
©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Ideology is very, very powerful.
Some people would give up their lives in order to avoid giving up their beliefs -- be they religious or political
or cultural. Just look at Iraq.
Rather than watch paint dry, I would rather go out and maximize GOP support among evangelicals and the white working class. It is these two groups that are the real growth sectors for the Republican party -- along with
those Hispanics who wish to assimilate, or have.
I stopped being a Democrat a long time ago. I wish more American Jews realized loyalty to principle is more important than loyalty to a party.
There are some who earn like Episcopalians but who vote like Puerto Ricans.
What's equally sad is that Episcopalians are now voting more like Puerto Ricans than like their own forbears.
And unlike Puerto Ricans, they have money and clout.
Mu Jewish relatives are a lost cause, it's amazing to hear them talk about Bush.
As for clout, that's certainly waning. Just look to Herman Badillo.
Episcopalians, on the other hand, I can do without.
Unfortunatly many American Jews DESPISE Christians, and Republicans, and cannot get past it. I recently had a bizarre encounter with a Jewish woman who said she "would rather live under Al Queida that Republicans." I said, "don't you know what they do to Jews? They BEHEAD you" but she wouldn't listen. Go figure.
The only thing I can figure is that many American Jews have an inner death wish. The handwriting for them is clearly on the wall. It's simple, vote Democrat and you have signed your own death warrant, both here in America and in Israel. As for their loyalty to the Democrat "traitor" Party, nothing is as dead as an idea whose time has passed! The current Democrat Party has no life for anyone! It needs to be laid to rest by American voters!!!
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
Most of mine are like that, too! My dad and I are pretty much the only smart, sane ones of the bunch.
That's not one of the brightest things ever said on FR, nor is it true. However, it *does* tend to encourage animosity toward Jews.
i am going to send this to my Jewish coworker. he just recently switched his Dem party registration to Independent, in Maryland. He is voting for Bush, albeit reluctantly, bc of the war on terror.
Oh, please, you KNOW it's true.
At the orientation session for GOP convention volunteers last evening, I met a woman from the Upper West Side (Moscow on the Hudson) who is a lifelong registered 'rat who regrets that she voted for the Goreon, and is now such a Bush supporter that she's volunteering for the GOP convention!
A phobia cannot be reasoned with.
No, I don't. But I do know that it's *incredibly* offensive.
i am making progress with him, he started subscribing to the Washington Times because of me a few years back, i gave him Bias to read, but he found Bernard Goldberg a bit shrill. He is discomfited that his role models as Dems for Bush are Zell Miller, with whom he cannot relate, and Ed Koch, whom he has always considered a buffoon. Keep me in mind and if you come across good stuff for me to send him, just let me know. i am trying to make him feel more comfortable about this morphing he is doing.
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