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.
"It does however, give an indication as to why it was so easy for the Nazi's to get them willingly loaded into cattle cars for the trip to the concentration camps...."
"Remarks like the above offer a good justification for such fear of Christians as may exist among Jews."
You make my point....instead of fearing the very people that wanted them in the cattle cars, we get hit with "how dare you point out the obvious". That mindset is what allowed the Holocaust to occur, in my opinion.
After the events of the last century, I just shake my head in disbelief whenever I read of someone of the Jewish faith against firearm ownership.
Have they forgotten the lesson's of Warsaw?
Many have. .....And others never learned the lesson in the first place.
btt
Paradigm shifts don't come by changing the minds of old, but by winning the minds of the young.
What mindset, Badeye?
I don't find much parallel between the US and Nazi Germany.
It is true that a good number of Jews do hate Christians,my brother-in-law is an anti Christian born again Zionist zealot. My husband's brother was and is so anti Christian that he starts complaining about anything Christian,especially born again Christians,and Christian music. He turns the radio off if it is playing Christmas music. You have to watch very carefully for the Christian haters because they are not covered by the media. They file lawsuits and work for the ACLU systemically trying to destroy Christian values in America. They are out there,and the numbers continue to grow albeit not in huge numbers.
I don't choose to listen to Christmas music either. Doesn't make me a "Christian hater".
Then he should move to Israel.
Sounds like the historically popular Jewish conspiracy.
I have many Jewish friends and acquaintances, not once have I run across a "Christian hater," although fear of Christians is not unheard of. OTOH, Jew haters seem fairly numerous.
Incidentally, Jewish values and Christian values are pretty much the same, with the exception of the method of salvation. Not surprising, considering the closely related origins of both religions.
bttt
Consider the possibility that's why it was said.
Sam Cree: Sounds like the historically popular Jewish conspiracy.
Yes, it does and is.
Samantha, your husband’s brother is an *sshole. Get over it. Lot’s of families have jerks in them. Projecting your feelings about your familie’s black sheep on the Jewish community isn’t particularly attractive.
"American Jews largely fear the idea that, according to some Christians, Jews will go to hell for their rejection of Jesus." This happened to me as a child. I was lured to a neighbors house for a "youth group" and as soon as they found out I was Jewish...things went sour. Situations like this do nothing to strengthen the ties between our two religions.
Your remarks are right on. I teach hebrew at a local temple here in Southern California and I'm convinced that I might be the only one supporting Bush. It really makes no sense. I liked your profile page by the way, Shalom
It might be too much of a shock, but what about some of David Horowitz's material at FrontPage, and his books? He certainly started out on the Left, then saw the error of his ways.
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com
Consider the possibility that's why it was said.
Yes, the thought did cross my mind...but I wanted to give him/her the benefit of the doubt.
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