American Jews: Why Are You Still Liberal?

CommonConservative ^ | anuary 16, 2006 | Tom Adkins

[Nasty McPhilthy]

Palestinians are embracing a government of armed thugs. Syria engineered a political assassination in Lebanon, and are sending terrorists all over the world. Saudi Arabia is seriously torn between the modern world and 14th Century Islamofascism. Ariel Sharon is recovering from a coma. And Iran’s leader, after openly coveting the destruction of Israel, began processing uranium for atomic bombs.

American Jews: Why are you still liberal?

From various wars to the Intifadah, American liberal Democrat policy has placated and encouraged Israel’s enemies for over 50 years. Once, the resulting mayhem could be managed by a bit of diplomacy coupled with a few well-placed missiles or a proper tank shot. But now, for the first time in its history, Israel is vulnerable to one single atomic event that could bring about instant, irrevocable elimination of their homeland. And it’s right on the doorstep.

Tell me, please, American Jews: do you think it’s time you took the enemies of Israel seriously?

Allow me to take a time-out here. This is not one of those “damned Jews” rants from an Idaho white separatist group. Jews, like any other nationality, race or religion are welcome to join America’s wonderful national experiment. Yet for some disturbing reason, the American Jew has been the second-most reliable Democrat voting block (behind blacks). Enamored with socialist liberalism, which over the last century caused over 150 million deaths worldwide, including at least 6 million Jews (Nazi stood for “National Socialist”), American Jews helped seek the destruction of the constitutional value pillars rooted in individualism that granted American freedom and power.

But unwilling to admit failure of their vaunted welfare state, Democrats have evolved into a party so virulently opposed to any opposition, they have become rabid fools and traitors. Of course, Americans are free to be fools. We even tolerate traitors to an astounding degree. But for any Jew, this is no longer a squabble for America’s political turf. We are facing nuclear annihilation of the Jewish homeland. So if you have a stake in the situation, and certainly any Jew should, consider recent history. George Bush’s successful overthrow of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein marked the first time in centuries that anyone seriously tried to shred the dangerous unholy alliances, that held the ugly Middle East status quo. Now, 58 million neighboring Arabs weren’t merely freed, but two armies also disappeared. Libya surrendering a surprisingly vast nuclear and biological weapons program. Egypt grudgingly allowed real elections with real opposition parties. Syria withdrew its military from Lebanon. And Bush exposed the corrupt, anti-Semitic vermin running rampant through the hallowed halls of the United Nations. And for that matter, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Moscow. There is no legitimate comparison between what George Bush has accomplished in the Middle East and any previous American President.

It’s obvious George Bush’s strategy clearly favors Israel’s survival. And it is equally obvious that the Democrat effort to prevent Bush’s success presents a direct threat to Israel. Yet the pedestrian American Jew is still liplocked with liberals, attacking Bush for his boldness and standing in the way of success. Could there be a greater assist to the enemies of Israel?

This presents American Jews with quite a paradox. After successfully helping Democrats turn national and world opinion against Bush, who will muzzle a nuclear armed Iran? You can bet the French and Germans won’t be marching into Tehran soon. Russia? They are supplying Iranians with uranium. So who’s left? If Tel Aviv disappears in a mushroom cloud, will liberal Jews blame George Bush for not sending Big Red One? Probably. But at that point, such hypocritical bleatings may be a bit late.

So what does the American Jew need? A stern warning? A hard slap? A nuclear detonation? Whether by rote habit, sheer stupidity or unthinking arrogance, American Jews are so blindly liberal, they openly put Israel at risk of total annihilation. What Adolph Hitler could not achieve, American Jews may ironically wreak upon their own homeland.

In this war for Middle East, freedom, Americans may accuse American Democrats of being dopes, dupes and traitors. But what adjective accurately describes the American liberal Jew, who would allow his homeland to be destroyed out of blind political folly? No further debate remains. Israel is in atomic peril. American liberal Democrats want to keep it that way. Republicans want to save Israel. The American Jew has run out of excuses. So please, for the sake of your very homeland, answer the question. American Jews: Why are you still liberal?

[piytar]

Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel for most American Jews. Dumbocraps' and other moonbats' language sounds more and more like OBL's (and vice versa). Heck, OBL's last tape was largely a reiteration of the Dumbocraps' talking points. Read something written by Michael Moore and an English translation of something OBL is saying these days, and it's frankly hard to tell who wrote which one. That might just be enough to wake many Jews up to the fact that OBL and leftists are on basically the same side, and it's not a side that American Jews should support.

As for most of my fellow the Catholics, I've largely lost hope.

[stevio]

So is there any hope of them opening their eyes?

[The Worthless Miracle]

Ironic also, how most black voters go democratic, with the ACTUAL history of the democrats and the klan, slavery, the true records on civil rights, not to mention robert byrd, the plantation in the house... people are not educated!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Catholics since the days of FDR have been Catholic

Huh?

[Alouette]

It took my mother 30 years to come to grips with the fact that I became an observant Jew.

She still can't accept that I am a Republican.

[Alouette]

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

[familyop]

You made some good points.

A high percentage of people from Protestant families (too high) also vote for Democrats for the same reasons. My quote was only one example of many to make the point. And I wrote "most"--something the author of the stupid piece above didn't bother with. Why are so many columnists and posters here so obsessed with about 70% percent of an American group that only comprises about 2% of our population?

The Democrat Party is comprised of people from all kinds of religious backgrounds, and very few of them are Jewish (because few people in our country are Jewish).

Answer, IMO: authors like the idiot who wrote the piece above are trying to split the Orthodox/Republican Jewish voters off from our Republican Party and rile Christian Republicans up against Jewish people in general. Most such dishonest defamation pieces are written by the pantywaist, Buchanan Euro-brigade--a very small fringe element in our politics.

[Hot Tabasco]

It is so sad to see the movement of those who want to exterminate the Jews do so with the implicit consent of the American Jews.

The same thing can be said about the blacks in this country. The Democratic party has successfully been able to shift the blame of racisim and anti-semitism from themselves to the Republican party but only with the assistance of the socialist MSM.........

FWIW tho, when I attended a Bush appearance last fall at the Pontiac Silverdome, the "Jews for Bush" crowd were out there in full force the majority of whom were college kids and voting age highschoolers. Boy was that refreshing to see!!!

[God luvs America]

the title should also include "& Blacks"

[hoosierboy]

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2003/01/21/169065.html

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2003/01/28/169118.html

[Lancer_N3502A]

Democrats are by far closer to the ideals of the National Socialist "American" Workers Party than anything since 1945.

[familyop]

Benedict XVI has been doing some good work to turn European sentiment toward mutual concerns (terrorism for one) with Jewish people and consolidate all of us against real threats. Maybe that will work out some.

Radical Islam is the problem. Most Orthodox Jews stand with the rest of us to fight terrorism. Neo-Nazis are trying to distract from that and get the focus away from their Jihadi friends.

[GladesGuru]

If one remembers that most of America's Jews had grandparents or parents who came from either Germany (Marxism oriented) or Russia (Communism oriented) there remains only the pressing question of why teh continuing love of socialism?

IMHO, it is simply something absorbed while growing up. Oops - make that getting older but no wiser.

[Polybius]

As it happens, I had an American Jew tell me today that if the Christian Right in this country continued to gain power, many American Jews intend to migrate to Australia. Needless to say, this astounded me. How could it be that Jews distrust Christians as much as or maybe more than they distrust Muslims?

I believe that the Eastern European Jewish cultural memory reflexively equates a devout "Christian" with the East European "Christian" (in the loose sense of the word) mobs that devastated Jewish communities in Czarist Russia and Poland in the 19th and early 20th Century pogroms.

Their ancestral memory equates a devout "Christian" with :

These pogroms were not only tolerated but sometimes even encouraged by Czarist authorities.

It is no wonder then that Eastern European Jews were such a large component of the early Communist movement. In theory at least, Communism offered the overthrow of the hated Czarist regime, the destruction of the "Christian" religion whose clerics encouraged the pogroms and the establishment of a secular state with complete equality for Jews.

However, theory and practice are two different things. Over 90% of the Jews who fled the Czarist Russian pogroms ended up in the United States. Most of those came before the birth of the Soviet Union. They never saw the evils of the Communist system first hand.

So, the ancestral mind set becomes:

Czar = Bad.

Communism = Enemy of the Czar = Good.

Christians who take religion seriously = Pogrom = Dead Jews = Really Bad.

Secularism = No Christians = No Pogroms = Really Good.

Of course, the 21st Century American Bible Belt Protestant, who doesn't know a pogrom from a pierogi, is a totally different animal from the 19th Century Russian "Christian" peasant burning down great-garndpa's village.

However, the Eastern European Jewish ancestral memory A.) Does not realize that or B.) Doesn't want to take any chances.

This also explains the Eastern European Jewish fascination with the Left.

Large numbers of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews were seduced by Communism because it was the enemy of the Czarist Russia under which they had suffered for so long. The Eastern European Jews followed the philosophy of, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

You won't find the same infatuation with Communism among Sephardic Jews.

Unfortunately, this love affair with Communism was brought to America by late 19th Century and early 20th Century Jewish immigrants before they had a chance to see for themselves what a horror Communism was. Throughout the 20th Century, the children and grandchildren of many of these early Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants were raised as "Red Diaper Babies" without questioning whether Grandpa's love of Bolshevism in the 1910's was justified.

The "Red Diaper" Jewish generations are now dying off from old age. The new Ashkenazi Jewish generations are seeing for themselves that the Left has embraced the new enemies of America which also happen to be the enemies of the Jews.

Following the "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" phenomenon, I see greater numbers of the younger Jewish generation leaving Grandpa's Bolshevism behind and coming over to the Republican Party.

[Lejes Rimul]

Like it says in the title, American Jews. Maybe they care more about American issues than Israeli ones. Not saying that liberals are right about domestic policy, just that automatically assuming that American Jews should vote Republican because of Israel is stupid. When's the last time you told a German person to vote Republican because Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall?

[piytar]

Wow! Excellent analysis!!!

[ml/nj]

Christians have been as ruthlessly cruel to Jews as Muslims have been.

Balderdash!

ML/NJ

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Christians have been as ruthlessly cruel to Jews as Muslims have been.

Balderdash!

Nope. It's the truth. In fact, up until several hundred years ago, Jews generally had it better under Muslim rulers than under Christian rulers. The "golden ages" of Jewish culture, before the past several-hundred years were 9th and 10th century Muslim Spain (before the Muslim fundamentalist Almoravides took over in the mid-11th century) and the Ottoman Empire of the 16 and 17th Century.

The latter incidentally, was mainly the result of Ferdinand and Isabella kicking the Jews out of Spain and the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid taking in as many as he could get (including one of my ancestors).

[DJ Taylor]

"Balderdash!

Your point is so articulately stated that I must now reconsider my position and readjust my thinking on this subject. Thank you for putting me straight.