Posted on 01/21/2006 4:33:39 PM PST by 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?
The jews are more worried about abortion and homosexual "rights" than in Israel's survival.
Bears repeating.
I'm an Ashkenazi Jew and I can still remember my grandparents telling me, point blank, that the Christians are the ones who wanted to kill us and that I should never, ever trust them. (This probably explains my statement to my son that the reason I have guns is that when they kick in the door to take me away, I'll at least have the satisfaction of taking out three or four of the bastards myself.) However, your remarks about the older generation's feelings from Mother Russia really hit home with me - as well as my own observation that living next door to the Baptists, Catholics, and other Christians here in my own town has been overwhelmingly positive. (My grandparents have had to have the gut-wrenching experience watching two of their family marry Catholics, too - including me.)
I liked your presentation a lot. It sure explains things well.
Thank you. Great post. Very illuminating. I think it's easy to forget how far back the roots of some phenomena go, and just look at the seemingly irrational gap between present realities and people's behavior. You give reason for hope for the future.
Ironically, Orthodox 'Ashkenazim are more similar to American Fundamentalist Protestants than are Sefaradim. The former are more puritanical in religious outlook while the latter have the laid-back attitude of Louisiana Cajuns and some even are open to higher criticism.
Actually, George W. Bush made some inroads among Jewish voters in 2004.
>Why are so many supposedly "conservative" columnists harping so much about less than 2% of our population?
I wonder myself why too. I mean, they're numerically irrelevant leftists. Were I in charge of RNC, I'd go after bigger ethnic groups to expand our tend.
I then said, "I just don't understand it! If the Catholic Chruch in America falls, who is NEXT?! One would think that the Jews would have learned after 2000 years of persecution."
Of course, I wasn't around then so I can only judge by those Jews whom I know something about. The two most renowned Torah scholars of the Middle Ages were Maimonides (RAMBAM) and RASHI. Maimonides lived in Golden Age Spain where his family led a secret Jewish existence. When Maimonides was a young adult, his family fled first to Morocco, and not finding peace there the fled to Egypt, Palestine, and back to Egypt. In Egypt Maimonides was put on trial for his life having been accused of converting to Islam and then returning to Judaism. We are supposed to be grateful that the nice Muslims acquitted him. RASHI lived in France and made wine.
ML/NJ
Yup, abortion of "non humans" is the trump card. I have always been bothered by this. I thought Jews, of all people, would be the most sensitive people on earth to the slaughter of innocents, but no. I don't think I've ever met a Jewish person who wasn't pro abortion.
In the last two elections 2% wouold have swung the tide. My ex complains about the Jews who put such emphasis on Israel in his Democratic club work in Boca Raton.
I've given a lot of thought to the general question of Jewish leftism over past years, since it's an area of personal concern. There are some pertinent comments on the thread, especially #35 IMO.
A large percentage of American Jews came here as leftists and have handed down the traditions of leftism from generation to generation, just as other Americans *used* to hand down our traditions of individual freedom and personal liberty. My opinion is that one of the reasons that American Jews have clung to leftist traditions so doggedly for several generations is simply because they were excluded so long from so much of American society. But now that society is open to Jews, I have hopes that the traditions of the left will be abandoned and those of freedom embraced. I tentatively believe that is now happening.
Jewish tradition records a prohibition of abortions for non-Jews that is more absolute than the prohibition of abortion for Jews.
>In the last two elections 2% wouold have swung the tide.
True, but you can't get 100% of a group to vote for you. You can, however, get an additional 2% of Christian votes for example, which in essence amounts to more than 100% of the jewish vote. You gotta go and pander for the larger base and disregard the numerically irrelevant ones.
A woman of my acquaintance who works for a marketing research firm that does some political demographics makes your points in great detail.
Unfortunately, she considers the President too liberal and so was banned by the Bushbots here at FR.
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