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 Irans 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 Israels 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 its right on the doorstep.
Tell me, please, American Jews: do you think its 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 Americas 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 Americas 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 Bushs 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 werent 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.
Its obvious George Bushs strategy clearly favors Israels survival. And it is equally obvious that the Democrat effort to prevent Bushs 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 wont be marching into Tehran soon. Russia? They are supplying Iranians with uranium. So whos 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?
Stockholm Syndrome?
Not quite. His family led an open Jewish existence. They fled, shortly after the above mentioned Almoravides came to power. I'm not familiar with any trial he was put on -- and I just checked on-line on a few sites that went into enough detail that I think they would have mentioned it.
Further he didn't just live in Egypt. He was appointed physician to the Vizier of Egypt, who basically ruled there for Saladin.
There is a legend that may or may not be true that King Richard the Lion-Hearted, in the Holy Land for the Crusades, heard of Maimonides fame and offered him the position of royal physician. Maimonides turned him down, choosing to remain in Muslim Egypt, rather than go to Christian England.
Considering that that was about the time that all the Jews of York were massacred, there may have been a good reason behind that decision. And though I doubt Maimonides had any foreknowledge of it, about a century later, the Jews would be thrown of England.
"The author seems unaware that most American Jews do not place a high priority on Israel."
You just made the author's point. American Jews could care less about Israel and follow blindly the liberal herd that is anti-Israel, ant-American and pro-Arab.
RASHI lived more than 200 years before RAMBAM. RASHI was French BTW.
RAMBAM was born in Spain, afterwards lived in Egypt. His family never "secretly" observed Judaism, they were always open about it.
Don't know where you get your information.
Insightful post. It matches and supplements what I have been told by other conservative Jews.
Your analysis is very good regarding Eastern European Jews who emigrated to the US between 1890-1918. That is really a very small time frame, even though it accounts for a large percentage of Jewish migration.
My husband's family, although Ashkenazim, migrated during that same period, but from the Holy Land. That would make them original "Palestinians."
Jews who migrated from the Soviet Union 1970's and later, are decidedly ANTI-Communist.
My son and his family currently live in Moscow. While this by no means represents any "reverse migration" back to Russia, it does represent a paradigm shift for Russian Jewry: the Jewish Establishment in Russia is entirely traditional-Orthodox. The secularists completely gave up on it once Russian aliyah to Israel slowed down after the fall of the Soviet Empire.
A status symbol? Methinks that you should spend some time drilling down into the Old Testament.
When the Messiah appears all Jews will step away from Marxism and go back to Torah.
...*siiiiiiighhhhhhhh*...
RASHI 1040-1105
RAMBAM 1135-1204
In other words RAMBAM was born 30 years after RASHI died. In the context of discussing the "Middle Ages," I think this makes them virtual contemporaries.
I said RASHI lived in France. Maybe I should have said "Christian France," as opposed to "Islamic Spain, Morocco and Egypt."
His family never "secretly" observed Judaism, they were always open about it.
From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Before Moses reached his 13th birthday, his peaceful world was suddenly disturbed by the ravages of war and persecution. ... The Almohads who captured Cordoba in 1148 [left] the Jewish community with the grim alternative of submitting to Islam or leaving the city. The Maimons temporized by practicing their Judaism in the privacy of their own homes while disguising their ways in public as far as possible to appear like Muslims. ... When the double life proved too irksome to maintain in Cordoba, the Maimon family left the city in about 1159 to settle in Fez, Morocco. Although it was also under Almohed rule, Fez was presumably more promising than Cordoba because there the Maimons would be strangers and their disguise would be more likely to go undetected. ... Fez proved to be no more than a short respite however. In 1165 Rabbi Judah ibn Shoshan, with whom Moses had studied, was arrested as a practicing Jew and was found guilty and executed. ... [They moved to Palestine and then to Egypt.] ... There Jews were free to practice their faith openly, though any Jew who had once submitted to Islam courted death if he relapsed to Judaism. Moses himself was once accused of being a renegade Muslim, but he was able to prove that he had never really adopted the faith of Islam and was so exonerated. [ML/NJ transcription from printed copy, so whatever typos are included are mine.]RASHI made wine.
Don't know where you get your information.
I get it from lots of places, but like I said above this comes from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Actually, it goes back to the 1930s in America. And in Europe before that, to the early 19th century (specifically Napoleon, whom Jews supported because he legally emancipated them). Prior to the 1930s in America, most Jews were Republicans (just check the party affiliation of Jews who won office before the New Deal). After the New Deal, Jews (especially in the Northeast) began supporting the Democrat's vision of soft left ideology, and strong foreign policy abroad. And it became a cultural thing after that. The Jewish community has a strong cohesive factor that a lot of people often ignore.
Since Reagan, however, the Orthodox and Modern Orthodox, and lot of Conservatives and also young Jews have been moving towards the Republican party and generally to the right. For reasons that aren't exactly clear to the rest of the more soft-left parts of the community, but would certainly be understood and appreciated by FReepers. ;)
Actually, young Jews have been moving in large numbers to the Republican party. Also the Orthodox and Modern Orthodox, what with those deliciously high birthrates (7+ and 4+ children per household, on average, respectively). I've heard the only Republican since the 1930s who actually beat the Democrats for the Jewish vote was Reagan (and he only won something like 38%, because the others were split between the Democrats, and presumably a third party). But there's a regular 25% which is solid conservative now and growing, and probably another 10-15% swing vote, and that's growing.
So, we're not smart enough to think on our own...you saying it's GENETIC???? ROFLMAO!!!!
Most of the liberal Jews want more rights for the Palistianians (and Hamas), and some of them said that the Jewish state should have been built in Germany!
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