Can quibble with a few of Rosen's points, but certainly the main thrust of his piece is right on target.
Sometimes I fear that good works cannot get people out of automatic, unthinking habits. The younger Jews support the President, I think.
"Democrat antagonism to Bolton -- much like the boycott of many Democrats of the Iraqi Prime Minister's recent address to Congress -- is little more than a cynical attempt to embarrass President Bush politically at the expense of the Jewish community."
It may be a "cynical attempt" by the democrats, but the Iraqi PM unfortunately didn't break with the time old tradition of scapegoating Israel as the external enemy to feed the disease which unites the poisoned masses in the Muslim world. Supporting this behavior is antithetical to the Bush WOT and the Sharansky roadmap to freedom.
LOL The party of Jesse Jackson ... good one!
The writer needs to realize that Jews are individuals who do not necessarily think alike. Just because a person is Jewish doesn't mean that that person is programmed to support Israel.
There are some Jews who never supported the creation of Israel (including some religious ones who regularly demonstrate against Israel in front of the United Nations). There are other Jews to whom Israel is a matter of indifference. And there are others to whom their liberalism is more important than Israel, in their ranking of priorities.
Has he forgotten the fact that Hezbollah has killed hundreds of Americans in terrorist attacks?
From 11% GOP voters in 1992 to 25-30% in 2004 is pretty fast, historically speaking. The fact that it's not faster can be attributed to: 1) Voting habits/traditions can be very difficult to break. (Many Southern conservatives still vote Democrat, for example); 2) Liberal-Democrat Jews have plenty of political concerns other than Israel.
Same thing can be said for the blacks who vote democrat
Same thing can be said for the white liberals who vote democrat
Same thing can be said for ANY of the dumbasses who vote for the democrats
The one Jewish Liberal I've spoken to recently is dead set against Bush, whom he said had 'hoodwinked us into going into Iraq, a war which merely served to enrage Arabs. Democracy can't be imposed. It has to come from within'. Israel, he said adamantly, has every right to defend herself. As for Jihad/terror/Middle East -- all we need to do is haggle with them (bargain). Find out what they want and give in (except for Israel), then we'll be able to muddle along. He's nuts and he'll go right on putting an X in the dem. box.
Abe Foxman continues to believe that the greatest threat to Jews today comes from conservative Christians, who overwhelmingly support Israel, and not the islamofascists who want to pull of a second Holocaust. I can't explain it.
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The face of the democrat party today. As the President said, "you are either for us or against us."
Do you suppose that if all Jews voted in the exact same way there would be a difference in the amount of political clout that they have?
Until very recently, most Catholics voted Democrat. Now the "radical traditionalist" writers among them and others with once-Protestant affiliations are spewing neo-Nazi propaganda to drive Jewish people away from our Republican Party and to take power over it (even though the crypto-Nazis mentioned are a minority).
IMO, the push against Jewish numbers in the Republican Party will probably not be successful, because writers like Buchanan are against defense of our own country.
I'm not Jewish, but I might occasionally be a respectful nag of a Noachide student. Halacha is the answer.