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Glenn Beck's revealing visit
Jewish World Review ^ | 8/26/11 | Caroline Glick

Posted on 08/28/2011 8:08:16 AM PDT by Track9

American media superstar Glenn Beck's visit to Israel this week was a revealing and remarkable event. It revealed what it takes to be a friend of Israel. And it revealed the causes of Israel's difficulty in telling its enemies from its friends.

Many world leaders, opinion shapers and other notables profess enduring friendship with Israel. From Washington to London, Paris to Spain, policymakers and other luminaries preface all their remarks to Jewish audiences with such statements. Once their declarations are complete — and often without taking a breath — they proceed to denounce Israel's policies and deny its basic rights.

US President Barack Obama exemplifies this practice. Obama always begins his statements on Israel by proclaiming his enduring friendship for Israel. Then he tells us to deny Jewish property rights, accept indefensible borders, or desist from defending ourselves from aggression.

The Israeli Left habitually embraces self-proclaimed friends like Obama. Often leftist leaders encourage such friends to harm Israel in the name of helping it. For instance, in 2007, speaking to then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice — who had a habit of comparing her friend Israel to the Jim Crow south — then Ha'aretz editor David Landau asked her to "rape" the Jewish state. Opposition leader Tzipi Livni recently encouraged Obama to increase pressure on Israel.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; israel

1 posted on 08/28/2011 8:08:18 AM PDT by Track9
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To: Track9

I stand with Israel.


2 posted on 08/28/2011 8:10:51 AM PDT by Beckett08 ("My Jihad means 'My Struggle' So does "Mein Kampf.")
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To: Beckett08

Our left is just hungry for power; the left in Israel is suicidal.


3 posted on 08/28/2011 8:17:14 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Mmogamer

Doesn’t most of the funding for Israel’s leftist groups come from France..


4 posted on 08/28/2011 8:26:02 AM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: Beckett08

US President Barack Obama exemplifies this practice. Obama always begins his statements on Israel by proclaiming his enduring friendship for Israel. Then he tells us to deny Jewish property rights, accept indefensible borders, or desist from defending ourselves from aggression.

Israel shouldn’t feel alone when it comes to how Mr Obama addresses them, “WE THE PEOPLE” of the United States of America, receive no better. We could just as easily change the word Israel, to USA, and the intent would be the same. Perhaps we are all equal in the eyes of the one, but some are more equal than others.


5 posted on 08/28/2011 8:46:19 AM PDT by wita
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To: Track9

it’s like the nyt in the 1930’s, condoning stalin’s soviet union,

while the real atrocities went unreported.


6 posted on 08/28/2011 8:50:14 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Track9
I just have one question that is still crucial to Israel.
Where were the rational people when Great Britain created Israel's borders? If they deliberately set out to make her indefensible, they could not have done a better job.

The sandmaggots had poured hundreds of thousands of arabs from surrounding "countries" each year for a decade to establish a claim of ownership in what became Israel, and nobody noticed. In fact, the official British administrators has as much as admitted that their census records were biased against Jews, and in favor of muslims.

Oil, even back then, was a powerful motivator for a dying colonial superpower.

Why did it take 60 years to "discover" the obvious? That Israel's current borders are indefensible?

A small country was created that was infested by cockroaches. Over four generations, the cockroach population exploded, with actual help from mindless do-gooders in the Western world, the main focus of terrorism and mayhem. Israel made the desert bloom and created a creative culture contributing to the civilized world far out of proportion to their numbers. A vibrant creative society, constantly under the threat of being overwhelmed by the cockroaches.

So whom does the clueless western societies attack? No, not the useless destructive cockroaches, but the creators; the builders, the only force shedding light on the infestation.

< /rant >

7 posted on 08/28/2011 8:52:44 AM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: Publius6961

Yup.


8 posted on 08/28/2011 9:10:17 AM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: Publius6961

I agree and I also support Israel in their defense of their country. If someone shoots rockets into my back yard, I WILL return fire in greater volumne than they fired. Israel should do the same thing.


9 posted on 08/28/2011 9:56:26 AM PDT by Crazy ole coot (Freedom is NOT free. Thank our military for your freedoms!)
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To: Track9

And Massachusetts.


10 posted on 08/28/2011 10:58:26 AM PDT by NHResident
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To: NHResident

Much of the intellectual post war left who became the kibbutzim emigrated from France. Their anti-god (they wont even say his name) anti-bourgeoisie philosophy is still prevalent, especially in the north. They were the children of well healed French families, communist all, and their money still flows like water to Israel’s leftist, pro arab groups. Funding things like the Goldstone report for example. Total lies and propaganda and coming from French funding.


11 posted on 08/28/2011 11:25:45 AM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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