Posted on 07/31/2014 5:33:25 PM PDT by SJackson
Slaves to gut emotion, and averse to rigorous academic research, liberals do not bother to figure out who is right or wrong in any conflict.
It's official: the Democratic Party has abandoned Israel to its fate. This development has nothing to do with that most ancient of hatreds, anti-Semitism. Rather, in an age when a compelling narrative increasingly trumps a cold, hard history lesson, Israel's version of the events leading up to Operation Protective Edge, while factually sound, is a snoozer.
The results of a recent Pew Research Center poll revealed the largest partisan gap in forty years on the issue of supporting Israel.
Conducted from July 8-14, the week Israel began its air operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip but before its ground invasion, the poll asked 1,805 respondents, “In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side to you sympathize with more—Israel or the Palestinians?”
The poll found that respondents considering themselves conservative Republicans supported Israel by 77 percent, compared to 68 percent of moderate Republicans. Among Democrats, 48 percent of moderate Democrats supported Israel, compared to 39 percent of liberal Democrats.
In other words, 61 percent of liberal Democrats either sympathize with Hamas, a group of war criminals designated as a terrorist organization by, among many other countries, the United States, or are utterly apathetic to the plight of a small, faraway democracy whose millions of citizens are being forced to flee for their lives under daily, sometimes hourly, rocket fire.
While the Israeli government and its supporters have done a valiant job of delivering just the facts to a ravenous international media, the fix is in. After all, you would have to be made of stone to not be moved to tears by the sight of defenseless Palestinians being mowed down by the Israeli war machine.
Israel vs. Hamas. Goliath vs. David. Got it.
Now, at the risk of throwing cold water on the misguided passions of Hamas supporters and the otherwise uninformed, let us compare founding documents.
The Hamas Covenant states "…Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
Doesn't leave much room for a Turkish and Qatari-backed cease fire, does it?
Now, let us get a glimpse into the heart of darkness that is, to the mind of many liberal Democrats, the Israel Defense Forces.
"The IDF and its soldiers are obligated to protect human dignity. Every human being is of value regardless of his or her origin, religion, nationality, gender, status or position."
Sounds positively progressive.
The Israel Defense Forces is sending soldiers into the hornet’s nest of Palestinian terror - booby-trapped with mines and riddled with subterranean tunnels - when it could simply be carpet-bombing these areas.
Let's not forget that during World War II, the British army responded to Nazi attacks by levelling entire German cities from the air, with tens of thousands of innocent civilians being killed as a result.
I don't recall a war crimes tribunal being convened against the WINNERS of WWII.
Yet, the IDF's unimaginable restraint has left good American liberals in a tizzy of moral outrage.
What is it about men in uniform that never fails to make good-hearted (is there any other kind) progressives see red?
This phenomenon may be connected to how the liberal Democrat processes information. Slaves to gut emotion, and averse to rigorous academic research, liberals do not bother to figure out who is right or wrong in any conflict.
Instead, they instinctively root for the scruffy-looking student, professor or terrorist and against the uniformed military.
Hamas is responsible for the murder of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians in terrorist attacks since 1996. Its founding charter calls not only for the destruction of the State of Israel, but the murder of all Jews.
Each missile that Hamas is now launching against Israel constitutes a crime against humanity because it is directed at civilian targets.
Forced to respond to such attacks, Israel is doing so, but only after warning Gazans to evacuate their homes before bombardment. In such a case, if someone is killed, international law considers it a mistake rather than an intentional killing.
Back to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. In 2014, you will find Israel's staunchest and most consistent defenders in the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, the ranks of Democrats include a good number of the State of Israel's harshest, most vocal critics.
As such, Israel has no home in today's Democratic Party.
Its surprising because liberals love welfare cases and Gaza ranks right up there at the top.
As such, Israel has no home in today's Democratic Party.
But you will find many American Jews in the Democrat Party rooting for Hamas to prevail. Too many American Jews will accept genocide if it is approved by the Democrat Party and refuse succor if it comes from any group that seems to be Conservative or even Republican.
We should just start calling them (Democrats) what they really are: The Party of Satan. Would love to hear Sarah Palin call them that.
I knew the safety of Israel was low on concern list for many American Jews but I had no idea that things were as messed up as what that article suggests.
Is it accurate?
We played this game in Vietnam. We won the war-WON it at least twice. The gentlemen in Hanoi were ready to sue for peace and were preparing to deal with an American occupation of the North and Uncle Lyndon decided we were not being fair to our Noble Enemy and at critical points we backed off so that the enemy could refresh, regroup, re-arm and dragoon more peasants for the next meatgrinder session.
What happened was that the 'Rat platform, it was noticed, was presented to the convention (1)without mention of G-d and (2)without the statement of recognition of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. This would have been the first 'Rat platform in recent history with those omissions. So the Obama WH got a little worried and ordered the Convention to amend the platform to correct the language.
With respect to the insertion of a "Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel" statement then, Los Angeles mayor Villagarosa, presiding over the convention, didn't trust the delegates to do that via a regular head count vote. Rather than be embarrassed by such a vote ending up in a rejection of the "Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel" statement in the platform, Villagarosa opted for a voice vote. Listening in, it would seem that the "nays" were in the majority on three occasions. Nonetheless, Villagarosa arbitrarily declared that the Jerusalem statement received a majority of the voice vote and stuck it officially in the platform, albeit reluctantly.
Given that history, it's no surprise that the Pew polling results of Americans on support for Israel in the current conflict show such a gap between members of the two parties.
and no self-respecting Christian or Jew has any place in the new (IslamoNazi/Communist/Sorosian) D party, either.
The Democrat Party (with the help of Republicans) has handed the United States of America a ticket to destruction. And it ain’t going to be pretty. There are promises all through the Bible. It is a case of reprobate minds on board.
“I (God) will bless those who bless you (Israel) and will curse those who curse you” (Gen 12:3)
http://www.alphanewsdaily.com/Warning%201%20Israel%20Jerusalem.html
THREE TIMES?
Good. I’m not the only human who remembered that.
They didn’t just boo, they VOTED to exclude, and cheered when Israel was removed,
I was flipping through the channels and heard Derek Prince, preacher, say that as a Brit he saw the beginning of the downfall of his country (Great Britain) in 1948 when they turned their backs on Israel. I found this to refresh my memory. http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/the_state_of_israel/
God TV is providing excellent coverage of the Israel conflict.
The Obama administration and the Democratic party are the friends of tyranny and the enemy of freedom. Including ours.
I agree with your descriptions even with my limited exposure. I made a decision to convert to Judaism in 1992, and long story short, I started by attending services and classes at a Reform temple thinking I would be more accepted. Wrong.
I was hungry for religion and ritual and I discovered sadly there was more left-wing politicking and Republican bashing even during service. I ended up walking out one morning after having had enough, actually sobbing all the way to my car.
That was two months short of my formal conversion and though I followed by attending a Conservative temple I never quite made it official. I do consider myself Jewish in belief however.
To add, I ran into one of the Rabbis from Reform a few months later and she questioned what had happened to me. When I told her I wanted religion and not politics of any kind, btw, not even my brand, she wholeheartedly agreed it had been a problem that had driven many away.
“No home for Israel inside the Democratic Party”
Please, don’t worry Bibi, your complimentary Amerikan missiles will be there in time before the end of the cease-fire.
Philip_Freneau? That you?
If it takes you that much time to compose a response, I’ll be brief since you obviously have a pretty impressive stalking schedule.
Meh, I have no problem with you, comrade — you fly the US flag on your page so I’ll give the benefit of being sincere.
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