T'was a mystery to me also, until I came up with a theory which satisfied me. Maybe you will agree, maybe not.
Due to decades of being accused of being evil, money-grubbing and self-serving, usually by people who envied their success and desired to degrade their accomplishments, Jews embraced liberalism to show others what nice people they really were. Liberalism is the first cousin of Communism, meaning in Arkansas it can also be the father of Communism (sorry for the cheap shot, Arkansas, I just couldn't resist ). The USSR and Nazi Germany were basically at war, despite treaties intended to con each other while preparing for attack, and Germany was openly persecuting the Jews. (Stalin was killing them also but no one knew.) Therefore, in keeping with the theory of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend.", the Jews sided with Communist Russia, or the USSR. There was also a large cadre of Communist supporters and sympathizers in the U.S. at the time, many in top positions of government who helped guide our war effort to the advantage of Stalin. Well, you know the rest but in my opinion that was the beginning of the Jews infatuation with the left, forgetting that NAZI stood for National Socialist _ _.
The left has always been against democracy except when they could use it to over throw it. That is one reason they hate our Constitution and try to subvert it, it prevents the majority from becoming tyrants. The left, whose true goal is to take over the government so that they will have a free hand in imposing their superior values upon us, seduce as many constituencies as they can by championing the cause of the "little people, the oppressed people", most of whom they create and will gladly really oppress once they use them to gain power. Jews naturally want to be on the side of those fighting for oppressed people, real or imagined.
Now what do they liberals have in common with the militant Islamic terrorists? The militant Islamists subjegate women, something the liberals pretend to oppose, the Muslims say homosexuality is against Allah, something the liberals loudly deny but add, "Well, even if it is there is no God anyway, so who cares?. The militant Islamists oppose democracy and want complete power to impose their superior values upon others.
So, at the core, liberals and militant Islamists want the same thing, the power to impose their values upon everyone else, while seeming on the surface to greatly differ.
That brings us back to the theory of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Liberals have never flinched at being hypocritical and they are doing so in this case. Democracy in the form of a Constitutional Republic is the enemy of both liberals and the militant Islamists. Therefore the U.S. is the enemy of both with the democracies of Europe to a lessor extent. The media of both the U.S. and Europe are largely liberal and become the amplifier for liberals in general, greatly exagerating their numbers and support. As a result, large numbers of people in Europe and the U.S. seem to be against Israel and in support of the terrorists.
So, as we ponder why seemingly desparate interest are spouting from the same playbook, remember, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend.", and you, I, conservatives in general, and democracies are the enemy. Were it not so unthinkably disasterous, it would be interesting to see the left and the Islamists fight it out after democracy was destroyed. Would U.S. and European pacifists still be so? Would they approach Ossama, et al. with olive braches? The thought almost makes the prospect thinkable. Almost.
T'was a mystery to me also, until I came up with a theory which satisfied me. Maybe you will agree, maybe not.
An interesting theory Robot. A lot of what you say I agree with althought I'm not sure I'd arrive at the same conclusion as to why the present day alliance with the left...and all the baggage that goes with it.
I can certainly understand the "image thing" where the Jews wanted to show that they were good people instead of the evil moneygrabbers, etc...But it goes further than that for me.
Jews in general, and the ones that I know in specific, are intelligent, industrious, moral people. I would place their race as second to no other race it terms of those traits.
Yet, having said that, every Jew that I know is a diehard leftist...and it ain't cuz they want people to like them. They actually believe that way.
Baffling...anyway, thanks for your insights and taking the time to respond.