Posted on 01/29/2010 2:49:19 PM PST by hecht
The jewicidal Marty Peretz, the archetype of the Jewish liberal, is SHOCKED! shocked, I tell ya, to find Obama is ........... anti-Israel. This asshattery would be knee-slappingly funny if the stakes weren't so high. The Jewish liberals helped deliver this misojudaist (Jew hater) to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and are responsible for the dramatic rise in global anti-Jewish life.
Maybe I’m Getting Paranoid … About Obama Marty Peretz, TNR
I just read the transcript of the president's remarks about Haiti, the ones he made on January 15. He noted that, in addition to assistance from the United States, significant aid had also come from "Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, among others." Am I missing another country that truly weighed in with truly consequential assistance? Ah, yes. There it is. Right there "among others." Yes, the country to which I refer is "among others," that one.
The fact is that, next to our country, Israel sent the largest contingent of trained rescue workers, doctors, and other medical personnel. The Israeli field hospital was the only one on the ground that could perform real surgery, which it did literally hundreds of times, while delivering--as of last week--at least 16 babies, including one premature infant and three caesarians. The first 250-odd Israelis were real professionals, and they were supplemented by others, also professionals. And to these can be added the many organized Jews from the Diaspora who, in solidarity with Israel, also went on a work pilgrimage, an aliyah, in solidarity with Haiti.
It's not that Israeli participation in the Haiti horror was being kept secret. I myself saw it reported several times on television—on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.
So didn't Obama notice? For God's sake, everybody noticed the deep Israeli involvement. I understand that Obama doesn't like Middle East narratives that do not contain "one side and the other side" equal valence. But he couldn't have that here. The Arabs don't care a fig, not for their impoverished and backward own, and certainly not for strangers. That's why their presence in Haiti amounted to a couple of bucks from Saudi Arabia and maybe from some other sheikhs.
An afterthought: Who would want Arab participation in the rescue effort? This was serious work and dangerous work. Amateurs weren't welcome.
Yes, I think that the labors of the Israelis were edited out of Obama's speech.
Just shy of 80% of American Jews voted for 0bama.
Apparently Jews are as deluded as my black people are...they actually believe the Democrats care about them.
The mysterious voting pattern of the majority of the American Jews never ceases to amaze me. It is like they have a death wish.
Perhaps part of the reason The One did not recognize the Israeli contributions in Haiti was because it reveals his as so inept.
The Jews wanted Obama. The Jews have Obama. I'm sure in 2012 the Jews will vote for Obama again, by a large majority.
If you are looking for political sensibility, you sure can't look to the LARGE majority of the Jewish population in the United States.
Jews are mainly urban.
Urban people vote heavily democrat; it’s not much more complex than that.
And while I think there was a racial element to the vote this time because of Obama with the black vote, I wonder if you got a sample of white people with the same demograhics as blacks (e.g., mainly urban, education, location, income, type of employment (e.g., government/union/whatever) if there would be much of a difference -— some, but not as pronounced, by any means.
The literal reversal of political history taught in schools has done incalculable damage to the country. If you tell a student of any age - or their teachers - the absolute, factual truth that Republicans fought slavery and that the KKK was Democrat, they'd run you out of town on a rail.
You mean “wonderful magical animal flying moment”, don’t you?
I also think a lot of it is the worship (I use that word as a metaphor) of education that comes in the Jewish community.
I lived in a predominantely Jewish area for years. They are so heavily invested in public education it’s frightening. It makes socialists out of them, because they are so tied to a statist system. And many of them came from NYC public schools, which were a bulwark of the Communist party.
Also because of their high education level, they are able to well utilize government services. As a result they get a great deal of benefit from them, and they all have stories of how some public program did important things for them.
It is a sad thing for both and subsequently, for all.
It is so easy to lose one’s way in life. Most people become more conservative later on, but for how long did someone support the bad? “Intentions” and “hope” have no basis in anything—they can be co-opted by evil much more so than good can.
But that is where we are. Government can’t save us, we need to help each other, but OUTSIDE of government. It’s lost on too many people, partly because it is easy to feel comfortable with any choice one makes when enough other people agree.
American Jews are self-loathing idiot ping list? There must be a list I can be added to for such things.
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Wrong. More suburban than urban.
You speak the truth. Tell them Joe McCarthy was right and you’ll send them into fits.
Wow, I'm Jewish and I was taught that truth in urban public schools in the 50s and 60s and no one ran anyone out of town! That's indicative of how decadent public education has become.
Nope, it is not, and that's a pretty bad joke, though "liberal Jew" would be a fair way to describe Peretz at least up to now. If this is the beginning of a personal move away from the left for him, he would be far from the first American Jew to make the transition. David Horowitz is a big name that comes to mind.
There are plenty of Jews out there who aren't "liberal", in the sense that term has evolved and is used today. I'm sure you have met conservative (and/or right libertarian) Jews, such as yours truly, right here on FR. Plus, as I've pointed out many times here, there is a thriving national organization of Jewish Republicans - the Republican Jewish Coalition - with national headquarters in DC, 4 regional headquarters, and more than 40 local chapters around the country.
The jewicidal Marty PeretzThanks hecht.
I don't know what you mean by that. Some Jewish kids go to private religious schools. The percentages of Jewish teachers in public school systems has declined significantly over the last generation.
[Public education] makes socialists out of them, because they are so tied to a statist system.
Tied to a statist system? What about the professions and businesses in which Jews are overrepresented? Wouldn't that be considered the private sector (if a private sector even exists today in the era of "Osama" Obama)?
Also because of their high education level, [Jews] are able to well utilize government services. As a result they get a great deal of benefit out of them, and they all have stories of how some public program did important things for them.
Really? Generally speaking, the higher one's educational level, the less need or want of government services. Many Jews, like many of all ethnic groups, have had adverse experiences in dealing with public programs. The elitist leftists of all ethnic groups want nothing to do with public programs as "beneficiaries." They only like to control them in order to control the lives of others.
Memo to I still care: You paint with much too broad of a brush!
Public education damages all Americans, including Jewish Americans. I hope that more of them go to private schools, including religious schools, as time goes on.
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