Monday, January 7, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !!
Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.
"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death.
Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"
- Darrell Scott
God Bless
Friday, December 7, 2012
Let me share my current thoughts on the blockade of Gaza by Egypt and Israel - by Dennis Miller
Miller is a comedian who has a show called Dennis Miller Live on HBO.
Although he is not Jewish, he recently had the following to say about
the Middle East situation:
'A brief overview of the situation
is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get
it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few
paragraphs, which is all you really need.
Here we go:
The
Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that:
There are no Palestinians . It's a made up word. Israel was called
Palestine for two thousand years. Like 'Wiccan,' 'Palestinian' sounds
ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the
land in the 1967 war, Gaza was owned by Egypt , the West Bank was owned
by Jordan , and there were no 'Palestinians.'
As soon as the
Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what
do you know, say hello to the 'Palestinians,' weeping for their deep
bond with their lost 'land' and 'nation.'
So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word 'Palestinian' any
more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our
deaths until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's call
them what they are: 'Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In Life
And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal
Struggle And Death.
' I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see
on CNN. How about this, then: 'Adjacent Jew-Haters .' Okay, so the
Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing:
No, they don't. They could've had their own country. Any time in the
last thirty years, especially several years ago at Camp David . But If
you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage
trucks. And Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to
figure out some
way to make a living.
That's no fun. No,
they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They
also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course that's where the real fun
is -- but mostly they want Israel .
Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or 'The Zionist Entity'
as their textbooks call it - for the last fifty years has allowed the
rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people
away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate,
poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've ever been
around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something.
It
makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about
the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm missing
something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra,
and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five
Million Jews.
Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a
pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks
swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone
will be pals.
Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about
the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din
of rabid blood oaths to drive very Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were
just kidding.
My friend, Kevin Rooney, made a gorgeous point
the other day: Just reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million
Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of
it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and
dynamite to themselves? Of
course not. Or marshalling every fiber
and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab State
into the sea? Nonsense.
Or dancing for joy at the murder of Innocents? Impossible.
Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting.
No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing
moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11th our
president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists
and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis,
after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City
every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and
we tell them to show restraint.
If America were being attacked
with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming
for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south
of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan .
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Monday, December 3, 2012
Open Letter to British Foreign Secretary William Hague
I DON'T KNOW THIS LADY BUT I SURE DO AGREE WITH HER
Written by Mindy Wiesenberg:
Dear Mr Hague
You have stated that if Israel tries to defend its population through a ground offensive in Gaza "it risks losing the sympathy of the international community."
Let me tell you something about the sympathy of the international community Mr Hague. My father was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, having lost his entire family but gaining the sympathy of the international community at the time. After 6 million Jews had been annihilated at the hands of the Nazi regime, the international community had plenty of sympathy for the Jewish people. There is always plenty of sympathy for victims.
Israel doesn't need the sympathy of the international community. What it needs is to defend its citizens.
When as a tiny country it gained its independence in 1948 it had to absorb 800,000 Jews who were thrown out of Arab lands in the Middle East, and it did so without fuss and with dignity giving them shelter and a place of security in which their children could grow up to become productive citizens. When Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria tried to destroy Israel in 1948 and again in 1967 they took in hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs, but did they give them dignity or shelter? No they left them to rot in refugee camps in order to maintain a symbol of grievance against Israel and use them as a political tool against the Jewish state.. What has arisen in those camps is a complicated situation, but it is what has led to Gaza today.
So don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when Israel has just sent in 120 truck loads of food into Gaza to feed the Palestinian people there, because their own leadership is more interested in using its population as human shields, launching rockets against Israel from within major civilian centres.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when Israel targets with as much military precision as it can, only terrorists and their bases, trying its utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when the Palestinian media deliberately uses images of victims of the Syrian civil war and presents them as casualties in Gaza to gain international sympathy.
Go read your history books Mr Hague, go see that since the beginning of the twentieth century all the Arabs wanted to do was destroy Israel. Go look at the country of Israel now since the Jews have established a state there. Go read what advances in science, medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and high tech Israel has developed, and dedicated that knowledge to making the world a better place for humanity. Can you imagine any other country that after 60 years of continuously being under attack could have achieved so much.
So Mr Hague don't lecture Israel on international sympathy. Israel will do whatever it takes to defend itself from outright attack on its citizens, whether it be from Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran or any other country or terrorist group that attacks it.
And if it loses the sympathy of the international community so be it. We don't need the international community's sympathy. We don't need another 6 million victims.
Yours sincerely
MINDY WIESENBERG
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During the Gaza crisis last week, British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, warned Israel that if it sent troops into Gaza to confront Hamas, it risked loosing the sympathy of the international community. On November 19th, a Jewish woman in Britain , Mindy Wiesenberg, sent the following letter to Mr. Hague, in response. The letter has been published in many newspapers, including the Times of Israel.>>
Written by Mindy Wiesenberg:
Dear Mr Hague
You have stated that if Israel tries to defend its population through a ground offensive in Gaza "it risks losing the sympathy of the international community."
Let me tell you something about the sympathy of the international community Mr Hague. My father was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, having lost his entire family but gaining the sympathy of the international community at the time. After 6 million Jews had been annihilated at the hands of the Nazi regime, the international community had plenty of sympathy for the Jewish people. There is always plenty of sympathy for victims.
Israel doesn't need the sympathy of the international community. What it needs is to defend its citizens.
When as a tiny country it gained its independence in 1948 it had to absorb 800,000 Jews who were thrown out of Arab lands in the Middle East, and it did so without fuss and with dignity giving them shelter and a place of security in which their children could grow up to become productive citizens. When Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria tried to destroy Israel in 1948 and again in 1967 they took in hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs, but did they give them dignity or shelter? No they left them to rot in refugee camps in order to maintain a symbol of grievance against Israel and use them as a political tool against the Jewish state.. What has arisen in those camps is a complicated situation, but it is what has led to Gaza today.
So don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when Israel has just sent in 120 truck loads of food into Gaza to feed the Palestinian people there, because their own leadership is more interested in using its population as human shields, launching rockets against Israel from within major civilian centres.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when Israel targets with as much military precision as it can, only terrorists and their bases, trying its utmost to prevent civilian casualties.
Don't lecture Israel on international sympathy Mr Hague. Not when the Palestinian media deliberately uses images of victims of the Syrian civil war and presents them as casualties in Gaza to gain international sympathy.
Go read your history books Mr Hague, go see that since the beginning of the twentieth century all the Arabs wanted to do was destroy Israel. Go look at the country of Israel now since the Jews have established a state there. Go read what advances in science, medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and high tech Israel has developed, and dedicated that knowledge to making the world a better place for humanity. Can you imagine any other country that after 60 years of continuously being under attack could have achieved so much.
So Mr Hague don't lecture Israel on international sympathy. Israel will do whatever it takes to defend itself from outright attack on its citizens, whether it be from Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran or any other country or terrorist group that attacks it.
And if it loses the sympathy of the international community so be it. We don't need the international community's sympathy. We don't need another 6 million victims.
Yours sincerely
MINDY WIESENBERG
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Top Twenty Liberal Absurdities
"1) Only in America could Liberals talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.
3) Only in America
could
we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy
Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who
once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats
who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an "imperialist nation," but who get offended if you say they're not patriotic.
5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.
7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.
8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.
11) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be "what did we do to make them hate us?"
13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.
14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.
15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it's like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.
16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear....while you're wearing it.
17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.
18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a "war on women."
John Hawkins (Professional Blogger)
4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an "imperialist nation," but who get offended if you say they're not patriotic.
5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.
7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.
8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.
11) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be "what did we do to make them hate us?"
13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.
14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.
15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it's like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.
16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear....while you're wearing it.
17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.
18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a "war on women."
John Hawkins (Professional Blogger)
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society
“Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd
term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less
taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world
while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next
war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.”
Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic
success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected.
Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists
have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the
vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as
President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to
repeat the Soviet mistake.
After Obama was elected in his first term as
president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at
the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of 2009. Ignored by
the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful advice to help the world
economy and saying the world should avoid the Soviet mistake.
Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd
term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less
taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world
while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next
war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.
Putin said regarding the military,
"...instead of solving the problem,
militarization pushes it to a deeper level. It draws away from the economy
immense financial and material resources, which could have been used much more
efficiently elsewhere."
Well, any normal individual understands that as
true but liberalism
is a psychosis . O'bomber even keeps the war going along the Mexican border
with projects like "fast and furious" and there is still no sign of
ending it. He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist
Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of
personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will
continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in
Russia. Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of
illusion.
Reading Putin's speech without knowing the
author, one would think it was written by Reagan or another conservative in
America. The speech promotes smaller government and less taxes. It comes as no
surprise to those who know Putin as a conservative. Vladimir Putin went on to
say:
"...we are reducing taxes on
production, investing money in the economy. We are optimizing state expenses.
The second possible mistake would
be excessive interference into the economic life of the country and the
absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
There are no grounds to suggest that by
putting the responsibility over to the state, one can achieve better results.
Unreasonable expansion of the budget
deficit, accumulation of the national debt - are as destructive as an
adventurous stock market game.
During the time of the Soviet Union the
role of the state in economy was made absolute, which eventually lead to the
total non-competitiveness of the economy. That lesson cost us very dearly. I am
sure no one would want history to repeat itself."
President Vladimir Putin could never have
imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people like Obama
much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. They read history in
America don't they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were conquered by the
Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their
Communist presidents. Obama has bailed out those businesses that voted for him
and increased the debt to over 16 trillion with an ever increasing unemployment
rate especially among blacks and other minorities. All the while promoting his
agenda.
"We must seek support in the moral
values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard
work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us
success."- Vladimir Putin
The red, white and blue still flies happily but
only in Russia. Russia still has St George defeating the Dragon with the symbol
of the cross on its' flag. The ACLU and other atheist groups in America would
never allow the US flag with such religious symbols. Lawsuits a plenty against
religious freedom and expression in the land of the free. Christianity in the
U.S. is under attack as it was during the early period of the Soviet Union when
religious symbols were against the law.
Let's give American voters the benefit of the
doubt and say it was all voter fraud and not ignorance or stupidity in electing
a man who does not even know what to do and refuses help from Russia when there
was an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead we'll say it's true that the
Communists usage of electronic voting was just a plan to manipulate the vote.
Soros and his ownership of the company that counts the US votes in Spain helped
put their puppet in power in the White House. According to the Huffington Post,
residents in all 50 states have filed petitions to secede from the Unites
States. We'll say that these Americans are hostages to the Communists in power.
How long will their government reign tyranny upon them?
Russia lost its' civil war with the Reds and
millions suffered torture and death for almost 75 years under the tyranny of
the United Soviet Socialist Republic. Russians survived with a new and
stronger faith in God and ever growing Christian Church. The question is how
long will the once "Land of the Free" remain the United Socialist
States of America? Their suffering has only begun. Bye bye Miss American
Pie! You know the song you hippies. Sing it! Don't you remember? The 1971
hit song by American song writer Don McLean:
"And, as I watched him on the stage my hands
were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in Hell could break that Satan's
spell
And, as the flames climbed high into the night to
light the sacrificial rite, I saw...
Satan laughing with delight the day the
music died
He was singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was
dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye,
singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
So, the question remains:
How long will America suffer and to what
depths?
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Betrayal of Israel by liberal Jews.
US Elections: (Please Share and send to anyone whom is Jewish and a Liberal, as they are not our Friends):
Betrayal of Israel by liberal Jews.
Op-ed: Liberal US Jews chose economic comfort, upscale social life and Obama over Jewish state.
A new American Jewish Committee poll conducted in September found that Israel came in a distant fourth among issues that registered Jewish voters listed as "most important" to them, with 61.5% listing the economy, 16.1% listing health care, 4.7% listing abortion, and 4.5% listing US-Israel relations.
Just 1.3% named Iran’s nuclear program as most important.
It is shocking that for Jews in the US the right to an abortion, which is a 40 year old federally protected right ingrained in American society, is a more important issue than the Jewish state and the real existential threat Israel is facing from Iran and Muslim extremists.
While many Jews in Israel and the US still believe in the commitment of US Jewry to Israel, liberal Jews have already chosen Obama, the Democratic Party and their American identity over their Jewish identity. They have already chosen their economic comfort, upscale social life, and liberal agenda over the Jewish state.
Now it is understandable why the Democratic Party platform deleted the “Jerusalem as capital of Israel” statement and other reassurances made to Israel from previous presidents regarding the Palestinian refugees, Hamas, and borders.
Now it is clear why President Obama did not find the time to meet Netanyahu during his visit to the US for the UN General Assembly Meeting in September despite Israeli requests to discuss the Iranian threat, but instead found the time to meet Beyoncé, Jay Z, David Letterman and the women on The View. In an attempt to patronize those few gullible Jews left who still care, the White House took a picture of Obama talking to Netanyahu on the phone.
It seems that Obama and his advisors read the same polls knowing that he will not pay any political price for mistreating Netanyahu or Jerusalem. The same AJC poll found that 65% of Jews nationwide plan to vote for US President Barack Obama versus 24% for Mitt Romney, with another 10 percent undecided. According to the AJC's national survey, Reform Jews favored Obama over Romney 68% to 23% while similarly Conservative Jews favored Obama 64% to 23%. Orthodox Jews, by contrast, favored Romney 54% to 40%.
But much worse, liberal Jews such as US Senator Boxer, US Congressmen Henry Waxman and Barney Frank, and commentators like Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, and Roger Cohen of the NY Times have been jumping on the bandwagon as Obama henchmen to orchestrate a public campaign against the Israeli prime minister. They have publicly criticized and personally attacked Netanyahu and his request that Obama set red lines regarding the Iranian nuclear program, inadvertently raising the age old anti-Semitic libel that the Jews and their leaders are war mongers trying to push US to start a war on Israel’s behalf.
Such priorities and opinions by US Jews are sad and alarming. Of course, US Jews can think and vote as they wish, but it is quite astonishing for Jews to discard the Israeli issue in favor of their own personal welfare. It is quite naïve for Jews, who are so educated and knowledgeable about their own Jewish history of persecution, to feel so complacent about their security and safety, that they can so easily discard the existential threats to Israel.
Despite the fact that it is 2012, a weak Israel or no Israel is still not good to any Jew in the US. Before Israel was established, the conditions of the Jews in the US were full of discrimination and hatred. Even if the Jews feel safe in the US, it is amazing that they cannot empathize with Netanyahu who is trying to prevent a second Holocaust against the Jewish people in Israel.
During the Holocaust, the US Jewry and its leaders and organizations were silent and did not pressure the FDR administration to enter the war earlier and rescue millions of Jews. In World War II, the Jews claimed as their excuse an ignorance of the magnitude of the genocide and lack of political influence.
However, now the liberal Jews have no excuse except their apathy and self-indulgence. They cannot claim lack of political influence when many liberal Jews are deeply involved in the Obama administration and his re-election campaign machine. Furthermore, they cannot claim ignorance of the dangers of genocide to Israel. Netanyahu has been warning incessantly that Iran is within six months of nuclear bomb capability while, the International Atomic Agency confirms the acceleration of uranium enrichment by Iran.
If Israel’s security is compromised, liberal Jews this time will not be able to avoid responsibility as accomplices to the next potential disaster facing their own people.
— with Patti DiBella.Betrayal of Israel by liberal Jews.
Op-ed: Liberal US Jews chose economic comfort, upscale social life and Obama over Jewish state.
A new American Jewish Committee poll conducted in September found that Israel came in a distant fourth among issues that registered Jewish voters listed as "most important" to them, with 61.5% listing the economy, 16.1% listing health care, 4.7% listing abortion, and 4.5% listing US-Israel relations.
Just 1.3% named Iran’s nuclear program as most important.
It is shocking that for Jews in the US the right to an abortion, which is a 40 year old federally protected right ingrained in American society, is a more important issue than the Jewish state and the real existential threat Israel is facing from Iran and Muslim extremists.
While many Jews in Israel and the US still believe in the commitment of US Jewry to Israel, liberal Jews have already chosen Obama, the Democratic Party and their American identity over their Jewish identity. They have already chosen their economic comfort, upscale social life, and liberal agenda over the Jewish state.
Now it is understandable why the Democratic Party platform deleted the “Jerusalem as capital of Israel” statement and other reassurances made to Israel from previous presidents regarding the Palestinian refugees, Hamas, and borders.
Now it is clear why President Obama did not find the time to meet Netanyahu during his visit to the US for the UN General Assembly Meeting in September despite Israeli requests to discuss the Iranian threat, but instead found the time to meet Beyoncé, Jay Z, David Letterman and the women on The View. In an attempt to patronize those few gullible Jews left who still care, the White House took a picture of Obama talking to Netanyahu on the phone.
It seems that Obama and his advisors read the same polls knowing that he will not pay any political price for mistreating Netanyahu or Jerusalem. The same AJC poll found that 65% of Jews nationwide plan to vote for US President Barack Obama versus 24% for Mitt Romney, with another 10 percent undecided. According to the AJC's national survey, Reform Jews favored Obama over Romney 68% to 23% while similarly Conservative Jews favored Obama 64% to 23%. Orthodox Jews, by contrast, favored Romney 54% to 40%.
But much worse, liberal Jews such as US Senator Boxer, US Congressmen Henry Waxman and Barney Frank, and commentators like Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, and Roger Cohen of the NY Times have been jumping on the bandwagon as Obama henchmen to orchestrate a public campaign against the Israeli prime minister. They have publicly criticized and personally attacked Netanyahu and his request that Obama set red lines regarding the Iranian nuclear program, inadvertently raising the age old anti-Semitic libel that the Jews and their leaders are war mongers trying to push US to start a war on Israel’s behalf.
Such priorities and opinions by US Jews are sad and alarming. Of course, US Jews can think and vote as they wish, but it is quite astonishing for Jews to discard the Israeli issue in favor of their own personal welfare. It is quite naïve for Jews, who are so educated and knowledgeable about their own Jewish history of persecution, to feel so complacent about their security and safety, that they can so easily discard the existential threats to Israel.
Despite the fact that it is 2012, a weak Israel or no Israel is still not good to any Jew in the US. Before Israel was established, the conditions of the Jews in the US were full of discrimination and hatred. Even if the Jews feel safe in the US, it is amazing that they cannot empathize with Netanyahu who is trying to prevent a second Holocaust against the Jewish people in Israel.
During the Holocaust, the US Jewry and its leaders and organizations were silent and did not pressure the FDR administration to enter the war earlier and rescue millions of Jews. In World War II, the Jews claimed as their excuse an ignorance of the magnitude of the genocide and lack of political influence.
However, now the liberal Jews have no excuse except their apathy and self-indulgence. They cannot claim lack of political influence when many liberal Jews are deeply involved in the Obama administration and his re-election campaign machine. Furthermore, they cannot claim ignorance of the dangers of genocide to Israel. Netanyahu has been warning incessantly that Iran is within six months of nuclear bomb capability while, the International Atomic Agency confirms the acceleration of uranium enrichment by Iran.
If Israel’s security is compromised, liberal Jews this time will not be able to avoid responsibility as accomplices to the next potential disaster facing their own people.
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