WHY DO PROGRESSIVES HATE ISRAEL?

There is a palpable contempt, the anti-Semitism of our day, bigotry dressed up as compassion. They talk about Palestinians, and identify with their cause, and you can almost hear them cheering the suicide vests.

Whether from the college classroom or the black pulpit or the progressive stump speech, there is a strident anti-Israeli theme to the prattlings of the American left. And protests to the contrary notwithstanding, it is inseparable from a contempt for the people and religion of Israel.

To my ear, in all honesty, it is not about disagreeing with a nation, it is about hating a people.

And the progressive movement, which condemns and ostracizes any comment potentially offensive to any number of its favored minorities, spews out a condemning invective against Israel that is patently racist.

It is a hateful double standard that seems to harken back to the Spanish Inquisition and the Final Solution. The nation of the Jews, a biblical bastion promised by God and established by international agreement, is vilified for struggling to survive.

I am a Zionist. I am not Jewish, but my Christian faith teaches me that the Bible calls the Jews the chosen people, and makes certain promises to them, including an eventual gathering in their ancestral homeland.

I believe the gathering of Jews to the Holy Land in the late 1800s, and particularly the establishment of the nation of Israel after World War II, were fulfillments of biblical prophecy and the will of God.

Beyond my faith, my understanding of history and my experiences in life teach me that, generally, Jews are exceptional people who have made disproportionate contributions to American society. Their typical culture of hard work, strong families and belief in education have repeatedly led them from generation to generation, even in the face of discrimination, to be among America’s most successful and useful citizens.

Finally, the history of the nation of Israel, and its relationship with its neighbors and the rest of the world, is an impressive one. I was raised with the opinion that Golda Meir was a great stateswoman, that Moshe Dayan was a hero who fought for his people, and that Menachem Begin was a warrior who made peace with his Egyptian neighbors. In Israel, people can vote, women can drive, there is freedom of speech and religion and the press, and they are our allies.

For decades, as the Middle East has condemned America and the monster of jihad has arisen from the gutter, Israel has stood by America and America has stood by Israel. Yes, there was the attack on the USS Liberty, and the espionage of Jonathon Pollard, but our nations have been brothers and they have stood together.

I do not like the current American effort to estrange itself from Israel. The Obama Administration has made the progressive antagonism against Israel a matter of national policy. At one time, Democrat politicians tried to curry favor with Jewish voters in New York City, now the party apparently feels its prospects are better served by attacking Israeli interests and policies. I disagree with this, and find my views – and traditional American views – better represented by Benjamin Netanyahu than by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry or Bernie Sanders.

I believe that progressivism is an evil doctrine that spreads confusion and bondage, and that it lashes out against anything that threatens it – anything that teaches light and truth as traditionally and eternally understood. I believe that the globalist objectives of progressivism demand a collectivism and a subjection of the individual that are incompatible with the individual liberties known in both America and Israel. That is why progressivism is at war with America and Israel.

The war against traditional American values is wrapped up in a series of bigotries against peoples and beliefs, but the war against Israeli values is primarily focused in anti-Semitism.

And the anti-Israeli policies of American progressives are nothing any more sophisticated than garden-variety anti-Semitism. People may pretend otherwise, but they cannot do so honestly or convincingly.

Why do Leftist or Progressives hate Israel? Because the Israelis have beaten every attempt by the Muslims to destroy Israel and drive the Jews into the sea. They regard Israel as an enemy of their Muslim buddies and they are both united in destroying the one democratic country in the Middle east — Israel (aka “Little Satan”) and they want to destroy the bulwark of the Free World, the United States (aka “Big Satan”). The Left includes self-hating Jews who would see Israel AND America destroyed. They haven't figured out that if these Muslim primitives get their way, they are Infidels and the Muslims will then turn on the Leftists and self-hating Jews. Stupid is as stupid does.

If the Muslims disarm and stop attacking Israel, there will be peace in the Middle East. If Israel disarms there will be no Israel.

23 posted on 04/26/2016 10:59:06 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")

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