Posted on 09/07/2006 12:30:31 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
Jewish Community Challenged to Examine Changing Party
The Republican Jewish Coalition today released the latest advertisement in its national advertising campaign targeted to the Jewish community.
The ad depicts former President Jimmy Carter, along with quotes from his recent interview with Der Spiegel magazine [August 15, 2006]: "I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon." And, "I represent the vast majority of Democrats."
The ad also highlights a recent Wall Street Jounal/NBC poll in which 84% of Republicans said they sympathize more with Israel than with the Arab states while just 43% of Democrats do so. [WSJ/NBC poll, 7/2006]
The RJC ad challenges Jewish Democrats, saying: "What was once the radical left - with its antipathy toward Israel, its indifference to anti-Semitism and its desire to appease terrorists instead of fighting them - is now gaining control of the Democratic Party. It's time you ask yourself: Does the Democratic Party still represent you?"
RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said, "We are seeing an increasing radicalization in the Democratic Party, with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments finding expression in mainstream Democratic forums, much more so than in the past. jewish Democrats can no longer dismiss people like Jimmy Carter, Al Sharpton and Cindy Sheehan when they say outrageous things. It's time for the Jewish community to take a good hard look at the Democratic Party and decide if it's really the party for them."
About the Republican Jewish Coalition
The Republican Jewish Coalition is a grassroots oraganization based in Washington, DC, with 43 chapters and over 20,000 members, whose mission is to foster and enhance ties between the Amrerican Jewish community and Republican decision makers.
Website: http://www.rjchq.org
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It is way past time somebody brought this issue into the open. The media sure won't. The Defeatocratic Left largely hates Jews. Sorry, but that is the truth.
When are American Jews going to awake?
No doubt these folks should hook-up and support the GOP. Can you imagine 4-8 years of a RAT lib as president?? It could end in the demise of Israel, and its' citizens could again be without a homeland.
'bout time !!!!
Wishing the RJC all success.
Hope it doesn't happen again in my lifetime or yours.
BTW, the RJC is not exactly new - it's been around now for over 20 years and growing at a good clip.
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yes, thanks .. I went to their site. I am old enough to remember Max Fisher! RJC is growing with good cause! Sorry but I just cannot understand Jews of faith who stick with the Dems. Makes NO sense to me. That is one tradition they could do without ;)
Excerpt:
While international bodies are looking into the use of cluster bombs by Israel during the Lebanon war, an effort in the US Senate to curb the use of these munitions was defeated Wednesday by a 70 to 30 vote.
The initiative to prohibit the use and sale of cluster bombs by the US was put forward by Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy from Vermont.
Do you know the vote by party on that cluster bomb vote?
The thing is, in the rest of the world the radical Left has always been opposed to Israel's existence. But for some reason the political spectrum in the United States (and to an extent Western Europe and Israel itself) didn't reflect that. In the Western world the pro-Israel position was the liberal position (and unfortunately, conservatives weren't always friendly), even though the same liberal position supported anti-Semitic, anti-Israel radicals in the rest of the world.
It was bizarre. Liberal Dems supported every comrade of the PLO but opposed the PLO itself while many conservatives did the opposite. And now people are saying "the Left has turned against the Jews?" Not at all . . . the Western Left is merely catching up with the Left everywhere else.
As for Max Fisher, he died only within the past two years (if I recall correctly) so saying that you are old enough to remember him doesn't make you "old." Incidentally, I saw a photo of him with former president Ford taken shortly before Max's death.
There is at least one biography of Max Fisher out in libraries and perhaps bookstores. He did have an extraordinary life.
Believe it or not, I know some Jews that are so far liberal, that they are more Pro-Palestinian than Pro-Israel. Needless to say, they also suffer from Deranged Bush Syndrome.
As far as I could see all Pubbies voted Nay.
Here are the Yea's
YEAs ---30
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00232#position
just as surely as blacks today are the Democrats' 'base,' so too have been Jews for most of my life. That was understandable until maybe 20-30 years ago, but now it makes no sense whatsoever.
Still, come November 8, I will be interested in seeing what the voting patterns of American Jews were in this mid-term election.
Tip O'Neil used to joke that in his neighborhood, one was born Democrat, then baptised Catholic. I think there's been a similar birth-right Democrat condition in the Jewish community. Hopefully, both groups have or are in the process of transitioning.
Not hard to find such Jews. They occupy the attention of the MSM on a regular basis. Noam Chomsky would be a prime example, but there are many others.
Wouldn't necessarily call them "liberal" but more appropriately, radical left.
Jews? Hell, I can't understand anyone of any faith {except maybe mooselimbs} who stick with the demonRATS.
If that cluster bomb vote in the Senate was a proxy for condemning Israel's actions in Lebanon, we can add six Dem senators to the list of Jews who are more pro-terrorist than pro-Israel: Boxer, Feingold, Feinstein, Kohl, Levin, and Wyden.
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