No!! How could that be?
yitbos
Posted on 05/29/2011 10:51:00 PM PDT by smoothsailing
By Arnold Ahlert
May 30, 2011
So, what do you do if you’re head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and a Democrat president “suggests” Israel should retreat to its pre-1967 borders, which the prime minster of Israel considers “indefensible?” If you’re Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, you demand Jewish Republicans “pledge to refrain” from making an issue of it during the 2012 election campaign.
Ms. Wasserman-Schultz pulled this little stunt during a meeting last week of representative delegates from the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The purpose of the meeting was ostensibly to shore up bipartisan support for Israel from American Jewish organizations. Yet Wasserman-Schultz decided to turn it into a “partisan bickering match” which, according to RJC executive director Matt Brooks, made Netanyahu uncomfortable enough to ask, “Do you guys want me to leave the room and give you guys some privacy?” “[The NJDC] decided to hijack these meeting in order to, in front of the prime minister, put a gag order in effect to prevent us from speaking out on Israel,” Brooks says.
The RJC was having none of it, as this letter to Wasserman-Schultz reveals.
One certainly can’t blame Wasserman-Schultz for trying. 78 percent of the Jewish vote went to Obama in the 2008 election, and the last thing this president needs going into next year’s campaign is Jewish-Americans having second thoughts about their votes — and perhaps more importantly, their substantial campaign contributions to the Democrat party. And if the black American community is any indication, Democrats have been enormously successful shutting down debate to the point where blacks themselves have effectively eliminated any free and open exchange of ideas within their own community. This now self-perpetuating totalitarianism is so prevalent, that prominent black conservatives, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, have been routinely ostracized.
No doubt Wasserman-Schultz, who regularly demonizes the Republican party in general, would like to see the same thing happen within the Jewish community. To a large extent, it already has, if nearly eight-in-ten Jews could vote for a man who sat in the church of rabid anti-Semite Rev. Jeremiah Wright for twenty years, and who maintained a friendship with terrorist Bill Ayers, an integral player in the Free Gaza Movement involved with both the flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza last year and the second one upcoming in June.
Yet one suspects this year is different, and Wasserman-Schultz knows it. Already some Democrats have expressed reservations about Obama’s “vision” regarding Israel’s borders, including see-no-evil stalwarts such as former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Koch claimed he wouldn’t vote for Obama unless his stance changes, and Reid told a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that ”no one should set premature parameters about borders, about building, or about anything else.”
Perhaps Debbie should consider shutting up some of her own before taking on Republicans.
Jews who actually care about Israel — as opposed to those who pay it lip service — have every right to be concerned with an American president whose “allegiance” to Israel is a cruel joke. This past weekend, Egypt officially opened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza. Democrats would like Jewish-Americans to ignore the fact that this development is one of the first tangible outcomes of the Obama administration’s decision to abandon Hosni Mubarak and, by extension, Israel’s treaty with Egypt. Perhaps abandoning Mubarak was unavoidable, but what “pressure” has the president since put on Egypt to maintain the treaty? He forgave a billion dollars worth of loans to Egypt — and wants to give them an additional billion dollars in aid.
Strings attached? None.
When Israel’s border was stormed on three sides by activists “celebrating” Nabka, which is a day of mourning bemoaning the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, administration Press Secretary Jay Carney called for “restraint on all sides.” To this day, the president has yet to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, even as his administration has been forced to walk back a ludicrous statement by Intel Chief James Clapper regarding its “largely secular” nature, and the fact that it has ”no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence.” It’s also had to walk back a howler by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who referred to Syria’s bloodthirsty thug leader, Bashar Assad, as a “reformer.”
Jewish Americans might also consider perhaps the Mother of All Inconvenient Truths regarding the possible nature of the so-called “Arab Spring” — itself a laughable slogan that has become an integral part of the left’s determination to shape the narrative about the recent upheavals in the Middle East, irrespective of the events on the ground. An audio message published on al-Qaeda website Al-Sahab, by Ayman al-Zawahiri, long thought of as the terrorist organization’s number two man, lauded the uprisings in the Middle East. In the message, reportedly made ”prior to the martyrdom of Sheikh Osama bin Laden,” al-Zawahiri also called for the implementation of Sharia Law in Egypt.
Those would be the very same uprisings lauded by the Obama administration and their progressive soul-mates. Only those Jews blinded by leftist ideology would fail to notice what this means: the interests of the Obama administration and those of al-Qaeda are aligned in some respects.
And Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants as few Jews as possible to be aware of any of the above. Nothing could be less surprising, except perhaps that which might occur if Debbie and the Dems sense the tide is turning against them. Democrats, whose mantra has always been, “when in doubt, demagogue,’ will not deviate from that game plan, even if demagoguery devolves into outright lying, just as it has regarding the Medicare debate.
Meanwhile, the facts on the ground are indisputable: Hamas on one side of Israel, Iran-backed Hezbollah on the other; another “peace” flotilla on its way in June, the threat of a unilaterally created Palestinian state in September, a now wide-open border from Egypt into Gaz, al-Qaeda leadership applauding the Arab Spring, and an Obama administration calling for restraint “on all sides.” If I were Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, I’d want people like me and others keeping their mouths shut too.
Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/30/dems-fret-over-being-seen-as-anti-israel/
If the shoe fits....
SEEN? HA! Seen in this case is ARE through both action and speech. No SEEN about it.
Mazel tov. How’s she going to keep Evangelical Christians and other Republican supporters of Israel from making an issue of it?
Best DNC Chair ever.
‘Rats do not fret enough over it to stop being anti-Isreal, do they?
HAHAHAHAAAA they spend their lives extolling islam, sharia, and hating on Israel. And then ask us to pledge not to make it a campaign issue.
I almost feel bad for them,, they really don’t know the world has changed. I think this next year is REALLY gonna be fun.
Democrats don’t fret about being seen as anti-American, so why should they care about Israel?
Liberals will always choose the Marxists, our enemies, and the terrorists before anything else.
When Mr. Obama was running for election in 2008, he could not have been more positive in his remarks about Israel. In his May 19 speech at the State Department, he could not have been more pro-Palestinian when he demanded that Israel go back to the 1967 borders. This would destroy Israel to help the terrorist-backed Palestinian bid for statehood.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on what Israel would do for a lasting peace with the so-called Palestinian people, he was very uplifting and positive about the United States and its commitment to Israel.
However, he said Israel could not sit down and negotiate a peace settlement with the so-called Palestinians as long as they sided with Hamas (another name for al-Qaida). He also said Israel would be the first to recognize a Palestinian state when and if they were admitted to the United Nations. Netanyahu explained that the problem was not Israel recognizing a Palestinian state, but the Muslim world recognizing Israel. Hamas and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad want every Jew removed from the planet. The concept of Israel wanting peace and the other side wanting the destruction of Israel is something beyond our president’s comprehension.
During his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Mr. Obama suggested that Israel would just have to enforce security on its borders — an unbelievable statement for him to make when he cannot enforce the security of America’s borders.
Prime Minister Netanyahu understands our dangerous world. Mr. Obama does not.
The sad part of it is the fact that the RINOs will comply with that demand.
President Obama revealed his poker hand far too early - we know what he thinks, we know who he favors and we know his agenda. It is very anti-Israel. That Jews in America cannot see it is truly amazing and shows how blind a people can CHOOSE to be. President Obama should have taken the Clinton route regarding Israel: Be nice, be polite, speak with feigned sincerity, draw the Israelis in and then, WHAM! Sucker punch them with a ridiculous agreement like the Oslo Accords (1993) - Clinton had them believing that they were heading towards conflict resolution and (as the Arabs say, “BEACE”). Well, we all know how well that Clinton/Burger/Cohen/Albright/Christopher/Ross agreement worked out for the Israelis...lots of dead and maimed Jews. Then again, the Israeli LEFT WANTED to believe they were entering a new era of peace until it literally exploded in their faces. Wake up Jews, smell the coffee, it’s brewing and you are part of the camp fire, wake up - do not vote Obama or the DemocRATs again...
They want a democracy NOT A REPUBLIC... else they wouldnt BE DEMOCRATS..
The Democrats are not really anti-Israel. Oh, no. They are actually anti-God of Israel.
As soon as we come to realize that, the rest is cake.
Well, they are anti-Israel, and are inviting God’s wrath on all of us. They are shaking their fists in the Face of almighty God. This nation better repent of betraying Israel; of murdering babies; of sodomy. We’re in trouble, and we obviously don’t know God’s perfect timing for all things — including a reckoning for this nation. We all need to speak up and stand for God’s Word.
No!! How could that be?
yitbos
Sarah Palin sure ain’t going to let America forget, whether or not she is a candidate.
It is what it is.
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