Posted on 03/21/2015 1:08:00 PM PDT by Star Traveler
On the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress the level of hysteria among American Jewish liberals has reached cascading proportions. From full-page advertisements in The New York Times to anguished columns in The Times of Israel expressions of outrage pour forth. They are furious lest an Israeli prime minister implicate them in such a heinous deed as warning against the imminent surrender of the Obama administration to Iranian nuclear ambitions.
All the usual suspects on the Jewish left chimed in. J Street released a petition with 20,000 signees protesting: “I’m a Jew. Bibi does NOT speak for me.” That self-identified “pro-Israel pro-peace” group also purchased a full-page advertisement in The New York Times warning that the Prime Minister’s speech would damage American-Israeli relations. Jewish Voice for Peace urged members of Congress to skip the speech, presumably lest they be contaminated by hearing something outside their comfort zone. Not to be outdone Tikkun declared: “No Mr. Netanyahu, we will not let you drag us into a proxy war for Israel against Iran.”
The following warning from similarly frightened American Jews resonates in memory: “Harm has been done to the morale and . . . to the sense of security of the American Jewish community through unwise and unwarranted statements and appeals which ignore the feelings and aspirations of American Jewry.” It might even include: “The State of Israel represents and speaks only on behalf of its own citizens and in no way presumes to represent or speak in the name of Jews who are citizens of any other country.” Ooops. Those were the words of American Jewish Committee president Jacob Blaustein, fifty-five years ago, in a letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. The Israeli leader had the temerity to request assistance from the American government for the fledgling state and urge American Jews to make aliya. In the old Yiddish expression: “plus ca change plus c’est la meme chose.”
Regardless of what a lot of Jews in America say or think, the ones in Israel who re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do think Iran is a major issue and needs to be "on the front burner!"
And since the article brings up J Street, here’s an article just posted about them ...
Guess who’s not speaking at the J Street Conference [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3270496/posts
Anti-Semitic Jews such as Soros, who should be in prison for the crimes he has committed.
“Shamefully, those Jews afraid of Bibi are part of the more than 80% of Jews who voted twice for Obama, in spite of his well known anti-Semite and anti-Israel jihad.”
Agree. I wonder, should Israel find itself in dire straits and put out a call to arms for all Jews, how many young American Jewish males would answer the call?
Well, I’m a Jew, and I support Bibi!
I am sure this topic will come up at the Seder in two weeks, and I will find out what friends and family have to say about that. There will be a mixed bag of opinions, as usual.
“...20,000 signees protesting: “I’m a Jew. Bibi does NOT speak for me.”...”
Those 20,000 should get over to a tattoo parlor and get a low number so they’ll be first on the train when His Arrogance, VJ and Kerry-Heinz sells them out.
Indeed. ValJar said that a lower number gives you a better spot. In fact, they will send you immediately to the showers for a cleanup after the train ride.
God knows how to deal with such worthless people:
Numbers 16: 23-35
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
25 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.” 27 So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. 28 And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. 29 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”
31 And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. 32 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 34 And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” 35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.
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For a few seconds I thought you meant once (absentee) in New York and once in Florida, in the same election. Then the lightbulb went on.
Yep! I guess that’s it! ... :-) ...
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