Posted on 04/10/2015 4:05:37 PM PDT by SJackson
I am a gay Jewish American.
My mother was the youngest of nine siblings, most of whom were married and had children when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. My mother spent four years confined in a ghetto and then was transported to two different slave labor camps. A month before the second camp was liquidated, she suffered an industrial accident and her right arm was severed at the elbow. Despite this, when the camp was liquidated, she survived a six-day death march before she was liberated. My father was one of five siblings and was confined to the same ghetto as my mother was. After four years there, he was transported to seven different concentration camps, including such notorious ones as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Each of my parents was the sole survivor of their families. The result of that is that my maternal grandparents, 20 aunts and uncles and 21 first cousins were killed in the Holocaust
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I have been a liberal Democrat my entire life and have worked tirelessly on issues opposing social injustice. What greater issue of social injustice exists than that of genocide? The United States has a history of condemning genocide long after it happens but often doing little to prevent genocide from occurring. Just ask the Jews of Europe in the 1940’s, the people of Cambodia in the 1970’s or the Hutus of Rwanda in the 1990’s.
And equally troubling, what assurances am I able to provide now to my 98-year-old mother who lived through the nightmare of the Holocaust and doesn’t understand why the world hears the promise of the mullahs to create a second Holocaust and yet isn’t doing everything possible to stop Iran from developing weapons of mass destruction?
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I'm not sure why it's important to know he's gay, maybe given the media image of Republicans as bigots it reinforces what might be a change of heart. I hope he's able to see through the coming Clinton/Democrat whitewash coming for the Jewish community. Clinton was a part of the Obama Israel policy. One of the first actions of the Obama administration was to renig on assurances GWB had given Israel regarding borders and settlement construction. Elections have consequences after all, and a King doesn't honor the promises of his predecessor, he is the state after all. The change of heart delivered by SOS Clinton.
gay jewish american? The first to be stoned by “moderate” islamists
Why should I listen to the opinion of someone who identifies themselves by way of their deviant sexual fixation? Insanity.
Homosexuals like this author are proud of their deviancy. He’s declaring himself to be a member of a victim group which is supposed to add weight to his opinion (and probably does in leftist groups).
I’ll give him credit for being right on Iran....in the end the threat of Islamo-Fascism trumps everything else.
My response to the author of this article is “boo-hoo”. He votes Democrat. That’s what he gets to tell his mom. Yes, I understand as a Dem he has to blame someone else. tough. If he wants to blame Obama then he must also blame the people who put Obama in power.
This author needs to apologize to his gma,,loudly and often.
American Jews were Obama’s biggest supporters. How ironic he’s sold out Israel.
Israel is going to have to deal with the Iran threat on their own. They seem to Jane v selected a guy who is up to the job.
Sounds like the author is a naive Jew who thinks the Jews and Muslims can live side by side in peace. - Tom
As a straight Jewish American......
Seems to be one of obammy’s dreams too.
Moosie half breed that he is.
kep voting for liberal idiots...how’s that working out for you??? Our allies don’t trust us and our enemies don’t fear us...
I like it too!
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