'But he hates Jews'

Washington Times ^ | 4/27/04 | Marcus J. Goldman

[kattracks]

What do President Bush, deceased Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and his short-lived successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, have in common? According to a Jewish acquaintance, they all hate Jews. Despite charter membership in the endangered species club, in their frenetic zeal to hate Mr. Bush, some Jews are acting to undermine the one man with the courage to destroy our would-be annihilators. The president is ravaged for his perceived views on social issues. Incomprehensibly, some even defend those who have sworn to kill us all. Many Jewish liberals are drawn together by a singular hatred for the president

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

Jimmy Carter, on Israel and the Jews

1979: "I have never met an Arab leader that in private professed a desire for an independent Palestinian state. Publicly, they all espouse an independent Palestinian state -- almost all of them -- because that is what they committed themselves to do at Rabat (the 1974 Arab League summit conference)."
--President Jimmy Carter
a 1979 press conference

Early 1980: …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Jimmy Carter, March 1980

Late 1980: Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election

2003: …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003

[Alouette]

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[mtntop3]

Liberal Jews, like all liberals, are indeed oftentimes self-hating while at the same time full of egotism and obsessed with the I, me, and my. Perhaps the latter, resulting in low self-esteem, precedes the former. This affliction is common to all liberalism, with related and ironic maladies such as acute naivite and estrangement from reality. All unfortunate, because the Old Testament is one of the two most instructive and poetic and Holy texts ever written. To ignore it is to make us angry at ourselves. Maybe this is the "tap root" of liberalism.

[Bismarck]

It's amazing that somebody is capable of accusing Dubya of being a "jew-hater". You have to be very delusional and mentally retarded to say that... in other words, you have to be a Liberal.

[roses of sharon]

Liberals of every religion, in order to believe in liberalism, have to make rationalizations, that are totally illogical and completely devoid of actual facts.

[Revenge of Sith]

Carter did lose a lot of Jewish votes in both the Democratic primaries and the general election in 1980 because he supported a UN resolution criticizing Israeli settlements that year. However, I don't think he made any anti-Semitic statements.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Where did you get those quotes, not that I don't believe he would say such things.

You should send them to every Jewish organization in the world.

[SJackson]

They're old, but with a search you'll find them in a variety of places. I noted a thread below. They're no secret, it wasn't an accident that Carter got less than half the Jewish vote in 1980.

The Jewish Love Affair With the Democrats

[Tabi Katz]

By "extreme intolerant sociologues" do you mean anybody who is in favor of defending the right to life and traditional marriage? What, pray tell, does this have to do with the false claims of Jew-hating directed against Mr. Bush?

[Lurking Libertarian]

I still have trouble believing that FDR got 90% of the Jewish vote in 1940, at a time when people were coming from Europe and knew what Hitler was doing.

The Republican Party in 1940 was opposed to Roosevelt's attempts to aid the Allies, and was opposed to admitting Jewish refugees from Europe into the US. So it's not surprising that 90% of Jews voted Democratic then. What's surprising is that so many still do now.

[happygrl]

The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill

[EveningStar]

A related thread from last year.

[Cinnamon Girl]

ATTENTION MR. GOLDMAN: Your so called friend is a secular/cultural Jew who knows nothing about Judaism. Our Biblical history of being commanded by G-d to wage war against evil people must be embarrassing to this person. But it is the source of our understanding that G-d WANTS us to fight evil, and denying that evil exists IS evil.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Roosevelt turned boats of Jews away from America who sought to escape the nazis. Also, Roosevelt knew about the death camps and could have bombed the railroads leading to them, but didn't. The adoration for FDR remains a mystery to me.

[dfwgator]

Jewish liberals would have been the Kapos in the ghettoes during World War II.

[Zack Nguyen]

I will say that all my liberal friends are dedicated church goers, but are horrified by the extreme intolerant social ideologues of the right. If the ideologues of the right would become more "big tent" and inclusive, the Republicans would rule for decades.

I hesitate to even guess who the "extreme intolerant social ideologues of the right" are, and what they have done to "horrify" your friends so. The name itself - "extreme intolerant social ideologues of the right" - is one designed to demonize the very people who have been the backbone of Republican electoral dominance for the last ten years.

Perhaps if the "big tent" Republicans would become more inclusive of conservatives, the Republican Party would do better.

[EveningStar]

...Roosevelt knew about the death camps...

He did???

[Cinnamon Girl]

YES. How could you possibly think he didn't? There's books and documentaries on the subject.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Read "Abandonment of the Jews" which says FDR's lack of action regarding the Holocaust was not due to ignorance of it (a silly idea) but a belief that it wasn't politically necessary.