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Susan Estrich questions Cindy Sheehan's anti-Semitism (On Hannity radio today)
Creators Sysdicate ^ | August 24, 2005 | Susan Estrich

Posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:16 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah

Did an ABC staffer insert the following lines in an email sent by celebrity antiwar mother Cindy Sheehan?

''Am I emotional? Yes, my firstborn was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel." That is what Sheehan is claiming.

If you don't believe that explanation -- if you don't believe an ABC staffer set about to put anti-Semitic words into Cindy Sheehan's mouth -- then your hero, my liberal friends, is a raging, ignorant anti-Semite. Sorry, but what are you doing hanging with that crowd?

I am as sympathetic to Cindy Sheehan's loss as the next mother. When I heard of her plight, while on vacation with my own children, my heart ached. Why not simply meet with her, I thought -- and wrote, like the other liberal columnists -- instead of going on a bike ride to nowhere?

I am the last person to "swift boat" a mother who lost her son in this war. I don't blame anyone, man or woman, for being "emotional." I have certainly seen the charge used to belittle women many too many times, myself included, with less justification than in this case.

But I will not stand silent and see anti-Semitism masked as opposition to Israel and Israel blamed for George Bush's mistakes, if that's what they are. She did say this, apparently:

"What they're saying, too, is like, it's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. ... It's OK for Israel to occupy Palestine ... for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. They're a bunch of (expletive) hypocrites."

Anyone who cannot tell the difference, in any terms, between Israel on the one hand and Syria and Iran on the other is not someone who, as my grandmother would put it, is "good for the Jews" -- or for the country, I'd like to add.

I have been speaking to Jewish groups around the nation for the last year, and this is what I have been warning them. It will come to this: Israel will be blamed, which means Jews will be blamed.

There are some who resist these equations. They pretend they can blame Israel, the only Jewish state in the world, a state created out of the dust of 6 million Jews murdered, and say it has nothing to do with Jews. I do not believe this. I am not from the powerless generation of the Holocaust, the ones who watched the newsreels of the children on the S.S. St. Louis being turned away, because American Jews couldn't get their cousins in -- but the next one.

Go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and on your second visit, spend time in my favorite room, the one with the newspapers that make clear what everyone knew. My generation does politics, but we are not so powerful as to control George Bush. Hardly. More power rests in the gas tank.

It is ludicrous to suggest that Casey died for Israel, but it is worse to lionize Cindy Sheehan without confronting the anti-Semitism that seems to be accepted not even beneath the surface. If her allies really believe ABC was out to frame her, where is the investigation? Where is the staffer who could include such language? And what of the equation of Israel with Syria and Iran, a statement too foolish to debate? Why isn't anyone concerned about that?

Or, rather, why is it only the right?

There are lots of people in the middle right now, watching bad news streaming out of Iraq, watching Marine National Guardsmen who weren't supposed to be serving, much less dying, coming home in boxes. There seems to be no end in sight. Two of the first Republicans to urge the president to meet with Cindy Sheehan were both likely 2008 presidential contenders, Chuck Hagel and George Allen.

Symbols matter. For better or for worse, they help to define movements.

If the "antiwar movement" in America is defined, even remotely, as an anti-Israel movement, it will fail. That is certain to me.

If I believed in conspiracy theories, I'd think that the right would like nothing better than to have Cindy Sheehan lead it for just that reason.

They might be laughing all the way to the bank about the embrace of her by the so-called liberal media.

To tell the truth, it's just what I'm afraid of.

To find out more about Susan Estrich, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antiwar; cindysheehan; susanestrich
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To: Ooh-Ah

Susan "the Ostrich" Estrogen vs. "Hurricane" Cindy Sheehan

Steel Cage Death Match

No Weapons - Just Talk

Moderated by: Eleanor Clift

Saturday, Sept. 2, 2005

Madison Square Garden

Tickets $$6.50 advance, $5.00 at door.

Pay-per-View $0.50


21 posted on 08/30/2005 12:51:31 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Jessie Jackson called NYC HYMIETOWN (1984) and Ali AL'Sharpton called for the MURDER of Jews TWICE (early 1990s) at rallies in NYC.
Jew Hatred is a long standing staple in the Democrat Party
22 posted on 08/30/2005 12:52:20 PM PDT by msnimje
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To: Rodney King
or

You decide

Me, I personally believe that Susan Estrus is proof positive that Carol Channing and the Tazmanian Devil had a Love Child!

"TAZ hates REPUBLICANS!"

23 posted on 08/30/2005 12:52:23 PM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: Ooh-Ah

Bump.


24 posted on 08/30/2005 12:52:46 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Casey was proud to be a soldier." Patrick Sheehan, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan's father)
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To: Ooh-Ah

I hate it when I have to agree with a liberal.


25 posted on 08/30/2005 12:53:04 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: Rodney King
Ohh noooo

It's that alien from Star Trek!

26 posted on 08/30/2005 12:53:04 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Ooh-Ah

27 posted on 08/30/2005 12:55:42 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: johnny7
Estrich understands what is happening on the Left. She sees the creeping anti-Semitism that is taking over the Left wing of the Democratic Party and the rise of instititutions like CAIR. She also understands the rise of the Arab vote and the Jew-baiting that goes with it.

What she also sees is the rise of Zionism within the Republican Party. This will lead to a concomitant movement of young Jews to the Republicans.

The entire "war for Israel" canard is a creation of the anti-Semitic Left, and the Democrats are too craven and too intellectually cowardly to stand up to it.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

28 posted on 08/30/2005 12:56:06 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: Ooh-Ah
It would be nice to see Susan Estrich get as upset over the rest of Cindy's anti-American diatribe as she does over her anti-Jewish rhetoric. But I guess Susan's one of those Jews who are only offended when the offending behavior is directed at Jews, non-Jewish Americans are not important to her.

Pity. She has more in common with the Islamists than she knows.

29 posted on 08/30/2005 12:56:40 PM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Yes. The Republicans at ABC insert crazy statements into our emails to discredit us. This is obviously true because when you read what we actually say, we are clearly rational sensitive people. Can we help it if the BushChimpNazi Halliburton axis of evil minions control internet packets and put crazy stuff in them. I know they do this because, just the other day, I heard Zorg speak over the radio in the fillings in my teeth and he told me that . . . Hey, there they go again. That was Karl Rove this time. He even controls Free Republic. . . WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END??????


30 posted on 08/30/2005 12:57:51 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Ooh-Ah

Good, at least one liberal Democrat gets it.

Susan needs to be told of the following Cindy Sheehan pronouncement:

"Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel."


31 posted on 08/30/2005 12:58:08 PM PDT by Darnright ( Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Susan Estrich is a lier and a leftist demagogue.

And this article is full of lies.


32 posted on 08/30/2005 1:02:31 PM PDT by mjtobias (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Estrich is a she-hag, and usually makes ridiculous arguments to justify her ridiculous positions. But she is not stupid, and can see the damage Sheehan will do to the left if she becomes its face.


33 posted on 08/30/2005 1:03:13 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: section9
"he entire "war for Israel" canard is a creation of the anti-Semitic Left, and the Democrats are too craven and too intellectually cowardly lacking to stand up to it."


There. I fixed it for you!

34 posted on 08/30/2005 1:04:01 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: XJarhead
Estrich is a she-hag,Even so, she used to have fairly decent counter point. But(butt monkey), ever since she went nuts on Fox a while ago with Hannity, she has been going over the top.

Henny Youngman - "Everyone has a right to be ugly. She abuses the privledge!"

35 posted on 08/30/2005 1:08:36 PM PDT by llevrok (No bozos on this bus.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I just showed my husband your post and Coke almost came out his nose!


36 posted on 08/30/2005 1:09:41 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: Ooh-Ah

Someone must have told her that nobody can understand her when she talks.

She is talking much differently today.


37 posted on 08/30/2005 1:11:36 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Einstein)
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To: Ooh-Ah

OMG... I just agreed with Susan Estrich.

The sky *must* be falling.


38 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:35 PM PDT by Terabitten (God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)
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To: Ooh-Ah; All
That's it. I'm never reading another Susan Estrich thread again! I can not handle the graphics.

As a matter of fact I can't handle her voice either!

39 posted on 08/30/2005 1:14:13 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: All

I can't believe it! Estrich just dissed Dean! LOL H*ll has just frozen over.


40 posted on 08/30/2005 1:15:36 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Free Republic.........On the cutting edge of news!)
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