Posted on 07/23/2006 6:25:41 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Senator John Kerry quickly issued a statement Friday blasting Rush Limbaugh for asserting during his Friday broadcats that "liberals have hated Israel for the longest time and want to destroy it." Here it is:
"Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance and willingness to divide Americans knows no bounds. His latest statement about Israel is beyond offensive to all of us who have fought to protect Israel in the face of enemies committed to its destruction.
"Rush Limbaugh needs to pick up a history book instead of a donut. It was a Democratic president who first recognized the State of Israel. It was a Democratic President who first sold Israel defensive weapons. And it was a Democratic President who first sold Israel offensive weapons.
"The people of Israel and the Jewish community don’t need Rush Limbaugh to tell them who stands with them, and no one has time for right wing trying to score cheap political points while Israel fights to defend its very existence."
Peas in a pod... Bill O'Reilly had this to say about liberal Jews and Israel. It sounded familiar -- and then it hit me: Rush!
Copyright 2006 © The Forward
Well said.
Leftists believe the destruction of Israel will bring peace to the middle-east and we will all be singing Kubayaa with muslims then.
I even had to listen some idiot big mouth liberal I work with suggest with a straight face last week that Israel just give up its land and all move to Baja Mexico because it would be the best thing to create world stabilitity.
When the search function becomes perfect then you can harp about it. I appreciated the post and said so, I can't imagine it needs to be discussed further.
What's a John Kerry?
"Gee, I wonder what Rush is going to talk about tomorrow?"
this:
snipped from link below:
Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War are hard to come by, due mainly to conflicting accounts given by Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles.
What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those who witnessed or were involved with the unfolding events, is that Nixon – overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia – implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms. During a 32-day period beginning October 14, jumbo U.S. military aircraft touched down in Israel 567 times, delivering some 22,300 tons of material. This enabled Israel to reverse its earlier setbacks, surround the Egyptians in the Sinai, and advance deep into Syrian territory.
This was accomplished, as Walter J. Boyne noted in an article in the December 1998 issue of Air Force Magazine, while "Washington was in the throes of not only post-Vietnam moralizing on Capitol Hill but also the agony of Watergate, both of which impaired the leadership of Richard M. Nixon. Four days into the war, Washington was blindsided again by another political disaster – the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew."
According to those with firsthand knowledge, it was Nixon's stubborn insistence that propelled the massive arms transfer, code-named Operation Nickel Grass.
"Both Kissinger and Nixon wanted to do [the airlift]," said former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters, "but Nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. He said, 'You get the stuff to Israel. Now. Now.'"
Boyne, in his book The Two O`Clock War, describes a high-level White House meeting on October 9:
As preoccupied as he was with Watergate, Nixon came straight to the point, announcing that Israel must not lose the war. He ordered that the deliveries of supplies, including aircraft, be sped up and that Israel be told that it could freely expend all of its consumables – ammunition, spare parts, fuel, and so forth – in the certain knowledge that these would be completely replenished by the United States without any delay.
Alexander Haig, who at the time was White House chief of staff, writes in his memoir Inner Circles:
As soon as the scope and pattern of Israeli battle losses emerged, Nixon ordered that all destroyed equipment be made up out of U.S. stockpiles, using the very best weapons America possessed....Whatever it takes, he told Kissinger...save Israel.
Leonard Garment recalled:
It was Nixon who did it. I was there. As [bureaucratic bickering between the State and Defense departments] was going back and forth, Nixon said, This is insane....He just ordered Kissinger, Get your [behind] out of here and tell those people to move. "
When Schlesinger initially wanted to send just three transports to Israel because he feared anything more would alarm the Arabs and the Soviets, Nixon snapped: "We are going to get blamed just as much for three as for 300...Get them in the air, now."
Haig recalls that Nixon, frustrated with the initial delays in implementing the airlift and aware that the Soviets had begun airlifting supplies to Egypt and Syria, summoned Kissinger and Schlesinger to the Oval Office on October 12 and "banished all excuses." The president asked Kissinger for a precise accounting of Israel`s military needs, and Kissinger proceeded to read aloud from an itemized list.
"Double it," Nixon ordered. "Now get the hell out of here and get the job done."
Later, informed of yet another delay – this one because of disagreements in the Pentagon over the type of planes to be used for the airlift – an incensed Nixon shouted at Kissinger, "[Expletive] it, use every one we have. Tell them to send everything that can fly."
Nixon acted despite threats of reprisal by Arab oil producers – indeed, the day after Nixon asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $2.2 billion for Israel, Saudi Arabia's King Faisal announced an embargo of oil to the U.S. – not to mention Europe's overwhelming opposition to aiding Israel.
"European allies," writes historian Melvin Small in The Presidency of Richard Nixon, "fearful of the Arab oil threat, would not permit the United States to use [America`s] own bases on the continent to refuel any cargo planes flying from the United States to Israel. At the same time, NATO allies Turkey and Greece permitted the Russians to overfly their countries on their way to the Middle East. Under pressure from the Arabs, Exxon even instructed [its subsidiary] Esso of Germany to stop delivering oil to American bases. Washington finally strong-armed NATO ally Portugal into permitting U.S. planes to refuel in the Azores on the way to the Middle East."
"Miracle of the Planes"
There are those, like the historian David Greenberg, author of Nixon`s Shadow: The History of an Image, who argue that Nixon's actions during the Yom Kippur War – specifically the airlift and the placing of U.S. forces on worldwide alert when the Soviets threatened to intervene on behalf of their Arab clients – were inspired, not out of real concern for Israel, but in Greenberg`s words, "from a real politik-based gambit to thwart Soviet allies."
Whatever his motives, the fact remains that Nixon, as J.J. Goldberg, editor of the Left-leaning Forward, acknowledges in his book Jewish Power, "create[d] the now familiar U.S.-Israel alliance."
"It was Nixon," wrote Goldberg, "who made Israel the largest single recipient of U.S. foreign aid; Nixon who initiated the policy of virtually limitless U.S. weapons sales to Israel. The notion of Israel as a strategic asset to the United States, not just a moral commitment, was Nixon`s innovation."
Addressing the question of Nixon's anti-Semitism, the late Israeli president Chaim Herzog wrote:
[D]id his personal attitudes have any effect on his dealing with Israel and with Jews? None. He supplied arms and unflinching support when our very existence would have been in danger without them. Let his comments be set against his actions. And I`ll choose actions over words any day of the week.
Veteran radio host Barry Farber put it this way:
Give me a Nixon who curses Jew boys over in Treasury but resupplies Israel...over a Franklin D. Roosevelt who professes great love for the Jews but lets all those Jewish refugees aboard the S.S. St. Louis be returned to the death camps of Europe rather than land in the U.S. even though they were close enough to see the lights of Miami Beach.
Golda Meir, who until the end of her life referred to Nixon as "my president," told a group of Jewish leaders in Washington shortly after the war: "For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to our people."
Wrote Nixon biographer Stephen E. Ambrose: "Those were momentous events in world history. Had Nixon not acted so decisively, who can say what would have happened? The Arabs probably would have recovered at least some of the territory they had lost in 1967, perhaps all of it. They might have even destroyed Israel. But whatever the might-have-beens, there is no doubt that Nixon...made it possible for Israel to win, at some risk to his own reputation and at great risk to the American economy.
"He knew that his enemies...would never give him credit for saving Israel. He did it anyway."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19025
Then why did you feel the need to post this? :)
John Kerry's grandparents were Austrian Jews- Ida and Fritz Kohn.They converted to Catholicism when they were both in their thirties, just prior to asking Austria for permission to immigrate to America.
Somewhere along the line, they changed their name from Kohn to Kerry.
Kerry apparently thought his grandmother Ida's thick Austrian accent was an Irish brogue
and he claimed ignorance of his Jewish ( and non Irish ) roots until the Boston Globe hired a genealogist to investigate his background in 2003.
Kerry never, ever, ever acknowledged his Jewish ancestors before that time-
and instead he tried to pass as Irish.
Rush Limbaugh has never waivered in his support and love of Israel- Kerry tried to bury his Jewish background.
Yes. Also:
- not all doughnut lovers are fat
- Rush hasn't been overweight in 10 years
- if he were overweight, it is irrelevant
- fat people vote, and voters don't like it when you insult their weight...
That's a brave person to mix with the slime in those videos!
Even an ex-presidential LOSER is coming after Rush.
Stay safe, Rush.
If Kerry was a former Israeli soldier, he would have already thrown his medals over the Wailing Wall.
Yeah Mr. Kerry, but that was before you socialist, cowardly rats infiltrated and stole the Democratic party from respectable men. Carter and Clinton were certainly no supporters of Israel, and that is why Israel finds itself in the bind it's in today. Those two socialist nitwits brokered a "peace" that was one-sided and phoney from the start. All Democrats have done regarding Israeli-islamic relations is weaken Israel and strengthen islam. KERRY, you are a pinko liar. As a fellow Vietnam veteran who served over there the same year you did, (except I STAYED my entire year), I know you to be a cheating, lying, self-absorbed fraud. Oh, did I forget to mention botox-injecting gigolo?
sounds like s'kerry thinks all dems are libs...;)
there are so many pics of clinton and arafat, but I particularly like the one with the whole dem family (bill, hill and the kid)... I don't know how to post the pic, but it can be viewed here:
http://tinyurl.com/pqsdp
LOL! HA! HA! Touche' :D
Kerry should cinch up his hip waders, he stepped in it and it's deep.
TT
He can't win, ever hear anyone try to debate Rush? Kerry couldn't debate his drunken wife, he's P-ssy Whipped! LOL
OOPS, are you the typo police? Geez, lighten up!
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