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For Some Jews, Israel and Iraq Cloud View on Lieberman
The New York Times ^ | 7/27/06 | Jennifer Medine

Posted on 07/27/2006 7:52:25 PM PDT by LdSentinal

HARTFORD, July 26 — Lesley Korzennik walked into a diner in Norwalk recently hoping to vent her frustrations with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman — over his continued support for the war, among a litany of other things. “I’m furious at him,” she said.

But when she was asked about how she would vote in the Democratic primary next month, Ms. Korzennik, 46, who says she strongly supports Israel, sighed. “Given all that’s going on in Israel right now,” she said, “I am not going to let Lieberman go.”

Ms. Korzennik expresses the mixed sentiments a significant number of Jewish Democrats feel about Mr. Lieberman, who is facing the toughest race in his three-term Senate career, just six years after he was Al Gore’s running mate.

There is little question that Mr. Lieberman enjoys strong support in the national Jewish community, and several pro-Israel groups and prominent Jewish donors are rallying to funnel money and manpower to defend his seat. Many of the senator’s Jewish allies also assert that concern about his political fate, as well as about Israel, is likely to increase Jewish turnout for Mr. Lieberman in the primary.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: antisemetism; connecticutt; hamas; hezbollah; israel; jews; lamont; lebanon; primary
“There’s a small but vocal pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel and perhaps anti-Semitic faction of the Democratic Party,’’ said Dan Gerstein, a former Lieberman aide and informal adviser to the campaign. “It is a small minority but it is getting bolder, and even worse. There is a growing tolerance of it in the progressive community.”

Small?

1 posted on 07/27/2006 7:52:26 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

Right, it's not small at all, and it is the entirity of the so-called "Progressive community".


2 posted on 07/27/2006 7:58:17 PM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)
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To: muawiyah

Not only that, but it's been prominently visible for 35 years that I know of.


3 posted on 07/27/2006 8:02:51 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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To: LdSentinal

So Ms. Korzennik supports Israel fighting Islamists in Lebanon and elsewhere, but furiously comdemns America for doing the same. Unfortunately, an all-too-common sentiment.


4 posted on 07/27/2006 8:03:24 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: LdSentinal

Hmmmmm -- Given that the DemocRAT party was built on the idea of avoiding the civil war and essentially became the party of the KKK and other bigots after the war was over... the idea that today some DemocRats don't like Jews doesn't surprise me a bit.

Just ask Senator Bird. Didn't he use be a grand dragon of the KKK?


5 posted on 07/27/2006 8:05:31 PM PDT by jerod
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To: LdSentinal

WANKER ALERT!


7 posted on 07/27/2006 8:09:46 PM PDT by dodger
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To: LdSentinal

It's so very peculiar that the two groups that would be the first to be beheaded/stoned if the Muslims were to get their way [(i)Jews, and (ii) the atheist, feminist, promiscuous lefties] are ones that have so many members who are against our war in Iraq and against the Islamosfascists.


8 posted on 07/27/2006 8:11:49 PM PDT by expatpat
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Not small at all. Just read the DailyKos and its bilge. Sounds like a meeting of Hilter youth when Israel is brought in the forum.

It is still so amazing that after all the money the world has poured into the MiddleEast and specifically to the Palestinians, who contrary to common ignorence receive more foreign aid than Israel, that the left can still blame the US and Israel for the problems in the MiddleEast. The only real problem the West has caused in the MiddleEast is making it difficult for rich Arabs like Osama Bin Ladin to spend all their money.


9 posted on 07/27/2006 8:13:43 PM PDT by Ma3lst0rm
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To: Mr. Mojo

It is curious Mr. Mojo, but it is still a major disconnect. We are fighting the same kind of people who happily cooperated with the Nazis in WWII to exterminate Jews. Yet people like this ditz don't support us, but then turn around and support Mr. Lieberman because he supports Israel.


10 posted on 07/27/2006 8:15:46 PM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: LdSentinal

Ms. Korzennik expresses the mixed sentiments regarding the Jewish community and Lieberman. Yep they are mixed up alright. I guess the majority in the Jewish community do not understand the war on terrorism unless Israel is directly involed. The terrorist have the Jews at the top of the hit list and the infidals are next on the list. I just cannot understand the Jewish mindset. George Bush is probably their best friend and they do not have a clue.


11 posted on 07/27/2006 8:20:10 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Sam Cree

Yeah, but DU and Daily Kos types make sure it's held firmly in the public square, harder to ignore.


12 posted on 07/27/2006 8:25:31 PM PDT by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
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To: Parley Baer; Enterprise
I guess the majority in the Jewish community do not understand the war on terrorism unless Israel is directly involed.

I think it's all partisan politics with that [Leftist/Jewish] crowd. If Clinton or another Democrat were currently in the WH and fighting the WOT in exactly the same manner President Bush is they'd be enthusiastically supporting the effort. But unfortunately GOP/Bush-hatred blinds them beyond any ability to reason.

13 posted on 07/27/2006 8:57:35 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

My opinion is that your statement is exactly right.


14 posted on 07/27/2006 9:04:52 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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To: jwalburg

I don't think the anti semitism of the Left has ever really been hidden, but it's surely very visible now. It must be reaching a critical mass or something, which is a little scary.

One often hears older Jews intoning that what happened in Germany could happen here as well. The irony is that if the Jewish community ever gets the leftist society that it so cherishes, the odds of "it happening here" increase by a major factor.


15 posted on 07/27/2006 9:08:12 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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To: Sam Cree
I don't think the anti semitism of the Left has ever really been hidden, but it's surely very visible now.

This fact is causing a lot of cognitive dissonance among liberal Jews these days, a number of friends of mine included. (I was one of the few [politically] conservative Jews growing up in my 'hood). Hitler = the political Right = The GOP is the equation that's virtually set in stone in their brains, and deprogramming is next to impossible.

The irony is that if the Jewish community ever gets the leftist society that it so cherishes, the odds of "it happening here" increase by a major factor.

Spot on. ....especially the gun control/banning fantasy. I usually just steer 'em here and hope for the best.

16 posted on 07/27/2006 9:29:04 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: LdSentinal

"Some Democrats worry that centrist Jewish Democrats will become alienated from the Democratic Party if Mr. Lieberman loses the primary."

Most definitely. It will last 12 whole weeks until November and then the American Jews will vote, overwhelmingly, for the Democrats.

WWMD? (What Would Moses Do?)


17 posted on 07/27/2006 9:37:40 PM PDT by no dems (www.4condi.com)
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18 posted on 07/28/2006 7:18:24 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I used to belong to the JPFO, maybe I'll get back in.


19 posted on 07/28/2006 12:03:27 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
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