Posted on 08/06/2006 6:23:12 PM PDT by goldstategop
Great poem.
Did you write the poem, Mr. Ramsbotham? I cannot find references to it elsewhere.
If you are raised by a Jewish mother, you grow up guilty.
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Excellent article!
Mark Steyn lays it on the line, as always.
Dennis Prager has written on this. See Jewish World Review. But there is more to it. Jews attend the "Best Universities"; That's the story right there. I was fortunate enough to have William Kristol as a professor for 2 seminars as a senior at Penn. Still, all History, Poli Sci. and Econ. majors, even Wharton, were trained to graduate as communists, and only a few of us have filtered it out since.
If I may be so bold to answer your question from my perspective, Jews see politics as separate from friendship. Their politics are based not on who is their friend, but on what they believe in. The are liberal primarily because they believe in freedom over state control as the state is the one who leads the way in pogroms of Jewish mass extinction.
Thats my guess, from living with them for years...
What few Jews realize is that the Religious Right are as misrepresented by the media as the Jews. The real Christian has always been the friend of the Jews. It took the internet to break the bonds of the main stream medias lies about both the Jews and Christianity.
Thanks; I wrote that many years ago, after reading Josephus's "The Jewish War" for the first time. It's part of a longer piece I called "The Prophet's Lament." Somehow it just seems appropriate in the present circumstances.
If it is the letter I am thinking of it is posted on his website.
Hi,
Your poem reminded me of an old neighbor of mine.
She was an Imigrant from Russia. Tashkent.
She was once lamenting that in Russia she was not Russian, but a 'Jew'. And then, after coming to Brooklyn, NY she again felt outside of the affluent jewish community: She said here I'm not a 'Jew', but a 'Russian'.
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It's a very strange feeling to read 19th century novels and travelogues and recognize the old psychoses currently reemerging in even more preposterous forms.
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Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though ALL the people of the EARTH be gathered together AGAINST IT.
So, isn't that contraintuitive, since Evangelical Christians are the most enthusiatic supporters of Israel?
It's more likely that they depise the religious right because it so strongly embraces what is, essentially, the ultimate Jewish heresy: Christianity. It is the religious bigotry of such Jews, not their fear, that fuels their hatred. The religious right is the Christian group that is most sympathetic in its views regarding Jews in a religous sense to be found in America today.
To the extent that fundamentalist Christians and Jews are at odds, it is because they clash on important social political views: on matters such as abortion, gay rights, capital punishment, second amendment rights, and church and state separation. But again, most of these matters are really political at their core and trace more to the differences between the urban and provincial social backgrounds of the contending groups than they do to religious factors.
Historically, American Jews felt alienated from the Republican Party not because that is where the Christian fundamentalists were found (it was not). Rather, it was because country club establishment Republicans, the party of the Rockefellers and Fords, were infected with a strong strain of anti-semitism and worked hard to exclude Jews, especially successful Jews, socially and professionally.
This question was given to Mark Levin on his radio program. My apologies to the Great One if I do not state his answer as well as he, but basically Mark said that they are Liberals first, and Jews second. In other words, they worship at the altar of Liberalism, not Judaism.
To that I might add an observation given to me by one of my college Sociology professors (a good professor, as I recall): Judaism is not merely a religion. It is both a religion and an ethnicity. There are Jews (ethnic) who are, per se, not Jewish (religious). They may not have stepped into a Synagogue in 40 years. Can they be portrayed by the media as "Jews"? Of course. But they are not religious. These Jews probably feel much more at home with Liberalism than with their "co-religionists."
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