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Will U.S. Jews Stand With Israel - Or Obama?
The Jewish Press ^ | 6/3/'09 | Jonathan Braun

Posted on 06/03/2009 1:43:42 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

American Jews overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama, the Candidate of Change, despite credible warnings and ample evidence that he would obsessively seek to create a Palestinian state at Israel's expense and "engage" nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran.

After four months of Change, Obama's support in the Jewish community seems rock solid. Besides, many Jews say, Obama's appointment of two Jews to key White House positions - Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff and David Axelrod as presidential senior adviser - proves Obama is OK for Israel. So what if the meeting with Netanyahu didn't go as well as first advertised? Bibi's a right-winger, anyway. Under Obama, there was a kosher Passover Seder in the White House. Progress! Hope! Change!

Hmm. The head-spinning, stomach-turning developments make this lifelong Jewish supporter of Israel think Hitler made two big blunders in his quest for world domination. He attacked the Soviet Union - and he did not invite American Jewish leaders to a catered kosher lunch in Berlin before the war.

Seriously. Had Hitler been able to hide his fanatical hatred of Jews for only a few hours, he might have been able to mobilize liberal American Jewish opinion in favor of a policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany - perhaps, even, a formal pledge of non-interference in Germany's internal affairs.

Admittedly, a free kosher lunch might not have been enough to win over the so-called Jewish leaders. The Nazi madman probably would have had to appoint a Jewish adviser (on Jewish affairs, say) to accomplish his aim.

A high-level Jewish adviser - yes! That would have worked wonders for the Fuhrer. The Jewish leaders would have returned home to reassure their concerned fellow Jews and the American media that Hitler had no intention of starting a war, regardless of Germany's ominous rearmament and military buildup; that he was instead interested in forging a closer relationship between Germany and the United States, one that could possibly even lead to an alliance of some sort to preserve peace in Europe.

As for "the Jewish Problem," the American Jewish bigwigs would have said that while some Jews were indeed suffering in Germany, there really was room for progress - quietly, of course, behind the scenes. Quiet, patient, principled diplomacy - that's the ticket!

And so it would have gone. Dialogue and diplomacy are the answers, the Jewish leaders would have said; no sanctions, no big, public protests - they would only make matters worse for Germany's Jews and needlessly antagonize the Nazis. No talk of armed intervention or future conflict, heaven forbid.

The impact of their meeting with Herr Hitler and call for engagement and dialogue would have been instant (or what passed for instant in the time before television and the Internet). Overnight, the brave minority warning of a rising, imperialist threat across the ocean would have been marginalized -maybe forever. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there could have been a crucial decision by the U.S. government to avoid or delay declaring war on Germany as well as Japan, perhaps accompanied by a presidential speech reminding the public of Germany's great contributions to Western civilization and culture and to the shaping of American society.

Though the anti-Semitic rabble - the foot soldiers in armbands and jackboots and white sheets - would have been appalled by Hitler's meeting with Jewish leaders, the Fuhrer's more sophisticated American supporters and sympathizers would have understood his diabolically clever move. Influential isolationists and fascists - the Pat Buchanans of that era - would have laughed all the way to the next America First or German American Bund (or Silver Shirts, or Black Legion, or Ku Klux Klan) rally.

The Roger Cohen of that day - there is always a Roger Cohen whenever and wherever Jewish communities are threatened with annihilation and persecution - would surely have written a series of articles for The New York Times about Jewish conditions in Germany being not so bad after all, despite the beatings and racial laws, the persecution and the humiliation, the incessant anti-Semitic propaganda. (In fact, the liberal Jewish columnist Walter Lippmann wrote approvingly of Hitler in the late 1920s, advising his readers that the Nazi leader would "moderate" his views upon achieving power.)

Obama is no Hitler. Obviously. God help us if that were the case. But Obama's policies and actions are giving new Hitlers - the leaders of Islamist Iran - time to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles capable of destroying Israel and bringing America to its knees.

In other words, Obama's appeasement of Iran and betrayal of Israel is effectively helping to prepare the ground for a new Holocaust and a new world war.

And American Jews and Jewish organizations - seemingly slavishly bound to a Democratic Party with a left wing that now views the establishment of Israel as a mistake - are going along for the ride. American Jewish voters overwhelmingly chose Obama over John McCain, a proven friend of Israel, and they don't seem at all ready to jump ship. They are not even close to the exit ramp.

What will it take for American Jews to stand up and be counted? Would a call by Obama for a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem open their eyes? Probably not. In contrast with bible-believing Christians and observant Jews, liberal Jews are fashionably forsaking Israel's capital. Strong support for Israel is so yesterday ... so ... Bush/Cheney.

The time is fast approaching for American Jewry to decide between loyalty to a political party that bears no resemblance to that which their parents and grandparents adored for generations and their professed love of Israel whose security, along with the security of the United States, is being undermined by everything Obama is presently doing, has done, and plans to do.

With whom do you stand, American Jews - America and Israel or Obama and the Democratic Party?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: jewishvote; kapos; liberaldems; nostalgia; yellowdogs
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To: Zionist Conspirator

What I said earlier is not the exact quote, but it has the same meaning.

Revelation 3:9 King James Bible

“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”


121 posted on 06/03/2009 5:05:11 PM PDT by I Hate Obama (Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.)
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To: Will88

The U.S. Congress , so long as it is Democrat controlled will never turn on obama, neither will the media.


122 posted on 06/03/2009 5:06:25 PM PDT by sport
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To: I Hate Obama
Um . . . so? What do I care what the "new testament" has to say?

If you want to debate this, then let's move to the religion forum.

123 posted on 06/03/2009 5:20:28 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vesamu 'et-shemi `al-Benei Yisra'el, va'Ani avarekhem.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

there’s hope :)


124 posted on 06/03/2009 5:20:56 PM PDT by beefree
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To: arbooz
Historically, when it comes to the organized crime, the Jews were second to none in violence and the general audacity. When it comes to the mob's "effectiveness" (i.e. profitability), the Jews to this day are in the league of their own. But that's not what it's about. You are making a point - as I understand it - about the Jews' inherent resilience. It's possible there always be Jews - it's no different for any ethnic group, but I happen to believe the Jews are their own worst enemy. Their current support for zero to the detriment of Israel and Jewish interests worldwide is their typical behavior.

You Mencken-worshiping palaeocons are a piece of work. Do you also believe Protestant Fundamentalists are "gaping primates who believe degraded nonsense?"

I'll be you were a big fan of Mr. Mencken's magazine in the mid Sixties.

125 posted on 06/03/2009 5:22:53 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vesamu 'et-shemi `al-Benei Yisra'el, va'Ani avarekhem.)
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To: arbooz

Bud’ zdorov.


126 posted on 06/03/2009 5:37:26 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: GOPGuide

From the cars with obama bumper stickers driven by whites, obama signs in white people’s yards vs the obama bumper stickers on cars driven by blacks and obama signs in black people’s yards I believe more whites voted for obama than blacks did.


127 posted on 06/03/2009 5:47:05 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

In absolute numbers, yes, but I was thinking of percentages.


128 posted on 06/03/2009 5:55:14 PM PDT by GOPGuide
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To: arbooz

How are the dogs’ ears?


130 posted on 06/03/2009 5:59:02 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: arbooz
Historically, when it comes to the organized crime, the Jews were second to none in violence and the general audacity. When it comes to the mob's "effectiveness" (i.e. profitability), the Jews to this day are in the league of their own. But that's not what it's about. You are making a point - as I understand it - about the Jews' inherent resilience. It's possible there always be Jews

Possible, I suppose, but if you kill them all, there will be no Jews, and we'll make a great dent in organized crime.

132 posted on 06/03/2009 6:10:13 PM PDT by SJackson (in the fight against terrorism, no middle ground, half-measures leave you half-exposed, D. Cheney)
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To: arbooz

Soooooo . . . you think I don’t know that most American Jews voted for Obama because . . . ?


133 posted on 06/03/2009 6:11:24 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vesamu 'et-shemi `al-Benei Yisra'el, va'Ani avarekhem.)
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To: arbooz

Give the little tornado a kiss for me, because if I have a belief in the afterlife, it is that I wish to go where the dogs go.


136 posted on 06/03/2009 6:22:20 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: sport
The U.S. Congress , so long as it is Democrat controlled will never turn on obama, neither will the media.

They'll turn on him if his actions start hurting them and their political careers. In a heartbeat. They already have cut off funds for closing Gitmo, and the Senate passed a resolution 76 - something cautioning Obama to not risk the safety of Israel.

Once more people focus on the incredible string of trillion dollar+ deficits he's budgeting, that might cause many in Congress to start opposing him. The economy can cause Dems in Congress to start jumping ship. This loyalty among politicians is very conditional upon how things are going for each individual involved, at any given time.

137 posted on 06/03/2009 6:23:27 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Sender; arbooz
Give the little tornado a kiss for me, because if I have a belief in the afterlife, it is that I wish to go where the dogs go.

Why are there "freethinkers" on a conservative forum? Don't you have The Truth Seeker or whatever it calls itself now?

138 posted on 06/03/2009 6:23:52 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vesamu 'et-shemi `al-Benei Yisra'el, va'Ani avarekhem.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Just once I'd like to hear a US politician sound like Hal Lindsay or John Hagee when explaining why s/he supports Israel.

I'd bet many politicians do have religious reasons for supporting Israel, but those aren't the reasons they will discuss the most. Though some from conservative states will mention Judeo-Christian values and the common religious roots shared by Jews and Christian. And the most sacred sites of each faith are in Israel and surrounding areas.

139 posted on 06/03/2009 6:28:29 PM PDT by Will88
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