Obama is the Golden Calf for American Jews.
Posted on 07/07/2009 11:29:50 AM PDT by dalight
The Obama administration’s decision to pick a quarrel with the Jewish state over settlements, Jerusalem, and how to deal with a nuclear Iran, are all light years away from the down-the-line support for Israel that candidate Obama and his Jewish surrogates articulated throughout the campaign. This leaves those Democrats who spent 2008 vouching for Barack Obama’s bona fides as a supporter of Israel, with, as they used to say on “I Love Lucy,” a lot of ’splainin’ to do.
And none of them have as much to answer for as Harvard Law’s Alan Dershowitz who used his status as a celebrity author and personality to good effect on Obama’s behalf. It should be stipulated that while Dershowitz is, and always has been, a proud and loud liberal and though his sympathies have always similarly been with the Left of the Israeli political spectrum, there can be no questioning his long and honorable record of backing Israel. Few have been as articulate in making a principled stand on behalf of its right to self-defense against terrorism. Indeed, last year he argued that George W. Bush had earned the right to be considered a great friend of Israel (something most liberals would never admit to). But he nevertheless considered an Obama victory as a victory for Zionism, specifically because having a popular liberal president who cared about the Jewish state would be an improvement over a situation in which its greatest American champion was a deeply unpopular conservative Republican.
All of this makes Obama’s flipping on Israel issues during the last six months an acute embarrassment for Dershowitz, who tries to argue his way out of a corner in an unpersuasive op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal.
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For starters, Dershowitz is a dumbarse apologist...
Obama is the Golden Calf for American Jews.
Nah, anyone with an ounce of sense could see that Obama was nothing more than a complete liar when it comes to Israel,how the jewish lobby bought all that crap is beyond me. Something tells me though come 2010 or 2012, they aint going to voting for zero in that many numbers as they did before.
I’ve always felt that if Dershowitz hadn’t become a lawyer, he would have become an arch criminal! Lex Luthor type!
Don’t overestimate my co-religionists. :(
“...If you gave Alan Dershowitz a dose of Viagra, his posture would improve, he’d get a ruddy complexion, and he’d grow a few inches taller. It’s doubtful his head could swell any more.”
—Jonah Goldberg
Don’t believe it....the Jews in America would vote for HITLER if he had a “D” behind his name.
The list starts with liberal first, democrat, second, Jewish? Probably not in the top five, depends on the holiday. And Israel?? Turn the page...
the same Alan Dershowitz who wrote in an op-ed piece on 9/12/2001 that the use of torture by US intelligence agencies would be FULLY APPROPRIATE AND JUSTIFIED???
That Alan Dershowitz?
You're absolutely right. I will never understand the self-loathing of liberal American Jews (or any other Americans) who are so consumed with white guilt & hatred of Amerika, that they vote consistently for the demoRAT socialist party that wants to destroy Israel & the U.S., and ultimately wants to kill them too.
Is there a difference?
Half of my family is Jewish, and they are YELLOW-DOG DEMOCRATS and will vote for ANTI-SEMITES before they would vote for a CHRISTIAN.....they are so afraid that a Christian will try to convert them!!! Idiots.
I’m no big fan of lawyers, but, “Is there a difference?” Between a law professor and a Lex Luthor type? I’d say, Yes!
Alan Dershowitz if so far to the left that he probably believes that Joseph Stalin was a Republican. He and his ilk in the Jewish community, from Streisand to Spielberg helped deliver this country into the disaster we now see.
I submit they knew exactly what they were doing, as I see the laudatory words they have for those who declare their enmity for the United States, Castro, Chavez and every other pip-squeak dictator around the world.
Such idiots believe that when the roof falls in, they will be “passed over” in the next holocaust. I don’t think so.
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