Posted on 03/01/2016 3:07:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Senator Ted Cruz secured the support not only of evangelical Christians but also of Jewish leaders ahead of Super Tuesday, the electoral event in various states across America that could make or break the fortunes of the five remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.
Last week, Dr. Ben Chouake, national president of NORPAC, America's largest pro-Israel political action committee, endorsed Cruz for president, Charisma News reported.
More Jewish leaders endorsed Cruz over the weekend, raising his number of influential Jewish political supporters to more than three dozen, according to the senator's campaign.
"Since the day we announced our campaign, we have been honoured to see tremendous support from the Jewish community." Cruz said.
He again emphasised his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, which he said began long before he became a senator and a presidential candidate. "It began with the experience my father had as a refugee fleeing oppression in Cuba to come to this country," he said.
Cruz vowed that as president, "I will stand unapologetically with Israel, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons" and "move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem" among other executive actions.
Rabbi Zev Reichman, spiritual leader of the East Hill Synagogue in Englewood, New Jersey, and director at Yeshiva University, expressed his unequivocal support for the Texas senator. "Ted Cruz has impressed me with his deep respect for people of faith, his dedication to protecting the U.S. homeland, and his unflinching support for America's greatest ally in the Middle East, the nation of Israel," he said.
Reichman said Cruz offers the best hope for survival not only of the Jewish nation but of the West as well. "America and the West face an existential threat to our way of life from radical Islamic terrorists. Cruz has been a leader in identifying this threat and boldly taking action to protect American lives," he said. "Ted has demonstrated foresight, understanding and good judgment. Most importantly, he has demonstrated time and again that he is a leader with integrity, strength and courage. He has introduced legislation to prevent terrorists from coming to the U.S. and to choke off their funding. Most significantly, when the Iran deal was coming to Congress for a vote, he led the efforts to stop this catastrophic deal."
He recalled that on Oct. 6, 1943, hundreds of rabbis marched in Washington, pleading with elected officials to step in and address the dangers to Jews in Europe. However, President Roosevelt refused to meet with them. As a result, millions of Jewish lives were lost during the Holocaust.
Reichman said today the Jews face an even greater threat from what Hitler did in World War II. "The Iranian regime threatens to do in six minutes what Hitler did in six years. They openly declare their hope to wipe Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear deal has awarded this hideous regime billions of dollars, international legitimacy and hundreds of billions of dollars of future economic growth," he said.
On Sept. 9, 2015, hundreds of rabbis once again returned to Washington to plead with elected officials to step in and reject the Iranian nuclear deal. But just like what Roosevelt did in 1943, their voices were ignored.
"Ted Cruz stood with us and led at that moment," Reichman said. "President Cruz will tear up the Iran deal on his first day in office. The stakes for America, the West and Israel have rarely been higher. I hope and pray that the Almighty will help Ted Cruz become the next president of the United States and leader of the free world."
Attribution is kind of hard in a tag line.
And I did not wish to take credit for a clever statement that is not mine.
If your question is do I stand by the statement, particulalty as a slam against Hillary? Yes.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Not surprised
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Funny, this purports to be a conservative site, Ted Cruz appears to be a conservative to me, yet a substantial number of posters are not pleased to see support for Cruz
Just because he was labeled as charismatic doesn't mean he was labeled as a populist.
Why Jews believe the media is a great mystery since the media was not their friend in Germany and is not their friend around the world now.
I certainly hope you don't believe that Obama claimed to be a populist, was portrayed by the media as a populist, or is actually governing as a populist.
There is nothing popularist about him. He is an ideologue who has an agenda based in his community work experience.
Obama is and has always been a communist. He has no genuine religious beliefs. As I've been pointing out on this site for years that 'church' he attended for 20+ years was/is part of a communist-concocted church movement known as "Liberation Theology". Black communist James Cone later created the "Black Liberation" version of it that Jeremiah Wright spewed from the pulpit. Commies only use religion as a means of advancing their political agenda. They fancy themselves "intellectuals" and scoff at religion, at least among themselves.
Yeah right. The leftist ones don’t care about Israel, and wouldn’t back Cruz, they would back Hillary or Bernie.
While I don’t dispute what you say, it is undeniable that Obama has gone above and beyond on the call to Islamic causes too.
He was raised to be a follower of Islam, and has adopted the Islamic thought that the U. S. has too much power and influence on this world. He is doing he best to rectify that.
I’m not convinced he is working to turn the U. S. Communistic. I am convinced he wants to turn it Islamic.
I think he works all sides to attain his goals, even using old dolts like McConnell and Bonner and now Ryan when he can sucker them in.
The Iroquois tagline was regarding Israel’s right to lay claim to it’s own land without people telling them it actually belongs to others (nobody tells NYers that they need to give their land back to the Iroquois). No one mentioned welfare until you did. Not sure what you didn’t get there....
Cruz keeps on garnering the support of a very diverse group of citizens
1. This has been posted many many times already.
2. By the way, the Jews suck.
3. People who support the Jews also suck.
4. It doesn’t matter who it is; it someone says anything against “The Don,” then they also suck. Facts do not matter.
5. People who support others are liars.
THERE! Have I missed anything? I am sure I have. Can’t believe so many drink the trumpAID.
I'm not one of those "Trump is a Nazi" people, but he is providing cover for anti-Israel, anti-Jewish forces on the Right, and a lot of American conservatives are very naive.
Many American conservatives used to say that if America turns against Israel she will be punished. I wonder if the Trump candidacy is changing them into European Jobbik types.
This is often the case. Though since "populist" and "democratic" mean basically the same thing, one wonders why so many Jewish leftists repeat the word like a sacred mantra.
And despite all of the genuflecting that Evangelicals do, Jews are justifiably very suspicious of them as well. So no love for Cruz.
This may come as a surprise to you, but most evangelicals don't support Israel to win points from Jews but because they believe doing so is the will of G-d. Most evangelicals live in areas of the country where the only Jews they know about are Moses, Phineas, Caleb, and Joshua. They are far more attuned to the ancient Biblical Jewish polity than Jewish liberals are.
This is why people like Cruz (and me too) are pro-Israel in the first place. It's kinda strange to see Jews wanting religious people support Israel for non-religious reasons.
Some of us will never support Israel as a mere secular refuge state.
No surprise to me. Though some televangelists and evangelical talking heads express this great love for Israel that is sometimes for good reasons (e.g. respecting the folks that believe in the religion from which Christianity sprang) and sometimes for bad reasons (e.g. hoping for Armageddon and the End Times).
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