Posted on 05/14/2018 11:08:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats' acknowledgement of the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem Monday was virtually non-existent. The Times of Israel reported that no Democratic members of Congress attended the ceremony.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, told them he was “surprised” that “no sitting legislators from his former party were in Jerusalem for the embassy dedication.”
“I hope that the Democratic members had [scheduling] conflicts and they had to be somewhere else,” he said. “I hope that they don’t see this as some kind of pro-Trump rally in Jerusalem. It’s not. Its a pro-US-Israel friendship-partnership-alliance rally. And it’s celebrating the strength of our relationship, which has been always bipartisan.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that “every member of Congress had the option before them to come and be here. There was no way on earth we could have inaugurated this embassy without my being here to celebrate it. It’s too important.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), though not in attendance, did have some rare words of praise for President Trump Monday over the move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
“In a long overdue move, we have moved our embassy to Jerusalem,” Schumer said in a statement. “Every nation should have the right to choose its capital. I sponsored legislation to do this two decades ago, and I applaud President Trump for doing it.”
According to some other Israeli news outlets, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) was in attendance at the ceremony. However, a reporter with the Associated Press says Deutch did not attend.
This post will be updated if Rep. Deutch’s attendance is confirmed.
It will be interesting to see future polls regarding this issue.
We can only hope this will open some eyes, minds and hearts.
Good. As expected.
Being Jewish doesn’t guarantee good judgment...obviously.
I am just glad we Catholics voted Trump last year or I would have had to hear it for the next 4 years lol.
I feel for Jewish conservatives.
I think Rudy won the Jewish vote in New York City twice. So it’s not impossible.
“One Israeli news outlet has reported that Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch (Fla.) was part of the American delegation attending the dedication ceremony.”
He didn’t find it noteworthy enough to tweet about:
https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
He’s allegedly a big supporter of Israel, why not say something about it TODAY?
https://teddeutch.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=13411
Perhaps security? Will keep an open mind for now.
And thank God American Jews don’t go 95% to 5% like the blacks or we would lose Florida and maybe another state. At least the 75 25 or 70-30 split Keeps Us in the game
In Israel? I doubt many did, if any. They support President Trump, unlike the Jews here.
Chuckie.........where ya at ?
Ah. Up for re-election this year.
And a Rat.
FO, Ted.
HOPEFULLY the republicans will use this during hte primaries to pound the democrats with constantly- make hte world see what horrible creeps the democrats really are!””
And yet, the Jewish populace here in the US will continue to vote at least 70% demrat while supporting Israel at the same time. So, the republicans can do as they wish, but they will never get a majority support from Jews, Africans, hispaniels, or Muslims.
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The D’s openly jeered at America (and Jewish people) at their convention. Chances are if they’d attended America’s new embassy opening in Jerusalem, Israel - they probably would have jeered and waved Muslim terrorist murder gang banners. Best that the Nazi basturds stayed away.
Schemer?? Oops. Autocorrect.
Puke. For the FIRST (and hopefully last time) in history, I agree with Chuck Schumer. Never thought I'd say that.
>> And the Democrats will still get 75% of the Jewish vote <<
And a bunch of FReepers will still argue that the Jewish vote is "in play" for the GOP, but the Catholic vote (a majority of whom voted for Trump, BTW) is "totally owned by the Democratic Party". Pesky facts like that won't get in the way of their delusional narrative.
Not doing themselves all that much good with NY and other Jews.
They probably were, just not where there were TV cameras this time.
Every Republican candidate should use this as a campaign ad. Especially in NYC.
My fear is the typical American Jew aligns with ideology first and Israel’s statehood second. Funny thing about this is all my liberal Jewish friends on Faceplant...err Facebook haven’t said one word.
like anybody wanted them there in the first place
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman is senile.
The US “Democrat” party is run by baby killing communist criminals that want to destroy Israel unless the individual jewish or gentile member gets paid off to support Israel.
As for the rest of the goys, too busy paying interest on loans to care.
Who runs Facebook?
Maybe your friends are scared.
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