Posted on 12/02/2014 11:33:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was the most exciting entrée that president Mort Klein dished up at his Nov. 23 Zionist Organization of America dinner at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt.
The ballroom rocked with chants of “Run Ted Run! Run Ted Run!” Will these hordes of supporters pass the pushke to help fill Cruz’s coffers? Cheerleading burnishes the ego, but barrels of shekels churn out the votes.
That’s why Cruz was cruising Jewish right wing at the ZOA affair. The tea party darling was one of 1,000 guests, including such major machers as real estate mogul/media honcho Mortimer Zuckerman, deep-pocketed Michael Steinhardt, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson (reportedly the largest donor to GOP causes in 2012), megaphilanthropist Ira Leon Rennert, as well as “Kosher Sex” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus.
Alan Dershowitz, who said he’s here as “a liberal Democrat and Zionist,” lauded his former Harvard law student: “Senator Cruz was one of my most brilliant students, an intellectual powerhouse. Even though we don’t agree on many issues, we agree on Israel.”
Cruz’s rejoinder: “Alan Dershowitz was an incredible teacher who fiercely defends his principles, even when he’s wrong.”
Dershowitz recalled “a great moment in modern American history” when Cruz rebuked a Christian advocacy group, In Defense of Christians (IDC), in September at a hotel in Washington. As the keynote speaker, Cruz attempted to support Israel when some Arab Christians heckled and booed and compelled him to cut his comments. “If you hate Israel, you hate America,” Cruz shot back. He added, "If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, I will not stand with you," and exited the ballroom in a huff.
Playing to the more welcoming ZOA crowd in New York, Cruz stated, “Jerusalem is the holy and eternal capital of Israel!” Cheers erupted from the audience. In fact, almost every statement elicited roars of approval.
An animated Cruz continued: “There is no equivalence between Jews being murdered and Palestinians being killed as a result of Israeli action in dealing with terrorism.”
The biggest threat to Israel and the United States, he insisted, is Iran’s rush to nuclear capability. “We are repeating the mistakes we made with North Korea, recruiting the same official from that debacle, Wendy Sherman, to negotiate another bad deal. If they ever acquire nuclear weapons — these zealots who glorify death and suicide — they will use those weapons over Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. They have a plan to annihilate the nation of Israel. This is lunacy.
“Under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. Iran will either stop or we will stop them.”
Pastor John Hagee, head of Christians United for Israel, with two million members, and pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio with 20,000 members, had a message for President Obama: “Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital for 3,000 years. Telling Israel what it can and cannot do in Jerusalem is above your pay grade.”
And he had a message for Secretary of State John Kerry: “Your efforts to win the Nobel Prize at Israel’s expense have failed. It’s now time to cut off all aid to the Palestinians. A culture that celebrates the murder of three Israeli students — and four rabbis in a synagogue — is not worthy of statehood. That must not go unanswered.”
Cruz/the Nuge 2016. Do the Teddy!
This man I’d vote for.
Cruz will also be a headliner at some big gathering of Millenials. He’s thinking beyond CPAC; this guy has a strategy to break apart from the pack in the primaries, AND it will carry over into the general.
Is it me or are the lefties using the term Zionist/ism quite a bit these days? Growing up the only people I would hear use that term were Muslims and Neo-Nazi types, and we know how those two groups feel about Jewish people and Israel in general.?
That’s today:
Ted Cruz, Ashley Judd and Others to Address Millenial Summit (Tomorrow, Tuesday December 2nd)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3232707/posts
Please Lord let it be Ted Cruz.
Has he yet shown a commitment to decrease by at least 80% the size of the $4,000,000,000,000 federal government (equals $800 billion) which is only a fraction of the 1000% increase over the last 40 years? (Since 1970, the size of the federal government has increased 1000% ($350 billion to $4 trillion)).
if some of the other possible R nominee-candidates wish to win, they’d best start campaigning and speaking up like Cruz is doing!
YES, YES and YES. We all need to be praying that the Lord will Bless us with Ted Cruz.
Dinner? Who did the catering?
Roar of laughter.
Anxious for the reports of this summit.
BUMP
Oh Yeah!!!!!!
Onto 2016!
That’s my guy!
Senator Cruz, the right man for the right time.
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