The open hostility of the liberal Left towards Israel, thanks in large part to the anti-Israel bias of the media and their support of radical Arabs that we see in full force today, did begin in 1979, but not as a result of Carter or the Iranian Revolution.
It began with the creation of the newspaper, Sharq Al Awsat, in 1979, by Saudi Arabia, and transmitted throughout the Arab world. This was followed by the purchase of Al Hayat, and the financial backing given by Saudi Arabia to its own publications gave them an edge over the competition, which could not afford news bureaus or modern printing presses, and made it easy for the Saudis to pressure others into joining them in return for financial aid.
Not only does Saudi Arabia dominate and control the news coming in and out of the Middle East, they are also the dominant source of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the world. Arabs and Muslims finally discovered that the only way to gain control of Israel was to gain control of both the Middle Eastern media ans the Western media.
The European countries, with their historical, anti-Semitic roots and growing Muslim populations, along with direct threats to Western journalists, became the media pawns of the Palestinian propaganda machine.
The House of Saud and the House of Bush were in the same neighborhood, if not on the same block. Yet, the Bushes seemed to play both sides of the street with the President supporting Israel and the State Department supporting the same terrorist entities that keep trying to destroy it.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats who LOATHED President Bush for supporting Israel, but LOVED the State Department for supporting Israel’s enemies, now have both a President and an entire administration they can love for their collective anti-Israel mindset.
At a much earlier point in my life, I was a staunch Democrat, but it was their growing hatred of Israel and Jews over the last two decades that drove me into the arms of the Republican party, and not its conservative message.
As Israel goes, so goes America.
Point well stated.
My reference was focused more on the previous full power of the USA being aimed at other targets, the Shah’s Iran, BUT NOW..... changed in direction and fully focused - not at destroying another country and that populace, to destroying AMERICA and “we the American people”. With the same likelihood of success as Carter had against the Shah.
Unless, we rise up and prevent it, something the Shah was not powerful enough (compared to the Carter’s USA) to do and was destroyed. As we will be if we do not wake up.
Having watched and participated in how it was done and how it became unpreventable - and is being done again but to us - believe it or not it is a REPLAY not something new.
Except for who is at the receiving end - you, me and our families and loved ones. Hard to believe for those of us who have not been through a subversive undermining of our way of life since the Communist regime in the Soviet Union - so little reference material with which to evaluate what the mess we are in represents with Obama’s decision to destroy us and turn us into a slave nation.
Revenge for his unhappy childhood and life and symbolically of the Black race to which is connection is his Arab - thus slaver not slave - father.
Stop, think and evaluate on that playing field, not the politics as usual game with which you have become familiar.
Also take a look at this post:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/05/patriotic-song-being-banned-on-some.html
My current tag line is all too obvious to everyone at this point, so if you don’t mind I think I’ll adopt your “As Israel goes, so goes America” if you don’t mind.