Posted on 11/08/2012 5:36:08 AM PST by SJackson
Let us all now join together in helping Obama in his efforts to assure Israel’s security.
President Barack Obama won reelection by a significant majority of the electoral college. The Jewish, pro-Israel Democratic vote helped him in Florida, Ohio and even Virginia, but he might have won at least some of those battleground states without Jewish support.
Even those Jews who berated Democrats like me for supporting President Obama’s reelection, must now realize that our support for the president will be good for Israel over the next four years. Recall what former Secretary of State James Baker, who served under the first George Bush, reportedly said in the early 1990s: “F––– the Jews, they don’t vote for us.”
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Well that’s no longer true. Today, Jews vote for both parties. Nobody is ignoring us. Every rational candidate knows that they and their party must earn our votes in every election.
This is not to suggest that Jews as a group are single issue voters.
Most Jews care deeply about Israel’s security – as distinguished from Israel’s settlement policies. They also care deeply about social and economic issues. The difference is that most Americans, regardless of religion, are united in support of Israel’s security, but divided about social and economic issues. It is critically important that support for Israel’s security remains a bipartisan issue, and never becomes a wedge issue that divides voters along party lines, as it has in some European countries.
It is true that there is more division about Israel’s security within the Democratic Party than within the Republican Party.
More Democrats than Republicans oppose Israel on a wide range of matters, as was evident by the loud booing from some delegates to the Democratic Convention when the Democratic Party changed their platform to include a positive reference to Jerusalem.
I, and other Jewish Democrats, helped to get that change made, just as we repeatedly helped to marginalize those anti-Israel elements within the Democratic Party.
The fact that those anti-Israel Democrats are trying to use their influence against Israel is a good reason why Jewish Democratic supporters of Israel must remain within the Democratic Party to keep fighting the good fight, just as Jewish Republican supporters of Israel fought the good fight against Patrick Buchanan and other right wing Israel-bashers within the Republican Party.
Barack Obama will be the president of the United States for the next four years. That is the reality. It is also the reality that I and others who support him will have his ear over the next four years.
We will not always agree with every position he takes on Israel, and he will not always agree with every bit of advice we offer him.
That is the nature of democracy and governance.
But it is a good thing that he was reelected with significant Jewish, pro-Israel support. And it is a good thing that support for Israel’s security remained a bipartisan issue, and that President Obama’s reelection is not seen as referendum over support for Israel. A referendum that Israel would have lost if some Jewish supporters of Israel had been successful in turning this election into a false litmus test over Israel.
Israeli political leaders should not try to influence the outcome of American elections, any more than American political leaders should try to influence the outcomes of Israeli elections. Both nations, steeped in the traditions of contentious democracy, should elect leaders who serve the interests of their people. In my opinion, the interests of both Americans and Israelis are well served by a strong and enduring alliance between two great democracies that have common interests in a peaceful and secure resolution of the Middle East conflicts than endanger the region and the world.
Let us all now join together in helping President Obama in his efforts to assure Israel’s security, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and to help bring about a secure peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
They want to hate Israel and not hate Israel. They want to turn their faces away from Jerusalem and look in the rearview mirror as Jerusalem burns.
I've been a pro-Israel Christian my whole life and I've been called "anti semite" many a time by self-hating Jews.
Then they get all complicated.
May God help the Jews.
We should save this article to shove in Dersh’s face when Israel is next attacked and Obama does nothing to help.
Alan Dershowitz is an a—hole. Why some FReepers admire this guy is beyond me.
Did you know that Alan Dershowitz had a short lived talkshow? Dershowitz used to say on the show, discuss with me, debate me. Well... I tried to call his show to confirm what a John Bircher type said about those Supreme Court case income tax rulings; e.g., Pollack, Brushaber, the Eisner cases, Smietanka (sp); however, Dershowitz’s call screener would never let me on his show. I never got to speak with Dershowitz on his talkshow even though I got to his call screener many times :(
Dershowitz and the John Birch Society deserve one another. Too bad they can't be locked in a room together until there's nothing left of either one.
Perhaps.... But the Bircher was correct about those supreme court cases. Alan Dershowitz told the Bircher that he had never heard of them. I was calling to point out those cases really exist.
Whatever with the Bircher and Dershowitz, at least the Bircher got to speak with Dershowitz on his talkshow. I never did.
Dream On Netty, read this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956795/posts
Dershowitz has not read Obama’s book where in his own words he assures Muslims he will stand with them
I have no idea what Alan is babbling about.
I should hope not, but I fear you might be right.
Obama a Moslem? If he isn't, he has pro-Moslem leanings nurtured as a youngster with a Moslem stepfather in Indonesia. He also has Communist leanings inculcated in him by his mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Dersh and other pro-Israel Obama supporters who refuse to accept who Obama is are playing with fire. I hope they are not burned because of their addiction to him and the 'Rats.
Question for Dersh: Why did 85% of Americans abroad in Israel vote for Mitt Romney? Maybe they know something you don't?
Al Dershowitz continually outwits himself. The struggle to acquire his many degrees and credentials has winched his brain so far up his ass, when he farts he thinks it’s fresh air and crawls closer to the source of the breeze.
If ever an article cried out for “Barf Alert” this was it.
LOL!!!
I don't think Israel will risk losing much, if any blood:
Israel Needs A Preemptive Nuclear Strike Against Iran
"The best way to get that message across is to make it very clear that if Israel is faced between an Iran nuclear bomb, or having to launch a preemptive nuclear strike to prevent that eventuality, it will opt for the latter."
"The world must be told loud and clear by Israel that the only way to avoid the first nuclear strike by a nation since Nagasaki is to take whatever actions are required to ensure Iran doesn’t get the bomb, and to prevent an Iranian conventional weapons build up to the point where a preemptive nuclear strike becomes the only option for dealing with the rogue ayatollah regime."
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/iranisraelnuclearariel3890624.html
BOLLOCKS! DERSHOWITZ IS A CAPO!
So many kapos...where to begin
Dershowitz is an ultra liberal schmuck, a true human toilet.
I don;t know if I would throw Alan under the bus headfirst
he is occasionally on the right side
maybe we could ask Sunny Von Bulow for her opinion eh?
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