Posted on 10/21/2020 6:36:04 AM PDT by SJackson
Who remembers when Joe Biden yelled at -- and threatened -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin?
Before the Democratic Party’s lurch to the Left and his selection by Barack Obama, Joe Biden saw himself as a quasi-Dixiecrat. In his first try for the Democratic Presidential he bragged that he had received an award from George Wallace and boasted that “Delawareans were on the side of the South in the Civil War.”
In 1982, as he was probably beginning to plan that campaign, Biden thought he could appeal to the perceived nativism of the Dixiecrats by publicly threatening to cut off aid to the Jewish state. In July of that year, he used an appearance of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin before the Senate Finance Committee to threaten to cut off aid to Israel. After enduring Biden’s fist-pounding tirade, Begin responded with the eloquence that was his trademark. Looking directly at Biden, he said
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to Israel. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
The always proper and dignified Begin then lectured Biden on his manners. Looking directly at him he said, “This desk is designed for writing, not for fists.” Biden’s behavior was so out of line that immediately after Senator Moynihan approached the Jewish Prime Minister and praised him for his cutting reply.
Unfortunately, much of the American Jewish Community is composed of Jews with trembling knees. Although Donald Trump has been the most pro-Israel President in history and will receive a record Jewish vote, he may receive fewer Jewish votes than Joe Biden, despite the latter’s checkered record on Israel and his support for reinstating Obama’s deal with Iran.
It has now been established beyond any reasonable doubt that the Ayatollah’s nuclear program has no peaceful purpose and is designed to fulfill Iran's stated goal of destroying the Jewish state. And there is no doubt that a Democratic victory will encourage the most belligerent elements in the Arab world to step up their terrorism and viciously target Jews for murder. Yet Democratic operatives who are afraid of their political futures and Jewish Wall Street financiers afraid of missing out on deals are working overtime to defame Trump.
There is no longer any credible dispute that the leadership of the American Jewish community behaved abysmally during World War II. The record is now clear that Stephen Wise, the President of the American Jewish Congress, who proclaimed himself the leader of the then-smaller and less influential community, was more concerned about his personal relationship with Roosevelt, who used to refer to him as “the Chief,” than the millions of Jews who were dying at the hands of the Nazis. He not only hid what he knew was happening in the concentration camps, but also attacked and tried to deport Jews who were trying to expose the truth, and get the Roosevelt administration to making saving Jewish lives a priority, instead of allowing the State Department to discriminate against Jews in their administration of the immigration laws.
Equally reprehensible and consistent with the attitude of much of liberal Jewish community was the behavior of Sam Rosenman, a senior aide to Roosevelt. It was Rosenman who advised Roosevelt not to meet with the 400 Orthodox Jewish rabbis, who came to Washington in 1943, three days before Yom Kippur, to plead for action to save what was left of their European brethren. Rosenman told Roosevelt that the rabbis were not representative of American Jewry and that he had tried to stop the “horde from storming Washington.” Rosenman knew of, and hid, Roosevelt’s anti-Semitism. He confided to Nachum Goldman, the then-head of the World Jewish Congress that Roosevelt reacted to an ad in the Washington Post charging that the Allies were doing nothing to stop the slaughter of Jews “with language that would have pleased Hitler himself.”
While the actions of Wise and Rosenman were cowardly and despicable, they pale in comparison to today’s Democrats. Roosevelt was indifferent to the plight of European Jewry. However, he fought Hitler and did not fund him. Barack Obama gave the Ayatollahs of Iran, who are dedicated to annihilating the 6.8 million Jews who live in Israel, one hundred and fifty billion dollars. The transfer of these funds was carried out by then-Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew. The Jewish Jack Lew, whom I once considered a friend, and who signed my ketubah and served as a witness at my wedding, not only disbursed the money from a Treasury Department account, but had $1.8 billion given in untraceable cash.
Inevitably, the money transferred to Iran funded their terrorist activities in the Middle East and elsewhere. Following the receipt of the money Iran stepped up its activities in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. It also funded Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, which fired, and continues to fire, rockets into Israel. Is there any doubt that American money sent to Iran, which was facilitated by a Jewish U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, paid for the murder and maiming of Jews hit by Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets? Stephen Wise may have acted cowardly, but he never did anything to enable the murder of Jews. Jack Lew could have resigned in protest, but then he would not be a partner in hedge fund with other Obama supporters.
Almost as pernicious is the work of Mark Mellman, the Jewish Democrat who has formed “Democratic Majority for Israel,” a group that raises money for Democratic candidates whom it claims are supportive of Israel. However, a visit to the group's web page reveals Mellman’s true purpose. If you click on the group’s website, its purpose becomes clear. There is no argument for the importance of Israel or its many positive attributes. There is no criticism of Palestinian intransigence or terrorism. It merely states that the group is for Israel and has a few perfunctory words about the Jewish state.
However, if you click on the site's “who we are” section you will see a big picture of Mark Mellman, the candidates he has worked for, and testimonials to his success as a political consultant. Included among his clients are some favorites of the anti-Israel J Street organization. One standout on the list is Brian Schatz, the Senator from Hawaii. Schatz's position on Israel can be discerned from his vocal support of the Iranian deal, his boycott of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Congressional address, and his vigorous opposition to the appointment of David Friedman to the position of Ambassador to Israel. Schatz was one of the leaders on the Senate floor fight against Friedman whom he accused of not being “objective” about whether Islamic terrorists want to destroy Israel. Mark Mellman has made millions working for Democratic candidates and the “Democratic Majority for Israel,” is nothing but a vehicle to make sure that he can continue to keep up his plush Georgetown lifestyle.
Mark Mellman and Jack Lew are hoping that if they support Biden and go along with some criticism of Israel they can still flourish in Democrat political and financial circles. But they may soon realize that is not assured in today’s woke Democratic party.
If they want to see their future, they should look at what has happened to Elliot Engel, the about-to-be former member of Congress. Engel was a loyal Democrat Congressman from the Bronx and parts of Westchester County. Although he fundraised aggressively among pro-Israel Jews, he trimmed his sails when he was being challenged in the primary by a Bernie Sanders “Socialist.” Although he was Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs, he did not go to the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. He used his Chairmanship to actively and vociferously support the impeachment of Donald Trump. He even spoke at a rally protesting police “brutality.” Despite all his kowtowing to the extreme Left, he was defeated in a Democratic primary.
Bernie Sanders leftists will not be appeased. Sanders may claim that he is a democratic socialist, but he was an admirer of the Soviet Union and still supports communist countries such as Cuba. He was so blinded by his hatred of the United States that he honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988. He came back from the USSR singing its praises the year before it collapsed. If you research his organization, Democratic Socialists of America, you will find vicious, hate-filled attacks on the United States and individuals proclaiming themselves to be Communists. They are totalitarians who seek total power the way Lenin did. They see Biden as a vehicle to gaining that power -- the way Hitler saw being part of Hindenburg’s government as a way to total power.
There is no room for Israel or any people who identify as Jews in the totalitarian world that Sanders and his followers crave to impose.
There are simply not many people left in the Democtatic Party with Mr. Siliber’s wisdom and perspective. Obama made “anti Zionism” an acceptable tenet to be held by Democrats in good standing. People at their core don’t really change. If Biden is elected his foreign policy will be designed and implemented by leftist globalists. The Israelis do not have “trembling knees” (which many have noted and admired) but they will be facing “interesting times” during a Biden Administration.
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“Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to Israel. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
I'm surprised 6' blue collar Joe didn't invite little trembling Begin "behind the barn". Wouldn't have gone well for Joe, Democrat.
Begin, just three years earlier on another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter, as pro Israel as Biden.
This American Chutzpah Makes My Blood Boil.
Jimmy Carter: Now or never! You will have to sign it
Menachem Begin: "Mr President," Begin bluntly told Carter midway into the negotiations, "we shall sign only what we agree to, and we shall not sign anything to which we do not agree.”
We are to decide today on stages of withdrawal? I must admit, I know how to keep calm, and I have proven that today. This makes my blood boil. To confront us today with such a demand? A need to fulfill the whimsy of Sadat or the Americans – this is why we have to accept this? Certainly not. to do this would mean defeat in the fullest sense of the word.
Excellent article.
Should Biden win and refund Iran, Israel now has regional allies. Unfortunately Iran won’t be discouraged, and a regional war will impact the US. Unless Biden is successful in eliminating carbon fuel before it starts. We know under Biden we won’t be self sufficient.
I won’t be surprised. Nor will I be surprised if the moderator mutes any mention of Hunter.
well, actually we did, but we had to go through France, Africa and Italy first. Took a little longer than hoped to get to you. BTW, you’re welcome and we would do it again for you.
Wasn’t the purpose of WWII.
I keep hearing dems talking about how President Trump is STILL “destabilizing the Middle East.”
I realize that dems believe in erasing history, but these statements are simply beyond belief!
Mark
From an Iranian perspective, it has been destabilized. Thus for dems as well, the Iranians are the good guys.
but it was a result of WWII.
well actually not really,
the entire western world locked their immigration doors to the Jews by 1939. It was next to impossible to immigrate from Poland, Lithuania, and the Ukraine (where a vast majority of the Jews lived). The US was mostly closed, South Africa closed, Australia let in a trickle and filthy Chamberlain with his White Paper that made immigration to Palestine extremely difficult.
would the US have gone to Europe just to save the Jews—pretty doubtful.
Christian Europe enabled the slaughter of 6 million of their Jewish neighbors without blinking an eye. Europe is paying the price for it today.
I agree 100% - I personally heard Jan Karski speak about this very subject while I attended Georgetown University in the very early ‘80s. For all Poles, Jewish or not, there was effectively no help. They were all on their own against the Nazis - but without question the Jews had a much worse experience than the general Polish population.
When I went to Yad Vashem, the very first thing you saw was a 1944 reconnaissance photo taken by a USAAC plane of Auschwitz. Everything was identified - it just barracks and the like, but gas chambers and crematoriums. We knew EXACTLY what was going on, and did NOTHING to stop it. A single raid by 50 bombers would have not only destroyed the camp and the mass murders in 5 minutes, but it would have sent a clear signal to those in the German government that we were aware and intolerant of what they were doing. One raid might have stopped the murders - but we will never know, because a conscious decision was made to not even try.
Nope.
The Nazi hatred of the Jews was RACIAL - they slaughtered people who were Christians who had one parent or two grandparents who were ethnically Jewish
Christian Europe was under attack by the Nazis - the Nazis led by a panentheist, Hitler, HATED Christianity as a religion and HATED Jews as an ethnicity.
Hitler saw the "Jewish problem" as a RACIAL problem - he believed in Darwin's theory of the fittest, so wanted to slaughter first the Jewish race and then the Slavic race. He wanted to de-Christianize Europe as that religion Hitler believed was "sapping the strength of the Aryan people"
I can’t comment one way or another on whether the allies were innocent or guilty of allowing the Holocaust to occur, but I will make one comment about Wise.
That guy is basically a Judas to the Jewish people. Actually, no, not even a Judas, at least Judas merely betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. This guy sold out his flock for, what? Promoting left-wing ideology? Even keeping FDR in the dark about the extent (yes, FDR was an anti-Semite, but he was also smart enough to realize it’s an extremely stupid decision to tick off your electorate, meaning he would aid the Jews if informed about the holocaust if it meant bolstering his chances at getting re-elected).
What’s worse is that Stephen Wise not only may have actually been a Marxist, but he even had the gall to claim that Marxism is the epitome of Judaism, even though it’s founder, while technically an ethnic Jew, actually helped inspire Hitler’s genocidal policies with his On the Question of the Jews tract and several of his incendiary rhetoric. In fact, not just Hitler’s holocaust, but Lenin’s Pogroms and Stalin’s planned Doctor’s Plot. It’s completely insane, and morally repugnant. I’m not even fond of the Talmud due to some really bad teachings in there (including Bava Metzia 59b, which infamously had God losing a debate to mortals and being restrained to such an extent that he’s not even allowed to do anything without a majority of the vote from the Rabbinic Council, a blasphemous passage if you ask me, far more than even their rather nasty commentary on Jesus or the Virgin Mary, and certainly far more disrespectful to God the Father), yet even I realize Wise’s words there were downright appalling and genuinely horrific treatment to the Jews (and I want to make clear that, while I do find the Talmud distasteful, I’m pro-Semitic for Jews otherwise, willing to help any in need. Only exception is if they wish to harm us Christians.). In case anyone’s wondering, he said this in the May 5, 1935 edition of the American Bulletin. I believe his exact words were “Some call it Marxism, I call it Judaism.”
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