Rabbis For Sharia

Jewish liberals continue identifying with their worst enemies.

American Thinker:

The Complacency and Complicity of America's Jews
By Lauri B. Regan
Recently, I had a conversation with an Israeli cousin who asserted that all the world's Jews should live in Israel. Recognizing that there is no other place in the world in which Jews are truly welcome, he argued that if all the Jews of the Diaspora actually lived in Israel, it would be much easier to contain the threat of annihilation through a larger population of people willing and able to fight for that country's survival.

I disagreed. I argued that now more than ever, it is extremely important to have outspoken Jews living in the United States. Israel needs allies willing to support her, not only in military conflicts, but also in the public relations war that she faces on a daily basis as vicious anti-Semites continually demonize her and try to destroy her.

However, another Jewish New Year passed with hundreds of liberal rabbis across America participating in Obama's sales pitch known as his High Holiday conference call. Many of these rabbis heeded the president's orders and took his message to their congregations on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. I have to wonder if American Jews offer any practical support to Israel's future survival.

Last year, Obama hosted a conference call with nine hundred American rabbis during which he stated, "We are God's partners in matters of life and death," and then gave them marching orders to sell Obamacare to their congregants. After my rabbi followed the president's orders and pronounced in his Yom Kippur sermon that it was God's commandment to support universal health care, I contacted him to discuss his sermon and its rationale. My rabbi suggested that perhaps I should find another shul -- so I did. But the very disturbing aspect of this incident is that the reformed Jewish movement is supposed to be the most welcoming -- the sect of the Jewish faith passing the least amount of judgment and having the widest open arms.

So, it was somewhat comforting to hear that this year, Obama only had six hundred rabbis who participated in his High Holiday call. I was hopeful that this decrease of 33% was due to his abysmal record with regard to Israel and that the majority of the participating rabbis were simply showing respect and would not act the part of the sheeple they had in the previous year. Apparently I was wrong.

At a conservative shul in Baltimore, the same rabbi that earlier in the year used his sermon as an occasion to call Israel an "occupying entity" and later question Israel's biblical right to the land of Canaan used his Yom Kippur sermon to explain to the congregants why they should support the Ground Zero Mosque -- just as Obama instructed. And if one political issue were not enough, this rabbi also told the thousand or so seated in the audience that they must support the administration's opposition to the Arizona immigration law.

I would have walked out. This sermon is revolting. In the first place how is it possible that a “Rabbi” can question the biblical rights of Jews to Israel? Clearly he has no business being a Rabbi since he obviously doesn’t even believe in the basis of Judaism. It’s clear that he and these other liberal “Rabbis” are nothing more than leftist infiltrators out to destroy true Judaism.

Liberal American Jews have blurred the line between complacency and complicity, which will have devastating consequences on Israel's future. They are complacent because they blindly voted for the most anti-Israel president in history, ignoring the very clear warning signs prior to his election [i].

These same people are becoming complicit with Obama's Mideast policies. These policies have been harmful to Israel and its Jewish population since Obama's first day in office, when he phoned Mahmoud Abbas. Obama attempted to force a peace process when one is not possible. America's Jews quietly sit by when Time Magazine publishes a cover story entitled "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace" that follows the same old "blame Israel" mantra. Jews continue to read The New York Times and The Washington Post despite the anti-Israel bias so clearly evident in the reporting. American Jews sit in shuls with sheeple rabbis who obey the marching orders of an anti-Israeli president -- all without uttering a word.

In one very popular synagogue in Manhattan, I'm told the rabbi received a standing ovation after his sermon in support of the Ground Zero Mosque. How many of those congregants are aware of the statements and views of the imam who is the proponent of the Ground Zero Mosque (as well as a representative of the U.S. State Department)? Are they aware that Imam Rauf, the man who refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization and who has direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, also rues the day Israel was created, or that he supports a one-state solution in the Mideast that would lead to the eventual destruction of the Jewish State? Do they know that he stated, "In a true peace it is impossible that a purely Jewish state of Palestine can endure ... In a true peace, Israel will, in our lifetimes, become one more Arab country, with a Jewish minority"?

Even more revolting that these congregants would give a standing ovation to such an abhorrent sermon in defense of the proposed islamic supremacist ground zero mosque in which those behind it wish to wipe out the Jewish people. What sort of psychological illness drives them to embrace their enemies? They have no business calling themselves Jews. Their religion isn’t Judaism, it is liberalism.

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