Column One: American Jews and liberal art of demonizationBy CAROLINE B. GLICKContinue
09/07/2011 00:07
New York Ninth Congressional District race attracting great attention because it’s serving as a referendum on Obama’s policies toward Israel.
US election season is clearly upon us as US President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish voters and donors upset by Obama’s hostility to Israel back in the Democratic Party’s fold.
To undertake this task, the White House turned to its reliable defender, columnist Jeffrey Goldberg. Since 2008, when then-candidate Obama was first challenged on his anti-Israel friends, pastors and positions, Goldberg has willingly used his pen to defend Obama to the American Jewish community.
Trying to portray Obama as pro-Israel is not a simple task. From the outset of his tenure in office, Obama has distinguished himself as the most anti-Israel president ever.
Obama is the first president ever to denounce Jewish property rights in Jerusalem. He is the first president to require Israel to deny Jews property rights in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as a precondition for peace talks with the Palestinians.
He is the first US president to adopt the position that Israel must surrender its right to defensible borders in the framework of a peace treaty. He has even made Israeli acceptance of this position a precondition for negotiations.
He is the first US president to accept Hamas as a legitimate actor in Palestinian politics. Obama’s willingness to do so was exposed by his refusal to end US financial assistance to the PA in the aftermath of last spring’s unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas.
He is the first US president to make US support for Israel at the UN conditional on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians.
Even today, Obama has refused to state outright whether or not he will veto a Security Council resolution later this month endorsing Palestinian statehood outside the context of a peace treaty with Israel. As he leaves Israel twisting in the wind, he has sent his chief Middle East Peace Processors Dennis Ross and David Hale to Israel to threaten Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into caving to US-Palestinian demands and beg PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to accept an Israeli surrender and cancel his plans to have the UN General Assembly upgrade the PLO’s mission to the UN.
GIVEN OBAMA’S record – to which can be added his fervent support for Turkish Prime Minister and virulent anti-Semite Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his courtship of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and his massive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Egypt – it is obvious that any attempt to argue that Obama is pro-Israel cannot be based on substance, or even on tone. And so Goldberg’s article, like several that preceded it, is an attempt to distort Obama’s record and deflect responsibility for that record onto Netanyahu. Netanyahu, in turn, is demonized as ungrateful and uncooperative.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Race For Weiner's Seat
The special election for Anthony Weiner's seat has become a referendum on Obama's policy toward Israel. This seat has been reliably Democrat for decades. But there is an excellent chance it can go Republican next Tuesday. Right now the Democrat Weprin and Republican Turner are running neck and neck. Wouldn't it be poetic justice if it were Jewish voters who brought about the demise of the Obama administration?
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"Wouldn't it be poetic justice if it were Jewish voters who brought about the demise of the Obama administration?"
The hero of American Jews is Franklin Roosevelt, who consigned German Jews to certain death when he refused to accept the Holocaust refugees who sought refuge while aboard the Steamship St. Louis.
So "poetic justice" doesn't begin to capture it. If American Jews turn their backs on this anti-Semitic liberal president, it will be a miracle that parallels in magnitude the parting of the Red Sea.
What is more likely is a tease: the Democrat wins but just narrowly, provoking the false hope that liberal Jews are getting nearer to embracing reality.
It is a pipe dream. Liberal Jews are as committed to liberalism as jihadist Muslims are committed to jihad. Both are wiling to die for the cause, although at least the jihadists have the dignity to die in combat. The Jews prefer to embrace their historical roles as hapless murder victims.
It is the sickest pathology extant. Remember what Golda said: "We resent the Arabs not because they kill our children, but because they force us to kill their children."
Rabbi Kahane called her "The quintessential liberal Jew who resents having to defend herself more than she resents the murder of her children."
And if the Republican somehow wins the election, expect the same reaction from Jewish Democratic partisans that they had during Operation Cast Lead: "We are so ashamed to be Jewish!"
I am also so ashamed that they are Jewish.
Update:
"The special election to replace Weiner in the Brooklyn and Queens district has been a little more parochial and quirky – the district has one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the country, and it has been moving away from the national Democratic Party ever since September 11, 2001..."
Orthodox Jews are not liberals, so the GOP could win this one without violating Esther's First Law Of Physics: The bottom of every cliff exerts a magnetic pull that is irresistible to liberal Jews.
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