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Posted in: Op-Ed: GOP must repudiate Limbaugh or be defined by him
08/17/09 04:25 PM
Rosensaft has the appalling bad taste, even chutzpa, to make his highly partisan, wholly predictable if equally questionable arguments (the relationship between speech and action is far less direct than he supposes, and when in doubt one should trust the Constitution, which he does not) wrapping himself in the mantle of the Holocaust. That he is himself a crude boor, a loudmouthed, self-righteous liberal Limbaugh -- without Rush's occasional humor -- I once spoke at his synagogue where he assaulted me verbally in the most vile terms because he disagreed with me -- only goes to show the Right has no monopoly on this kind of behavior. Even the title of his piece demanding that the Republicans "repudiate" Limbaugh speaks volumes about his understanding of freedom of expression. The problem with the rich entitled Rosensafts among us is that they don't really like or trust the American people, and they see Nazism as latent everywhere. America IS exceptional. The Pew Global Attitudes survey shows only 7% of us are anti-Semites, and only a handful of other English-speaking countries come close. While European anti-Semitism has spiked up in parallel with Islamic anti-Semitism, it has actually fallen over the same 5-year period in the US. Rosensaft is crying wolf for purely political purposes. He owes his country an apology. (And me.)
Posted in: Israel supporters rip White House honor for Robinson
08/04/09 05:39 PM
Of course it's an outrage, but the "Israel supporters" willing to call it by it's right name include only three Jewish groups. How shameful. I ask the 95% of JTA's readers who are liberal Democrats who worship Obama whether they have any issues with ther new Israel-hating diety (it's almost as bad as reflexive Jewish adultation of FDR while he watched Jews burn)? Also, where, pray, all all our friends on Capitol Hill? What happened to those marvelous Jewish liberal senators and congresspersons in the Democratic Party who also go along with whatever our new leader thinks? They're a miserable pack of cowards, and they have effectively abandoned us. There are lessons in this for those willing to learn.
Posted in: New Postville book blames feds, globalization for town’s collapse
08/04/09 05:31 PM
The two sociologists are honest enough to announce that they're not investigative journalists -- so they leave aside the slam-dunk proven guilt of the Rubashkin clan, the pious frauds who flouted the law, knowingly violated kashrut, dishonored observant Jews, and, worst of all, treated their employees as dirt and the animals with incredible cruelty. But the authors are not political scientists or immigration experts, either, so their maunderings in those areas -- but that evidently does not stop them from talking about the "alleged tragedy" -- what an absurd description -- supposedly brought on by federal authorities enforcing the law. What caused the "tragedy" was greedy employers enriching themselves off a broken immigration system that allows millions to enter illegally and stay and work for next to nothing as they steal jobs from American workers and lower wages and worsen working conditions. Had AgriProcessors had American workers and a union they would have made a bit less in profit -- but they wouldn't be out of business. The two sociologists ought to consult an ethicist and someone who knows something about immigration policy. As to the comments about "nazi government" going after Jews, the people who make them trivialize the Holocaust and are frauds screaming when one of their own gets caught. I can't weep over criminal black hats. Talk about a shonda fer de goyim.
Posted in: Senators urged not to sign letter on Mideast
07/28/09 03:20 PM
Up to now I've admittedly failed to take "Peace Now" with the seriousness the organization deserves. Previously when Israel had solid support in the White House under Clinton and then Bush I had the luxury of viewing it and its members -- for years --as hopelessly naive, politically ignorant but, finally, harmless, well-intentioned fools. But for those who believe in a strong Israel we are in a new ballgame. In Obama's America too weirdly beguiled lefty Jews have deified the President -- the most hostile to Israel since Israel was reborn -- and in which the voice of the Jewish Left gets O's attention. It's time to see "Peace Now" as the serious danger it has become. It's not a matter of being "convenient idiots." The members of this organization know what they're doing and have no compunctions about doing it. They have a skewed moral compass, no realistic understanding of the Arab/Muslim world, and are willing to place Israel's security at risk in order to satisfy some neurotic shared fantasy. They must be isolated, attacked at every opportunity, and quarantined as much as is humanly possible within the Jewish community. We have too many real external enemies: we can't afford of Fifith Column, even one as pathetically loony as this one.
Posted in: Jewish leaders talk Iran, domestic issues with Democratic senators
07/23/09 04:31 PM
My compliments to David Harris for refusing to play the role of "court Jew" by criticizing President Obama for his outrageous comments and analogies made in Cairo and the President's single-minded focus on Israeli "settlements" (including in Jerusalem?!) as if this constituted the core issue. As every sane person knows (Rabbi Yoffie is sane but a convenient idiot) it is Palestinian refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state that is the entire crux of the problem, and nothing else. But why did the Jewish leaders meet only with Democrat Senators? It is an open secret that the Jewish Establishment is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, but hasn't the time come to reassess that in light of the hostility of this Administration and the unwillingness of any of our "great friends" like Chuck Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, etc to stand up to the President on behalf of Israel? Even know Obama, the President most hostile to Israel since its birth, commands huge positives from the Jewish community. It simple escapes me. Finally, I very much hope there will be no great push from the Jewish "leaders" for hate crimes legislation. Do you really wish to play into the hands of the Islamists who run EVERY Muslim organization in the US and turn the US into Canada or an EU country where open and honest criticism of Islamo-fascism will become impossible? "Hate crimes" not only violate the First Amendment, adopting them is tactically moronic for the Jewish community.
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