Comments on: They think he still cares

By: Herschel

Herschel — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:26:58 +0000

With a reported 78% of Jews knee jerk voting for democrats, Obama feels very little concern that his harsh Israel policy will make a difference in his reelection in 2012. I believe he is in for a rude awakening!
First, I really do not believe that 78% of Jews voting for him is an accurate percentage, and most importantly, I am hearing more and more concern that will translate into additional voter shifts.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:33:39 +0000

I don’t think you’re being quite fair, Eric. It reminds me of something a knowledgeable friend from Chicago once wrote about Jesse Jackson. He said Jackson would be sincerely and genuinely pained at being called an anti-Semite, because he probably knew a lot of Jews but they were almost all radical and/or deracinated Jews. His famous remark about Zionism being “a poisonous weed” in Judaism was undoubtedly based on what he’d heard from Jews. Jackson surely knew a lot of Jews socially, said the friend, but it was unlikely that he had as a genuine social friend any Jew who, for example, was actived in a synagogue.

His associations for twenty years are well-known although it’s considered racist to bring some of those up.

By the way, Obama does buy into that “just anti-Lukud” line. You see it a lot and it’s mostly balderdash. It’s used to show that by golly you are certainly pro-Israel, you just don’t approve of those bloodthirsty, landgrabbing right wingers who are the obstacle to peace. If the expression actually meant anything it wouldn’t not have been used during the years that Likud wasn’t in the government, but of course it was.

A parenthetical note: The pre-1967 borders at one point stopped being merely cease-fire lines and became sacrosanct because it’s unacceptable to acquire territory by violence. Everyone reading this blog knows that statement comes under the Bensky Corollary to Everything, which Meryl persists in calling “the Exception Clause,” namely that every statement and principle carries with it the tacit proviso “except Jews.”

But prior to 1948 the Etzion bloc was Jewish owned and occupied and fell to the Arabs through military operations. Gosh and golly, I wonder why no one seems to think that it’s only fair to restore it to Israel.

By: Eric J

Eric J — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:26 +0000

Barack Obama doesn’t care about Jewish people!

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:11:46 +0000

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098853.html

He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American administration wants him out of office.

This reminds me of the statement “It is not paranoia when they are really out to get you”. Of the three attitudes that Haaretz uses to claim that he is “suffering from confusion and paranoia”, two are definitely true (and obvious even from the United States) and the middle one is probable. If I were Israeli and actively following the details, it would probably be obviously true as well.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:04:12 +0000

It’s safe to say that President Obama doesn’t much care about Israeli politics – or Israelis.

I woud say that instead of “Israelis” you should say “Zionists” where “Zionist” is defined in the same way that the rest of the hard left defines it. In spite of the fact that Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod work for him, I would say that he regards them as useful tools but would lump them in with the rest of us “Zionists”.