By Gary Starr for American First Principles June 8, 2010
Anti-Semitism is cool again.
At the beginning of our Fraudinator-in-Chief's administration Obama schlepped over to Cairo to keep the illusion of friendship with Israel intact long enough to reach out to the Muslims. He said the following:
America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied.
Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction - or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews - is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations - large and small - that come with occupation.
A year and a half later the last paragraph is more of a window into Obama's mindset....Israel is Palestinian occupied land. The first two paragraphs ring very hollow indeed.
Only a fool today would believe that Barack Obama is pro-Israel. The Obama Administration is the most anti-Israel administration since Jimmy Carter. Besides the numerous documented anti-Semites in Barack Obama's past and present, Obama has been openly hostile towards Israel since taking over the White House.
The article continues below:
Excerpted from American Thinker:
The Jews of Silence
By Richard Baehr
April 30, 2010
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/the_jews_of_silence.html
The New York Times, in a front page article, described how President Obama appears to be reconsidering, if not turning away from, the historic strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel. In remarks made at the end of the multinational nuclear security talks, Obama reinforced this message, saying the following:
It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower[.] ... And when conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the significance of these two lines as to the president's thinking. It is also impossible to read these and not realize that this president is the greatest threat to the strategic alliance of the U.S. and Israel since the founding of the modern Jewish state in 1948. The first sentence is in some ways the more incredible. No prior American president has been resentful or unhappy about leading the world's greatest superpower.
Obama appears to think that the world would be a better place if, say, Russia, China, or maybe Venezuela and Sudan had more power, and the U.S. less.
For over a year, the president has pushed hard against Israeli construction in Jerusalem and the West Bank, arguing that the settlement issue has been the reason for the failure to achieve peace or even get peace talks started between Israel and the Palestinians. This has been a colossal misreading of the history of the conflict.
Finally, some Jewish organizations and leaders are pushing back, including the Anti-Defamation League, The Orthodox Union, Ron Lauder and the World Jewish Congress, Elie Wiesel, and the America-Israel Friendship League. Regrettably, little has been heard from the Jewish Democrats in the House and the Senate, who seem reluctant to take on a president of their own party. They have signed on to AIPAC letters, but refused (with very few exceptions) to go public with any criticism. It is rare, to say, the least, for Chuck Schumer to hold his tongue on anything he cares about.
Increasingly, the president's approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to mirror that of his former Hyde Park friend and mentor, Israel-hating Professor Rashid Khalidi, whose most recent article on the conflict appears to channel Obama's latest assault on Israel over Jerusalem.
During the presidential campaign, Obama's defenders in the Jewish community argued that Reverend Wright -- and Ali Abunimah, and Rashid Khalidi, and Bill Ayers, and Samantha Power, and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- really had no role in influencing the president's thinking on Israel and that he was as reliably pro-Israel as Bill Clinton. It is clear that Obama really is a man of the left, and his position on Israel reflects the dominant thinking on Israel in academia and other elite leftist circles.
If you were expecting any mea culpas from some in the Jewish community, you won't get them. Martin Peretz, Alan Dershowitz, and Ed Koch are among the very few Jewish Obama-supporters who have become very critical of the president's sharp turn against Israel. The Jews of silence greatly outnumber them. History, I think, will not judge the latter group kindly.
Richard Baehr is chief political correspondent of American Thinker.
Fun facts to know and tell:
Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E.
Obama administration denied visas to Israeli nuclear scientists
Obama has done nothing to prevent Iran from getting its own nuclear weapon
Obama administration & UNSC push resolutions to strip Israel of nuclear weapons
Obama refused to dine with Israeli PM Netanyahu or allow any photos to be taken at the White House
Hillary and Obama bash Israel over West Bank settlemements
Obama Administration has endorsed "healthy relations" between Iran and Syria, mildly rebuked Syrian President Bashar Assad for accusing the U.S. of "colonialism," and publicly apologized to Moammar Gadhafi for treating him with less than appropriate deference after the Libyan called for "a jihad" against Switzerland.
The Huffington Post has annointed Obama "The First Jewish President." This isn't just because so many Jews voted for him; Liberal Jews will blindly vote for any Democrat.
The term exists because so many self-hating Jews surround Obama, such as David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Ron Bloom, Cass Sunstein, and, most recently, Elena Kagan.
So why would these people associate themselves with such a regime? Do they have a death wish?
In World War II a Kapo, the vilest kind of Jew, was a prisoner who worked inside the Nazi concentration camps in certain lower administrative positions. The official name these traitors was Funktionshäftling, or "prisoner functionary", but they were commonly referred to as Kapos.
Kapos received more privileges than normal prisoners, towards whom they were often brutal.
Kapos wore a yellow armband bearing the black letters KAPO
Kapos were armed with clubs or whips.
The SS guards depended on the cooperation of trustee inmates who supervised the prisoners.
Obama's Jews are latter-day Kapos, the enablers of the administration's "historic shift" in our relations with Israel. This is nothing new. The Jewish Left historically has hated Israel and called for its destruction. What is new is that this policy is now inside the White House. This is way beyond what Carter ever imagined or implemented.
But the Nazis could never have done what they did without the appeasers...the Jewish intellectuals, academics, politicians, Rabbis, community leaders and other assorted elitists who believed that "civilized" conciliation was the most efficient discourse available for the Jewish people.
Obama needs the appeasers as well. Today's Jewish appeasers include Noam Chomsky, Norman Finklestein, the reform and conservative synagogues, the idiots at www.jewsagainstzionism.com and similar websites run by self-hating Jews, the New York Times' Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Frank Rich, Newsweek's Howard Feinman, Time Magazine's Joe Klein, The Washington Post's Richard Cohen along with a myriad of others implanted throughout the mainstream media. That helps explains why 75% of American Jews voted for a candidate that had 98% of American Muslim support.
The question is often asked why do Jews still vote liberal with the mountain of anti-Semitic evidence staring them in the face. The answer is in the book Why Are Jews Liberals? By Norman Podhoretz, which Dick Morris recently reviewed. I've posted it here (don't get mad Dick!! It's vital):
It is the question that sooner or later baffles every political pundit, consultant, expert, or observer. Why do American Jews persist in their adoration of the Democratic Party? Why, like an abused spouse, do they tolerate Israel-bashing, support for the Palestinians and Democratic softness on terrorism and still return for more? As the richest demographic group in our population, why do they still vote for Obama and donate money to him when he specifically proposes to raise the taxes on those making more than $200,000 per year?
Why do they let liberal politicians embrace the likes of Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright and still support them on Election Day?
I don´t have an answer and have never heard a satisfactory one from any leader of an American Jewish or pro-Israeli organization.
But Norman Podhoretz does and he explains his ideas in his brilliant book Why Are Jews Liberals?
American Jews, Podhoretz explains, grew up in liberal homes heavily influenced by the ideology they inherited from their Eastern European ancestors. There, in Russia and Germany, you either followed the Kaiser´s or the Czar´s line or were a Communist. Reacting to their exclusion and the pogroms that harassed them, these ghetto Jews readily embraced Marxism. Indeed, Marx was, himself, born a Jew and the majority of the first Bolshevik Politburo in 1917 were Jews. When Hitler railed against Jews and Communists, he often felt no need to distinguish between the two.
In the New World, communism morphed into socialism in the early years of the twentieth century when Eugene V. Debs won a million votes (almost 10%) on the Socialist Party ticket for President. Finally, under the more benign influence of FDR and the New Deal, this leftist impulse settled into the cozy niche of liberalism where it has remained ever since.
Zionism, also, closely identified itself with socialism and the Labor Party of Golda Meier and David Ben Gurion, which dominated Israel´s early years, pushed its ideological agenda. Kibbutzim were formed with communal living as a Fabian or utopian socialism took root in the holy land. So leftist were the early Israelis that Russia recognized the state of Israel even before the United States did in the hopes that it could become a socialist ally. The political majority which underscored this leftist bent was based on Jews descended from the ghettos of Europe -- Ashkenazi Jews.
In the U.S. Jews stayed in the liberal camp not just out of conviction but also from fear of the Christian right. When fundamentalism reared its head in American politics, they feared that anti-Semitism would not be far behind. And, as the anti-communism of the McCarthy era targeted the Jewish intellectual establishment, their dependence on Democrats only increased.
It came as a shock to America´s Jews that first Nixon, then Reagan, and finally Bush-43 emerged as Israel´s strongest supporters. (The tepid backing Bush-41 gave the Jewish state was more in line with what they expected from the GOP). And it came as a total shock when the religious right became Israel´s strongest backer based on its biblical conviction that God had promised the Holy Land to the Jewish people.
But, by then, religion and even Israel had weakened their holds on American Jewish hearts. They attended religious services less than half as frequently as establishment Protestants and only one-third as often as Catholics or Evangelicals. Most Jews, Podhoretz notes, attended synagogue "four times a year" on the high holy days.
Meanwhile, in Israel, the socialist Ashkenazi-based Labor Party (led by Shimon Peres) fell to the campaigns of Menachem Begin and Bibi Netanyahu. Both had as their base the Sephardic Jews who came, not from Europe, but from Africa or the Middle East. They had no heritage of socialism, much less Marxism and had a healthy disrespect for their long term neighbors in the Arab world. To American Jews, they looked racist and embarrassed them in front of their liberal friends. When Obama accuses Netanyahu of "intransigence", he echoes what liberal Jews themselves often think of the Israeli right-wing.
But Podhoretz´ book, written before Obama manifested such an anti-Israel bent, leaves unanswered the question of whether the pro-Palestinian bias of the current administration, not to mention its war on prosperity, will drive Jews away from their liberal moorings. The answer probably lies more with events than within Jewish thinking. As it becomes apparent that Israel faces a holocaust-like threat from Iranian nuclear weapons and the disastrous results of Obama´s socialist project become evident, Jews will likely gradually wean themselves away from the liberal Democratic Party. As it becomes more anti-Israel and anti-wealth, the Party will leave the Jews before the Jews realize it has left and themselves leave the party.
Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary Magazine, and long a leading voice of the neo-con movement, has diagnosed the Jewish addiction to liberalism and helped us to understand why it still dominates their thinking. He has solved the mystery. Now let's see what we conservatives and Republican Jews can do with the knowledge he has given us.
East Jerusalem Settlements
In the final analysis Obama has more problems with Jews building houses than with Iranians building nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.
From the start of his presidency, Obama has undermined the U.S./Israeli alliance by seeking to prohibit Israel from any construction in its capital, in particular the Jewish suburb of East Jerusalem called Ramat Shlomo He uses the same term-"settlements"-to describe massive neighborhoods that are home to tens of thousands of Jews and the few illegal outposts on the West Bank.
On a recent visit to Israel Vice President Joe Biden condemned the announcement that the government had approved a plan for the construction of 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also clumsily chimed in on the East Jerusalem settlement announcement:
"It was insulting," Clinton said. "And it was insulting not just to the vice president, who certainly didn't deserve that. He was there with a very clear message of commitment to the peace process, solidarity with the Israeli people. But it was an insult to the United States."
Clinton also said Israel must prove it is committed to the Mideast peace process by backing up verbal pledges to talk peace with the Palestinians and improve the atmosphere poisoned by last week's housing announcement if stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are to be relaunched. It was as if all of the 'land for peace' deals of the past twenty-five years never happened.
Clinton's idiotic remarks got the attention of Abraham Foxman at the Anti-Defamation League. "We are shocked and stunned at the administration's tone and public dressing down of Israel. We cannot remember an instance when such harsh language was directed at a friend and ally of the United States."
Israeli PM Netanyahu's office responded quickly, issuing a statement that read, "The government of Israel has proved its commitment to peace in the last year in words and in deeds."
During this latest settlement "crisis" Netanyahu met with Obama in the White House, but, like the Dalai Lama White House visit, there aren't any any photos of Netanyahu with Obama on the wire services. Obama wouldn't allow it. Politico reported:
...the meetings were shrouded in unusual secrecy, in part because U.S. officials, who just ten days earlier called the surprise announcement of new housing in East Jerusalem an 'insult' and an 'affront,' made sure to reward Netanyahu with a series of small snubs: There were no photographs released from the meeting, and no briefing for the press.
We wonder if Netanyahu got the same "out the back door with the garbage" treatment as did the Dalai Lama, as if he was someone to be tolerated, not embraced.
So why all the harsh and insulting treatment? Beyond the fact that we have an administration filled with anti-Semites and classic Jew-haters Dick Morris speculates that Team Obama wants Netanyahu out:
Specifically, they want him to feel such pressure that he dumps his right-wing coalition partners and forms a new government with the center-left party Kadima, headed by former Prime Minister Tzipi Livni. Livni, who thinks nothing of trading land for peace, no matter how flawed the peace might be, will then hold Netanyahu's government hostage and force it to bend to the will of Washington and sign a deal with the Palestinians that cedes them land in return for a handful of vague vapors and promises, none of which will be kept.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn't territorial...it's existential. Most Israelis are now prepared to live with a Palestinian state along their borders, the two-state solution. The two-state solution is a suicide pact in our opinion, but that's another article.
The Arab and Mainstream media has continually propagated the falsehood that the reason the Palestinians won't make peace with Israel is because of settlements. Nothing could be further from the truth and the Obama administration is a willing accomplice to this lie. The Palestinians are simply not yet willing to live with a Jewish state along theirs. There is no peace with the Arabs as long as Israel and the Jews are alive.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the phony nuclear summit
On the heels of the settlement issue Netanyahu avoided walking into a nuclear summit Obama sting operation by cancelling his planned trip to Washington for Obama's 47-country nuclear security conference. He made the decision after learning Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel's assumed atomic arsenal at the meeting, insisting that Israel sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, but has never confirmed or denied it, so why sign that worthless document.
"This conference is about nuclear terrorism," Netanyahu told reporters. "And I'm not concerned that anyone will think that Israel is a terrorist regime. Everybody knows a terrorist and rogue regime when they see one, and believe me they see quite a few -- around Israel."
But two senior Arab officials accused Netanyahu of trying to evade questions on the Palestinian settlement issue that has lately clouded Israel's ties with Washington.
"We believe that Netanyahu withdrew from the summit because he did not want to face President Obama and is using Egypt and Turkey as an excuse," a senior Egyptian diplomat said.
But Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (the godfather of the recent blockade running Gaza flotilla) would demand at the summit that Israel disarm as part of a nuclear-free Middle East.
So this conference, like the recent Turkish flotilla scam, was a set-up, and a no-win scenario for Israel. There was no upside in attending this sham of a conference.
Anti-Semitism
So what is the end result of all the Israel bashing? The Obamatude has now made it fashionable for all of the closet anti-Semites to crawl out from under the rocks.
During the Iraq war the massive anti-war demonstrations were sponsored by INTERNATIONAL ANSWER and The Worker's World Party. Plenty of liberals and liberal Jews attended these rallies because they hated Bush. One has to wonder if they noticed the banners of the Star of David being equated with the swastika. Probably not...they were very busy enjoying their Bush Derangement Syndrome.
These same Jews have now helped put an anti-Semite in the White House. Although there are signs of buyer's remorse it's probably going to take a catastrophe to wake these fools out of their liberal fog. The question is how many Jews will have to die this time?
Helen Thomas at the Jewish Heritage Celebration (note the irony here) at the White House said Jews should go back to Germany and Poland and 'Get the Hell Out of Palestine':
How does this shriveled fossil, with her history of anti-Israel bias, still have a job in the White House press pool? Well, she doesn't. Even the most vociferous anti-Semite can be shamed now and then. Thomas "resigned" on June 7, 2010. The White House distanced itself from Thomas' remarks, obviously afraid of angering the liberal Jewish vote.
And then there's the one about the Jewish merchant and the Taliban fighter...that one's a real knee-slapper:
National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones (Ret.) at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
"And the Taliban warrior went up to him and said 'I need water, give me some water. And the merchant said 'I'm sorry I don't have any water, but would you like to buy a tie, we have a nice sale of ties today.'"
At this point, Jones said, the Taliban fighter launched into "a stream of language that I can't repeat about Israel, about Jewish people, about the man himself, about his family, he was just saying 'I need water, you try to sell me ties, you people don't get it.'"
"Well I'm sorry that I don't have water for you, and I forgive you for all of the insults that you've levied against me, my family, my country," Jones describe the merchant as saying. "But I will help you out. If you go over that hill and walk about two miles there's a restaurant there and they have all the water you'll need," the merchant replied.
Jones said the fighter walked away but returned an hour later and said: "Your brother tells me I need a tie to get in the restaurant."
I can't stop laughing...Jews being clever with money...no stereotypes here...
The Gaza "Peace" Flotilla -- this was no Love Boat
Anti-Semitism is cool again. All of the wink-and-a-nod anti-Semitism and outright anti-Israel rhetoric coming from the Obama administration can only result in one thing. The world will see the Obama tilt as a signal
to finish the process of isolating Israel from the world militarily and diplomatically.
We don't just see the anti-Israel stuff at anti-war demonstrations anymore. It's gone mainstream. Helen Thomas is comfortable enough to come out of the closet. Anti-Jewish jokes can now be told at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
And now comes the Gaza "Peace" Flotilla. It was amazing how coordinated and unified the international condemnation of Israel was...like a neatly choreographed fascist ballet. The Jerusalem-based correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail noted: "The speed and intensity with which governments around the world condemned the Israeli behavior appear unprecedented."
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy criticized the "disproportionate use of force"...the preferred term among fascists when describing Israel's (or the U.S.'s) attempt to defend itself.
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the organizer of the flotilla, called the incident "state terrorism." His foreign minister described it as "piracy," "banditry" and "barbarism."
Also playing the "barbarism" card were Saudi Arabia and Syria ("blatant defiance of . . . civilized values"), both paragons human rights.
Italy's foreign undersecretary, Stefania Craxi, called it the "the massacre of Gaza."
Russia, fresh from it's Georgia adventure, condemned "the use of force against civilians."
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists: "an open attack on civil society" and the "true face of barbarism."
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was "shocked." SHOCKED!!! to find gambling going on at this establishment!
Denmark, Spain, Greece and Sweden summoned their Israeli ambassadors home for an explanation. That'll show those evil Jews just who's boss!!
British Foreign Secretary William Hague extended his sympathy to the families of the victims.
The Vatican voiced its "concern."
The president of Bosnia likened the Gaza blockade to the 1992-96 siege of Sarajevo (at least 10,000 dead).
The president of the European Parliament drew attention to a breach of the "fourth Geneva Convention."
"Spontaneous" pro-Palestinian demonstrations magically materialized in Times Square, on the Champs Élysées, and in the streets of Washington, London, Rome, Cyprus, Oslo, Stockholm and Athens. Islamic Rage Boy anyone?
All on que...like it was all pre-arranged the night before the incident. That is what Leftists do...astro-turf demonstrations.
Then the Israeli Defense Force video of the "peace activists" beating Israeli soldiers went viral and the anti-Semitic air went out of the whole thing. The U.S. delegation at the U.N. Monday managed to dilute the language that Turkey demanded from the Security Council resolution. The negotiations slipped past midnight into Tuesday morning when Lebanon's presidency of the Security Council expired and passed to a dis-interested Me-he-co. As the truth put a damper on the faux outrage the urgency was not so urgent.
And then some interesting tidbits about Turkey's involvement in the flotilla began to emerge.
For the better part of a decade the people of Turkey have given up on what passes for freedom in that country so that they could hand power over
to the Islamist AKP Party. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergodan has likened Israel to "a festering boil in the Middle East that spreads hate and enmity," while his foreign minister compares the Israeli naval raid on the "peace" flotilla, in which nine terrorists were killed, to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Wall Street Journal notes the following about the Turkish Government and it's ties to the Hamas linked "Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief" -- the group that sponsored the flotilla:
Yet the more facts that come to light about the flotilla, its passengers and their sponsors, the more it seems clear that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergodan's government, far more so than Israel's, must be held to account for Monday's violent episode. Maybe that's something the U.N. Human Rights Council, which on Wednesday condemned Israel for an "outrageous attack" and voted 32-3 to set up a "fact-finding mission" (with the U.S. in opposition), might get around to investigating, though we wouldn't hold our breath.
The Turkish accounting should begin with a full explanation from the government of its relationship with the IHH, an Istanbul-based Islamic "charity" that purchased three of the six boats used in the flotilla from the city government, sent hundreds of its activists along with it, and reportedly has ties to Turkey's ruling Islamist AKP Party.
The IHH-the Turkish acronym for the "Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief"-has widely reported links to Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza and most directly threatens Israel. Moreover, in the 2001 Seattle trial of Ahmed Ressam, the would-be Millennium bomber, French counterterrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere testified that the IHH had played an "important role" in Ressam's plot to bomb LAX airport on New Year's Day, 2000, and that there was "a rather close relation" between the bomber and the Turkish group.
In a 2006 study for the Danish Institute for International Studies, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann noted that Turkey had known of the IHH links to terrorism for at least a decade.
Yet knowing all this, the Turkish government made no effort to prevent the flotilla from setting sail. The government also seems unembarrassed that the IHH belongs to a Saudi-based umbrella group of Islamic charities known as "The Union of the Good," which the U.S. Treasury designated a terrorist organization in November 2008. On the contrary, Mr. Erdogan has been outspoken in his calls for the world to recognize Hamas, even as his relations with the more moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas have been notably cool.
So where does this leave Israel and the Jews?
The Jerusalem Post's Yossi Klein Halevi writes that Israelis must be wondering whether the world has lost it's collective mind:
By appealing to the world's conscience, Israel's jihadist enemies have learned how to turn their relative powerlessness into a strategic asset. Israel is being increasingly forced to choose between self-defense and acceptance by the nations. The likely result will be a growing sense of empowerment among jihadists, and a growing sense of desperation among Israelis.
Israelis watch with cynical astonishment as the U.N. Security Council urgently convenes to create a Commission of Inquiry-yet another anti-Israel kangaroo court-even as the sanctions effort against Iran's nuclear program falters. They contrast the banner headlines in the world's media over the flotilla with the barely noted news item of recent days that Tehran now has enough uranium for two nuclear bombs. And as some self-described friends of Israel are publicly wondering whether the Jewish state needs to be "saved from itself," Israelis reciprocate the outrage and ask: Has the world lost its mind?
Klein's comments would make sense if one believes that the world was moving away from anti-Semitism until the 9-11 attacks. But it hasn't. A quick read of Robert Wistrich's excellent
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad suggests that this sickness is here to stay. Indeed it would exist even if all of the Jews were to disappear tomorrow. Wistrich's evidence for this
points to Japan where there are virtually no Jews and anti-Semitism is rampant, or Europe where, after WWII, Europeans blamed their misery on the Jews. Anti-Semitism actually increased even after the vast majority of Jews were murdered or left for Israel.
Pamela Geller Writing at Atlas Shrugs:
Obama is not a passive, weak or naive player in the Muslim/Jewish conflict. He was wet-nursed on Jew-hatred. He grew up in a Muslim country and studied the Koran. He knows what is prescribed for the Jews in Islam. He knows that the Koran says that the Jews are the Muslims' worst enemies (5:82) and that "ignominy shall be their portion wheresoever they are found" (3:112).
I am staggered by the speed with which Obama has sought to undermine the Jewish people.
But now here we are. Jews may then have tried to avoid Obama's anti-Semitism, but they cannot now avoid the consequences of avoiding Obama's anti-Semitism. He has unleashed an evil in this world the extent of which we are only now beginning to see. He has made the world safe for haters and killers. The post-World War II peace was no accident; it was a direct result of American hegemony. But now he is following the European lead and unraveling it. Europe learned the wrong lessons from the war and the Holocaust. The lesson that Europe decided to take from Auschwitz was that everything was caused by nationalism. European leaders decided that therefore what they really needed was a European Union that would obviate their need for nationalism and prevent another Auschwitz.
Perhaps Europe was also getting back to its roots...they were all too willing to embrace Obama as a savior when he showed up as Mr. World Citizen in the heady summer of 2008. He touched that raw fascistic nerve that is in the DNA of all statists, especially in Europe, the ancestral home of Communism and Nazism. Europeans always recognize a facist and Jew-hater when they see one.
We Con The World (The cowards at YouTube of scrubbed this video)
