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Posted in: Maudit tabernac, is Adam Hasner going there?
This is absolutely amazing. Republicans could end up nominating Jewish Senate candidates in both Florida and Ohio to run against two Democrat incumbent liberals (one of whom - Sherrod Brown - absolutely HATES Israel) and Ron Kampeas chooses to alight upon a couple of substantively insignificant matters in order to rain on Adam Hasner's parade. The consequences of this playing up nothing are, of course, real: This nonsense from Kampeas might just cost Hasner a place on the ballot where having a Jewish Republican on the Republican Senate ballot line might decisively contribute to retiring Barack Obama. But leave it to Jewish liberals to cavil over something that doesn't amount a hill of beans in circumstances where vital stakes impend. This piece alone will keep me, forever, from contributing to the JTA.
Posted in: Who cares if Murdoch is pro-Israel?
It's hard to chart the depths of stupidity which Jane Eisner arrives at in the piece referenced; and what literal idiocy Samuel Prince and Moishgil have descended to in their comments here. Specifically, it comes as news that the Cameron Conservative Party government can be fairly characterized as Israel's "ally." Second, the phrase "a corporate culture that privileged power and aggression over respect for privacy and common decency" (the word 'privileged' being the operative verb in the tangled web) shows off the moral confusion - cum didactic overload, cum sententious and ill-conceived self-righteousness - which is veritably emblematic of the overwrought left; the left of rhetoric in the key of the morally grandiose and accompanying reasoning which is, always and invariably, diaphanous. Finally, the whole business of characterizing the News of the World as a "flagship" of the Murdoch empire serves to prove only the likelihood that Ms. Eisner doesn't read (and maybe hasn't even heard of) either the Wall Street Journal or the Times of London. That such a woman has acolytes like Prince and Moishgil also proves something: that left wing idiots run in packs!
Posted in: After prayer and punch, Foreman takes Jewish victory lap
Steve - After December 3d we will have/claim multiple champions again.
Posted in: Huckabee on evangelicals, Palestinian state
Huckabee has it exactly right. The (largely) unspoken truth worth repeating is that American Jews, given the luxury of geographic remove and the degree of affluence attained by Jews in the United States, have, by and large, bought into every imaginable kind of illusion concerning our enemies and their intentions. Christian evangelicals, on the other hand, have a much more grounded/sane view of what it will take for Jewish sovereignty to perpetuate. In this condition, the notion that Christian evangelicals are Israel's best friends here is not only plausible, but also all but ineluctable. And don't anyone give me that nonsense impugning the motives of Christians who support the extension/perpetuation of a Jewish sovereign national existence for the fact that (a part of) this support springs from an eschatology which ought to be "alien" to Jews. When American Jewish liberals depart from the mentality whereof , say, abortion rights is more important than Israel, then these self-hating knaves might gain some standing in the contention as to whom (and what) is good for the Jews. Until then, these Jewish liberals should just shut up. And from the mere fact that 76-78% of us found a way to vote for a President who is, beyond peradventure, outright pro-Arab, hostile to the security interests of Israel and named "Hussein" to boot, this silence ought to last for a good long time.
Posted in: Gates, Crowley and the Jews
I don't think that Gates can be accused of being an antisemite, only of throwing his weight around when his bigger than warranted ego got in a snare.
Posted in: Nixon: If only the Jews would behave....
I listened to these tapes (thanks to JTA for the link) - all twenty minutes, six seconds and I must say that there exists nothing in them which even remotely makes Nixon out as an anti-semite. The person calling the tune over the course of this recorded phone conversation - utzing, if you will - is the Reverend Graham who is playing to Nixon's insecurities and paranoia to the point of eliciting certain comments which look very bad as a matter of historical record (and may even be revealing as to certain deep seated prejudices which Nixon harbored). However, it pays to remember that when the chips were down, some nine or ten months later, Nixon put his foot down directly against the grain of the Pentagon and ordered a massive resupply of munitions to Israel in a manner which allowed her to turn the tide against our enemies. As for the description of the Reverend Graham as "an uneducated street tent preacher", I think that amounts to a pitch perfect description - except for leaving out, or eliding his dangerous talent for demagoguery. Thankfully, that latter element seems to have passed even before the right Reverend has met his physical demise..
Posted in: Diskin: No peace while Hamas runs Gaza
I'm glad these statements are appearing at this time as counter to what will be the Obama Administration's attempt to wring unwarranted concessions from Israel in favor of the Palestineans. More such testimony needs to be taken in Knesset committees.
Posted in: Demjanjuk deported
These criminals in our midst need to be hounded to their graves and, if need be, to hell thereafter. I hope this animal dies a slow excruciated death after findings/verdicts constituting justice are rendered.
Posted in: Ahmadinejad at Durban II: The Video
It's almost amusing (if not entirely funny) to watch this little weasel preaching to his rump caucus of third and fourth world flunkies and satraps for various despotisms and arrantly corrupt, expensively clothed UN bureaucrats. Of this menagerie of anti-semites much might be said, but the word "hypocrisy" hasn't fulfilled its meaning until the video appears as caption to it in the dictionary. The spectacle of representatives for countries whose denizens appear to be about two weeks away from swinging from trees is, if not merely appalling, something to behold with a sense of humor. Watching this little moron rant to the fulsome cheers and applause offered reminds me that what passes for civilization is indeed only skin deep.
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Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
Posted in: Sydney Cohen, early IAF leader, dies at 90
12/06/11 02:45 PM
The heroes of the founding should not be forgotten. Sydney Cohen remains, within yizkor, a worthy icon and emblem for them.