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Posted in: GOP debate has one Israel mention, and Santorum points out a policy rift
Part II, but in her "ignorant" way, her sensible, American compass is a much more reliable guide to the Middle East and Israel's place in it than all the "geniuses" in Obama's cabinet. You seem like a concerned and intelligent person, Can't you see that all this Democratic "wisdom" is lleading us to a "Arab spring" surprise, of a very unpleasant variety?
Posted in: GOP debate has one Israel mention, and Santorum points out a policy rift
daliya: Obama is supposed to be educated. Has his education led him to the conviction that we in the West must bow down to Islam? Must we feel that we somehow have harmed them? Must Israel be a sacrificial lamb to that tenet? How "ignorant" does anybody have to be to see that even though Israel has in ALL instances has deliberately put itself in harm's way in the hope of "achieving peace" with her neighbors, those neighbors have responded with hostility each time! Is Iranian hostility justified by anything Israel has done? Has returning the Sinai and keeping the peace for thirty years not been enough of a goodwill gesture? What is the Egyptian complaint, and why do they act the way they do, thirsting for Jewish blood? So, how educated do you have to be to understand that? Yes, Michelle Bachmann is no Harvard scholar
Posted in: The Nixon tapes: Kissinger under the spotlight
Of course, rumours have been flying about as to who, exactly, was responsible for the emergency resupply of Israel in 1973, Nixon or Kissinger? We, Jews, had hoped that Kissinger was the one. For after all, who can be trusted to react positively when other Jews are in peril, but another Jew, especially if he himself has already felt in the scorching and poisonous breath of the hound. Who else could have been a more persuasive advisor at that time? That's why the sense of betrayal here is ever so acute. How could he? But look at George Soros whose political and financial activities continue to be detrimental to Jewish well-being now as Kissinger's apparent indifference could have been at a point of a historical crisis. As one who shook his hand at an occasion in New York a few years ago, I washed mine more vigorously this morning. Nathan Shuster
Posted in: Glenn Beck and the limits of Soros-bashing
Leroy and Ike, don't just take my word for it: SOROS SPENT BILLIONS TO UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY by: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer November 14, 2010 Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is sometimes caricatured by his opponents as a left-wing Bond villain, but cut through the hyperbole and there are good reasons why Soros truly is far more threatening than just another wealthy liberal. Soros isn't merely content with spending money to work within the system to elect Democrats, promote liberal policies, and otherwise shape the public debate. He has spent millions of dollars to change the very machinery of our democracy. In a center-right country, it's very hard to elect liberal leaders and enact left-wing policies. So Soros wants less democracy and in some cases wants to do away with elections altogether. According to an American Justice Partnership report, Soros' Open Society Institute has "funneled at least $45.4 million into a highly coordinated campaign to reshape the judiciary and fundamentally change the way judges are chosen in many American states." Soros' millions are funding Justice at Stake, whose explicit goal is to do away with the election of state judges. JAS wants a "merit system" that would empower "nonpartisan" panels selected by state officials to make judicial appointments. These panels would likely be dominated by the state's bar association and legal interests. A similar system for appointing judges is already in place in Missouri, where the judicial selection panel consists of the state Supreme Court's chief justice, three lawyers chosen by the Missouri Bar and three gubernatorial appointees. Soros' OSI argues such a system is necessary because "in recent years big money and special interest political pressure have become a staple of judicial campaigns, raising questions about the integrity of U.S. courts." The newly funded Soros program "seeks to counter the influence of political and special interest groups." Of course, if you're worried about special interests dominating judicial elections, the OSI/JAS alternative is even worse. That's because state bar associations and legal groups are dominated by trial lawyers. Lawyers and law firms are the seventh biggest political donors of "all time," according to Opensecrets.org, and dominate state politics in parts of the country. The judicial system should maintain a necessary degree of impartiality, but America's founders certainly didn't intend for judges to be unmoored from democracy. About 95 percent of America's civil disputes end up in state courts. That's an enormous amount of power, which needs checks and balances. There's a reason why 87 percent of America's judges are elected. There are many signs that Americans are increasingly wary of activist judges imposing liberal policies against the public will. On Nov. 2, voters in Iowa for the first time ever ousted three sitting state Supreme Court judges. All three had voted to legalize gay marriage. And Nevada voters rejected a statewide initiative to implement a judicial selection system like that sought by Soros' JAS. It also turns out Missouri's vaunted "merit system," which was the template for the OSI's initiative, actually increases politicization. For 70 years, the Show Me State's judicial selection process was conducted behind closed doors. The result? A 2009 Missouri Law Review article found 87 percent of judicial nominees in Missouri had donated money primarily to Democrats, in a state where the electorate is near evenly divided between the two parties. After a grass-roots backlash, Missouri changed the rules in October. Residents can now observe the state panel's interviews of prospective judges, nominate potential candidates and determine the panel's votes. Soros is lobbying to preserve the courts as an avenue for enacting liberal policies that won't be supported by popular will. If Soros really cared about corrupt judicial elections, he would lobby for more transparency and more democracy, not less. Mark Hemingway is an editorial page staff writer for The Examiner. He can be reached at mhemingway@washingtonexaminer.com Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Soros-uses-his-billions-to-undermine-democracy-1564707-108011199.html#ixzz15ODpQ6B8
Posted in: Glenn Beck and the limits of Soros-bashing
Nice try Semaya, but no cigar. Well, I DO know Soros' past. In trying to white-wash Soros, you trip over your canoe-sized shoes. Yes, a fourteen-year old facing periil may be excused, especially one coming from a nominally Jewish home where he had already picked up his antagonism towards Jewish hopes and aspirations. But what has this man been doing for the last sixty years? You don't know? He's been spending a fortune - billions! - undermining America AND Israel. Surely, you know that, don't you? How would you describe this devotion and generocity to our enemies' causes? They're not your enemies, you say? Give me Glenn Beck any day.
Posted in: Glenn Beck and the limits of Soros-bashing
I have nothing positive to say about Soros, personally, or obout his business or political activities. He is no friend of the Jewish people, nor of Israel. In fact, one can count him among Israel's foes, if you consider the kind of causes he champions and finances, Leroy, (What sort of name is this for a Jew?) when did Beck set standards for Jews? It doesn't happen on his show. He IS baffled about Jewish voting patterns, but so am I. JTA, Are you speaking to me?
Posted in: Post-electoral pillow talk
Carl Maltzman is perfect evidence of a blinkered Jew whose inability to compare the pro-Israel record of Republican presidents with that of Carter and Obama is obvious enough. Yes, there are some anti-Israel elements in the GOP ranks; however, compared to the Jacksons, Sharptons, Byrds, as well as some others, not necessarily in front ranks, the Republicans have a keener understanding of and sympathy for Israel's struggle and their constituency is Israel-friendly, unlike that of the various components that make up the Democratic party. To have Jews close their eyes and ears to the consistent hostility of their party to Israel (in order to appease their ranks) is beyond belief.
Posted in: Political Points--Up, Up and Away we go
jpeditor: What's with these ever-so clever Jewish democrats? Why do they continue clinging to the boots that keep kicking them (as Jews) in the face? I find all this both infuriating and puzzling. In spite all of the explanations about unions, tenements of the '30s, Roosevelt (come to think of it he wasn't that good for the Jews either), and the general religious commandment for tikun olam, to which non-religious Jews have become totally devoted at the price of Israel, this behavior signifies a psychological disturbance. And, that's no good.
Posted in: Don't burn books
How courageous you are in publishing articles admonishing defenders of Jewish and Israeli rights? I have yet to see, your publication attacking Obama and his cohorts for their obvious partiality towards the cause of the enemy of Jews and America. Are you blind, deaf or just incapable of understanding? Pperhaps, it's your dogma that stands in the way of clear vision? N.Shuster
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- 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
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Posted in: Mearsheimer, Goldberg, Atzmon
09/27/11 02:19 PM
Why, oh, why do so many of our "more thoughtful" journalists find it difficult to find anti-Semitism as a motive in the writinigs of our (respected" acadenics? Alfred Rosenberg was an anti-Semite, and so was Josef Goebbels. And they were Phds from universities with an even more "prestigious" reputations than those of Walt and Mearsheimer. In fact, anti-Semitism is very much alive in the halls of America's universities.