These are NOT your father’s Democrats
By Mario Goveia
As a non-Jewish American supporter of Israel’s right to exist in peace and security, it has become increasingly apparent to me that some of the most virulent Bush-haters and far-left-wing Americans supporting Barack Obama, are Jews! Good heavens! Do they have any idea what the real and psychological pressure will be like on Israel if the US administration is put in the hands of Barack Obama, who would embolden Israel’s mortal enemies by making inappropriate moral equivalencies, as he has already done, and recognizing Israel’s enemies as “legitimate” seekers of peace by meeting with them without any pre-conditions?
What compromise position do you imagine Obama is going to propose in such a meeting when Ahmadinejad, or Assad or – take your pick – re-iterate their ultimate goal regarding Israel, now further emboldened by Obama’s obsequious presence at the table??
What would make Obama’s election a Perfect Storm for Israel are far left wing Congressional Democrat leaders like Nancy “The surge is not working” Pelosi and Harry “We have lost in Iraq” Reid. Don’t kid yourselves that these sentiments are restricted to Iraq. What kind of national political leadership openly cheers for its own country to fail, and declares defeat right in the middle of a war? What kind of national political leadership continues to fail to recognize what America has achieved in Iraq – an epic and now increasingly successful attempt to plant the seeds of freedom and democracy in places where these had never been experienced before – thus providing Israel with some relief, however small at the moment, from radical dictatorships that have decided in lockstep since 1947 that Israel must be wiped from the face of the earth?
Only Israel’s survival instincts and strength and American resolve has prevented a second Holocaust from happening. Only Joe Lieberman’s lone vote has often stood between an American retreat, which is tantamount to a defeat, and the current victory that is at hand. Why Lieberman continues to caucus with the Democrats after they tried to destroy him and his political career is about as big a mystery to me as the majority of American Jews who blindly vote for Democrats at every level.
When I came to this country as an immigrant 37 years ago I learned how to deal with it from Jews whom I used as role models, and their lessons and example served us well. They stood for higher education, working harder than anyone else, strong family and community values, rugged independence and self-reliance, standing up to discrimination, helping those in need, and protecting with their lives the only sliver of freedom and democracy in the middle-east over the last four decades.
Can ANY of these traits be found in the heart and soul of the MODERN Democrat party? The Republican party’s many faults are all such that they can be changed from within because their heart and soul is still in the right place, they still support the factors that made America great. But if the far left loons who control the Democrats of today – just read their websites and blogs – could rip Hillary and Bill Clinton to shreds, classify them as right-wingers and warmongers – and less than 10% of blacks would support her after calling him the first black US President, then the writing is on the wall. Sadly, the blind cannot see.
In the meantime Osama Bin Laden is planning a radical Caliphate from which to promote Sharia law worldwide, by force if necessary, with only Israel standing in his way regionally, and the US globally – perhaps, sadly, only until this next election. Who can fail to see the subliminal moral equivalencies being made by the Democrat leaders between tyranny and those opposing tyranny, all couched in political spin in order to fool the gullible? When America is blamed for not using enough diplomacy before using force to subdue Saddam Hussein, when George Bush is being blamed for not bringing the feckless western Europeans on board, swept under the rug is the fact that France was trying to lift the UN sanctions and had said they would not allow the regime change in Iraq, “No matter what” in the infamous words of French Foreign Minister, Dominic de Villepain. The fact that the entire world had already tried to force Saddam to comply for 12 long years is also swept under the rug, as are the 17 UN resolutions that demanded to know what he had done with his WMDs as he had agreed to do in the cease-fire treaty he signed in 1991 after being ejected from Kuwait.
If you still have an open mind, ask yourselves, would 9/11 have happened if Democrat icon, Bill Clinton had taken some action against the numerous attacks by Al Qaeda throughout the 90′s starting in New York in 1993? How many even know that Clinton refused to take Osama Bin Laden from Sudan after THREE offers according to the go-between, Pakistani businessman and journalist, Mansoor Ijaz? He was concerned about not having legal “probable cause” even though Bin Laden had claimed responsibility for the attacks. Clinton and the Democrats refused to see Al Qaeda as terrorists, only as criminals.
How many know that the CIA agent tasked with finding Bin Laden prior to 2001, Michael Scheuer, has documented and detailed the THIRTEEN times the CIA had Osama in their gun-sights after he left Sudan for Afghanistan, and waited in vain for the approval from the Clinton White House to pull the trigger, until the opportunity had passed, ostensibly for fear that there may be collateral damage? How many of you know that Osama was so emboldened by all this that he ostentatiously declared war on the US in 1998 and said that America was a “weak horse” that no longer had the will to withstand Al Qaeda, the “strong horse”?
Does anyone out there really believe that Barack Obama would be any more resolute and decisive in these circumstances than Bill Clinton? Do you think John McCain or Sarah Palin would hesitate for even a second to pull the trigger with Osama in their sights?
Bush only had 8 months after the delayed election results in 2000 before he had to scramble to dig us out from what Clinton did to gut our national defense and intelligence services with budget cuts and higher “walls” and bans on what the FBI and CIA could and could not do and his failure to respond to Al Qaeda’s serial attacks.
After 9/11/2001 the world had changed forever by the worst attack on the US mainland in history that targeted mostly hapless American citizens, and a SUICIDE attack at that. Add to that the growing communications between Iraq and Al Qaeda, Saddam menacing his own Kurd and Shia and Israel and other American allies while refusing to disclose his cache of WMDs, and France, China and Russia fighting to have the UN sanctions removed. Could any responsible US president wait any longer to change the regime that could easily provide Al Qaeda with chemical or biological or nuclear dirty bombs for another suicide attack on the US, this time with far greater casualties? That is the scenario that faced President Bush, and as Sarah Palin puts it with her amazing knack for pithy simplicity, a leader cannot blink.
Thankfully, President Bush decided not to be a “weak horse” any longer but an angry giant, provoked once too often.
Thank God America is still a country where young Americans VOLUNTEER to risk and give their lives to help others in need, while being sneered at by the liberal elites who populate the salons in mostly the east and west coasts and talk loftily of “bitter Americans, clinging to their guns and religion”. Sarah Palin, pithy as usual, remarked that that sounded like it was people like her they are talking about, except that she is anything but bitter. Who would you choose to be in your foxhole in a firefight? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama? No doubt it would be her, right? If you valued your life, that is.
Do you really think the raising the income tax rates, investment tax rates, withholding tax rates and estate tax rates of the most productive Americans is going to work just when the economy needs more taxes revenues that the Bush tax rates cuts have provided since 2001? Do you think nationalized health care is the answer? Our Canadian friends come south for urgent and critical treatment. Where are you going to go?
Thankfully, if America decides to punish itself this year, an Obama presidency is likely to be as short as the feckless Jimmy Carter presidency that it is promising to replicate. But it took Reagan years to dig ourselves out of that one, and just in time to help the USSR to implode.
With all this as prologue, I have never been able to figure out for the life of me what any American Jew has in common with the MODERN Democratic party. The old Democratic party prior to 2000, OK, except for the embarrassing Jimmy Carter era. But since Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Pelosi, Reid, and now Obama, Biden, Soros, Moore, and the MoveOn.org and DailyKos.com which have taken control of the heart and soul of the party??? Self-serving hypocrite after self-promoting hypocrite who would make us weak and feckless like the western Europeans they admire, who are incapable of standing up to anyone anymore without our security guarantee, leave alone being able to defend liberty as in days gone by?
Then we see Hillary Clinton pulling an appalling political stunt by withdrawing from a Jewish-sponsored protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York, a man who threatens to wipe Israel off the map on an almost weekly basis and thumbs his nose at the entire international community, just like Saddam did, just because they had also invited Sarah Palin as a guest. Wouldn’t this have been a great opportunity to put aside political rancor and show some joint solidarity for Israel and against Iran? Are these the people who are going to bring us all together as they claim?
These are NOT your father’s Democrats – believe me. National and international security does not supercede their narrow political calculations, and the evidence is there for all to see. In domestic policy their prescriptions have all been tried and rejected in several countries around the world.
Only Joe Lieberman remains like a relic of what Jewish Democrats used to be like and, after this speech at the Republican Convention, he is going to be crucified by the far left loons who run the party, headed by the manic Howard Dean. If the Democrats win one more seat in the Senate, Lieberman is toast. It’s high time he jumped off his fence and put Harry Reid back where he belongs, under a rock someplace in Nevada.
For Jewish Americans all I can say is THINK of all that is at stake before you pull that lever on November 4.
I have never understood how the American Jews can support Democrats, they have done and will continue to undermine Israel at every turn.
Right now the Democrats are holding up an arms shipment to Israel because it will be used to defend against Iran
Mario Goveia is spot on in showing what Obama and his clique of “new” Democrats really are when it comes to national security and the military.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is not limited to the present U.S. Presidential candidates. We find exactly the same thing in Canada and in Europe: the Left is reluctant to recognize evil, let alone to confront it. That is the fundamental philosophical difference.
And the reason for that is that the Left has been busy creating the utopia of global equality: all peoples, cultures, ideas, religions, traditions are equally valid and are part of the larger single World of which all of us should be Citizens. In that vein, national aspirations are dismissed as obsolete, if not squarely scoffed at. That explains why Europeans – who for the most part have an ingrained leftist mentality, regardless of the government they elect – are against Zionism (why on earth would a small people would be so exclusive as to aspire to its own nation?!!) and against America and its strong national character. And in this “nationless” worldview, Islam becomes the natural ally (as Communism used to be in the 1950-70s).
I only wish Americans would free themselves from the siren call of Obama’s empty rhetoric and see the pit before they fall into it. As for American Jews, it seems that a large portion of them suffer from an extra layer of suicidal “Tikkun Olam”.
Historically, American Jewish voters have adjusted their voting preferences according to a candidate’s policies toward Israel. About 20% of such voters may switch parties, as they did against Carter in 1980 and Bush in 1992, because of the candidate’s actions against the “mother country”. Apart from this, perhaps 20% normally vote Republican and 60% Democrat.
It is nice to see, 60 years after the founding of Medinat Israel, that perhaps half of Jewish voters consider US poliicy toward Israel to be an important election issue. I’m not surprized that perhaps another half of them really aren’t that concerned about Israel, or are even antagonistic toward her. Most American Jews are very different from Israeli Jews. Their main religious affiliations (Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionsist) hardly exist in Israel. NON-religious American Jews are probably more similar to their Israeli counterparts than the religious; and both American and Israeli secular Jews seem to have a “post-Zionist” worldview.
I think Israel is more of an issue with Evangelical Christian voters, than it is with Jewish voters. I don’t know how much Jews know this, but most of the references in Christian sermons come from the Old Testament. That’s where all the graphic examples are, of God’s dealings with mankind; and wherease the Christian Messiah is talked ABOUT in the New Testament, his heart attitude is revealed in the Psalms. Most Christians are not Bible scholars, and they don’t know the context of the passages cited. The end result, is that the Evangelicals tend to have a great affinity for the Jews IN ISRAEL. American Jews, on the other hand, are sort of odd ducks, because they don’t resemble the Jews in the Bible very much. It doesn’t surprise me, therefore, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone here, that American Christians (of the Evangelical stripe) are very supportive of Israel at the same time that they’re ignorant of American Jews and politically the antithesis of them.
That’s all a generalization, I know; but is seems to fit what I’ve seen.
Shalom shalom
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Thank G-d for the Mario Goveias of the world. He is indeed a righteous Gentile and Israel needs all the supports it can get from Jews and Gentiles. What is shocking is the absolute ignorance (yes, I mean Ignorance) of so many American Jewish Democrats who take actions that are both anti-Jewish and anti-Israel. Leaves me scratching my head in wonder.
The Internatinal Fellowship of Jews and Christians is what it’s all about. I will also refer you over to Revelation twenty one and twenty two where the twelve tribes of Israel are written with the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, FAITHFUL Jews and FAITHFUL Christians will one day live together under the God of Israel. There will be no more Islam, no more homosexuals, no more murderers, no more child molestors, no more adulterers, liars, perverts or thieves, no more democrats, no more communists, no more socialists, no more capitalists, no more Johh Lennon’s singing about a worthless imagination of a universe without God, no more evil or sin or death or war or fighting or hate or division, no more devil or fallen angels or demons or trolls or clones, no more stupid people, retards, no more sickness, suffering or turmoil. In TRUTH, Randy Alcorn’s book about HEAVEN narrates perfectly what Jews and Gentiles can look forward to in God’s Coming Kingdom. There will also be no more Jews or Christians, just BELIEVERS in the God of Israel united under ONE KING! We have a brighter future in store and the kind of CHANGES that the democratic party are trying to bring will never hurt us, harm us, oppress us, injure us, exploit us, deceive us, or murder us ever again.
Imagine Obama in charge of all intelligence agencies.
Bush is a scumbag! His granddaddie sold zyclonb gas to the nazis, furthermore they defrauded the American public of billions! It is not a question of reps vs. dems! They are both horrible. Humans can be for themselves! I hate most of the Israeli governments and their pathetic excuse for a judicial system! i AM jEWISH and still despise them. They are total elitists! I could run Israel blindfolded better!
“Mi’dvar shehker tirchak” – “Distance yourself from a false matter” – Exodus 23:7
There’s that unreliable source again, John Loftus. When will you folks learn to stay away from these sensationalists?! There a dime a dozen.
EDIT: Note that I’m not arguing about the “scumbag” reference.
this is a significant issue to be discussed. sadly, jews may be more apt to read and agree with a non-jew writing this than a jew! alas, the powers of assimilation.
what is most significant here is the resultant failure of jewish perception due to a lack in proper jewish education. consequently, assimilated ‘liberal/lefty’ jews ascribe the powerful justice visions of the hebrew prophets to their own smaller, leftist influenced agendas.
how often do you hear or see a traditionally educated jew espousing liberal/lefty views on israel etc?
the big question here is how to return such jews to the emes, the truth. the main one being george schwartz aka soros.
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I have to agree with one of the comments above. I have a problem with the “my opinion’s the only right one”. It’s quite typical of what I see in the Republican party today. I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, nor do I vote. If you really believe that your vote counts, take another look at 2000 and at the primaries today.
If you think McCain will be any better for Israel than Obama, you’re in for a big surprise. They are one and the same, just different approaches. The US is as much an enemy of Israel as any other nation; even more so as it “pretends” to be a friend, all the while making deals with Israel’s enemies behind her back. You state “Do they have any idea what the real and psychological pressure will be like on Israel if the US administration is put in the hands of Barack Obama”. You must be sleeping. The Bush administration has placed very “real and psychological pressure” on Israel, the likes of no previous US president has ever done. Bush is more worried about making the leader of the Fatah terrorist group look good than he is about the safety of Jewish lives, many of which are US citizens. He provides more support for the Fatah terrorists than for his own military. The only concern Bush has for Israel is how can it be used for the greater good of the US. If not for Israel, the US would have lost the Cold War. Only because of Israel’s intelligence was the US able to keep track of Russia.
War on terrorism? No, there never has been one. It’s only those people that Bush, Cheney and the likes declare as terrorists. I guess when your idol is the Republican party — right or wrong — then you can’t see these things.
Wake up, see them for what they are — political whores, each one willing to sell their soul for another year in office, or a higher office. No righteousness there.
“Stop being good Democrats…Stop being good Republicans…and start being Good Americans.” I just finished watching the disturbing film – “America: Freedom to Fascism” and encourage all my fellow American citizens to do the same, think about it, talk about, and act accordingly, so help us God.
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I must sadly agree with LeeU about American politicians saying one thing re: Israel and doing the opposite.
One of the Rabbis Rabinowitz once said, “Scratch the unredeemed heart and you will find an anti-Semite”.
I am not pronouncing Bush or any other professing Christian an “unredeemed heart”. (Well, maybe James Baker.) Maybe they are just weak and surrounded with stupid advisors; they are certainly under pressures we can’t even imagine.
McCain has been pretty sound re: Israel and he’s maybe a little tougher than GWB. But the good news for Jews this election is Sarah Palin, whose love for the Jewish people is God-implanted, which means it cannot be shaken or diluted. I came out of my chair when she squared her chin and narrowed her eyes at Charlie Gibson and said for the third time, “WE CANNOT SECOND GUESS THE STEPS THAT ISRAEL HAS TO TAKE TO DEFEND ITSELF!!!”
Sarah Palin-type Christians–the “fundies”– constitute Israel’s only absolutely steadfast friends in this world. Why, for crying out loud, do you think the left and its mouthpiece media despise them so?
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Here is how McCain will be a “stronger President”. Again, I don’t support either party.
It is perhaps the unequivocal support of Israel expressed by McCain/Palin that could be giving the American public some heartburn and turning their vote towards Obama.
America is, to say the least, war weary and growing more war averse every day.
I suspect there could well be an increasing general sense of unease over the McCain/Palin ticket because of some fear that if Israel is attacked by Iran and their Islamist allies, as Ahmadinejad seems chafing at the bit to do and such war seems it will happen sooner rather then later, that support could, if McCain/Palin win, draw America into yet another war, where America stands with Israel against the Islamist hordes.
As noted before by others on these pages, the American Jewish Democrats are focussing on petty partisan political matters in their choice of Obama over McCain or on pista meisas as my baba used to say and all but forgetting about Israel and which candidate would be Israel’s strongest ally and the Jewish community’s strongest protector.