October 14, 2008

Jesse on O

by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Many will remember the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “Hymietown” remark in 1984. Jackson’s comments back then roiled Americans shocked to discover black anti-Semitism after American Jews had been stout allies, not only in the Civil Rights era of the 1960′s, but since the early twentieth-century. Now, in addition to Jackson, we have that rabid antisemite, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan, who has extolled Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) as the “new Messiah”.

Given whence this comes from Minister Farrakhan, should we also read that to mean that BHO is also a possible Mahdi – the Islamic version of a Messiah?

And now there is this revelatory article in today’s New York Post by Amir Taheri, “The O Jesse Knows-Jackson on Obama’s America.” Taheri attended last week’s World Policy Conference in Evian, France, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson held forth on the ‘new world order’ should BHO become our next elected President.

Note carefully the Rev, Jackson’s remarks. Note his callous delight, even glee, at the future abandonment of support for Israel, the ‘crushing’ of the alleged Jewish lobby influence in the Congress and White House, the neo-Marxist economic logic that helped get us into trouble in the current financial crisis with government -encouraged low-income home mortgages, his bizarre defense of the late Saddam Hussein in Iraq. his support for engagement with nuclear Iran and with the Islamic world.

Not “appeasement” but “capitulation” appears to be the neon sign blinking over the Rev. Jackson’s photograph.

For those of you predisposed to pull a lever for BHO, possibly this piece by Taheri will bring you up short, especially those who regard themselves, Jewish or not, as committed American supporters of Israel and its continued existence.

Pity the Jewish “bubbes and zaydies” — the stuff of stereotypes, not all of them sympathetic — in Florida who are, so we are told, being inundated by pro-Obama propaganda delivered in person by sons, daughters and grandchildren roped into the Great Schlep trek south by the likes of Comedian Sarah Silverman, Youth Leading Age to cast a ballot for BHO . Perhaps Age will lead youth, if enough of those besieged grandparents persuade their meddling grandchildren who suddenly appear are persuaded to read this Taheri article, while offering them those hard candies referred to in the Great Schlep cartoon by Israeli cartoonist Dry Bones.

Note these comments from the creator of “hymietown”, Rev. Jackson. His voice and that of others like him will certainly be heard behind the curtains pulling the levers for the BHO Administration.

    The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end. Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. “Obama is about change,” Jackson told me in a wide-ranging conversation. “And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it.

    “We have a collapsing economy and a war that we have lost in Iraq. In Afghanistan, we face a resurgent Taliban. New threats are looming in Pakistan. Our liberties have been trampled under feet . . . Today, most Americans want change, and know that only Barack can deliver what they want. Young Americans are especially determined to make sure that Obama wins.” He sees a broad public loss of confidence in the nation’s institutions: “We have lost confidence in our president, our Congress, our banking system, our Wall Street and our legal system to protect our individual freedoms. . . I don’t see how we could regain confidence in all those institutions without a radical change of direction.”

    On the economic front, he hopes for “major changes in our trading policy.” “We cannot continue with the open-door policy,” he says. “We need to protect our manufacturing industry against unfair competition that destroys American jobs and creates ill-paid jobs abroad.”

    On Iran, he strongly supports Obama’s idea of opening a direct dialogue with the leadership in Tehran. “We’ve got to talk to tell them what we want and hear what they want,” Jackson says. “Nothing is gained by not talking to others.” Would that mean ignoring the four UN Security Council resolutions that demand an end to Iran’s uranium-enrichment program? Jackson says direct talks wouldn’t start without preparations. “Barack wants an aggressive and dynamic diplomacy,” he says. “He also wants adequate preparatory work. We must enter the talks after the ground has been prepared,” he says. Jackson is especially critical of President Bush’s approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict. “Bush was so afraid of a snafu and of upsetting Israel that he gave the whole thing a miss,” Jackson says. “Barack will change that,” because, as long as the Palestinians haven’t seen justice, the Middle East will “remain a source of danger to us all.” “Barack is determined to repair our relations with the world of Islam and Muslims. “Thanks to his background and ecumenical approach, he knows how Muslims feel while remaining committed to his own faith.”

Posted by Jerry Gordon @ 7:30 pm | 8 Comments »

8 Responses to Jesse on O

  1. Gisela says:

    God help us all. When will the Jewish people understand that everything of import that goes on in this world is about the Jews?
    I knew they’d try to utterly destroy S.Palin the minute I saw that little Israel flag in her office. If the world can destroy the Jews, they have made God a liar and the Bible a fraud.

  2. bugsy says:

    sefer tehilim, the book of psalms is replete with statements about rogues like jackson and what will become of him and the rest of the anti israel, jewhaters.

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  4. Thus, another goon sabotages Martin Luther King’s vision of white people and black people uniting and getting along. Martin Luther King Jr. would be ashamed of “Reverend” Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and Reverend Wright, because they represent RACIST Black Liberation Theology, jealousy and anger over the fact that their ancestors were slaves of the white man and were reduced to being shoved aside into projects while the white man prospered. Growing up, I saw a different kind of black community, much different from Jesse Jackson’ club and the Black Panthers club, which Hillary Clinton gladly slept with as she preferred bigger things than smaller things – Obama and Jesse Jackson are two little peas in a watermelon pod – Martin Luther King Junior would be very disappointed that Obama was the candidate, and not someone like Michael Steele of Fox News or Colin Powell, or someone whose CONTENT OF CHARACTER is noble, good, righteous, and sticks with Israel’s defense rather than demise. Obama’s circles are a sabotage of Israel; a desecration of America and Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan and Reverend Wright, carry within their sermons RACIST HATRED and THIS IS WHAT WON OBAMA THE ASTOUNDING AMOUNT OF VOTES – is RACIST HATRED OF WHITE PEOPLE. Pure and simple. Even white people on the democratic side have sold themselves to hating white Christian Republican men, because: 1. They HATE Israel’s God and the God of Israel’s Laws 2. They HATE Jesus Christ 3: Since Faithful Christians and Jews LOVE the God of Israel, they HATE all who are faithful to TRUTH, JUSTICE, and GOODNESS, which they are absent of. Such men who HATE and USE RACISM as the basis of their vote, are completely ignorant and will cause even more hate, social division, anger, and war – because PRIDE breeds quarrels and BLACK PRIDE is the same as WHITE PRIDE – a satanic strategy with a false unity that provokes the races to hate, rather than LOVE – I will continue to love my African American brothers and sisters with the vision that Martin Luther King Junior had in a Biblical context, and ignore the RACIST rantings which have become the basis for America’s vote for Obama against McCain – and Obama will never admit he is a racist or the people he parties with are HATERS – because he just knows what his voters realize – that WHITE AMERICA is going down and he will be their messiah to fulfill this global vision of a different kind of United States.

  5. And yes, SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL BUILDING THE THIRD TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT comes with support for the borders of Israel according to Torah Law. Anyone who violates the God of Israel’s Torah Law, according to the border definition of God’s Words, is not on the God of Israel’s side and is on the side of the God of Israel’s chief adversary – and that is what this war is really all about.

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  7. yamit82 says:

    I could be cynical and say that JJ quip on Zionist(Jews), would probably give Obama another 10-15% of the American Jewish vote. but then I have to agree with: Gisela

    God help us all. When will the Jewish people understand that everything of import that goes on in this world is about the Jews?

    Tevieh the milkman standing in the midst of his ransacked village. The Jew locked behind the ghetto walls as the goyyim taunt him. Raging Cossacks burning down our homes and synagogues. Jews beaten up in the streets. We have gotten used to it. That’s the way its meant to be. Second class status for Jews. Israel demonized, delegitimized and held to a double standard. Same old, same old. No, my friend. It is time to stand up. There is nothing Jewish about being weak, about being persecuted and oppressed. We have become the proverbial battered wife who cannot fight back, who accepts her torment silently. Suffering is just part of the bargain of being the Chosen People. How Galut has corrupted our ideals!

    The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel. All that occurs, all the eruptions of wars and catastrophes, the rise and fall of empires, have no meaning except that they affect the fortunes or misfortunes of the Jewish people. The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. This is the meaning of the Destiny of the Jew and that destiny is a guaranteed one.

  8. h peskin says:

    Yamit: When you wrote that

    Hashem predicted in the Tanach that his chosen people will some day devise the greatest source of ecstasy in the universe, THE PISTRAMI SANDWICH AS FEATURED AT LEVY”S DELI-EAST SIDE MANHATTAN

    you reached the ultimate in hebrew religious interpretation and study.