Comments on: Will Obama’s ‘Jewish Problem’ Allow Media to Talk about Israel Lobby?

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

What's needed is a liberal, independant thinking, Jewish candidate, who is supportive of Israel's defense, but also sympathetic to Palestians experience of the nakba and current experience.

Would they get the support of the "Israel lobby", probably but also probably with some negative inferences.

Would they get the white green/progressive vote? Unlikely, as they might be regarded as suspect.

The litmus test would be more severe than even the Israel lobby.

By: Concerned Netizen

Concerned Netizen — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Go and read Mickey Kaus today. I usually like Kaus but he is in the fog that most Jewish-Americans are:

http://www.slate.com/id/2182569

"OK, so he says he wants Mexicans to think of Mexico the way Jews think of Israel. And maybe he's talking mainly about investment, not dual loyalty (though why shouldn't dual citizens have dual loyalties? Isn't that the point?). But would any Israeli emissary or American Jewish leader have the chutzpah to urge Americans to "think 'Israel First'"? I doubt it."

Why do you doubt this, Mickey?

By: Michael Blaine

Michael Blaine — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Isn't it time for mainstream journalism about the Israel lobby?"

Yes!

I have been reading and posting on this blog for a mere two weeks or so, but it has convinced me of what I take to be its main point: the US needs an open discussion about our foreign policy interests and a thorough and explicit re-evaluation of our relationship with Israel.

This blog does a great public service.

Michael Blaine
www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com

By: Charles Keating

Charles Keating — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Michael Blaine, that's how I see this blog too.

By: liberal white boy

liberal white boy — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I don't know boys if Weiss keeps this crazy stuff up he may be Finkelsteined where he makes his living. But that may not be a bad thing. The Last Laugh at De Paul:Norman Finkelstein…Associate Professor and Multi-Millionaire

Morris Dees at the Southern Poverty Law Center hammers on the theme of "tolerance." But in free-speech America, Rabbi Korff insinuates that "openness ... to arguments from different perspectives and viewpoints" (which is how I would define tolerance) is a BAD thing in a political leader. I guess some subjects are just beyond the pale for discussion, eh, Rebbe?

I'm still waiting for one, independent-thinking Jewish candidate in either Israel or the U.S. to tell the American people, "Thanks so much for the hundreds of billions in U.S. support for Israel over the decades. Now Israel is capable of pulling its own weight, without the generous military and financial aid. We look forward to a more equal, respectful relationship in the future, which is not marred by an omnipresent fund-raising agenda."

As I say, I keep waiting. But all I hear is ... the chirping of crickets.

By: americangoy

americangoy — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

""Given his heritage, background and upbringing, there is no question that he’d be more open than the other candidates to arguments from different perspectives and viewpoints and not hold the standard party line regarding Israel and the Jewish community,” said the Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff."

Yet again,

I am speechless.

"(...)he’d be more open than the other candidates to arguments from different perspectives and viewpoints(...)"

Obviously, being open to different viewpoints and arguments is to be avoided AT ALL COSTS IN A DEMOCRACY.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

That Mickey Kaus quote above is also quite a jawdropper--

"But would any Israeli emissary or American Jewish leader have the chutzpah to urge Americans to "think 'Israel First'"? I doubt it."

Doesn't he read the AJC alerts, the ADL newletters, CAMERA media campaigns, AIPAC funding appeals? Did he miss Rudy Guiliani's latest letter to the Jewish voters of Florida? What was he talking about?

But we are, I will admit, still one step ahead of France, where Olmert once publicly encouraged the Jewish citizens to pack up and settle in Israel.