Goosebumps material. Or goosesteps. Last night somebody sent me a scary piece against Obama in the Jerusalem Post by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum. I think he emigrated there from the U.S. Rosenblum is adamantly against an Obama effort to revive the two-state solution. He says giving up the West Bank is giving a new front to Iran. He describes the '67 borders as "Auschwitz borders" (as Alan Dershowitz did not long ago; they're both citing Abba Eban, as Dersh explained to me). Then Rosenblum cites the Kelman/Cohen study of young American Jews and their alienation from Israel that I often cite here, but in the most savage terms:
not view the destruction of the State of Israel as a personal tragedy.
The death and/or expulsion of millions of fellow Jews is something they
can live with. By those standards, they probably would not see the
Holocaust as a personal tragedy either.
The savagery of this column suggests the extremes that Israel's militant policies have fostered. They have really gotten themselves into a corner. With even leading novelists talking openly about "transfer" of Palestinians. And you'd think that Israelis need Americans' imagination right now. The post-Obama imagination. To help them think about these things in a better way. And this nutso column is today linked favorably by the Republican Jewish Coalition:
"…an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank would almost surely result
in a third Iranian-armed and financed adversary confronting Israel…So an Obama presidency would likely result in an Israel living within
indefensible borders and in the crosshairs of a nuclear Iran."
Just in case you wondered what's at stake here. Not that it will come up in any of the coverage.
Their fears are only relevant if an either/or approach is pursued by both (or more parties).
Fear is boring when there is not substantiation for it.
But fear is relevant if there is.
Ironically for the dissenting community, the antidote to fear in this case is confidence.
Obama succeeds in that, much to the chagrine of those that think he panders.
I don't understand the problem. Rosenblum said nothing in his piece that should bother a guy like Phil Weiss. Phil doesn't see the destruction of Israel has any big deal. And the death or dispersion of million of jews wouldn't bother him in the least. Why the blog posting?
The very name "Sword of Gideon" says everything about his bearer's worldview:
The Jew's eternal war against their enemies.
Sword of Gideon remember the Amalek!
The world is still full of Amaleks!
Postville, where radical rural accountants have a very peculiar view of Zen
"Down a picturesque tree-lined street off Lawler Street sits St. Bridget's Catholic Church whose pastor, Father Lloyd Paul Ouderkirk, is both soft-spoken and outspoken. It is his church that became a refuge for the town's immigrants the day of the raid and the weeks afterward."
Why didn't they sought refuge in the ultra-orthodox synagogue? Ah, yes, them jews are there to process cattle, not to protect it. They only care to protect themselves.
Who knows what you are saying anon?
Who knows what you are saying anon?
gone net fishing to prove whatever prejudice?
Feels like a random argument, that really wants to draw attention on the article. So he didn't bother much to make his idea clear.
Wouldn't we expect the average Guatemalan or Mexican illegal worker to be Christian? Thus were would we expect them to seek shelter?
The '67 borders are "Auschwitz borders." The 1967 borders have helped to create an Israeli imposed totalitarian society for Palestinians.
Why expect the Palestinians kicked out of their homes and deprived of health and a living to honor something they only know from hearsay, that is, Auschwitz borders?
Jews create temples to their history everywhere (at Gentile expense), while Palestinians are expected to lobotomize themselves.
Tedious pricks, we often discuss Postville on this blog. That article is a new distortion of the theme, to be savoured by the interested and as such obviously not addressed to you.
Unless your understanding can be something more than the willfull stupidity emanating from your comments.
Richard never clicks on links. He's afraid they might take him outside his J-sphere.
(He also never PROVIDES links, but that's a different story.)
He might lose sight of the subject of his stalking. Besides, personal multi-tracking radar tech is still restricted to bats and their more evolved cousins. Brrrr…