‘Israel is in my DNA and… is the home for the Jewish people’

Congressman Paul Hodes says he'll run for the Senate seat now held by scapegrace Judd Gregg. JTA reports Hodes is Jewish, and kosher on the issue:

He also spoke about his first trip to Israel, in 2007:

Hodes says his support in Congress for Israel was never in doubt. "It's in my DNA," he said. But the trip solidified that support in ways he struggles to articulate.

"It's very interesting in midlife to come to a place where something is as moving as my trip was in terms of seeing the home for the Jewish people and understanding how fragile life is there, and how important the relationship between America and Israel is," Hodes said. "It was a stunner."

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  1. Craig says:

    It sounds like he's confusing himself with America. That Israel is important to him for whatever reason does not make it important to America. In actuality, Israel is basically just a big headache for America.

  2. chris berel says:

    The Jews and their homeland have been Important to Americans for well over 100 years. President Adams retained the hope of the re-emergence of the Jewish Nation. Over 100 years ago, prominent American petitioned the Ottoman's to reliquish their ownership of the Palestinian region so that the Jews might have their homeland a new.

    Hodes follows the grand tradition of American morality and stands with Israel.

    Weiss stands with the isolationists who preached antisemitism in the 30's.

  3. Julian says:

    I was hoping Hodes was going to run. Met him in Washington. Great guy. I'm going to contribute to his campaign whatever I can and get my friends to do the same.

  4. Eva Smagacz says:

    When number of Arabs will exceed the number of Jews in Israel controlled lands, and there will be no question of Israel being an apartheid state, will Mr. Hodes support Israel ("right or wrong") or America ("all Men were created equal")?

  5. Shirin says:

    "In actuality, Israel is basically just a big headache for America."

    In actuality, Israel is basically just a big headache.

  6. Shirin says:

    Palestine is in my DNA…it is the home for all Palestinian people regardless of their religious or ethnic background.

  7. a says:

    Palestinians' DNA has shown the presence of a gene that influences it's "host" to commit suicide by exploding a weapon in the presence of innocents. It's in the DNA. No question about it.

  8. Duscany says:

    Boy I'd just like to hear a senator or congressman for once say, "America is in my DNA." I don't know what it is about our elected officials that makes them so passionate about Israel. Israel is a a foreign country, with no common roots or traditions with America. It's a drain on our economy, an embarrassment in the UN, a source of all sorts of spying and false flag activities. Yet Bill Clinton said when he was president that he'd "grab a gun and die for Israel." Funny he never said anything like that about the United States. Instead he wrote a letter to his draft board saying "I loathe the military."

    Bush was no better. Her liked to be photographed wearing a yarmulke and standing with his hand over his heart next to a blue and white Israeli flag.

    Don't they understand that people outside New York, Los Angeles and Florida see these photos and wonder whose side they're on?

  9. chris berel says:

    Here is Eva, statiing conclusively, that israel is not an Aparthied state. Let's all applaud Eva for stating the truth for probably the first time in her life.:

    "When number of Arabs will exceed the number of Jews in Israel controlled lands, and there will be no question of Israel being an apartheid state,"
    Posted by: Eva Smagacz

  10. Chris Berel like other Jewish Zionist racists shows no understanding of the basic of logic.

    Modus ponens:

    p->q
    p
    _____
    q

    Yet,

    p->q
    ~p
    _____
    q ^ ~q

    Not
    p->q
    ~p
    _____
    ~q

    Anyway, I have a recent discussion on Zionazi racial science in the comments section of Origins of Modern Jewry.

    Every Israel Advocate a Madoff discusses the primary Zionist fraud that far too many ethnic Ashkenazim use to justify the common ethnic Ashkenazi belief that they have the right to plunder and to kill non-Jews.

    Paul Hodes is by his own admission a piece of Jewish Nazi garbage.

  11. Citizen says:

    The USA is a proposition nation (All men are created equally), not an ethnocentric nation. Hence by law (and slowly by full recognition), an American patriot views DNA as not relevant. Jews in any aspiring or existent political position who are essentially moved by their DNA should be tossed in jail as a threat to the USA state and its highest non-ethnic and\or anti-religious establishment . Too bad the USA is also a plutocracy.

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