The other day I posted a video of Marc Zell, an American settler in the occupied territories, talking in the King David Hotel after the Romney fundraiser there on July 30.
Well here is another video of Zell, a lawyer, holding forth about American politics, in which he says he’ll be taking an active part.
Zell begins by saying he met with the New York GOP chairman Ed Cox ahead of the Weprin-Turner special election in Brooklyn last year in which Israel played such a large factor.
“We were able to push this button, this Israel button among the Jewish voters. And we made them focus on that.”
Zell then says, at about 1:20, that he will be taking an active part reaching out to Jewish voters in swing states, Ohio and Florida, in the coming election. He will be going over to the States to electioneer, including at senior centers. But there will also be “phone banks, from here.”
Zell says that many American Jews, even if they’re Democratic, will vote Republican because they see things from a Jewish perspective. What is that perspective? The message is simple: The state of Israel is being delegitimized. The Jewish people are under attack. There are only 13 million Jews on the planet and that number is not growing.
“If we the Jews can’t figure out how to vote in terms of our best interest in terms of Jewish issues, then no one else is going to help us… Put your Jewish concerns now… at the top of your list.”
I don’t know who the Israeli is who keeps engaging Zell during this conversation. By the way, Zell also notes that Obama’s chief of staff, Jack Lew, is an observant Jew, and credits Obama’s intelligence. But he says that Obama is “more or less indifferent to Israel, sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.” Obama genuinely wanted peace, but he “misconceived the role of settlements in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.”
Obama genuinely wanted peace, but he “misconceived the role of settlements in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.”
Damn right. Obama started nicely with settlement freeze demand, and then gutlessly dropped it like a hot potato.
How about a phone bank of US Jews calling Israelis to urge them to dump Likud-Beiteinu before Netanyahu-Lieberman launch another war of aggression that further destroys Israel’s credibility internationally, and risks dragging the US into another disastrous, un-winnable war of choice in the middle of the Asian continent, from which no good can ever come for anyone?
these settlers evidently didn’t see the latest poll in israel showing by 46% to 32% israelis themselves are opposed to a war with Iran … or that nearly 70% of American Jews are expected to vote for Obama
If this isn’t blatant manipulation of US politics by a foreign nation, I don’t know what is. I hope someone is going through every $ contribution to Romney from his last trip to Israel to ensure that it really came from an American citizen – if not, I hope they lock him up and throw away the key!
Now wouldn’t that be sweet if that happened and Ron Paul became the Republican nominee? It would be the most interesting presidential debates in a long time!
RE: “‘We were able to push this button, this Israel button among the Jewish voters. And we made them focus on that. . . Zell then says, at about 1:20, that he will be taking an active part reaching out to Jewish voters in swing states, Ohio and Florida, in the coming election. He will be going over to the States to electioneer, including at senior centers. But there will also be ‘phone banks, from here’.” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: The new “southern strategy”?
FROM GEORGE WALLACE (1963 Inaugural Address ~ January 14, 1963 ~ Montgomery, Alabama):
SOURCE – http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html