I received the following email from the spokesperson for a Republican state senator from Brooklyn who is traveling to Israel this week to support the “right” of Jews to build in the West Bank. Note that he is accompanied by a candidate for Congress.
State Senator David Storobin (R-Brooklyn) today invited his Democratic challenger, Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn), to join the Senator on his trip to Israel next week. …
“My Democratic opponent has tried to smear me wrongfully in the courts and to distract the people from the issues that matter,” said Storobin. “I want to end this political bickering. It doesn’t help; it only hurts. That’s why I am inviting my challenger to join me in Israel next week. I hope my invitation shows that, despite our differences, we agree that the defense of Israel is of critical importance.”
Also accompanying the Senator on the trip is Council Member Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), a candidate for Congress in the Sixth District of Queens.
Oh and from the news release announcing Storobin’s travels:
“We must come together to protect Israel, our country’s most devoted ally and the biblical homeland of the Jewish people,” Storobin said. “Jews have the right to build and live in all of Israel. The President, and many Democrats, do not understand this. For me, this trip isn’t political, it’s personal.”
“Israel is in more danger today than ever before,” Storobin said. “All Americans must show their support for Israel and the Jewish people.”
If it’s personal, not political, then why are you talking about it in a political race? Maybe just keep your wacky religious ideas to yourself?
All American ‘must’ show their support? no, they are not pawns in your game, nor should they be dragooned into endless wars by the likes of Israeli firsters like you. All Americans should make up their own minds on the matter, not be told by people in the pay of Israel to sacrifice their taxes and their sons and daughters to maintain the apartheid state.
Oh, it gets far worse.
Here is the Democratic primary in New York, from Grace Meng grovelling on the floor for acceptance.
This is the de facto middle ground for a ‘liberal’ anno 2012 in America.
Excerpts:
The article is much longer, but it’s full of trash as you can see.
I don’t believe even for a single second that she wrote that herself.
AIPAC has tons of minders/lobbyists who literally write Op-Eds based on templates from the HQ.
All she needs to do is to get a draft, give miniscule input and then sign it.
For background, Ms. Meng was actually critical of the rabid tone in the Democratic primary where her fellow, Jewish Democratic opponent sent extreme pro-Massive War images with nuclear warheads in the background warning everyone that Israel needs massive support for it’s endless wars or else you’re an anti-Semite and pro-terrorist.
Again, this was in a Democratic primary.
As I’ve written before; we’re rapidly reaching a point where the furthest left you can go on matters Israel is where the left wing of the Likud party currently is.
The right wing of the Republican party has been calling for complete annexation for a year now.
You know, there’s an old joke inside the Jewish community regard the Reform movement and Conservative movement that basically says that the Conservative movement will do whatever the Reform movement does – only 10 years later.
If things are going ahead as they are now, we may reach a similar position with the Democrats who do everything the Republicans are doing on all matters Israel, if not faster than 10 years.
thanks for the Meng, Krauss. Further evidence of Democrats running to the right on I/P even in supposedly liberal districts…
Not that I think everyone are exceptionally excited about (supposedly and allegedly) her Op-Ed, it’s nonetheless important to point out the source:
link to thejewishweek.com
Written just a few days ago.
If elected to Congress, I will be a passionate friend of Israel
because everyone knows the priority of congress.
It is impossible to be too kosher which tells us where this “debate” is headed.
Another Israel first speech to include in my time capsule I’m burying in the back yard.
Maybe by the time it’s dug up the US will have been officially renamed Greater Israel and it won’t seem so strange to following generations after all.
Oh I hope to read about more people like these pronouncing their adulation for Israel! I want it to be a torrential gush of adoration and praise for Israel and its “right” to annex any land it chooses and displace the natives.
I want them to repeat over and over that nothing is more important for Americans – not lost jobs, not homelessness, not dead and injured children returning from the wars, not hunger, not economic ruin, as long as we are taking care of our BFF! I want them to tell us that the most important thing when choosing our president is how low he is willing to bow before his Israeli masters.
The average family works through May each year just to pay their taxes – the bulk of which is not spent on anything that helps them. Our taxes are spent in ways that make the rest of the world hate us.
If this doesn’t wake up Americans, nothing will – so more please!
One rather large downside, of course, is that it will unleash a wave of actual antisemitism in this country. The zionists and the Israel-firsters will be to blame for it, but don’t expect them to be held accountable.
Sites like MW are helping to reduce the impact, but the American masses are like a pendulum, swinging from one extreme to the other. It just took an incident like 9/11 to turn a large swath of Americans into Islamophobes, burning Korans and mosques, and shooting Sikhs. What will a failed Iran campaign do? All this professed love for Israel will turn in an instant into indiscriminate hate and loathing of jews. Of course, the zionists will have escaped to their “safe haven” in Israel.
Jeez! Are zionists and Israel-firsters really this stupid that they don’t see what they are doing? Have they learnt nothing from history? Where is that great IQ I keep hearing about?
A tragedy is in the making, while we sit impotently looking on, thwarted in our every attempt to do anything to stop it. Some days, everything looks so bleak and futile.
Our support for Israel is going to go down as one of the most spectacular examples of irrational behavior by a state ever seen.
It’s going to make Spain’s attempts to hold on to the Netherlands seem a matter of wise state policy, Sultan Selim’s desire to conquer Crete on account of the excellent wines look like cold-blooded strategy, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor look like a real game-winner.
In every way possible — morally, strategically, diplomatically, economically — we are simply impaling ourselves. It’s a disturbed, self-destructive act which can’t even be coherently defended in theological terms.
It’s a shame it’s not all taking place well in the past and with parties other than ourselves. If that was the case, it would be interesting to analyze further. As it is though, it’s an ongoing crime of incredible stupidity that is being committed by us, right now.
RE: “Maybe just keep your wacky religious ideas to yourself?” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: Fat chance of that! You will be seeing a lot of this as the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) funds more and more Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists to challenge/unseat more secular Democrats. Take Allen West of South Florida, . . . Puh-lease!
This helps to illustrate why I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment ! ! !
• ALSO SEE: ‘Israelis are helping write US laws, fund US campaigns, craft US war policy’, by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 6/30/12
LINK – link to mondoweiss.net
• AND SEE: “America Adopts the Israel Paradigm”, by Philip Ghiraldi, Antiwar.com, 7/05/12
LINK – link to original.antiwar.com
• AND SEE: “Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. police”, By Muriel Kane, Raw Story, 12/04/11
LINK – link to rawstory.com
P.S. AND HERE’S ANOTHER THREAT TO THE VALUES OF “THE ENLIGHTENMENT”:
“US Religious Right Propelling Homophobia in African Countries”, by Common Dreams, 7/24/12
LINK – link to commondreams.org
P.P.S. RE: “This helps to illustrate why I fear that Revisionist Zionism and Likudnik Israel (specifically by virtue of their inordinate sway over the U.S.) might very well be an “existential threat” to the values of The Enlightenment ! ! !” – me (above)
FOR ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION SEE: “Bogus allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ create real climate of fear for Arab, Muslim students in US”, by Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 8/08/12
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to electronicintifada.net
P.P.P.S. ALSO SEE: “The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics”, by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi, Tikkun Magazine, September/October 2009
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to tikkun.org
I believe you have it right–Israel is an existential threat to the United States.
Do any candidates for congress (or even the presidency for that matter) actually stay in the United States to campaign among the people they seek to represent? Or do they just say, no, my heart yearns for Israel and that’s where I’m going to go?
This Storobin is the same racist opposing the Sheepshead Bay mosque, as reported in the August 2nd mondoweiss:
link to mondoweiss.net