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hypocrisy of thier politicians and their government

Another straw man post. I dont hate jews. I hate the state of Israel because of the hypocrisy of thier politicians and their government. And I dont care much for your attempt to paint me as a raciest, but its what people like you do best.

Good Lord do you Lefties even know what a "stawman" argument is?

Jews in Name Only
Thursday, May 26, 2011
By Ben Shapiro

In 2008, Obama grabbed 78 percent of the Jewish vote. Even the most wildly optimistic polling today shows that Obama's support remains high among Jews. It's a result that Republicans simply can't understand – why do so many Jews continue to support a president who has shown time and again that he stands against the State of Israel?

Why the reflexive lever-pulling on behalf of a man who appoints anti-Semites to positions of high power, attends a virulently anti-Semitic church for 20 years, and sees Israel as the cause of the West's conflict with the Muslim world?

The answer is deceptively simple: the Jews who vote for Obama are, by and large, Jews In Name Only (JINOs). They eat bagels and lox; they watch "Schindler's List"; they visit temple on Yom Kippur – sometimes. But they do not care about Israel. Or if they do, they care about it less than abortion, gay marriage and global warming.

That prioritization is critical in understanding the Jewish vote.

The same polls that report high levels of support for President Obama show that 94 percent of American Jews said that if Israel "no longer existed tomorrow," it would be a tragedy (this means, by the way, that 6 percent of Jews should be automatically discounted as self-hating or insane) and that 77 percent of Jews believe that Israel should refuse to negotiate with a Hamas-backed Palestinian Arab government.

The only way to reconcile that high level of support for Israel with a high level of support for an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic administration lies in the fact that all voters have priorities, and that Israel is not these voters' highest priority.

Which is why they are known as JINOs.

Being Jewish is not like being black or Asian or Hispanic. It comes with certain attendant ideological responsibilities. There is no logical or inherent connection between skin color and liberalism or conservatism – melanin has no political playbook. Jewish identity, however, does. There is more to being truly Jewish than being born into a Jewish family, just as there is more to being Christian than being baptized.

Being truly Jewish requires allegiance to basic Judaic principles; the first and foremost of which is identity with the Jewish people and its enlightened national aspirations. In the Tanach (the Jewish canon, including the Old Testament, the Prophets and the Writings), when Ruth converts to Judaism, she states, "Your people will be my people and your God my God."

The connection between Jews and the land of Israel is the running theme of the Old Testament. Any Jew who does not take these principles seriously – more seriously than global warming or affirmative action, for example – is a JINO.

And voting for Obama is a violation of those principles.

Obama's speech last week implicitly blaming Israel's failure to surrender its security for the radical terrorism of the Islamic world threatens Israel ideologically; his call for Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders as the basis for negotiation endangers Israel's survival on a practical level, cutting the State to 9 miles wide and handing over the strategic high ground to enemy forces; his suggestion that a Palestinian state be "contiguous" by definition slices Israel in half; his failure to recognize the incoherence of the so-called "right of return" destroys Israel demographically.

Obama has backed the Muslim Brotherhood revolts throughout the Middle East and toppled Israeli peace partners in the process; he has appointed advisers who openly call for placing American troops on the ground in Israel to stop Israeli military action; he has allowed the United Nations to castigate Israel routinely while ignoring Palestinian terrorism on a daily basis. Obama is a man who used his Passover message to stump for the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Arab Spring. Seriously.

Simply put, Obama is an enemy of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. And any Jew who votes for him betrays his or her brothers and sisters at home and abroad. By definition, a vote for Obama is a vote against the truly Jewish part of Jewish identity. There is a reason that the observant Jewish community votes overwhelmingly Republican – they vote on Jewish principle.

Why bother exposing JINOs for what they are? First, it helps non-Jews understand the dynamics of the Jewish community – it is not monolithic, and much of it is not authentically Jewish.

Second, it acts as a shaming mechanism for those Jews who throw away Jewish principle in pursuit of back-slapping from their liberal buddies. And they should be ashamed of what they do. They are the moral equivalent of Jewish Neville Chamberlain voters in 1939. They must understand that their votes have consequences.

Jewish identity is about more than ethnicity. Boiling it down to a propensity for "Seinfeld" cheapens the experience, the history and the bond of Judaism itself. Being Jewish means something. And if it means anything, it means that voting for Barack Obama immediately places you in opposition to the Jewish people.

Because you and foofie dont accept arguements that dont fall in line with your beliefs. I hate any government that kills one group of people than looks for excuses for these murders such as they are all terriosts. This gives those governments excuses to do all manner of illegal things under the gise of protection when what they are doing is stealing land that dosent belong to them and murdering people who might protest this stealing of property. A dead palistianian is a good palistianian as the jewish leadership would say. We had the same thing happen here with the native indians and the europian jews have taken a page from our book. Why dont you address the facts rather than trying to label me a racist. Could it be that that the facts are in my favor?

The "facts are in" your favor, as long as you ignore the sovereignty of Israel having its land and people attacked for having won legitimate wars.

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The "facts are in" your favor, as long as you ignore the sovereignty of Israel having its land and people attacked for having won legitimate wars.

What's a legitimate war, Foofie? Is that Hitler attacked and took various parts of Europe? Is a legitimate war one that can be defined as might makes right?

So you agree that Israel has done a 180 degree turn about and have decided to annihilate the palistianians so as to incorporate all of the pals land unto them selves? As someone else said that is a might makes right attitude that is Hitleresque. But they are only doing what they have done for 10,000 years. Just read the Old Testament.

Good Lord do you Lefties even know what a "stawman"[sic] argument is?

Women protesters take a risky dip into Israeli politics
Ethan Bronner
July 28, 2011


Activists smuggle in West Bank Palestinians for a day at the beach.



Palestinian women and girls enjoy the water with the Israeli women who smuggled them in from the occupied West Bank. Photo: New York Times

SKITTISH at first, then wide-eyed with delight, the women and girls entered the sea, smiling, splashing and then joining hands, getting knocked over by waves, throwing back their heads and laughing with joy. Most had never seen the sea before.

The women were Palestinians from the southern part of the occupied West Bank, which is landlocked, and Israel does not allow them in.

They risked prosecution, along with the dozen Israeli women who took them to the beach in Tel Aviv. And that, in fact, was part of the point: to protest what they and their hosts consider unjust laws.

The group of Israeli women, who have done this several times before, risked criminal prosecution to bring the Palestinian women to the city, breaking what they consider an unjust law.


The Palestinians cover their faces at lunch in Israel. Photo: New York Times

In the grinding rut of Israeli-Palestinian relations the illicit trip was a rare event that joined the simplest of pleasures with the most complex of politics. It showed why co-existence here is hard, but also why there are, on both sides, people who refuse to give up on it.

''What we are doing here will not change the situation,'' said Hanna Rubinstein, who travelled to Tel Aviv from Haifa to take part. ''But it is one more activity to oppose the occupation. One day in the future, people will ask, like they did of the Germans, 'Did you know?' And I will be able to say, 'I knew. And I acted.'' ....<cont>

Anger over children dressed as Holocaust victims
Updated January 02, 2012 15:19:47/the AGE


Jewish demonstrators with boy wearing cloth cap and Star of David inscribed with Photo: Provocative: The boy is raising his hands in an echo of a photo taken in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II (Reuters: Baz Ratner)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators have caused outrage by dressing children as Holocaust victims to protest against what they saw is the persecution of devout Jews seeking gender separation in Israel.

A boy wearing a cloth cap and the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew was the centrepiece of the Jerusalem protest late on Saturday.

His hands were raised in surrender and a yellow Star of David inscribed with "Jude" - German for "Jew" - was sewn on his jacket.

The image mimicked a memorable photo of a terrified Jewish boy during a roundup in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw ghetto in World War II.

"Nazis, Nazis," some of the protesters shouted at police.

Other children and young men were dressed in replicas of striped concentration camp uniforms, alongside hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in their traditional black garb.

The protesters earned a sharp rebuke from Israel's government.

"Prisoner uniforms and yellow patches with the word Jew written on them in German are shocking and appalling," defence minister Ehud Barak said in a statement.

"The use of yellow patches and small children raising their hands in surrender crosses a red line which the ultra-Orthodox leadership, who are largely responsible people, must not accept," he said.


German troops force Warsaw ghetto dwellers to keep moving in 1943. Photo: (Wikimedia)

Emotional debate

Israel is in the grip of an emotional debate over attempts by Jewish zealots to impose and enforce gender separation in ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods and other public places.

Much of the controversy has stemmed from ultra-Orthodox men trying to force women to sit in the back of public buses in deference to religious beliefs against any mixing of the sexes in public.

President Shimon Peres has described the debate as a battle for the soul of the Jewish state.

The issue jumped to the top of the public agenda in Israel nearly two weeks ago when an eight-year-old girl complained on television that ultra-Orthodox men spat at her on the way to school, accusing her of dressing immodestly.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has political alliances with ultra-Orthodox parties but is facing mounting public anger over such incidents, has vowed to crack down on zealots who harass women.

Some groups within the ultra-Orthodox community do not recognise Israel, saying such a state can only be established with the coming of the Messiah.

"You will not be able to impose on us sinful (Western) culture. We will remain faithful to the laws of Holy Torah," read one protest sign at Saturday's demonstration.

Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's national memorial to the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, said the protesters' use of Holocaust imagery was a "profound insult" to survivors.

"This is totally unacceptable and degrades Jewish values," Mr Shalev said on Israel Radio.

Reuters