Blue Virginia Attacks Pro-Israel Lobby
By Shaun Kenney | Sunday, September 18th, 2011 | PolicyYou can’t make this stuff up.
Why is the United States presumably doing the wrong thing in defending Israel — against what Barack Obama (blessed and holy be his name) says is good for Israel?
I kid you not… Lowell Feld over at Blue Virginia blames the J-O-O-S.
A “U.S. government fed up with Israel’s leadership but a hostage to its ineptitude, because the powerful pro-Israel lobby in an election season can force the administration to defend Israel at the U.N., even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America’s.” (emphasis theirs)
Go ahead and read the rest of this nonsense if you want to see why Jewish Americans are leaving the Democratic Party — which has treated them as do-as-your-told appendages for decades — in droves.
Of course, you gotta love the tacit admission here. Obama Democrats want to abandon Israel. So desperate are they to do so, they will do practically anything — allow once-stable governments to collapse in an Israeli Winter an “Arab Spring” for instance — to force Israel’s hand. So frustrated are they of the concerns of Israelis and Jews and Americans back home who recognize the imperative of defending the only stable democracy in the Middle East that they are frustrated as hell that the “pro-Israel lobby” is simply forcing Obama to use the U.S. veto at the U.N. Security Council.
I mean, the outright audacity of it all. Why won’t Israel just do as Obama tells them to do???
Obambi foreign policy. Like I said… you can’t make this stuff up, folks.
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7 Responses to "Blue Virginia Attacks Pro-Israel Lobby"
This is a gross distortion of the post and what it says.
First, the part of the post you cite are not Lowell’s words, but Tom Friedman’s. But that is beside the point, as Lowell cites them and so fairly can be said to agree with them.
More problematic with your argument, however, is the statement, “Lowell Feld at Blue Virginia blames the J-O-O-S.” (I presume this is a funny, phonetic way of spelling “Jews.”).
But even beyond that, the post in no way, shape or form “blames the J-O-O-S.” As the post makes clear, it blames right-wing political policies advanced by Netanyahu and members of his coalition, for the current state of affairs.
What is the basis for this insulting assertion that Lowell “blames the J-O-O-S?” Is it the fact that he is blaming Netanyahu, and Bibi is Jewish?
Now that I think about, though, isn’t Lowell Jewish? Why, I believe he is. Therefore, applying the logic of this post, Shaun must be blaming the “J-O-O-S” for American liberalism (for those unable to detect sarcasm in blog comments, I don’t believe that about Shaun, of course, but in similar fashion the accusation against Lowell and BV is beyond the pale).
The point is that there is plenty of room to critique Netanyahu and Likud and still be pro-Israel.
Finally, the idea that Obama Democrats (whatever the heck they are, as opposed to just Obama, or just Democrats) want to abandon Israel is absurd on its face, and not even worthy of a response. If Shaun wants to explain why he thinks this, I would be happy to respond, but I am sure he will not, as there is no support for this view whatsoever.
Aznew, as a lifelong heeb high priest (literally) and rebellious member of the tribe, I see things very differently from Lowell Feld. Lowell is a suicidal jew. No, not inferring he is suicidal but he is part of a large body of jews that see sacrificing israeli jews as a sort of burnt offering for self preservation among gentiles. Lowell, like most jewish democrats and the anti-semites they ignore and sometimes embrace, provide safe harbor for a genocidal propaganda campaign launched by the Hamas-related muslim students association portraying Israel as an apartheid right wing controlled nazi state and the people they identify as Palestinians as innocent victims of Israeli theft and oppression.
I challenge Lowell Feld to put a spotlight on the numerous American campuses where hate campaigns against Israel and especially heebs (joos, jews, kikes or whatever you want to call us) along with a parallel campaign to censor any criticism of its main sponsors, which are campus based Muslim and Palestinian student groups often funded by the mothership of radical islam.
Can’t make this stuff up.
Shalom alechem, Aznew
This is the same old “the Israeli lobby runs Washington” tripe we hear all the time, aznew…
I just don’t have the stomach to read it anymore. ‘Cause it just… ain’t… true….
James:
You write: “Can’t make this stuff up.”
But apparently, you can. Of, at least, you did. I know Lowell pretty well, and not a single thing you wrote in that comment describes him at all.
As for your challenge to Lowell to put a spotlight on anti-semitism among the left, what a cop out. I could just as easily challenge you to put a similar spotlight on the considerable amount of anti-semitic rhetoric and activity emanating from the right wing in America, including even among evangelicals that are supportive of Israel as an element of their end times philosophy.
But the most particularly offensive part of your comment is this: “[Lowell] is part of a large body of jews that see sacrificing israeli jews [sic] as a sort of burnt offering for self preservation among gentiles”
You seem to craft your comments with care, and so while others here may not appreciate what you are inferring with this carefully worded statement, I do, and it is uncalled for. I would urge you, in the spirit of the season, to reconsider this ugly accusation you appear to be leveling.
In any event, James, I will nonetheless wish you a L’shana tova!
Shaun –
Fine. I don’t particularly like that argument either, and I think coming from certain quarters, it arguably has certain anti-semitic overtones, such as when Pat Buchanhan (who has a record of anti-semitic remarks and Holocaus denial) spoke of it as an “Amen Corner,” or when it is used to argue that Jews, whether through AIPAC, or media control, or our great wealth, are secretly controlling U.S. policy. Of course, this is the kind of tripe you hear as much from the right as the left in America, but whatever.
But the simple truth is that is not the case here, but you imply that it is by your mocking reference to Lowell “blaming the Joos.”
The influence of Jews on U.S. policy was not the main point of the BV post, but you cherry pick and highlight it in order to support your allegation that Lowell was “blaming the JOOS.” He was doing nothing of the kind. He was writing about how right wing policies have left Israel isolated and in a precarious position.
You can agree with this analysis or not, but it is neither anti-Israel nor anti-semitic, nor is it an instance of blaming the “Joos.” Your depiction of Lowell in this regard is simply wrong and unfair.
Here is a little something for ya Aznew.. “A 2009 study published in Boston Review found that nearly 25 percent of non-Jewish Americans blamed Jews for the financial crisis of 2008–2009, with a higher percentage among Democrats than Republicans.”
http://bostonreview.net/BR34.3/malhotra_margalit.php
Lowells article serves no other purpose than to marginalise and demonise republicans.. conservatives in particular. Partisan slander against conservative Israeli jews is a cheap shot attempt to curry favor with dem activists. That is his right but its my self appointed job to point out the obvious. It is embarrassing to be honest.
Well, that is a disturbing article, but I’m not sure what it has to do with the issue at hand.
Your premises are faulty, and logic non-existent. You use a poll about non-Jews attitudes about Jews in Massachusetts to draw a conclusion about a Jew in Virginia. You use a poll about the economic crisis to draw a conslusion about a discussion about Israel. You make ridiculous assumptions about the purpose of blog posts to infer that they are nefarious (Yikes – a progressive blog put up a post critical of Republicans and Conservatives and their policies, and it is evidence of anti-semitism because the Conservatives being criticized happen to be Jewish?).
Then you take all this nonsense, string it together in a paragraph without drawing any connection among these disparate assertions, and simply pronounce your conclusion “obvious,” as if your train of thought requires no explanation.
I admire your passion on issues, James, but this is a pretty lame basis upon which to hurl the odious accusations you do against Lowell.
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