Post by Paddy by Grace on Nov 20, 2008 14:34:02 GMT -7
An Open Letter to David Harris of the American Jewish Committee
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=5681
Dear David:
Re: 47% of American Jews Would OPPOSE Saving Israel!!!!
THE TRAGIC PREDICTABILITY OF THE JEWISH VOTE
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder, November 17, 2008
Doubtless you have seen this Don Feder piece that contains the results from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) 2008 Survey of American Jewish Opinion. Putting aside Feder’s conservative leanings, you have to admit that this AJC survey finding is jarring, if not an embarrassment to American Jews, Israel supporters and Zionists, including many Christians. Could it be that this result reflects the virtual loss of the Zionist ethos not only here in America, but also in Israel? How else could you explain the current Olmert ‘caretaker” government doing little to protect Israeli citizens living in Western Negev towns like Sderot and the Southern city of Ashdod being hit with daily barrages of Kassem and Grad rockets launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. The “Hudna” or ‘regrouping’ in Arabic is tantamount to a War on Jews by Islamic terror groups. Israel needs to strike back, as provocation is long past and hundreds of thousands are now threatened with death from the skies. This goes on while the government of Israel blithely releases 250 Palestinian Arab prisoners and at the urging of the UN and US State Department delivers ‘humanitarian aid’ to those ‘huddled masses’ in Gaza.
There is a canard in political science about the voting pattern of American Jews: ‘they earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.’ Blinded by the liberal ‘light’ American Jews have abandoned their Jewish and Zionist roots in favor of politically correct multicultralism-the disease that created Eurabia and Londonistan. As a former member of the boards of AJC chapters, I witnessed some of that. However, I also witnessed the courageous efforts by you and some of your key staff to stifle reversion to the ancestral genes of the AJC-’anti-Zionism’. This is not to ’shoot the messenger’, hardly, but to commend you for telling the ‘emet’- the truth about the dismal state of the American Jewish mindset. Unfortunately, that mindset is like that of German Jews in the early 1930’s who eschewed Herr Hitler and his Nazi murderers of the Six Million, because ‘he wouldn’t amount to much.’ Our Christian allies in America and the EU are astounded and flummoxed that American Jews would not save their Israeli brethren in the event of an attack-such as the ones going on in Gaza, daily. If Jews don’t care, then why should our allies? When Jews lose their ‘neshumeh” (soul) then is all lost? That issue needs an urgent airing if American Jews and Israel are to survive in the 21st Century.
Jerry Gordon
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=5681
Dear David:
Re: 47% of American Jews Would OPPOSE Saving Israel!!!!
THE TRAGIC PREDICTABILITY OF THE JEWISH VOTE
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder, November 17, 2008
Doubtless you have seen this Don Feder piece that contains the results from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) 2008 Survey of American Jewish Opinion. Putting aside Feder’s conservative leanings, you have to admit that this AJC survey finding is jarring, if not an embarrassment to American Jews, Israel supporters and Zionists, including many Christians. Could it be that this result reflects the virtual loss of the Zionist ethos not only here in America, but also in Israel? How else could you explain the current Olmert ‘caretaker” government doing little to protect Israeli citizens living in Western Negev towns like Sderot and the Southern city of Ashdod being hit with daily barrages of Kassem and Grad rockets launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. The “Hudna” or ‘regrouping’ in Arabic is tantamount to a War on Jews by Islamic terror groups. Israel needs to strike back, as provocation is long past and hundreds of thousands are now threatened with death from the skies. This goes on while the government of Israel blithely releases 250 Palestinian Arab prisoners and at the urging of the UN and US State Department delivers ‘humanitarian aid’ to those ‘huddled masses’ in Gaza.
There is a canard in political science about the voting pattern of American Jews: ‘they earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.’ Blinded by the liberal ‘light’ American Jews have abandoned their Jewish and Zionist roots in favor of politically correct multicultralism-the disease that created Eurabia and Londonistan. As a former member of the boards of AJC chapters, I witnessed some of that. However, I also witnessed the courageous efforts by you and some of your key staff to stifle reversion to the ancestral genes of the AJC-’anti-Zionism’. This is not to ’shoot the messenger’, hardly, but to commend you for telling the ‘emet’- the truth about the dismal state of the American Jewish mindset. Unfortunately, that mindset is like that of German Jews in the early 1930’s who eschewed Herr Hitler and his Nazi murderers of the Six Million, because ‘he wouldn’t amount to much.’ Our Christian allies in America and the EU are astounded and flummoxed that American Jews would not save their Israeli brethren in the event of an attack-such as the ones going on in Gaza, daily. If Jews don’t care, then why should our allies? When Jews lose their ‘neshumeh” (soul) then is all lost? That issue needs an urgent airing if American Jews and Israel are to survive in the 21st Century.
Jerry Gordon