The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Twilight of American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
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nObama Blows Media Dog Whistle
In light of liar-Hillary Clinton's recent health episode and subsequent bed rest, Barack nObama has picked up the slack and has hit the campaign trail on her behalf. At a campaign stop in Philadelphia, nObama took the media to task for not hitting hard enough against Donald Trump. nObama said, "I'm frustrated the way this campaign is covered. Donald Trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president. And yet because he says it over and over and over again, the press just gives up and says, 'Well, yeah, you know, okay.'"
It's interesting to note that nObama chastises the Leftmedia for not being partisan enough in their coverage of the campaign. It's almost as if he were speaking to a Democrat grassroots organization. What's ironic is the fact that the mainstream press has long been heavily favorable toward Democrats and this election year is no different. Here are just a few recent examples.
First, liar-Clinton's health. On Monday night, CBS News aired a Charlie Rose interview with Bill liar-Clinton, but CBS conveniently edited out Bill's comment that liar-Hillary "frequently" had such health episodes. Why would CBS edit out liar-Clinton's remark if not to protect liar-Hillary? Other Leftmedia outlets have variously downplayed her collapse Sunday.
Second, liar-Clinton's "basket of deplorables" remark. On Tuesday, Trump's running mate Mike Pence was in Washington meeting with GOP members seeking to establish greater party unity behind Trump. The New York Times reported on this meeting, entitling its article "Mike Pence is Rebuffed as He Tries to Rally G.O.P. Leaders Over 'Deplorables.'" The article focused on Pence being put on the defensive to prove that Trump's supporters aren't a "basket of deplorables." CNN hit Pence for not calling David Duke "deplorable," even as Pence denounced Duke. The Washington Post ran an article entitled "Are some of Trump supporters 'deplorable'? Here's what the data says." The story suggests that liar-Clinton's comments about Trump supporters are actually not that far off. It concluded that upwards of 83% of Trump supporters hold "objectively 'deplorable'" views.
What nObama's comments indicate is that Democrat leadership is unnerved by that fact that Trump continues to maintain a close race despite a lot of negative press. nObama is calling on the media to push even harder against Trump and for liar-Hillary. But complaining about a lack of bias is laughable. ~The Patriot Post
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Who's Up for a Carbon Tax?
Most Beltway dwellers are notoriously oblivious to the needs of people in less affluent regions of America. Therefore most of them don't understand the importance of inflation. Take low gas prices. Taxpayer-subsidized public transit makes price swings less noticeable on the wallets of workers in large metropolitan areas and even less so for those making six-figure salaries, including your senator and representative. But for most of middle class America, the difference between spending $3 or $4 for a gallon of gasoline and $1.95 can be prodigious.
So it's hugely disappointing to see leftists exploiting low gas prices caused by the oil glut by calling for more red tape to curb driver behavior. The Washington Post editorial board laments the fact that "when oil prices sink, people worry less about conservation, no matter how environmentally desirable. In fact, higher fuel efficiency might also encourage some people to drive more than they would have otherwise, because their gas bills are lower." And though the editors believe firmly in fuel efficiency standards, lower gas prices make them less than fully effective. So why not add another disincentive in the form of a carbon tax?
"A carbon tax would put a lower ceiling on national gasoline use without more aggressive regulatory interventions," the Post writes, totally neglecting to mention that said tax is a very aggressive regulatory intervention. Hot Air's Jazz Shaw highlights a few issues: "First of all, higher gas prices disproportionately affect low income people far more than the more affluent. Wealthy citizens aren't staying up at night worrying about how much gas costs. And where are the poorer commuters going? For the vast majority of travel they are shuffling back and forth to work. ... Hourly workers of modest means have to make every penny count and if you jack up their cost of commuting they take the biggest hit. Also, gas prices aren't going to be low forever."
In a free market, competition drives innovation. But the government is going about it completely opposite by attempting to lower emissions through coercion. We're all poorer and less free as a result.
~The Patriot Post
.Judge Jeanine – FBI And DOJ Compromised
By liar-Clintons, IG Not Allowed To Inspect
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Bill liar-Clinton is back to using his folksy, Gomer Pyle mannerisms to try to regain the trust he and his wife never deserved to have in the first place. He told an audience as he was covering for his absent, quite ill and lying wife in Las Vegas... “After all the hullabaloo over this email deal, and you know for a year we were told ‘this is the biggest problem since the end of World War 2.” After citing distorted, irrelevant and unrelated instances where other people had used email responsibly, Predator Bill asked, “How come you only heard about liar-Hillary?” The answer that she’s the most damaging espionage criminal in American history probably won’t satisfy him, but that’s got a lot to do with it. The fact that most of the other people he’s mentioned didn’t break any laws is probably not what he’s looking for either. Judge Jeanine Pirro reminds the audience that Bill liar-Clinton is not the guy he used to be and that he was impeached for obstruction of justice as well as perjury. “So when he says what he says you have to take it with a grain of salt.”...
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Unbridled Corruption is the Hallmark
of The nObama Legacy
by Peter Mullen
by Peter Mullen
{ipatriot.com} ~ It is now clear that the touchstone of the nObama administration is not transparency and the rule of law as once proclaimed. Even Democrats acknowledge the cascading chain of events that form the basis for this conclusion... During the first two years of President nObama’s first term and the dictatorship of the Democratic Party in both congressional houses, the public was lulled into a false sense of security with the passage of nObama Care. It was the masterstroke of the consolidation of power under this administration. Almost 1/6 of the nation’s economy fell victim to government regulation. We should not forget the empty promises of, “you can keep your doctor and you can keep your plan, period”. We should not forget the promise of transparency contradicted by the Speaker of the House when she said, “you need to pass this bill in order to read it”. The vote was historical. Not one Republican voted for this bill. Health And Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius was charged with implementing the plan. New regulations that violated constitutional rights were implemented despite the admonitions of legal authorities and were later overturned by the Supreme Court. The rollout of the now infamous website was predictably a “train wreck” and can now claim the title of the most costly website in history... http://ipatriot.com/unbridled-corruption-hallmark-obama-legacy/
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liar-Clinton IT Hearing No-Show
Is Red Line In The Sand Time
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Mark Meadows, the man responsible for the exit of former Speaker John backstabber-Boehner, may be sincere in his desire to hold liar-Clinton’s personal IT administrator and co-espionage agent Bryan Pagliano accountable... The track record for the House when it comes to defending themselves, the Constitution or the American people is pretty pathetic. In total they’re a group of cowards. Pagliano blew off and ignored a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. The question now becomes one of how will the House respond. In a closed-door interview with the House last year Pagliano pled the Fifth. This time around he just no-showed for a public hearing... http://rickwells.us/rep-meadows-clinton-it-hearing-no-show-is-red-line-in-the-sand-time/
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Australian Efforts to Dump
the United Nations Gain Momentum
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com) ~ As the United Nations becomes increasingly radical in its assaults on liberty and national sovereignty, the movement for free nations to leave the dictator-dominated UN has now officially arrived in Australia... Speaking on the floor of Parliament in his inaugural address, newly elected Senator Malcolm Roberts with the One Nation party said Australian values were under threat from “insidious” institutions such as the unelected UN. To deal with it, he called for an “OzExit.” In a passionate defense of freedom, Roberts also blasted privately owned central banks and the incestuous relationship between global mega-banks and Big Government. The tide is already turning. Roberts said the historic Brexit vote, in which British voters decided to secede from the European Union, should be seen as a model worldwide as nations work to reclaim their sovereignty from globalist institutions. The Australian lawmaker, who represents the state of Queensland, joined a growing chorus of anti-UN voices stretching from the halls of the U.S. Congress to the Presidential Palace of the Philippines... http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/australia/item/24079-australian-efforts-to-dump-the-united-nations-gain-momentum
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nObama-Appointed Judge Omits ‘So Help Me God’...
by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Five days before the 2008 election, candidate Barack nObama told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”... Those prophetic words have been realized over the last eight years in more ways than one. The latest example is a judge he appointed in Washington who removed “so help me God” from the end of the naturalization oath for new citizens. The video shows Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell swearing in the new batch of Americans with the official oath yet omitting the last four words. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, current law allows for only one exemption in the oath, that of citing religious objections to bearing arms or performing noncombatant service to the nation. There is nothing that indicates any line of the oath can be removed and still be valid under the law...
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/watch-obama-appointed-judge-omits-so-help-me-god-naturalization-oath
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Congress investigating nObama's effort
to undermine Netanyahu
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ A new report on Friday revealed that Congress is beginning an investigation into President nObama’s secret bankrolling of an effort to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the last election, an effort that failed... The Free Beacon reports it has obtained details about the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to a group that tried to influence Israel’s 2015 election. The probe follows an internal government report that found the State Department turned over the money, and then deleted emails from government accounts detailing the relationship with a group called OneVoice... Here we go again. http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/congress-investigating-obamas-effort-to-undermine-netanyahu/
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The "Virtuous" New Nazis
by Giulio Meotti
by Giulio Meotti
Boycotting products made by Jews, now, and then
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Meet the packs of new Nazis, posing as Righteousness and Virtue, pursuing new exterminationist policies against Israel and, right after that, the Jews... "In Nazi Germany," noted Brendan O'Neill in the Wall Street Journal, "it was all the rage to make one's town Judenfrei." "Now a new fashion is sweeping Europe: to make one's town or city what we might call 'Zionistfrei' -- free of the products and culture of the Jewish state. Across the Continent, cities and towns are declaring themselves 'Israel-free zones,' insulating their citizens from Israeli produce and culture. It has ugly echoes of what happened 70 years ago."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8921/virtuous-new-nazis
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nObama is LITERALLY sending our Special Ops
to fight for ‘moderates’ who want to kill us
by Daniel Horowitz
{conservativereview.com} ~ It never ends. Is it too much to ask that we don’t send our brave troops into aimless quagmires full of enemy forces fighting each other with no positive outcome that fulfills our interests?... Can’t we just let our enemies fight each other? When I warned several months ago that nObama was sending our special operators into a meat-grinder, this is exactly what I meant. I guess after fighting for Iran in Iraq, including giving air cover for and sharing bases with some of the same Shia militias that blew up hundreds of U.S. soldiers, it should come as no surprise that we are now fighting for the greatest Sunni Islamist power in the region as well. After all, Recep Erdogen is the leading Muslim Brotherhood inspiration in the world...
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liar-Hillary Clinton Campaign Stealing
From Their Poorest Donors
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton keeps promising to help the middle class and poor while making the rich do their “fair share.” We know that the “rich” are doing more than their fare share, and now... thanks to a report by the Observer, we also know that hypocritically, the liar-Clinton campaign is fleecing their lower-income donors. The Observer reports that the liar-Clinton’s campaign is “purposefully and repeatedly overcharging” their lower income donors by taking tiny one-shot donations and turning them into scheduled repeat donations. They are doing this to lower income donors to the website so they have the people’s credit card/debit card numbers to keep recharging. The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation’s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from liar-Clinton’s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by liar-Clinton’s campaign...I wonder if these donors going to vote for her now? http://lidblog.com/hillary-clinton-campaign-stealing-from-their-poorest-donors/
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nObama’s Latest Lie Is What Any
Tinpot Dictator Would Do
by S. Noble
{independentsentinel.com) ~ Barack nObama’s-Jeh Johnson” Department of Homeland Security has been touting numbers that suggest border patrol agents nab 80% of illegal immigrants trying to cross into America. It’s a lie... A study commissioned in 2015 by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees show that 50% of those entering illegally are successful. The report has been suppressed because according to one source, “it would ‘look bad’ and ‘help elect Donald Trump.” “The nObama administration knows that the number of illegal aliens successfully getting across the Mexican border is 158 percent higher than they are telling people,” said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who is familiar with the report. “The administration has made fraudulent changes in the numbers to hide this.”... http://www.independentsentinel.com/obamas-latest-lie-is-what-any-tinpot-dictator-would-do/
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Twilight of American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ This week marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. Most of us didn’t realize it at the time, but those attacks also marked the beginning of the end of the golden age of American Jewry – on both sides of the ideological divide.
Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.
After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
And the situation has only grown worse over time.
As Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum wrote this week in The National Interest, since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was founded in 2005, its members have gone from one leftist group to another and demanded that their members embrace the cause of Israel’s destruction.
Group after group – from the feminists, to the gay rights activists, to Occupy Wall Street, to Black Lives Matter – bowed to the BDS demand. Members who refused to condemn Israel and join the call for its destruction have been booted out.
As Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote last month, this state of affairs has brought about a situation where progressive American Jews who support Israel – that is, the majority of American Jews – are increasingly finding themselves isolated, rejected by their fellow leftists.
In his words, “Over the past several years, progressive Jews and supporters of Israel have had to come to terms with the reality that those who do not reject Israel and accept the... BDS movement’s unique brand of bigotry are no longer welcome in some progressive circles. And while both the Democratic and Republican parties have embraced the importance of the US alliance with Israel, that dynamic is under threat more so than at any point in my lifetime.”
The radicalization of the American Left has caused a radicalization of the Democratic Party. This was made clear throughout this year’s Democratic primary season and during the party’s national convention. Today, the anti-Israel Left makes up not just the Democratic grassroots but also the major donors to liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The significance of this development for American Jews cannot be overstated. Even if liar-Clinton herself doesn’t share the positions of the Bernie Sanders wing of her party, she cannot govern in defiance of its will.
And if she is elected in November, she won’t.
On the Republican side of the aisle, the situation is very different.
But it is also bad.
It isn’t that anti-Semites have taken over the party of Lincoln. To be sure, white supremacists like David Duke have made clear that they are happy to support Donald Trump. But unlike liar-Clinton and the progressives, Trump never sought nor accepted their support. Moreover, in sharp contrast to the situation on the Democrat side of the aisle, Republican support for Israel is all but unanimous.
All of the Republican primary candidates were pro-Israel to varying degrees. The GOP platform passed at the convention is the most pro-Israel document in its history.
The problem on the Republican side of the aisle then is not that the party has turned against the Jews. The problem is that a large contingent of prominent Jewish Republicans has decided to commit political suicide.
Back in the mid-1970s, disgusted by the radicalization of the Democratic Party, particularly in connection with its prosecution of the Cold War, a significant group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals led by the likes of Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz came to the conclusion that they could no longer maintain their loyalty to the Democratic Party – which had been their political home for decades. With the rise of Ronald Reagan on the Republican side of the aisle, these prominent Jews broke with the Democrats, called themselves neoconservatives, and cast their lot with the GOP.
Some members of this group received influential appointments in the Reagan administration. Others used their intellectual skills and their media outlets to set out the intellectual basis for much of Reagan’s foreign and economic policies.
These Jewish Republicans enjoyed a far less congenial relationship with Reagan’s successor George H.W. Bush. But all the same, by and large they remained loyal Republicans. For their efforts they were appointed to significant positions in the George W. Bush administration.
After the September 11 attacks, prominent Jewish Republicans like Bush’s deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz rose to national fame as they were widely credited – and often credited themselves – with shaping Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, including his decision to overthrow the Iraqi government and to make democratizing the Islamic world the goal of his counter-terrorism strategies worldwide.
Their star rose as quickly as it fell. As the public soured on Bush’s war policies, the first to be blamed for his failures were the Jewish Republicans who had been so outspoken about their roles in shaping his policies.
Some of the criticism was substantive and deserved. Much of it was bigoted.
The Republican establishment, for its part, remained staunchly loyal to Bush’s policies. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney supported them to varying degrees during their presidential bids.
That support was not shared by Republican voters, however. Over nObama’s eight years in office, the Republican base and as well as lawmakers became increasing hostile to the democratic interventionism championed by the Bush administration and disaffected with the war in Iraq.
Seemingly unaware of the shift, the same Jewish Republican policy-makers and writers most identified in the public mind with Bush’s failures went into the 2016 race assuming that as was the case in 2008 and 2012, the party would choose a candidate that largely supported their views.
Two prominent Republican candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Jeb Bush, met that expectation.
But contrary to their expectations, Rubio and Bush were flops. The voters rejected them. The two candidates that secured significant support – Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, were outspoken opponents of Bush’s policies.
Rather than repeat their practice from 1992 and accept the will of their fellow Republicans, this year the most prominent members of the Jewish Republican elite have opted to attack Trump and his voters.
That is, they have decided to commit political suicide.
Wolfowitz, along with Bush’s second term Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and several prominent lower level Jewish Republican policy-makers, announced they are voting for liar-Clinton. Most members of the Jewish Republican elite have sufficed with refusing to endorse Trump. Some have become his most outspoken and vituperative critics.
Objectively, their behavior is irrational. With the radical takeover of the Democratic Party, these Republican rebels cannot hope to receive influential roles in a liar-Clinton administration even if she throws some table scraps in their direction. And by attacking Trump and his voters, they are dooming themselves to political homelessness for at least a generation.
The prominence of Jewish Republicans in the Never Trump camp is liable to impact more than their personal career prospects. It is liable to adversely affect Republican attitudes toward Jews as Jews. And to their disgrace, the Jewish Republicans at the heart of the Never Trump camp are playing right into this unhealthy dynamic.
This week the Intelligence Squared debating society held a public debate in New York. The debate was posted on Real Clear Politics website.
Two sides debated the proposition that the American elites are to blame for Trump’s rise. Arguing in favor of the proposition were two Christian journalists – Tim Carney and Ben Domenech.
Arguing against it were two Jewish journalists – Bret Stephens, a former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief and Jennifer Rubin.
Both Rubin and Stephens voiced their support for liar-Clinton’s controversial assertion that half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable, unworthy of attention, un-American and irredeemable.
For their part, Domenech and Carney argued that Stephens and Rubin were ignoring the social and economic dislocation of the lower middle class. They argued that the suffering of members of this group has caused millions of Americans to feel betrayed by their political elites and turn to Trump to put a stop to a political game they believe is rigged against them.
Two-thirds of the way through the event, Carney brought up religion.
Carney allowed that many of Trump’s supporters are indeed bigoted. However, he said that “as a Christian,” he couldn’t accept that they are irredeemable because Christianity teaches that all men can be saved.
Rather than grant his point or simply ignore it, Rubin chose to respond in the name of Judaism. In so doing, she turned the debate into a contest between Christianity and Judaism.
Incorrectly arguing that Judaism does not believe in repentance as a road to redemption, Rubin pointed to herself and Stephens and said sardonically, “We Jews just believe in good and evil. We don’t believe that everyone is redeemable.”
The Christians won the debate in a knockout.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Jewish Republicans’ behavior is that while attacking the anti-Semites at the margins of the Republican Party, they ignore the anti-Semites at the heart of the Democratic Party.
While Trump has disavowed the support of the GOP’s Jew-hating wing, some of liar-Clinton’s closest advisers harbor virulent anti-Semitic beliefs.
Take Sidney Blumenthal for instance. Blumenthal has been a close adviser to the liar-Clintons for decades. We learned from liar-Clinton’s emails made public earlier this year by Judicial Watch that Blumenthal was one of liar-Clinton’s most intimate advisers throughout her tenure as secretary of state.
Blumenthal’s son Max is a raving anti-Semite. He calls for the destruction of Israel. He compares Israel to Nazi Germany and IDF soldiers to the Nazi SS.
Blumenthal Sr. is a proud father. He regularly shared his son’s ravings with liar-Clinton, and she shared his delight. In eight separate emails over the course of her tenure in office, liar-Clinton enthusiastically praised his Jew-hating propaganda.
In one message email, liar-Clinton wrote, “Your Max is a mitzva.”
On the one hand then, we have the Jewish Democrats who are faced with a party that is increasingly controlled by anti-Semitic forces. And on the other hand we are in the midst of the collective political suicide of the Jewish Republican establishment.
It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing. The fact remains that the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the evangelical Christian community.
What is clear enough though is that the political waning of the Jewish community across the political spectrum means that the golden era of American Jewry is not only over. It is gone.
Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.
After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
And the situation has only grown worse over time.
As Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum wrote this week in The National Interest, since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was founded in 2005, its members have gone from one leftist group to another and demanded that their members embrace the cause of Israel’s destruction.
Group after group – from the feminists, to the gay rights activists, to Occupy Wall Street, to Black Lives Matter – bowed to the BDS demand. Members who refused to condemn Israel and join the call for its destruction have been booted out.
As Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote last month, this state of affairs has brought about a situation where progressive American Jews who support Israel – that is, the majority of American Jews – are increasingly finding themselves isolated, rejected by their fellow leftists.
In his words, “Over the past several years, progressive Jews and supporters of Israel have had to come to terms with the reality that those who do not reject Israel and accept the... BDS movement’s unique brand of bigotry are no longer welcome in some progressive circles. And while both the Democratic and Republican parties have embraced the importance of the US alliance with Israel, that dynamic is under threat more so than at any point in my lifetime.”
The radicalization of the American Left has caused a radicalization of the Democratic Party. This was made clear throughout this year’s Democratic primary season and during the party’s national convention. Today, the anti-Israel Left makes up not just the Democratic grassroots but also the major donors to liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The significance of this development for American Jews cannot be overstated. Even if liar-Clinton herself doesn’t share the positions of the Bernie Sanders wing of her party, she cannot govern in defiance of its will.
And if she is elected in November, she won’t.
On the Republican side of the aisle, the situation is very different.
But it is also bad.
It isn’t that anti-Semites have taken over the party of Lincoln. To be sure, white supremacists like David Duke have made clear that they are happy to support Donald Trump. But unlike liar-Clinton and the progressives, Trump never sought nor accepted their support. Moreover, in sharp contrast to the situation on the Democrat side of the aisle, Republican support for Israel is all but unanimous.
All of the Republican primary candidates were pro-Israel to varying degrees. The GOP platform passed at the convention is the most pro-Israel document in its history.
The problem on the Republican side of the aisle then is not that the party has turned against the Jews. The problem is that a large contingent of prominent Jewish Republicans has decided to commit political suicide.
Back in the mid-1970s, disgusted by the radicalization of the Democratic Party, particularly in connection with its prosecution of the Cold War, a significant group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals led by the likes of Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz came to the conclusion that they could no longer maintain their loyalty to the Democratic Party – which had been their political home for decades. With the rise of Ronald Reagan on the Republican side of the aisle, these prominent Jews broke with the Democrats, called themselves neoconservatives, and cast their lot with the GOP.
Some members of this group received influential appointments in the Reagan administration. Others used their intellectual skills and their media outlets to set out the intellectual basis for much of Reagan’s foreign and economic policies.
These Jewish Republicans enjoyed a far less congenial relationship with Reagan’s successor George H.W. Bush. But all the same, by and large they remained loyal Republicans. For their efforts they were appointed to significant positions in the George W. Bush administration.
After the September 11 attacks, prominent Jewish Republicans like Bush’s deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz rose to national fame as they were widely credited – and often credited themselves – with shaping Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, including his decision to overthrow the Iraqi government and to make democratizing the Islamic world the goal of his counter-terrorism strategies worldwide.
Their star rose as quickly as it fell. As the public soured on Bush’s war policies, the first to be blamed for his failures were the Jewish Republicans who had been so outspoken about their roles in shaping his policies.
Some of the criticism was substantive and deserved. Much of it was bigoted.
The Republican establishment, for its part, remained staunchly loyal to Bush’s policies. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney supported them to varying degrees during their presidential bids.
That support was not shared by Republican voters, however. Over nObama’s eight years in office, the Republican base and as well as lawmakers became increasing hostile to the democratic interventionism championed by the Bush administration and disaffected with the war in Iraq.
Seemingly unaware of the shift, the same Jewish Republican policy-makers and writers most identified in the public mind with Bush’s failures went into the 2016 race assuming that as was the case in 2008 and 2012, the party would choose a candidate that largely supported their views.
Two prominent Republican candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Jeb Bush, met that expectation.
But contrary to their expectations, Rubio and Bush were flops. The voters rejected them. The two candidates that secured significant support – Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, were outspoken opponents of Bush’s policies.
Rather than repeat their practice from 1992 and accept the will of their fellow Republicans, this year the most prominent members of the Jewish Republican elite have opted to attack Trump and his voters.
That is, they have decided to commit political suicide.
Wolfowitz, along with Bush’s second term Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and several prominent lower level Jewish Republican policy-makers, announced they are voting for liar-Clinton. Most members of the Jewish Republican elite have sufficed with refusing to endorse Trump. Some have become his most outspoken and vituperative critics.
Objectively, their behavior is irrational. With the radical takeover of the Democratic Party, these Republican rebels cannot hope to receive influential roles in a liar-Clinton administration even if she throws some table scraps in their direction. And by attacking Trump and his voters, they are dooming themselves to political homelessness for at least a generation.
The prominence of Jewish Republicans in the Never Trump camp is liable to impact more than their personal career prospects. It is liable to adversely affect Republican attitudes toward Jews as Jews. And to their disgrace, the Jewish Republicans at the heart of the Never Trump camp are playing right into this unhealthy dynamic.
This week the Intelligence Squared debating society held a public debate in New York. The debate was posted on Real Clear Politics website.
Two sides debated the proposition that the American elites are to blame for Trump’s rise. Arguing in favor of the proposition were two Christian journalists – Tim Carney and Ben Domenech.
Arguing against it were two Jewish journalists – Bret Stephens, a former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief and Jennifer Rubin.
Both Rubin and Stephens voiced their support for liar-Clinton’s controversial assertion that half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable, unworthy of attention, un-American and irredeemable.
For their part, Domenech and Carney argued that Stephens and Rubin were ignoring the social and economic dislocation of the lower middle class. They argued that the suffering of members of this group has caused millions of Americans to feel betrayed by their political elites and turn to Trump to put a stop to a political game they believe is rigged against them.
Two-thirds of the way through the event, Carney brought up religion.
Carney allowed that many of Trump’s supporters are indeed bigoted. However, he said that “as a Christian,” he couldn’t accept that they are irredeemable because Christianity teaches that all men can be saved.
Rather than grant his point or simply ignore it, Rubin chose to respond in the name of Judaism. In so doing, she turned the debate into a contest between Christianity and Judaism.
Incorrectly arguing that Judaism does not believe in repentance as a road to redemption, Rubin pointed to herself and Stephens and said sardonically, “We Jews just believe in good and evil. We don’t believe that everyone is redeemable.”
The Christians won the debate in a knockout.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Jewish Republicans’ behavior is that while attacking the anti-Semites at the margins of the Republican Party, they ignore the anti-Semites at the heart of the Democratic Party.
While Trump has disavowed the support of the GOP’s Jew-hating wing, some of liar-Clinton’s closest advisers harbor virulent anti-Semitic beliefs.
Take Sidney Blumenthal for instance. Blumenthal has been a close adviser to the liar-Clintons for decades. We learned from liar-Clinton’s emails made public earlier this year by Judicial Watch that Blumenthal was one of liar-Clinton’s most intimate advisers throughout her tenure as secretary of state.
Blumenthal’s son Max is a raving anti-Semite. He calls for the destruction of Israel. He compares Israel to Nazi Germany and IDF soldiers to the Nazi SS.
Blumenthal Sr. is a proud father. He regularly shared his son’s ravings with liar-Clinton, and she shared his delight. In eight separate emails over the course of her tenure in office, liar-Clinton enthusiastically praised his Jew-hating propaganda.
In one message email, liar-Clinton wrote, “Your Max is a mitzva.”
On the one hand then, we have the Jewish Democrats who are faced with a party that is increasingly controlled by anti-Semitic forces. And on the other hand we are in the midst of the collective political suicide of the Jewish Republican establishment.
It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing. The fact remains that the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the evangelical Christian community.
What is clear enough though is that the political waning of the Jewish community across the political spectrum means that the golden era of American Jewry is not only over. It is gone.
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