Want to get elected, especially to a national office? It
seems that all you have to do is to “out-Israel” your opponent. Sell out the Palestinians. Never try to be neutral
or talk about the facts on the ground. Forget
being fair and ignore such things as murder, torture and terrorizing innocent
kids. It will not be enough to refrain from criticizing Israel , you have to be pro-Israel, no matter
what Israel does, even if Israel ’s
actions put Americans at risk or gets them killed, you have to “out-Israel” all
your opponents.
Of course, those running against you know that they have to “out-Israel”
you. But, there is no limit to how “Israel ” you can
be. Never mind that Israel has
become a paranoid nation. Never mind the unbelievable massacres unleashed on
the people of Gaza
over the past decade, and the thousands of Palestinians, including children,
who have been put in prison without charge. Never mind the children who have
been abused, the thousands of homes demolished, the trees uprooted, the water
and property stolen. Just declare Israel
a democracy with whom we share moral and pious values. Such is the approved program for the day and
our politicians have caught on.
Allison Deger writes:
Carly Fiorina promises to make Israel her
first phone call as president. Mike Huckabee is “just nuts” about Israel . Jeb
Bush calls settlements “apartments.” Ben Carson wants to transfer the
Palestinians to Egypt .
Marco Rubio has taken to dining with top-donor Sheldon Adelson. Ted Cruz is
making the rounds with Fire Island ’s
pro-Israel community. And, Lindsey Graham who
has not announced his bid, said if he is president he will have the
first “all-Jewish” cabinet.[1]
Mike Huckabee
said on his campaign website, “In a world of uncertainty, evil, and moral
insanity, Israel
is a shining light of moral clarity. The enemies of Israel
are the enemies of America …
There is no Christian faith without a Jewish state”[2]
He just wiped out the faith of millions of Christians including
Saint Frances, Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But, he knows the mind of
God and according to him, God wants those Palestinians out of there. And how does Huckabee know this? Because a Jewish scribe heard a voice that
only Jews could understand and wrote that a Jewish god, named Yehweh, said that
the non-Jews had no value, and that he wanted the Jews, and no one else, to have
the land of Palestine, now and forever.
How about that? And because Huckabee knows all this, anything the state
of Israel
does to the Palestinians is OK. It’s all
about what God’s wants. Huckabee believes that the Jewish people have God’s
blessings upon acts of immorality and injustice against a weaker people,
including terrorism, ethnic cleansing, occupation, oppression, and torture. All of them are acceptable because the Jews of
Israel are doing them.
Ted Cruz, got a
30-second ovation at Liberty University when he said, “Instead of a president who
boycotts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically
with the nation of Israel .”
Cruz, the tea party icon became angry and walked off the
stage in the middle of a speech hosted by a Christian organization because they
did not see Israel
through the same narrow blinders that
limit his vision.
I will say this: “If you will not
stand with Israel
and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. Thank you and God bless you,” he
said walking off the stage…”Anti-Semitism is a corrosive evil, and it reared
its ugly head tonight.[3]
Marco Rubio in a
speech to Congress said, “How much better would the middle east be if more
countries looked like Israel
and less like Iraq and Syria .” Rubio’s
biggest backer, Norman Braman is said to have committed at least $10 million to
the campaign, says, “U.S.
must be a ‘global military power’ so that we can sustain Israel .” He did
not say to sustain the security and safety
of America , but, so we can
sustain Israel
Ben Carson,
advocates transferring all Palestinians to the Sinai desert and then taking
over their property. He claims that the criticism of the settlements “has been
exaggerated,” and that Palestinian hostility toward Israel is what is preventing peace.
The Guardian reports him as saying, “I would make sure that Israel knew
that we had their back. Because if their neighbors know that we’re backing them
up, they’re not going to be anywhere near as aggressive.”[5]
Carla Fiorina
states, “This administration has made the world a more dangerous place by the
way they have treated Israel” She said this with a straight face as her former company,
Hewlett-Packard, makes money off of the occupation of Palestinian lands.[6]
These kind of comments are not “slip ups” heard only when
the mike is “left on” by mistake. They are main line headlines for our
politicians. It has been said that Benjamin Netanyahu has become the leader of
the GOP and support for his militaristic policies has become a Republican
litmus test.
Want to get elected? Then cheer the Prime Minister of Israel
and swear loyalty to his state. Vote for everything he demands. Of course, doing so will probably get the US engaged in
another war with yet another Muslim nation. Never mind that following his
leadership has given birth to Islamic Jihad and ISIS. He is to be hailed and
heeded. Want to be elected, then puff Israel . It’s the only way.
Even though support for Israel has become the Republican
party line, it is not limited to Republicans. I wish it were. Peter Beinart
calls Hillary Clinton, “Israel ’s new lawyer. Haim Saban , Israel ’s
Channel One’s interviewer said of
Hillary Clinton, “Everything that she thinks and everything she has done and
will do will always be for the good of Israel .[8]
Because she is so eager to see the world through the eyes of
Benjamin Netanyahu, she blames Hamas for all conflicts between Israel and Gaza .
“Hamas just wanted to pile up dead
civilians for the cameras… the Palestinians stage-manage civilian deaths to win
the sympathy of an anti-Semitic world.”[9]
You start a war with Hamas with a
lie about the murder of three Israeli teenagers. You fought the war with
exceptional brutality, killing hundreds of children and civilians, leveling
whole streets and bombarding hospitals and United Nations shelters with
indiscriminate artillery fire…and when world opinion turns against you, what do
you do? You turn to Hillary Clinton.[10] “If I were the Prime Minister of Israel,
you’re damn right,” she says. “I would expect to have security.”
Peter Beinart says in Haaretz: “Clinton
offered the most articulate sophisticated, passionate defense of Netanyahu’s
conduct I’ve heard from a government official on either side of the Atlantic . Unfortunately, important chunks of it aren’t true.”[11]
It might be easier and surely would save a lot of money if
we would skip the primaries. In fact, we
might just skip the election altogether and just ask Benjamin Netanyahu who he wants
in the White House to jump through his hoops. Why not just ask him to appoint
the next President of the United
States . What do you think?
Thomas Are
May 16, 2015
[1] Allison
Deger, As Presidential Field Broadens, GOP candidates Race to Show Their Love
for Israel
[2] Same
article by Allison Deger.
[3]
Johnathan Topaz, Ted Cruz booed, Walks
off Stage. Politico.com March 24,
2015
[4] Philip
Weiss, Rubio’s Backer says U.S. must be “global military power” so that We
can Sustain Israel
[5]
Associated Press, Republican Presidential
hopeful Ben Carson Seeks to buff Image in Israel
[6] Allison
Deger, As Presidential Field Broadens, GOP candidates Race to Show Their Love
for Israel
[7] Also
from Allison Deger, Mindoweiss, May 7, 2015
[8] Philip
Weiss, Everything Hillary Clinton will do
will always be for Israel
[9]
Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Tough
Hillary Clinton says, “Dreadful” pictures of dead women and children make it
hard to get at truth – Hamas is to Blame.
[10] Ed
Moloney, Hillary Clinton’s 11th-hour
Diplomacy. August 17, 2015
[11] Tough Hillary interview with Jeff
Goldberg.
