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Of course there are Jews who don't agree with me and you can read their klueless thoughts every morning at "Haaretz" and every month or so in "Tikkun."
After all, many of Israel's founders were socialists, and, even now, there are some lovely Kibbutzim scattered along the Jordan Valley.
I would not call them anti-semites and Lotus certainly would not. As his name suggests, he is of the swami baba persuasion, and eats no meat fish or eggs, whilst I just polished off a half bottle of Cabernet and a small, rare and wonderful marinated flank steak.
I think these mostly secular Jews are not only klueless, they are suicidal. However I know some of them who are Israeli expatriates living here. When the surprise Yom Kippur War threatened their lives and the lives of their children, they too grabbed their Uzis, reported for duty and helped save their country and their people from utter destruction. It was a bit like Pearl Harbor was for my father.
Anti Semitism is like pornography: there is something sick and evil, tawdry and exploitive about it which is hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
And, this is why every balanced Jewish or non Jewish person who has any regard for the wonderful contributions our Jewish Heritage continues to make to humanity immediately notices Glennn's ugly animus. Only someone in denial can not notice his hatred, loud and clear.
You don't think Pat Buchanan came right out and said "I hate Jews," do you? He didn't have to. It was obvious to all but the stubbornly self deluded. Glennn may not relish his similarity to Pat the rat, but their rants about 'the Israel Lobby' are very similar. And Glennn is even more destructive than Pat ever was, because Glennn is a Jew, and it is especially destructive when an insider turns against his own with a kind of unhinged, implacable hate.
Just as there are neo conservatives who used to be liberalz until they woke up to the horrid realities of socialism - the disincentives to work and be responsible for your own life, the horrid corruption of a welfare state with Animal Farm type hypocrisy and graft, and the gulags, the brutalities of a small ruling class of entitled elitists - there is a dawning awareness among even the most idealistic and peace loving Jews inside and outside Israel that it takes two to tango, it takes two willing parties to make peace.
You will never read any hint of this type of recognition from Glennn. He will never mention the years of rocket attacks which preceded Israel's Gaza Operation. He will never acknowledge the schools in Gaza where even kindergarten children march around in suicide vests and are taught that Jews are not human beings, only animals to be slaughtered. He will never mention the gratuitous scud attacks during the first Gulf War or the carnage inside of a pizza parlor full of unsuspecting civilians. None of Israel's responses to the non stop wars her neighbors wage are placed in any kind of context or perspective by Glennn. There is no context when Glennn attacks and twists Israel's reaction to her life or death struggles, only denunciations.
So, for me, and for I think a majority of the remaining .02% of the world population who remain among you as Jews, for many of the 12 million of us who still remain among you, after your fellow Christians rounded us up all over Europe and murdered millions of us in ditches and gas chambers, we read Glennn's unrelenting focus on attacking Israel, and it is like a Mother who has suddenly stumbled upon a pornographic snuff flick and the girl in question who is murdered at the end of the snuff flick is her own child.
This is why I find Glennn' smug and unrelenting and totally lacking in context attacks on Israel so contemptible and so obscene, so horrible and detestable.
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They are uncommonly intelligent but they have a way of touching every day people and rousing every day people like none of our current politicians are able to do.
And, now, the 0baba Administration has managed to alienate all of these very talented and very popular people, even Cramer and Santelli who have probably never ever voted for a Republican.
The arrogance of the left is the root of the downfall of the left.
0bama will be a one term President.
I think General Petraeus would be a very good replacement. We need some fresh blood, someone above the slime of our everyday politics, someone we all can trust.