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I’m a Jew, I am for Obama and think McCain’s choice of Palin signaled his complete bankruptcy as a political leader. I was floored by elderly Jewish voters who rejected Obama because they feared he was a Muslim and found his color worrisome.
However, your piece on how Jewish voters in Florida are turning to Obama and dumping McCain because of Palin either misses the mark for why Jews are abandoning McCain or the AKs of South Florida are missing the problem. For example, you end with the idea that the remark about “Israelites” from an African preacher in Palin’s church suggested that he said Jews controlled the U.S. economy is just false.
Instead, he made a lame comparison between how “Israelites” do business with other “Israelites”, and argued Christians need to do the same thing. Maybe he was invoking our famous “cliquishness” and recommending Christians follow suit. But he hardly said Jews controlled the economy.
But you are right, Jews should be suspicious of Palin’s love for Israel, which is part of her end-of-days orientation. We, the stiff-necked Jews who historically have resisted conversion, in the end-times will either convert or go to hell. Israel will be the arena for that last great confrontation between the Anti-Christ and Christ. Jews are just props in this drama. We are no more loved by the Palins of this world than the sacrificial lamb is loved by his executioner. Jews should pay more attention to Palin’s comfort factor when listening to Jews for Jesus exhortations. I think that gets closer to her respect for Jews. The most we can expect is the same “tolerance” she has for gays. And her tolerance will go only so far.
