THE TIME IS NOW — To Stand With Israel
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:04 AM
Please Stand With Israel
THE TIME IS NOW
It is time to speak out for all who believe that Jews have the same political freedom, national, civil and religious liberties as every other people to live anywhere in the world, including the right to live anywhere in Jerusalem, Judaism’s eternal capital. To suggest, demand, or even submit to anything less is to support overt religious persecution.
The outrage hurled against the Jewish State by the current US administration for (1) daring to approve the building of homes for Jews in a Jewish neighborhood, two miles from the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount, and for (2) daring to do so when US Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel, is grossly misplaced and is itself an affront. The public expression of this outrage is yet another means to pressure Israel’s government unfairly.
Outrage should, more appropriately, be directed at those expressing the outrage. We are especially appalled at those who claim to be supporters of Israel and yet demand that this policy of religious bigotry be enforced with threats of official shunning both diplomatically and in terms of military support.
Let’s be clear: The only apologies should come from those attempting to bar Jews from building homes and living in any neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and from those who think that if Jews do build in Jerusalem they should do it quietly, and hope that no one notices. We reject any such discrimination and duplicity. We say to all those who claim to support the Jewish State, including Israeli officials, not to be afraid, to say out loud: Yes! Jews can, do, and will build and live in Jerusalem, now and forever. We call on all those who reject this position to explain why an official policy of religious discrimination is acceptable when it is enforced against Jews.
It is most shocking that a US administration claiming to support a strong Israel would allow its policies to fan the flames of Arab hatred, incitement and violence against its only free and democratic Middle Eastern ally.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Z STREET
Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts
Helen Freedman, Americans for a Safe Israel
Charles Jacobs, Americans for Peace and Tolerance
Doris Wise Montrose, Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Mort Klein, Zionist Organization of America
Cherna Moskowitz, The Moskowitz Foundation
Rachel Ehrenfeld, American Center for Democracy
Rabbi Jon Hausman
Rabbi David Jay Kaufman
Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins
Professor Louis Rene Beres
Professor Edward Alexander
Professor Judith S. Jacobson
Rick Richman, Jewish Current Issues
Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
Yael Lieberman, Boker Tov, Boulder
Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
David Goder, One Jerusalem
Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Gary E. Erlbaum
Kenneth G. Langone
Richard Fox
Adrienne A. Price
Joshua Katzen
Hillary Markowitz
Ruth S. King
Rael Jean Isaac
Joshua Landes
Steven E. Stern
Morris Willner
Richard A. Baehr
Leonard Wisse
Alex Grobman
Edward M. Snider
Craig Snider
Richard Cooper
Howard A. Cohen
Alan B. Miller
Bart Blatstein
Benyamin Korn
Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld
Richard Allen
Stephen B. Klein
Barri Glick
Joseph Wolfson
Gloria Z. Greenfield
Maxine Elkins
Jerome M. Marcus
Clive Ginsburg
Lee Miller
Now is not the time to go wobbly on Israel.
(This list continues to grow, if you want your named added, please go to WWW.ZSTREET.ORG and state your interest.)
More… Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard: “Friends do not Treat Friends in this Manner”
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 76 Comments
david commented:
all americans should stand with israel and against barak hussein obama who is anti israel .
Militant Conservative commented:
David, we are, but our house is on fire and we KNOW who the arsonist IS, BHO.
davsun commented:
there is at least one government fighting for freedom
Marsh commented:
Israel and America – Allies forever!
Especially against terrorism!
At least as long as the Right remains the predominant political power in America…
The Left in this country wants to see Israel nuked.
Opus #6 commented:
What some don’t realize is that the Muslims would hate us anyway, even if we didn’t support Israel. Our support of Israel does NOT bring their ire. Radical Muslims want Israel gone because they are a bulwark between Islam and the west. Israel needs our protection and our thanks.
so cal chick commented:
During his remarks last night at that press dinner, Biden slammed Israel for the construction of homes in their own territory…he said something along the lines of a ‘housing boom’ nobody supports.
Bottom line, the Maobama admin. is loaded w/ anti-Israel advisors. Everything in the Dem playbook is dangerous for America. This policy of ‘soft on terrorism’ is just one more anti-American, anti-Israel example of their illiterate stance on foreign and domestic policy.
Alice L. commented:
NO doubt THAT B. Hussein Obama is an anti-Semite in addition to being anti-American. Pat Buchanan must be smiling. The vicious Holocaust denier had a particularly nasty anti-Israeli column in Townhall yesterday. Why they have not dropped him is beyond me. I guess anti-Semitism is an acceptable bigotry.
PB-in-AL commented:
To Bibi and Israel:
Tell VP “Plugs” Biden to take his head and plug it up Obama’s backside where it belongs. Tell Hillary the same. It’s what we’re trying to say to them as well, but they can’t hear over their own kumbaya singing, or are they singing “O Fatherland” (It’s hard to tell sometimes).
wanumba commented:
Support Israel!
whocares commented:
Excuse me, but why should any Republican, Tea-Partier or Libertarian care about this inside the Democratic party fight?
American Jews back the Democratic party 3-1, ie by around 75% in election, after election, after election, decade after decade after decade. They raise 10′s of millions for the Democratic party in every election cycle.
They knew he was a 20 year member of an anti-Semitic church and had close friends and associates that were rank anti-Semites and yet American Jews voted for him 3-1. He’s there problem.
Patti commented:
#10,
There has been a lot of discussion about American Jews supporting Dems but what has that to do with the nation of Israel and the security of its citizens ?
Americans of whatever heritage are American citizens. Israelis don’t vote in US elections.
You really aren’t saying that it would be okay if Israel was manipulated in a manner to make its citizens more vulnerable because some American citizens made what you and I believe to be a very unwise choice for everyone concerned ?
What extraction are you ? Would you be comfortable if the Irish in Ireland were shoved around by the US because the Kennedys were of Irish heritage and were Irish Catholics who voted generation after generation for the Democratic party? How about all the other nations and religions that US citizens came from ? What if those Americans voted Dem ?
I’m an Irish/Scots lapsed Catholic that happens to be conservative and I am not always brimming with pride over the actions of either Catholics or the Irish, but I would never want anything to destroy the State of Ireland and its people.
Ya see , we Irish aren’t a monolith and neither are the Jewish people.
So, yeah, the Israelis are by far a good people who contribute to and make great strides in research , technology and the advancement of human kind.
Let us make sure they can continue doing that.
greenfairie commented:
Just because many in our Jewish community have swapped out Moses and Abraham for Marx and Alinsky doesn’t mean we ought to let Israel’s Jews out to dry. In fact, it’s even more imperative for non-Jews to step up to the plate since their cousins here couldn’t care less. Israel is a Western democracy and the best safekeeper of the Holy Land’s sites. It has been on the frontlines of jihadism for more than 60 years. Once the Muslim Arabs have taken out the Little Satan, as they call Israel, they will look to bring us and Europe down next. They’re already at work doing just that.
If you’re even a bit religious you would notice that those who mess with Israel and with the Jews do not have things end happily for them.
bg commented:
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Son of Hamas Leader: Hamas Atrocities Led Me to Convert
‘They Need to Be Liberated From Their God’
["Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks," he says now, speaking near his agent's home here in Nashville. "Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea—resisting occupation." Those early clashes with the Israelis begat worse violence, and the cemetery near his house began to fill up with cadavers. Palestinians also turned on each other. A corrupt and authoritarian Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) sparred with the rising Hamas and other groups. All of them used accusations of "collaboration" as an excuse to torture and kill rivals or the weak.
Mr. Yousef traces his awakening to his first sustained exposure to Hamas cruelty. In 1996, he was arrested by the Israelis for buying weapons. He says he was beaten and tortured badly in custody. It was then that the Shin Bet approached him. He says he thought about becoming a double agent. "I wanted revenge on Israel," he writes. But when he was sent to serve his term at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel, he says he was more shocked by the way the maj'd, Hamas's security wing, dealt with other prisoners.
"Every day, there was screaming; every night, torture. Hamas was torturing its own people!" he writes. The Muslims he met in jail "bore no resemblance to my father" and "were mean and petty . . . bigots and hypocrites."
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“I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love. I didn’t leave [the Islamic] religion to put myself in another box of religion. At the same time it’s a beautiful thing to see my God exist in my life and see the change in my life. I see that when he does exist in other Middle Easterners there will be a change.
“I’m not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can’t deny they came from Christianity as well.”]
i’m with him 100%, people need to turn away from “religion” per
se & towards “God, Jesus’ teachings & the 10 Commandments”..
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Joanne commented:
Biblical prophecy is set in stone; it isn’t something where we can do something, and expect a different result. The State of Israel is going to be in for some hurt, but it is better to stand your ground, than lay down and be slaughtered.
The State of Israel should just do what they believe is in their best interest, because it seems their best interest is not on the minds of their allies these days.
mike191 commented:
Greenfairie is spot on in his post:”..swapped out Moses…for Marx…; Israel is a Western Democracy..”
I find it appalling that Western Jews vote for the illusion of cultural neutrality ,while knowing in their collective souls it will harm the nation state of Israel.
The latest Nigerian episode of horror by Muslims against non-Muslims is the fate of Israel if the West follows President 44 and his insane clown posse that inhabit the State Department.
bg commented:
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OT.. but trust me, it’s related, the jihad is global, and not only in our
back yard, but inside our government, heck, it’s in the White House!!
American Muslims respond to Al-Awlaki’s call for jihad
[This American Muslim, for one has had it! Enough is enough! We will no longer allow fascists like Mr. Al-Awlaki to release this garbage unopposed, and have it aired around the world with only a footnoted response from Muslims!
As American Muslims we demand equal time and coverage of our response to the venom of Al-Awlaki as they have given to the coverage
of Al-Awlaki and any other Islamist apologists.
We, at the American Islamic Forum for Democracy call upon American media, government leaders, and academics to have the courage to broadcast and disseminate a direct unfiltered response from American Muslims to Mr. Al-Awlaki’s unfiltered jihadist call to arms against our own nation. It is time for Americans to hear from Los Angeles to New York American Muslim calls of our unqualified preference of America, its Constitutional republic, and liberty over any ‘Islamic’ state, over political Islam, and over shar’iah. It is time for American Muslims to give the Anwar Al-Alwakis of the world the response they deserve.]
much more here & here & here..
they deleted Muslim Brotherhood “The Project” video from YT.. gah!!
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bg commented:
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re: bg #16
[Enough is enough Anwar. I and other Muslims will no longer remain silent against the spread of your hatred and evil. You may be Muslim, but your Islam is certainly not our Islam. May you soon see the other end of my fellow citizen’s rifles. You are not my brother in Islam.]
Amen & thumbsup!!
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Gerry commented:
Get a life.
This little spat has resulted in exactly $0.00 being cut from the check of America’s fattest welfare queen.
Why do you think Ron Paul won at CPAC?
Hint: being “conservative” does not require one to kowtow to a foreign power, let alone throw $billions at it.
bg commented:
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OT.. re: Joanne @ 11:28 am #14
just a sample of what you will not hear about
via our (Isla) M(arxist) S(upport) M(achine)..
Muslim Slavery Today
[Muslims are told that Africans "annoy the Prophet" (Ishaq 243), have hearts "grosser than a donkey" (Surah 9:61) and that blacks should be left to die if injured, and should be denied intercession and entrance to heaven (Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 137).
Muslims try and torture non-Muslims into becoming Muslims. Not every Muslim is evil and some i've heard have even come to the aid of non-Muslims who were being beaten in the streets but unfortunately they are the minority. Muslims continue to commit these types of atrocities against non-Muslims everyday in other countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan etc. Men, women and children have been raped & tortured by Muslims because in their countries they get away with it. Saudi Arabia regularly beheads people caught practicing other religions. The genocide has switched from southern Sudan to Darfur with oil revenues being used by the Islamic government to perpetuate genocide.]
Islam, A Problem In Australia
Radical Islam In Europe
Islam A Silenced Problem In America
thanks to our IslaMarxist President, who not only banned the “war on terror”, but free speech against Islam, not to mention placing them inside our government..
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.]
both Marxists & Islamists (redundant i know) are way
ahead of US, which is why Obama acts with impunity..
we are losing because we don’t believe they
believe what they do, not because they do..
they have no time limits nor morals, what they do have is an over abundance of resolve.. something we seem to have lost somewhere along the hopey changey BS line..
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RB commented:
Gerry, Israelis are really not interested in foreign aid, or welfare, as you call it. Most Israelis would be satisfied if the US government simply stopped meddling in housing projects in Jerusalem, and the West Bank.
bg commented:
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Gerry @ 6:01 pm #19
heh, even Israel sends monies to Palestinians
Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?
[On December 17, 2007, eighty-seven countries and international organizations met in Paris and pledged to provide $7.4 billion over three years to the Palestinian Authority[1] (PA), an amount far in excess of any previous level of U.S. or European aid to the Palestinians. The conference participants justified the aid as a means of providing “immediate support to the entire Palestinian population,”[2] and as a reward intended to strengthen those Palestinians who favor peaceful coexistence with Israel.[3]
In the midst of the effort in Paris to bestow unprecedented sums of foreign aid on the Palestinians, there was little discussion of the unintended consequences — often deadly ones — of previous aid regimens. The recent history of foreign assistance shows a distinct correlation between aid and violence. Perhaps aid itself does not cause violence, but there is strong evidence that it contributes to a culture of corruption, government malfeasance, and terrorism that has had lethal consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians over the past decade.
The Paris conference aid package continues fifteen years of international funding that has established the Palestinians as one of the world’s leading per capita recipients of foreign support (see Table 1). Figures published by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development for 2005 show that Palestinians received $304 per person in foreign aid,[4] second only to the war-torn Republic of Congo among entities with populations larger than one million. Unlike the Congo, though, the Palestinians have received such subsidies for decades.]
you were saying..
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SarahM commented:
RB, if Israelites are “not interested” in foreign aid from the US, why are we giving it to them?
They can’t be a Democracy, in any case, they have state-sponsored health care.
bg commented:
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SarahM @ 10:12 pm #24
re: [state-sponsored health care.]
they also had a population of 7.4 million as of 4/09..
whereas the US pop is 308,895,619 & still counting..
many other factors are involved, like doctor
to patient ratio, technology, medicines, etc..
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Jay commented:
SarahM @ 10:12 pm #24
Israel does have both democracy and universal basic health care.
Unlike the ultimate aim of obama plan, Israelis are allowed to buy private insurance and see private doctors. Oh, and the biggest difference between their healthcare and the Obama plan is Israel’s healthcare works and is popular. See this poll:
http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Health/Article.aspx?id=171157
“The queue for primary care physicians at clinics declined, with the majority of members in the waiting room for less than 15 minutes.”
lots of Jewish doctors!
deacon, commented:
The enemies of ISRAEL, will do well to remember, that all who tried to disroy us, were distroyed themself, come to Israele with an olive branch, you will be welcomed, come with a sword………you will be met with fire and sword.