Some thoughts from David Goldman.
[Saturday-afternoon update]
American Jewry’s moment of decision:
During the next two months, Obama will be focused on closing his deal with Iran, and Clinton will be avidly seeking to lock up the Democratic nomination for president by building an impregnable fortress of campaign funds. If the American Jewish community uses this critical period to leverage Clinton’s financial requirements to convince her to oppose Obama’s deal that paves the way for a nuclear armed Iran, then they will reassert their relevance in American politics and they will restore support for Israel to its pre-Obama position as a bipartisan position.
If they fail to do so, then Obama’s bid to transform Israel into a partisan issue will succeed. If a Republican wins the White House in 2016, he will face an anti-Israel Democratic opposition. And if Clinton wins the White House, she will have no reason to support Israel.
I’d still like to see the video of the Khalidi birthday party.
[Bumped]
[Sunday-morning update]
In Syria there are real massacres of Palestinians. But where are the Muslim mobs and their European useful idiots? Where are the drones chanting in the streets of Paris? Where are the thousands of tweets we saw in 2014? They don’t exist because Israel was not involved, which reveals the utter hypocrisy and malevolence behind the execrable anti-Jewish and anti-Israel campaign.
Shelley Neese, who is Vice President of a Christian Zionist website called “The Jerusalem Connection”, has produced a remarkable music video “There is a Storm Coming”,about the rise of anti-Jewish prejudice and bigotry.
She compares it to the horrors of seventy years ago. She also warns the French Jewish community that time is short and their future lies in the ancestral and biblical Jewish homeland: Israel.
She was assisted by Andrew McKain, a talented musician and rapper whose hard-hitting lyrics should particularly appeal to young people who so desperately need to learn the past and what the present may foretell.
They should know how the totalitarian movements defeated in the 20th century have mutated and how the Islamo-Nazis and today’s far left are making common cause to the same end as their predecessors — the destruction of the Jews and of freedom worldwide.
When they said “Never again,” they had their fingers crossed behind their backs.
“I’d still like to see the video of the Khalidi birthday party.”
Me too; but I suspect all copies have gone the way of Vince Foster and Kathleen Willey’s cat. I have a friend, a student of US presidential history, who was looking into the Clintons at the dawn of Bubba’s first term, and he was convinced the full truth about the Clintons would not come to light until they were dead and no longer able to retaliate against stool pigeons. I suspect the same is true of Il Dufe.,
“They should know how the totalitarian movements defeated in the 20th century have mutated and how the Islamo-Nazis and today’s far left are making common cause to the same end as their predecessors — the destruction of the Jews and of freedom worldwide.”
This explains how the MB became secular and peaceful, how Iran getting nuclear weapons isn’t something to worry about, how Israel is so terrible that Democrats have to chase Jewish students out of public meetings with chants of Allahu Akbar, and why Islamic militantism is because of Bush rather than religious beliefs.