JAMES LEWIS in the American Thinker, predicting most Jews will vote Democratic tomorrow despite Obama’s hostility to Israel, ponders the question “Why do Jews Vote for their Enemies?” The comments section is worth reading. One commenter writes:

[M]any Jews suffer from the perennial left wing “lets say we love them and hope they will leave us alone” stupidity.

Another commenter says:

…the jews [sic] pride themselves on their reputation for intelligence and academic achievement…their need to feel intellectually superior causes them to align with those reputed to be similarly endowed, even if it means an utter disregard for logical thought and the ensuing conclusions…palin stupid, obama brilliant…this meme alone was enough to guarantee the jewish [sic] vote for obama…

The liberal Jew’s dedication to image and his pseudo-religion trumps loyalty to his people. However, this piece in the Jerusalem Post argues there has in fact been a significant backlash against the Democrats by Jews. Regardless, a Republican-controlled Congress is likely to be more pro-Israel.

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OC writes:

The Jews are not alone in voting for their enemies. It may be that a majority of Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christians will also vote for Democrats. They will vote for those same Democrats who are have made many statements against Christians and many laws contrary to Christian teaching. Perhaps, those voting for Democrats (Jew and Christian alike) neither know nor practice their own religion properly. May Our Lord have mercy on us.

Laura writes:

Yes, this is very true. However, the stakes for Israel, not in this election necessarily but in politics in general, are especially high.

Mabel LeBeau writes:

The wording of the original post seems to promote an anti-Semitic agenda blithely hidden under a guise of concern for the Jewish American voters supporting Democratic candidates, which is especially ironic for American Catholics. In light of the underpinning of anti-Catholic sentiment here in the US fueled by many similar originators to anti-Semitism, most notably by visible vessels of hate propaganda such as KKK Ku Klux Klan, AN Aryan Nation, APM America’s Promise Ministry, SLA Symbionese Liberation Army, EAURO European-American Unity and Rights Organization.

Anti-secularist agenda specifically against Catholics has been practiced more subtly by soft-selling Protestants painting practicing Catholics with a satanic tarbrush from the excesses of medieval Roman Catholicism. Not only did much of the anti-Catholic movement begin in northern Europe, but it seemed to be widely supported in the UK, as stirred up by the Irish non-Catholics, and resounding to this day with the hokum surrounding the latest Papal visit to London and the embrace of Queen Elizabeth.

The mesh of anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic KKK supporters certainly exists in the mid-western state I live at present, with notable historical accounts of how founding of hospital services in a town I occasionally work. The city hospital built by funds at the behest of a wealthy UK immigrant refused to provide medical services for a certain group of US tax-paying citizens. This area of the country had a great many KKK sympathizers as well, for those who might not wish to call themselves members of the KKK, for which Harry S. Truman never had a hard time explaining, but were members of Protestant church-groups that had no problem boycotting Catholic and Jewish business, nor helping out their destitute neighbors, nor ostracizing members of the community. A very small order of nursing nuns opened a donated clinic to provide for all citizens without discrimination. The Catholic hospital eventually become the region’s state of art medical care facility and purchased what was left of the other failing institution. Catholic health care providers aren’t off the hook for standards of ethical care, just by being Catholic, but it certainly shows the depth of social responsibility that their facilities might provide in response to KKK fueled-hate groups and sympathizers.

Laura writes:

There was nothing in my original post that was in the least anti-Semitic. I criticized Jews for not supporting Israel. You might say I criticized Jews for being anti-Semitic. Many of the commenters to the American Thinker article were Jews who said the same thing about their liberal friends and relatives. It is not anti-Semitic to notice the liberalism of mostly secular Jews. That’s a reality.

By the way, for the record, I strongly support the existence of Israel; Israel’s actions to defend its borders; and American foreign aid to Israel.

Roger G. writes:

Mabel LeBeau seems to be a standard-issue American Christian philo-Semite, and for this I thank her, but Laura Wood also is a philo-Semite – NOTNOTNOT an anti-Semite, in the slightest bit, and I feel embarrassed even for having to defend her from this charge. Liberalism and anti-Americanism indeed are problems among secular politically liberal Jews, and at his website Lawrence Auster has addressed this matter much better than I can, so go there. And forgive me, I apologize for thumping my chest, but just to show that I’m not the Jewish version of an Uncle Tom, I have faced the necessity of conducting an extremely spirited public debate with an anti-Semite a grand total of two times in my life; in each instance, the circle of onlookers surrounding the disputation comprised gentiles who were rooting for me, not my prey. America is the most philosemitic country in the world, right back to its beginnings. George Washington wrote a letter to the Jews of Rhode Island insisting that they were here, not by sufferance, but on equal footing with Christians. Religious and politically conservative Jews refer to America as haMalchut shel Chesed, the Kingdom of Kindness.

I support Israel in the strongest way imaginable, so on that point I agree with Laura. I disagree with her in that I oppose foreign aid to Israel. American taxpayers should not bear the burden of supporting Israel’s socialism. Also, the foreign aid lets Israel avoid dealing with the existential issues that she ultimately must address for her survival – the aforementioned socialism, and Islam. If you’re going to be a country, be a country. Pay your own bills. Defend your own self.

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