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Bush taps Hadassah

By Ami Eden · April 14, 2008

President Bush is appointing Hadassah Lieberman to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council:

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

(Crawford, Texas)

For Immediate Release April 11, 2008

The President intends to appoint the following individuals to be Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council:

Norman R. Bobins, of Illinois, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Joseph M. Brodecki, of Maryland, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Michael David Epstein, of Maryland, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Donald Etra, of California, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

David M. Flaum, of New York, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Andrew Hochberg, of Illinois, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Ezra Katz, of Florida, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Howard Konar, of New York, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Douglas R. Korn, of Connecticut, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Hadassah F. Lieberman, of Connecticut, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13

Pierre-Richard Prosper, of California, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 01/15/13.

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Rabbi asks Clinton about the Beijing Olympics

By Ami Eden · April 14, 2008

Rabbi Steve Gutow of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs was in the crowd Sunday at Messiah College's Compassion Forum, and got to ask Hillary Clinton a question:

BROWN: Another question from the audience. Rabbi Steve Gutow, who is director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs is with us. Rabbi?

RABBI STEVE GUTOW, JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Senator Clinton?

CLINTON: Yes, Rabbi.

GUTOW: Back to China. China has continued to persecute and subject to oppression the people of Tibet. It continues to be the largest supplier of weapons to Sudan and the largest purchaser of its oil. Let's just say China is not doing all it can to stop the genocide in Darfur. You have said that America needs to return to being a moral voice of the world.

Is our participation in the Beijing Olympics harmful to that moral voice?

CLINTON: Well, Rabbi, I appreciate your asking this question because I think it's a question of both political and moral significance. And that's why last week I called on our president to decide he would not attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics because that is a public and very obvious ratification of our government's approval of the Beijing government's actions.

CLINTON: Unless the Chinese began to take very visible steps to begin to end the suppression of the Tibetans and undermining their culture and religious beliefs, and if we could get more cooperation out of the Chinese government with respect to Sudan.

And, of course, I would welcome even more action on behalf of human rights. But the challenge is, how do we try to influence the Chinese government? And I believe we have missed many opportunities during the Bush administration to do so.

In fact, I think it's fair to say our policy toward China is incoherent and that has not been in the best interest of our values or our strategic interest. So I would urge the president at least to consider and, therefore, publicly say that he will not be attending the opening ceremonies.

And let's see whether the Chinese government begins to respond because that for them would be a great loss of face and perhaps we would get more cooperation. We would get the process going that the Dalai Lama has asked for over many years.

There could be a lot of ways that the Chinese government demonstrated it heard our concerns.

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David Duke to Obama: Darn right we’re bitter

By Ami Eden · April 14, 2008

David Duke writes an open letter to Barack Obama:

I believe White Americans are increasingly bitter for good reasons. They are indeed frustrated. But again, they have good reasons for that frustration.

Better-qualified White students, employees, working men and women face intensive racial discrimination that you and the other major candidates deceptively call "affirmative action."

Many White people can no longer use the public school system that their own taxes pay for because "people who aren't like them" have made their schools awash in violence, educational mediocrity, drugs, sexual degeneracy and gangsta rap.

Millions of White people who have paid exorbitant taxes all their lives can't afford medical insurance and decent medical care in no small part because "people who aren't like them," such as illegal immigrants and able-bodied, welfare parasites, people who have paid no taxes at all, have overloaded the the system.

Millions of White people see that illegal immigrants, "people who aren't like them," are illegally crossing the American border and they see clearly that politicians like you, Clinton and McCain won't even enforce our laws.

They are bitter because unelected economic czars such as Greenspan and Bernanke, Wolfowitz and a whole coterie of Jewish "people who aren't like them" have ripped them off and have let so-called "free trade" destroy the American economy.

They are bitter because other Jewish Neocon "people who are not like them," have led us into a catastrophic war for Israel in Iraq, a war that will cost the American people trillions of dollars and that has killed or ruined tens of thousands of American lives (While Jewish dead or wounded are spectacularly underrepresented in those terrible casualties).

White Americans are sick of the fact that their streets are so damned dangerous from "people who are not like them" that they appropriately "cling to guns."

Christian Americans are also sick of the fact that the Christian meanings of Christmas are being driven from public life, with crosses and nativity scenes banned from public land in our nation's capital while at Chanukah a huge Jewish Menorah, symbol of Jewish ethnocentrism and Jewish resistance to assimilation, is put across from the White House and dedicated by the Jewish extremists of Habad Lubavitch, vicious anti-Gentiles who claim that Gentiles are little more than animals with "satanic souls." Of course, in response to the attack on the values, mores and faith of the American non-Jewish, White majority, that "they cling to their religion." They marvel how they see billions of dollars of their tax money support the "Jewish state" of Israel, but also see it is forbidden to even refer to America as a "Christian nation."

I realize why you made the comments at a heavily-Jewish, closed-door, no press allowed meeting. Their agenda is not the same as our agenda. The (Jewish) Council of Presidents, an alliance of the biggest and most powerful Jewish organizations in America has exactly the same sentiments as you enunciated in your speech. It is fanatically for open borders, free trade and of course, for gun control. You are their puppet.

You say that you are for the working people, the middle class American, but in reality your biggest single campaign contributor is the Jewish extremist, Goldman Sachs Corporation. Those at Goldman Sachs, are the same extremists that have led America to its economic and social catastrophe. They are the elite of the elite of American politics and media, the heart of the new 21st century American establishment. And, just like the elitist crowd you addressed in San Francisco, they are people not like the average White person in America, not in values, heritage, or interests. Your audience itself was truly "people who aren't like them."

The American people need not explain their frustrations. They have legitimate frustrations, and legitimate anger at politics as usual in America.

But, you sir, are a hypocrite, one who says he represents change, but only offers more of the same relentless attack upon the White people of this country and the values and views of White people. Stop trying to pretend otherwise. You, Clinton, and McCain, should run for President of Israel, or Uganda, or Mexico. Not one of you should get a single White American's vote. You and your other two comrades for President are controlled lock, stock and barrel by, as you say, "people who aren't like them."

David Duke

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Jewish Dems: We don’t want Carter to go either

By Ami Eden · April 14, 2008

It's no surprise that the Republican Jewish Coalition was quick to pounce on President Carter's planned meeting with Hamas leaders (here and here).

But the National Jewish Democratic Council has also sent out a letter assuring its supporters that its party's top two presidential candidates are also against the pending powwow:

The Washington Post is reporting that former US President Jimmy Carter is planning to travel to Syria to meet with Khaled Meshal, the head of Hamas. The trip was first disclosed by the Arabic-language paper al-Hayat.

Because Carter has long been known for his one-sided reading of the Arab-Israeli conflict, The National Jewish Democratic Council has expressed concern in the past about his ongoing, deeply biased commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. It does not serve the United States' or Israel's interest to have such an individual meeting with an organization devoted to the destruction of Israel.

Both Democratic Presidential candidates sharply rebuked Carter's plans.

Dan Shapiro, Senator Obama's Mideast advisor, issued the following statement: "As soon as the news broke of former President Carter's intention to meet with Hamas leaders on his upcoming trip to the Middle East, Barack Obama made clear that he disagrees with that decision, and authorized his campaign to make his opposition known. Barack Obama views Hamas as a terrorist organization dedicated to Israel's destruction, and believes they cannot be treated as a legitimate actor until they recognize Israel, renounce violence, and abide by past agreements. That has been his position consistently, and it places him squarely at odds with former President Carter's plan to meet with Hamas leaders."

Phil Singer, a Senator Clinton spokesman, said, "Hillary respects former President Carter but disagrees with his decision,"..."She would not meet with Hamas without coordinating with Israel."

It is clear that Jimmy Carter has decided to reject the opinions of the presidential candidates of his party and to continue on his own course of maverick foreign policy. Haven't we learned our lesson about the perils of cowboy diplomacy?

Sincerely,

Linda Berg Political Director National Jewish Democratic Council