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07/21/08 09:57 AM

Why is it that every U.S. Politician thinks he can magically open his mouth and talk to these animals. What do they think the Palestinian animals will do. All of a sudden think oh we never thought about it that way we will quit terrorism and hating the Jewish people. Humbug. These Animals only understand one thing. It is in there core religious beliefs that they must die in battle to see Allah. I say Why depose them of their heavenly kingdom give them an all expensed paid trip directly to Allah.

07/21/08 10:02 AM

I feel insulted by the statement by Obama’s representatives, that Barack Obama is speaking to the Israel government with the view of the average American.  In other words the present advministration’s Middle East views are out of date and not what the desires of the people of America.  That is far from the truth, as Obama doesn’t speak for me as I don’t like anything that he stands for.  John McCain has a great deal that I am not in favor for either, but as far as Obama stating anything to the Israeli government officials that we the people of the United States desire is a farce at the best. 

Where is the new media in these cases?  Are they out to lunch or what.  Do they not know what this country stands for, or have they gotten so comfortable they have long forgotten how this country became the free country it is, and why people from all over the world want to come here.  You do not see any other country that the people want to come to but America.  But, before long it will not be the country of the people if Obama is elected.

07/21/08 10:31 AM

If Senator Obama really wants to win the hearts & minds of the Jewish population, he will do so sincerely.

Photo Op’s will not it…

My concern and that of alot of fellow Jews is that he is not a sincere partner of the Jewish Community.

As a NY Post Columnist reported.. a Congregant in a South Florida Shul challeneged Senator Obama to make the same Pro-Israel statements in a Mosque in his hometown as he did in that Shul.

07/21/08 12:06 PM

Senator Barack Obama is a visionary, idealist and realist.

He offers a new and fresh voice for America in the world.

Most amazingly, many in the Jewish community are missing the fact that Barack Hussein Obama is one of the strongest friends we could have.

He began his political life in Chicago and was vetted early on by that dynamic Jewish community.  They learned that he viewed the African-American/Jewish relationship as critical to the advancement of the civil rights movement and civil rights in general.  In addition, his close association with Jewish supporters has enlightened him and engaged him to be a strong supporter of Israel.

There is nothing better than having someone from an outside community be a strong advocate for our community and the survival and success of Israel.

He does not expect to change the attitude of warring parties by talking with them or giving a speech.  On the other hand, there is much to be learned by talking and learning about the different communities and agendas of the various players.  For example, Christian and Muslim Palestinians do not share viewpoints on many matters.  Groups within those may also be at odds.  Further, Persians and Arabs have different views and agendas.

It is time to stop generalizing about peoples and using war as a first option of diplomacy.  It is time to chart a new and careful course.  It is time to give Senator Obama a chance to lead.

07/21/08 12:49 PM

Good article!  I am terribly worried that a shifty group surrounding Obama who give vague, vapid non-answers to vital policy questions and steer reporter questions off course on odd tangents with weird scripted platitudes, and I including his radicalized anti-American, probably also anti-Semetic, anti-Caucasian wife Michelle, and Barak himself with his mysterious familial and educational ties to Muslims, could come so close to any sort of control of power levers in this USA.
This clutch of people repeat mind controlled memory implanted thought of the type that come from Communist Retraining Camps, Young Pioneers, Red Brigades, Hitler Youth, Goebbel’s Propaganda, Khmer Rouge, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung, PRC’s Mao Tse Tung, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Molotov, Berea, Uncle Ho Chi Minh, Madam Mao, Robert Mugabe, Charles Tayler, Tojo, Himmler, Hitler, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Juan Peron in Argentina, Juan Salazar in Portugal, Francisco Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy.
Lovely types like those also had their own little chants and good sounding mind numbing repetitions for the masses to shout as they rampaged, destroying whole societies, murdering millions, performing horrible atrocities against property such as “Krystal Nacht” as a warm up to Treblinka, Auschwitz, Dachau, Lubianka, the Gulag, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, medical experiments on living human with poison gas by Japanese Imperial Army doctors in Southeast Asia, Japanese Emperial Navy slave ships filled with American-European POW’s baking in tropical heat with no water, no food for days, Korean slave labor in Yokahama and Kyoto, US Army POW Death March in the Philippines, Japanese Imerial Army mass murder rampage killing of civilians in the Rape of Nanjing and latter in Manila, British and US mass bombing and destruction of entire cities in Europe and Asia alike in retaliation.
I have already heard Obama call for some kind of vaguely worded homeguard security police/patrol of some kind rececntly.  Two things come to my mind right away, both bad.  One is a neighborhood snitch patrol watch system as in Havana that rewards neighbors, especially chilren, for snitching to local communist opperatives or police about anyone in the block where a person lives who may be breaking a party or government rule or regulation or saying something unapproved or “subversive,” thus making impossible that any neighbor trust another lest he or she go to jail for a political or economic crime.  The other is an armed Political Police or Dignity Brigade or Sicherheits Dienst or Gestapo type National force at the service directly to the President to keep things tranquil and orderly with plenty of muscle to exert to include armored vehicles, air strike fighters/bombers, choppers, shock troops/paratroopers, artillery, riverine/naval/landing vessels, a full blown parallel universe military/national police to answer only to Barak and maybe Michelle if the natives get restless over a cancelled election or two or marshal law or suspension of the Constitution or just the Bill of rights, or the arrest of the members of Congress or the US Supreme Court in the name of “national emergency.”
I know I sound extreme, but that is the way all good Germans, Jew and Gentile alike, would have sounded in 1932 or 1933 if they had talked so brashly about a little Charlie Chaplin looking Austrian clown called Addie Hitler, I think was the name.
With spineless spoiled weak minded shallow thinking vainglorious simpletons like Rep Nancy Pelosi and Sen Harry Reid leading the two Houses of Congress there would no longer exist either a check or a balance on the Executive Branch under an Obama Presidency, only doormats, especially if you consider such as corrupt longterm House Member Charlie Rangle, Rep Hamleton of La with humdreds of thousands of cash dollars he commandered a National Guard truck to retrieve from his home freezer during Hurricane Rita flooding, not to mention multi-millionaire spoiled elite heiresses with high income husbands, one of them a an ambulance chaser trial lawyer parasite, Barbara Boxer (D) and Diane Feinstein (D) of California, also Obama doormats, Rep Henry Waxman (D), also Obama doormat material, and many more.
I am so glad Joseph Liebermann is still in the US Senate, but he cannot save the world alone. We must have a decent President also.  Mr McCain is our only hope.  I pray he chooses well a running mate.
Personally, I like Gov Bobby Jindle of Louisiana (R).
Would your offices please contact Sen Lieberman (D) of Connecticut to request he switch party affiliation, if possible without hurting his reelectability, since we do need him so badly, to the GOP? 
Thank you.

07/21/08 01:54 PM

I for one do not trust Barack Obama re: Israel and the united Capitol of Israel, Jerusalem...If he believes he speaks for me he is greatly mistaken...Let him give the same address that he gave in the Florida Shul to his Mosque in Chicago. Maybe then we as Jews will believe him...He is too glib for me…

07/21/08 01:57 PM

Israel is not only the Spiritual Homeland of the Jewish People; it is the Geographic Homeland as Well. I do not believe in, or subscribe to, the appeasement philosophies currently in vogue in some quarters, ostensibly including those of Sen. Obama and his minions.

This approach -if acted upon - is madness and could ultimately be catastrophic for the Jewish People. Need anyone be reminded of the preposterous results of Neville Chamberlain – one of history’s worst traitors – and his “devil’s pact” of appeasement of Adolf Hitler? I think NOT!

It is true that the Torah was given in the no-man’s land of Sinai, not within the boundaries of the State of Israel. However, my understanding – limited as it is – indicates that “Many of the 613 commandments contained in the Torah can only be fulfilled in the land of Israel. For instance, most of the agricultural commandments are not applicable outside of the land of Israel.”

I recently attended a lecture by Dr. Ginosaur Matania regarding “A” two-state solution in Israel. Dr. Matania’s view is that unless a courageous and visionary leadership comes to the fore in the Islamic culture, a leadership at least on a par with the late Anwar Sadat, no two-state solution is possible or probable in the Middle East. I Agree.

The Muslim population is in dire need of total re-education and re-focus before any accommodation is possible.

07/21/08 03:51 PM

I am writing from Israel.

Israelis believe that Obama will be the next president and they are ready and eager to listen and to speak frankly and work with him.

Obama will do the right thing.  All you right-leaning Jew-publicans will not be able to change the course of history.  Sadly, you are misguided and blinded by the right wing military reactionary forces who gave us the Iraq War.  More of that?  Not on my watch.

07/21/08 03:55 PM

I am one who lost my entire family during WWII.  Please give Senator Obama a chance!  He has stated, firmly, that while he wishes to speak with Israel’s adversaries, he will waste no time using military force to defend Israel.

Dialogue has been the fundamental belief of our religion.  While we will never hesitate to defend Israel, militarily, there must be, at the very least, an attempt to find a peaceful solution.

07/21/08 03:57 PM

Thank you, Hazan, for exercising your intellect instead of your testosterone!