Political tidbits: Palin knocked for Israel answer, Biden criticized for Lebanon claim
- Sarah Palin's answer on Israel last night sounded like she was "randomly spewing every talking point she'd ever uploaded on Israel," writes Noam Scheiber in The New Republic.
- Michael Totten, in Commentary, wonders what Joe Biden was talking about when he claimed that the U.S. "kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon."
- Rick Siegel, in the Huffington Post, said he only heard one "snort" all night from Biden – when Palin said she was "so encouraged to know we both love Israel."
- Holocaust survivor Rachel Patron, writing in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, says Jewish voters need more from the candidates than just promises of preventing a "second Holocaust."
- Shmuel Rosner, in Commentary, also doesn't like the analogy, calling it "more frightening than reassuring."
- Joe Lieberman predicts McCain will hit 40 percent of the Jewish vote, according to the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent.
- The National Journal puts the National Jewish Democratic Council and Republican Jewish Coalition in its "Ad Spotlight."
- NJDC executive director Ira Forman, in the Huffington Post, criticizes the RJC's "guilt by association" ads and quotes Joseph Welch's famous line to Joe McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
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Arthur,
I watched the debate (twice) and did not remember Palin saying “there is plenty of oil all over the country.”
Those words are not in the transcript of the debate.
She did say the following,
“in my own energy-producing state we have billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas. And we’re building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America’s largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets.”
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Palin said,
“Israel is our strongest and best ally in the Middle East. We have got to assure them that we will never allow a second Holocaust, despite, again, warnings from Iran and any other country that would seek to destroy Israel, that that is what they would like to see.
We will support Israel. A two-state solution, building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem, those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish, with this peace-seeking nation, and they have a track record of being able to forge these peace agreements.
They succeeded with Jordan. They succeeded with Egypt. I’m sure that we’re going to see more success there, also.
It’s got to be a commitment of the United States of America, though. And I can promise you, in a McCain-Palin administration, that commitment is there to work with our friends in Israel.”
Barack Hussein Obama’s “friends” ALL want a “one state solution:” preferably a “final solution” at that.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4971
So, as bad as a “two state solution” is, it is still preferable to vote for someone with that mistaken idea who thinks it’s Israel’s right to negotiate for it, than to vote for one who wants to force it on us at best,
http://www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obama-chief-adv.html
and could care less if Israel is wiped off the map at worst.
Besides, we have to stand up for our right to OUR LAND. We can’t expect America’s non-Jews to be more Frum than us.
Oh, yes, and there were more problems with Biden’s gibberish than are covered above, a whole LOT more.
http://www.yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-glows-while-bidens-lies-his-butt.html
Yonason,
Obama’s moderated Web site at my.barackobama.com welcomed commentary about the “Jewish Lobby” until it became such a scandal he had to do some self-censorship.
The wrong question is being asked.
Everyone it seems loves Israel--but which Israel ?
To evangelical Christians Israel is not a place -it is a people.Those people are the ‘New Israel’ those who believe in Jesus Christ.When Sarah Palin says she loves Israel-is she sayin that she loves those who believe in Jesus Christ.There is no Judaism in the evangelical definition of Israel.
When asked about her feelings about Jewish people Palin answered “I love Israel"-in other words she loves the believers in Jesus Christ.
The semantics are worlds apart-and evangelicals are skilled at parsing words.It is a shame that American Jews who can tell you about Buddhism have not read the new testament nor the Christian blogs.
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Lee Chottiner
10/03/08 03:23 PM
Biden’s Hezbollah comment gave me pause as well, until it occurred to me that he just misspoke and really meant to say Fatah