By Stella Paul, AMERICAN THINKER
“Two Jews, three opinions” goes the famous joke. And every day, more of those opinions turn pro-Romney, as American Jews increasingly reject the collapsing presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.
Romney’s surging poll numbers in the crucial state of Florida reflect his growing success with Bubbie Molly and her unemployed grandson Adam, who both thought their right hand would wither if it ever pulled the lever for a Republican.
The signs and portents are everywhere, beginning with the special election of a Republican in Anthony Weiner’s heavily Jewish, New York congressional district one year ago. Now a startling new poll even has Romney performing the ultimate miracle: the parting of the blue states,winning the Jewish vote by a healthy 44% to 40%!
Florida activist Alan Bergstein described his recent experience advocating for Romney in the Jewish stronghold of Delray Beach. “Of about 100 entering and leaving the Bagel Tree eatery in that plaza, we ran into only two Democrats and loads and loads of Romney supporters. They stopped to talk to us, to congratulate us and to support us with their views of the Ryan/Biden debate. They were militant and fearless.”
What’s driving the Jewish exodus from the Democratic Party? Like everyone else, Jews are singing the bad economy blues. But they’re also increasingly acknowledging the uncomfortable facts about Obama’s hostility towards Israel and its Jewish supporters.
“Absolutely Uncertain,” a 20-minute YouTube video starring 23-year-old Irina, a disillusioned Obama voter who analyzes the president’s harsh treatment of Israel, racked up an astonishing 650,000 views in just three days. The Republican Jewish Coalition’s video, “Perilous Times,” is closing in on a million views, as anxious Jewish voters seek information outside the mainstream media to understand the accelerating nuclear threat to Israel from Iran.
And a new boldness is entering the Jewish conversation. The Simon Wiesenthal Center just publicly requested that Obama cut off all contact with the Muslim Brotherhood and condemn its anti-Semitic calls for jihad against Israel. “[Supreme Guide Mohammed] Badie’s rant confirms our long held view that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is the most dangerous anti-Semitic organization in the world today,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, the Center’s founder and dean and associate dean.
“We are not dealing with a YouTube video or a lone extremist Imam, but a call to anti-Semitic violence by a man who has tens of millions of followers and leads the organization that controls Egypt’s future. It cannot be business as usual in Washington when such an assault is launched against the Jewish people,” they added.
Since Obama’s foreign policy centers on courting the Muslim Brotherhood, he’s more likely to leave Michelle and run off with Sarah Palin than he is to honor Wiesenthal’s request. Nevertheless, a leading Jewish organization, founded by a survivor of the Nazi death camps to combat global anti-Semitism, has now publicly challenged the president on his dangerous foreign policies.
Because American Jews take huge pride in their role in the civil rights movement, rejecting Obama feels especially painful. Obama seemed to embody their dream of expanding opportunity to oppressed racial minorities, a goal for which two American Jews sacrificed their lives in the violent Freedom Summer of 1964.
But Obama’s failures grow too blatant to ignore, and so does his public antagonism to the only Jewish state. As Jews enter the sacred privacy of the voting booth, here are some images that will influence their choice:
The Democratic Party booing God and Jerusalem: At their national convention, Democratic leaders attempted to do undo the political damage of stripping all mention of God and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from their party platform. But when they asked for a floor vote to add God and Jerusalem to the platform, the delegates loudly booed – three times. As the cameras revealed the hate-filled faces of the jeering delegates, some Jews felt frightened by the ugly scene.
Obama’s open contempt for Prime Minister Netanyahu: From the beginning of his presidency, Obama has seemed to enjoy humiliating Israel’s elected leader. He walked out on Netanyahu in the White House, claiming he had to eat dinner, and refused to pose for an official photograph with him. Now, as Iran races to complete a nuclear weapon, Obama rejected Netanyahu’s request for a meeting in New York, choosing to appear on The View instead. And when Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations, Obama instructed both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice not to attend.
Fawning over the Jewish people’s enemies: Obama bowed to the Saudi king, gave a high-profile speech in Cairo, apologizing to the Muslim world, and ordered NASA to make “Muslim outreach” its foremost priority. Over the objections of Congress, he gave at least$1.5 billion to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which advocates for “holy jihad” against Israel. And when Muslim terrorists murdered our Libyan ambassador, Obama responded with a speech at the UN, in which he stated, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
Appointment of anti-Semites to high government positions: Obama just appointed a Muslim leader who blames Israel for the 9/11 attacks to serve as US delegate to a Warsaw human rights conference. Salam al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), openly supports Hizbollah and Hamas. Al-Marayati is only the latest of Obama officials hostile to Israel, including foreign policy advisorSamantha Power and UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
Obama’s long association with anti-Semites: Obama spent 20 years in the Chicago church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who maintains, “The state of Israel is an illegal, genocidal…place.” Obama’s biggest contributor is George Soros, who is a prime funder of anti-Israel NGOs. And Obama’s close association with Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi is still being kept under wraps by the Los Angeles Times, which refuses to release a video of a reportedly inflammatory toast to Khalidi by Obama at a 2003 dinner. Breitbart News is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone with a copy of the tape.
Iran’s Growing Nuclear Capabilities: Obama has seemed more interested in deterring Israel from defending itself than in stopping Iran. His Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff explicitly stated he doesn’t want to be “complicit” in an Israeli attack on Iran, implying such an attack would be criminal. Now counter-terrorism expert Reza Kahlili is reporting that Obama’s emissaries have struck a secret “October surprise” deal with Iran, in which Iran will announce a halt to their uranium enrichment, in order to enhance Obama’s presidential prospects. The deal reportedly was negotiated in Qatar with former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velyati, who’s wanted by Argentina for the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people. If Obama has lost the trust of Jewish voters, they may not dismiss these reports as completely impossible.
As every day brings another “Oy vey!,” American Jews are finally fed up. It takes a lot for Democrats to lose their iron-grip on the Jewish vote, but this is one challenge Obama seems capable of meeting.
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I don’t know how Obama ever got any support, Jewish or otherwise. The firrt time I saw and heard him, I got a very bad feeling about him. He lost me at “Hello.”
As for his “identity.” he doesn’t have one, he’s a hologram. Not only is there no there there, there’s no guy there.
I sure hope that it’s true. The DemocRATs have shafted the Jewish people and many of the Jews In Name Only (JINOs) have been conditioned from birth to march in ‘lockstep’ with every DemocRAT cause and to believe that it’s a Jewish cause. Unfortunately most of the leftist causes are anti Jewish and the difference between lockstep and goose stepping is small. Anyone Jewish who votes for any DemocRAT has not self respect and especially this Muslim Jew hater.
Liberal ‘Jews’ need to get off the DemocRAT train to Teblinka which doesn’t bode well for them.
The Jews love Obama. They love his ties to radical Islamic and Communistic groups, they love the fact that the KKK was founded by members of the Democratic Party. They love redistribution of someone elses wealth, not their own. They love the fact that Israel will be thrown under the bus and possible overrun by the Arabs, who will eventually destroy Israel. They love Obama and his bowing down to a Saudi Monarch. They love the fact that Obama never released any of his college transcripts. In short, they love to enter the showers, thinking that someone else will take care of them. They were taken care of in WW2? or were they?
How dare the American Jews be furious about the Egyptian jihadists! They supported Obama & the Arab spring. They did not know that the MBs was the only organized group in the Muslim world. Where were they all these years! They have undermine the US.
As a Democrat turned Independent- whose now excited to vote Republican- I am very encouraged by Romney’s intellect, successful track record, command of the issues, bravado, ethics, morals and humble acts of unsung goodness over the last 20 years.
I shudder to think what we would do if we didn’t have a Candidate who has SO much to offer over Oblah-blah. Obama’s Bin Lyin’ & frankly I AM OVER IT & the Media Palace Guards who have been carrying his water & my pain for 4 long years.
Jewish Groups Outraged Over Egyptian’s Call for ‘Jihad’! How dare they be outraged! They have been supporting this from the beginning. That is what Obama was about. Shame on them.
As far as Iran is concerned the red line for the US will be the launching date and time of the first nuke! Not before.
Good for the Children of Israel!
The Jewish People is an historically-victimized population. Thus, it is natural for Jews to empathize with Black Americans who are members of another historically-victimized population. But, the simple fact is that there is no sense in which President Barack Obama can be said to be by birth or upbringing a Black American. Namely, he is not directly connected with that socio-racial group that experienced slavery and discrimination in the Americas. Barack Obama has dark skin by virtue of his father who was a Black Muslim from Kenya. His paternal grandfather was also a Black Muslim from Kenya. Though not Black, his stepfather was a Muslim from Indonesia. There, young Barack Obama attended school specifically registered as “Muslim,” and there he studied Koranic recitation in Arabic and attended Muslim religious services both at school and in mosques. After his return to the USA in 1971, Barack Obama always kept ties to Muslims, including family, friends and colleagues. For example, Obama had Muslim roommates and at Columbia mostly socialized with Muslims from Pakistan. When the Reverend Jeremiah Wright first met Obama in the mid 1980’s, Wright noted that Obama then knew a lot about Islam, but hardly anything about Jesus. In 2007, Obama’s sister Maya told the New York Times, “My whole family was Muslim.” So, Jewish Americans are perhaps fully entitled to accord special status (a kind of affirmative action) to Obama because he is perhaps “half-Muslim,” but not because he is Black American, a population to which he is related solely by his marriage to Michelle Robinson. It does indeed seem that many Jewish Americans are deeply confused about Obama’s true identity. However, a look at Obama’s philo-Muslim policies should convince them that here we have an instance of an individual who was born and raised a Muslim, running policies that favour Muslims, whether in the USA or abroad. And now there comes this burning question of the race to nuclear weapons by the “Islamic Republic of Iran.” Who do Jewish Americans wish to see dealing with this particular problem? A Black American President? Well, there is no Black American presidential candidate! Rather, the American people now have a choice between Mitt Romney who has no personal connections with Islam and Barack Obama who has Islam written all over him. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to advise Jewish Americans how to vote. This time around Jewish Americans should take a “time out” from the Democratic Party to vote Republican.
3 Monkeys = American Jews, who completely turn off their intellect and pretend that things don’t exist and live in denial of the facts.
They certainly know Obama is bad news. So that would at least give them a reason for voting against Obama even if they are uncertain of Romney. They are just looking for excuses to vote for Obama. They are looking for excuses to cling to the democrat party. They need to get over that and move forward. This is not the democrat party of FDR, Truman, JFK, RFK, Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan etc. It is now the party of the muslim brotherhood. These Jewish voters support for Obama is indefensible, so they have to try to justify it by demonizing Romney.
@ Sam Goldblatt:
They may be right about Romney but they believed Obama 4 years ago and voting for him now means they still believe him.
There are some very very smart Jews but most are below average and there are many more stupid Jews than very smart ones.
I think the myth of Jews generically being smart is a blood libel on par with the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion”
Wishful thinking. I live in W. Palm Beach, Fla. and while disappointment with Obama is expressed, he will still get apox. 70% of the Jewish. vote. Concerns over Medicare, Social Security, Planned Parenthood, etc. dominate. Jewish voters do not like, trust, or care for Romney. They don’t even believe his Israel pandering.
I believer that most American have already mailed their votes; however, please listen to to the most and finest patriotic speech in my lifetime. We are so blessed to have a man like this inour midst.
Obama’s appeasement of Iran is by far the most dangerous of his policies, but the US media has not been doing its job for years so that very few realize the magnitude of his fiasco. How many Americans have read Matthais Kuntzel and Bernard Lewis?
Matthias Kuntzel – Antisemitism, Messianism and the Cult of Sacrifice:The Iranian Holy War
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/matthias-kuntzel-antisemitism_8.html
Why are Bernard Lewis’s views on MAD ignored?
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/why-are-bernard-lewiss-views-on-mad.html