Tuesday, December 23, 2014

U.S. Marine Corps Has A Message For ISIS and Other Jihadists! America's Four Diabolics!

As I have written and said many times, I am not against gays and they can have their civil union and enjoy all the tax and various property exchange benefits of married couples.  What I have a problem with is  their appropriating the word marriage.

If a Catholic wants to call himself Jewish, then what do we need with  a dictionary?

I thought words had meanings. If they do not then how will society communicate? (See 1 below.)
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We are in a mess with a diabolical president, Atty General and now Mayor of New York and they have elevated a thug named Sharpton to a status he never could have earned on his own.  If this is what is meant by  affirmative action then America has been tragically poisoned. 
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A message from The U.S. Marine  Corps and Semper Fi!:


COPPER COATED MICROCHIP IMPLANT
ALLOWS TERRORISTS TO SPEAK TO GOD.

The implant is specifically designed
to be injected in the forehead.

When properly installed, it will instantly
allow the terrorist to speak to God.

It comes in various sizes: Generally
from .223 to .50 cal.






technician,
who will also make the injection.

No Anesthetic is required.

The implant is likely to be painless.

Side effects, like headaches, nausea, aches
or pains are extremely temporary.

Some bleeding or swelling may occur
at the injection site.  In most cases, you
won't even notice it.

Please enjoy the security we provide for you.
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Is this a sinister plan to decimate our military by Obama?  You decide.  (See 2 below.)
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Tobin is my kind of guy when it comes to Israel, J Street and Hillary.

I do not trust liberals on most every issue.  Israel finds itself in a pickle mostly because the West is tired of 'messing' with that little country.  Why? Because Israel has become a thorn in their side  The West allowed Palestinians to play them like a violin.  Furthermore, Israelis are stiff necked and have no desire to be slaughtered like de Blasio's two finest!. (See 3 below.)
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Dick
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1)l   Fantasyland, U.S.A.
By Victor Davis Hanson



One way of reinventing reality is to warp the meaning of words. No president in memory has waged such a war on the English language as has Barack Obama — changing the meaning of vocabulary to hide what he fears might otherwise be unpopular.

Take executive orders. He brags that he does not issue them as commonly as his predecessors, but that is only true because Obama has now renamed some of his executive orders presidential“memoranda.” Add up both categories, and no president in the last half-century has so frequently bypassed Congress to unilaterally make new or ignore existing laws.

If Obama suddenly does not get his legislative way after losing the Congress, and boasts in defiance about his plans to act unilaterally(“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone”), then why the need to hide that brag with linguistic gymnastics?
When Obama faced reelections, he pointed to increased deportations. But that claim hinged on changing the meaning of deportee. All of a sudden, illegal aliens who were stopped and turned away right at the border count as deportees. By changing the meaning of words, Obama believed that he could reinvent the reality of open borders into tough border enforcement.
But then again, when he found it useful to brag of open borders, suddenly he pointed to lower deportations, as the vocabulary once again readjusted its meaning.
On another front, Obama simply makes up names that imply the opposite of reality. The Affordable Care Act was hardly affordable. Obama knew that he could not save the American family the promised $2,500 in premiums, or reduce deductibles, or lower the deficit through health care reform. Instead, insurance policy premiums have gone up, plans and doctors have been dropped, and deductibles have soared. According to Jonathan Gruber, these known downsides of Obamacare had to be disguised from the supposedly “stupid” American people.
In the world of the Obama administration, Bowe Bergdahl, the deserter who was exchanged for four terrorists held at Guantanamo, did not, as National Security Advisor Susan Rice insisted, serve “with honor and distinction.” Instead, he abandoned his fellow soldiers at the front, and walked over to find the enemy Taliban. Traitor, like the word jihadist, has been excised from the Obama vocabulary.
There seems to be no global Islamic terrorist culpability behind the murdering of innocents worldwide. If the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban blow up school children in Pakistan, if the Tsarnaev brothers claim an Islamic inspiration to kill and maim Americans during the Boston Marathon, if Major Nidal Hasan screams “Allahu Akbar as he shoots American soldiers, the Obama administration will either ignore the role of radical Islam or construct a circumlocution to mask the fact of Islamic terrorism.
In the latest Sony Corporation debacle, Obama warns us about the dangers of letting foreign nationals like the North Korean hackers censor free expression on American soil. Yet he did not invoke such ethical concern when he blasted —and later had jailed — Nakoula Nakoula. The latter was a U.S. resident filmmaker who caricatured Islam in a video and then was falsely blamed by the Obama administration as the culprit for the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
Indeed, Obama in that case played the role of North Korea by ensuring that Nakoula’s videos ceased, that radical Islamists were satiated, and that Obama could win multicultural reelection points against supposed illiberal film makers.
We also live in an age of little collective memory that prevents us from identifying reality. Guantanamo was promised to be closed, and so it is — sort of. Obama reiterates before critical elections that he has no powers to grant blanket amnesties; to do so without congressional action would be the work of a dictator or emperor, he warns his supporters. But then he does just that when there are no more elections, and suddenly he is neither a dictator nor emperor. Our only guide to his mendacity is the occasional emphatic, like “no kidding,” “in truth,” “make no mistake about,” “let me be perfectly clear,” which serves as an unconscious verbal tic of the untruth to follow.
We are supposed to believe that Obama’s opposition to fracking, horizontal drilling, and the Keystone pipeline has somehow led to lower gas prices. Do we forget that he is on record that he favored higher electricity rates, while his former energy secretary dreamed of European-style gas prices? How strange is the Obama principle: “I will brag about the results of how my failed efforts did not stop something I opposed.” Or perhaps, “All fracking and horizontal drilling are bad, except when they revive my moribund economy.”
The list of Obama-era fantasies is endless. Turkey is a special partner that offers a democratic Islamic alternative to the usual Middle East mess. Sanctions should be considered against Israel, but withdrawn from Cuba and Iran. Reset with Russia tamed Putin, who worked with us to corral the Assad government in Syria. ISIS is a jayvee organization. Iran is seriously discussing quitting the nuclear acquisition business. China is now a fellow advocate of reducing global warming. Young black men are in mortal danger from the police, as opposed to other young black men. There is not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS. We live in a world in which Obamacare is an affordable act and terrorist murder on a military base is workplace violence. If rape does not take place at the University of Virginia fraternity, it could have; and if Michael Brown was not shot with his hands up, screaming, “don’t shoot,” in theory he certainly might have been.
The use of language to distort reality, the fables, and the contorted logic all result from a central fact: the way in which Obama and his cohort wish to fundamentally transform America is not where the majority of Americans wish to end up. Given that fact, Obama must find fantasies to mask reality — and do so by any means necessary.
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2)Remind anyone of Hitler and Stalin in the1930's? Don’t forget Mr. Erdogan the president of Turkey who not only decimated the ranks of senior Turkish officers but the Turkish Judiciary who didn’t toe the line as well. That is Erdogan’s line. Be sure and read the comments at end.


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  Commanding Generals fired:
  • General John R. Allen - U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
  • Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star) - U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
  • Major General Michael Carey (2 Star) - U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
  • Colonel James Christmas - U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
    • Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
    • Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus - U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
    • General Carter F. Ham - U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
    • Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr. - U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point , NY (2013)
    • Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan - U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
    • General James Mattis - U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
    • Colonel Daren Margolin - U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico 's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
    • General Stanley McChrystal - U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
    • General David D. McKiernan - U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
    • General David Petraeus - Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012
    • Brigadier General Bryan Roberts - U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
    • Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant - U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command
    • Colonel Eric Tilley - U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
    • Brigadier General Bryan Wampler - U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)
    Commanding Admirals fired:
    • Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette - U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
    •Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star) - U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10    (Oct 2013)
    Naval Officers fired:   (All in 2011)
    • Captain David Geisler - U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
    • Commander Laredo Bell - U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs , NY (Aug 2011)
    • Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch - Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
    • Commander Nathan Borchers - U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011)
    • Commander Robert Brown - U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story , VA (Aug 2011)
    • Commander Andrew Crowe - Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011)
    • Captain Robert Gamberg - Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011)
    • Captain Rex Guinn - U.S. Navy Commander Navy Legal Service office Japan (Feb 2011)
    • Commander Kevin Harms - U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 137 aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (Mar 2011)
    • Lieutenant Commander Martin Holguin - U.S. Navy Commander mine countermeasures Fearless (Oct 2011)
    • Captain Owen Honors - U.S. Navy Commander aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (Jan 2011)
    • Captain Donald Hornbeck - U.S. Navy Commander Destroyer Squadron 1 San Diego (Apr 2011)
    • Rear Admiral Ron Horton - U.S. Navy Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific (Mar 2011)
    • Commander Etta Jones - U.S. Navy Commander amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
    • Commander Ralph Jones - Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Green Bay (Jul 2011)
    • Commander Jonathan Jackson - U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 134, deployed aboard carrier Carl Vinson (Dec 2011)
    • Captain Eric Merrill - U.S. Navy Commander submarine Emory S. Land (Jul 2011)
    • Captain William Mosk  -U.S. Navy Commander Naval Station Rota , U.S. Navy Commander Naval Activities Spain (Apr 2011)
    • Commander Timothy Murphy - U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA (Apr 2011)
    • Commander Joseph Nosse - U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky (Oct 2011)
    • Commander Mark Olson - U.S. Navy Commander destroyer The Sullivans FL (Sep 2011)
    • Commander John Pethel - Executive Officer amphibious transport dock New York (Dec 2011)
    • Commander Karl Pugh - U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 141 Whidbey Island, WA (Jul 2011)
    • Commander Jason Strength - U.S. Navy Commander of Navy Recruiting District Nashville, TN (Jul 2011)
    • Captain Greg Thomas - U.S. Navy Commander Norfolk Naval Shipyard (May 2011)
    • Commander Mike Varney - U.S. Navy Commander attack submarine Connecticut (Jun 2011)
    • Commander Jay Wylie - U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Momsen (Apr 2011)
    NavalqQ Officers fired  (All in 2012):
    • Commander Alan C. Aber - Executive Officer Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 71 (July 2012)
    • Commander Derick Armstrong - U.S. Navy Commander missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (May 2012)
    • Commander Martin Arriola - U.S. Navy Commander destroyer USS Porter (Aug2012)
    • Captain Antonio Cardoso - U.S. Navy Commander Training Support Center San Diego (Sep 2012)
    • Captain James CoBell - U.S. Navy Commander Oceana Naval Air Station's Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (Sep 2012)
    • Captain Joseph E. Darlak - U.S. Navy Commander frigate USS Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
    • Captain Daniel Dusek - U.S. Navy Commander USS Bonhomme
    • Commander David Faught - Executive Officer destroyer Chung-Hoon (Sep 2012)
    • Commander Franklin Fernandez - U.S. Navy Commander Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Aug 2012)
    • Commander Ray Hartman - U.S. Navy Commander Amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry (Nov 2012)
    • Commander Shelly Hakspiel - Executive Officer Navy Drug Screening Lab San Diego (May 2012)
    • Commander Jon Haydel - U.S. Navy Commander USS San Diego (Mar 2012)
    • Commander Diego Hernandez - U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (Feb 2012)
    • Commander Lee Hoey - U.S. Navy Commander Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego (May 2012)
    • Commander Ivan Jimenez - Executive Officer frigate Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
    • Commander Dennis Klein - U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Columbia (May 2012)
    • Captain Chuck Litchfield - U.S. Navy Commander assault ship USS Essex (Jun 2012)
    • Captain Marcia Kim Lyons - U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic New England (Apr 2012)
    • Captain Robert Marin - U.S. Navy Commander cruiser USS Cowpens (Feb 2012)
    • Captain Sean McDonell - U.S. Navy Commander Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 FL (Nov 2012)
    • Commander Corrine Parker - U.S. Navy Commander Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (Apr 2012)
    • Captain Liza Raimondo - U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River , MD (Jun 2012)
    • Captain Jeffrey Riedel - Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program (Jan 2012)
    • Commander Sara Santoski - U.S. Navy Commander Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (Sep 2012)
    • Commander Kyle G. Strudthoff - Executive Officer Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (Sep 2012)
    • Commander Sheryl Tannahill - U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Nashville , TN (Sep 2012)
    • Commander Michael Ward - U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Pittsburgh (Aug 2012)
    • Captain Michael Wiegand - U.S. Navy Commander Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (Nov 2012)
    • Captain Ted Williams - U.S. Navy Commander amphibious command ship Mount Whitney (Nov 2012)
    • Commander Jeffrey Wissel - U.S. Navy Commander of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (Feb 2012)
    Naval Officers fired  (All in 2013):
    • Lieutenant Commander Lauren Allen - Executive Officer submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
    • Reserve Captain Jay Bowman - U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Fort Dix , NJ (Mar 2013)
    • Captain William Cogar - U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Mercy's medical treatment facility (Sept 2013)
    • Commander Steve Fuller - Executive Officer frigate Kauffman (Mar 2013)
    • Captain Shawn Hendricks - Program Manager for naval enterprise IT networks (June 2013)
    • Captain David Hunter - U.S. Navy Commander of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 12
    • Captain Eric Johnson - U.S. Navy Chief of Military Entrance Processing Command at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL (2013)
    • Captain Devon Jones - U.S. Navy Commander Naval Air Facility El Centro , CA (July 2013)
    • Captain Kevin Knoop - U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Comfort's medical treatment facility (Aug 2013)
    • Lieutenant Commander Jack O'Neill - U.S. Navy Commander Operational Support Center Rock Island , IL (Mar 2013)
    • Commander Allen Maestas - Executive Officer Beachmaster Unit 1 (May 2013)
    • Commander Luis Molina - U.S. Navy Commander submarine Pasadena (Jan 2013)
    • Commander James Pickens - Executive Officer frigate Gary (Feb 2013)
    • Lieutenant Commander Mark Rice - U.S. Navy Commander Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
    • Commander Michael Runkle - U.S. Navy Commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 (May 2013)
    • Commander Jason Stapleton - Executive Office Patrol Squadron 4 in Hawaii (Mar 2013)
    • Commander Nathan Sukols - U.S. Navy Commander submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
    • Lieutenant Daniel Tyler - Executive Officer Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
    • Commander Edward White - U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (Aug 2013)
    • Captain Jeffrey Winter - U.S. Navy Commander of Carrier Air Wing 17 (Sept 2013)
    • Commander Thomas Winter - U.S. Navy Commander submarine Montpelier (Jan 2013)
    • Commander Corey Wofford - U.S. Navy Commander frigate Kauffman (Feb 2013)
    ****** (Note): This trend continues in 2014 !*****
    Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented.
    Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the 'purge' of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place.  As you will see below, dozens of highly decorated military leaders have been dismissed from their positions over the past few years.
    So why is this happening?   What is going on right now is absolutely crazy especially during a time of peace.   Is there a deliberate attempt to reshape the military and remove those who don't adhere to the proper 'viewpoints' ?   Does someone out there feel a need to get officers that won't cooperate out of the way?
    Throughout world history, whatever comes next after a military purge is never good.   Perhaps you are reading this and you think that 'purge' is too strong a word for what is taking place.
    If this continues, what is the U.S. military going to look like in a few years?
    Just consider the following quotes from some very highly decorated retired officers:
    - Retired Army Major General Paul Vallely:  “The White House protects their own.  That's why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and Obamacare.  He's intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
    - Retired Army Major General Patrick Brady:  “There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him.”
    - Retired Army Lt. General William G. Jerry Boykin:  “Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause.”
    - Retired Navy Captain Joseph John:  “I believe there are more than 137 officers who have been forced out or given bad evaluation reports so they will never make Flag (officer), because of their failure to
      comply to certain views.”
    A Pentagon official, who asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, said even young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House.   They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job just keep your mouth shut.   Now this trend appears to be accelerating.
    General Vallely's comment:  “Absolutely every communist regime on the planet did this as soon as they got in power.”
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3)   Israel’s Critics Shouldn’t Count on Hillary or the Palestinians


In today’s New York Times Magazine,we are invited to pity “liberal Zionists.”These Jews claim to love Israel but hate its government and the conflict with the Palestinians. They long for an American president to save the Jewish state from itself but are always disappointed because those pesky pro-Israel Jews who aren’t as pure of heart as the critics but seem to be better connected with Israel’s voters and American politicians. Which means as they look ahead to 2016, these hard-core Democrats who are often identified with the J Street lobby are hoping a President Hillary Clinton will do what they want and finally hammer the recalcitrant Israelis into shape. But there are two problems with this scenario. The first is that they have no idea what Hillary will do in office. The second is much more serious. It’s that the Palestinians have no intention of making peace no matter what concessions “liberal Zionists,” Washington or the Israeli government offer them.
The Hillary problem is one that every liberal interest group shares with the Jewish critics of Israel. The former secretary of state is a political chameleon who assumes whatever political positions are necessary to advance her agenda. Though a favorite of Wall Street types and someone who is believed to have more moderate and realistic views on foreign policy than President Obama, there are clear signs she will run to the left in the next year in order to steal some of Elizabeth Warren’s thunder and to forestall the liberal favorite from thinking about an insurgent run for the presidency. Though big money contributors will hope that her fake populism (“corporations don’t create jobs”) is just an act, and a poor one at that, they don’t know for sure what will happen if she ever wins the White House. The same is true of the J Street crowd.
As the Times Magazine article notes, Clinton has given them some reason for hope in the past. There was her famous embrace of Suha Arafat after the terrorist’s wife had just accused Israel of poisoning Palestinian children. Hillary also played a key role in some of the nastiest fights with Israel that Obama picked during his first term over issues like settlements and Jerusalem. But they also remember that Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000 as if she was a member of one of Likud’s right wing factions and stuck to that line throughout her time in Congress. And, as the Times points out, Clinton understands that there are a lot more votes to be won and cash to be raised by supporting the Jewish state than by bashing it with the J Streeters even in a Democratic Party with a growing anti-Israel faction.
Which is the true Hillary? Their guess is as good as yours. Privately, Hillary may be a J Street fan at heart. But it’s hard to imagine her or her husband/consigliere going to war with AIPAC, which despite the misleading slanders about it is peopled with a huge contingent of ardent pro-Israel Democrats as well as Republicans,
A more astute observation would be to point out that there is no real Hillary position on any issue, only momentary political advantages to be won so context-free predictions about her behavior if she is elected president are a waste of time.
But the real dilemma facing these “liberal Zionists” has nothing to do with American political calculations.
The reason why their views are so out of touch with most Israeli voters in the past few elections is that the latter have been paying attention to the decisions and actions of the Palestinians during the last 20 years of the peace process while the “liberal Zionists” have been studiously ignoring them. Israelis know they have repeatedly offered the Palestinians peace and have been turned down every time. They may not like the settlements or even Prime Minister Netanyahu but outside of the far-left, few think the Palestinians will make peace in the foreseeable future because they haven’t given up their anti-Zionist ideology in which their national identity is inextricably tied to the war on Israel’s existence.
That’s why most American politicians, Democrats as well as Republicans, are sympathetic to Israel and want no part of J Street plots to pressure it into making concessions that would endanger the Jewish state’s security while not bringing peace any closer.
Though they lament Israel’s turn to the right, their real problem is with a Palestinian political culture and a Palestinian people that won’t play the role assigned them in the liberal morality play in which the Jewish state can make peace happen by themselves. In other words, their focus on getting Obama or Clinton or somebody else to hammer Israel is pointless since even if the ticket of Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni defeat Netanyahu in March, there’s no reason to think the Palestinians will be any more likely to make peace than with the current government.
Just as discouraging for J Street supporters is the fact that they are losing ground among Jewish leftists to less agonized critics of Israel such as Jewish Voices for Peace. JVP has little sympathy for Zionism and enamored the BDS — boycott, divest and sanction — movement that seeks to promote economic warfare against Israel. JVP scorns Israel as a colonial apartheid state. That position has more appeal to some segments of the left where Jewish identity and particularism is also viewed with hostility. Instead of supplanting AIPAC as the voice of the pro-Israel community as they hoped when Obama was elected president, J Street finds itself lacking the clout and support of the mainstream group while being squeezed from the left by open Israel-haters.
In other words, Hillary would be a fool to throw in with a group that is divorced from the political realities of the United States, Israel or the American Jewish community. Though the group and its “liberal Zionist” backers grow more out of touch with the facts on the ground in the Middle East as well as within the Democratic Party they will have to comfort themselves with sympathetic coverage in the Times.
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