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===Then For Some church humor!
Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl
whispered to her mother,
'Why is the bride dressed in white?''
The mother replied, 'Because white is the color
of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life.'
The child thought about this for a moment then said,
'So why is the groom wearing black?'
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An elderly woman died last month.
Having never married, she requested no male
pallbearers.
In her handwritten instructions for her memorial
service, she wrote,
'They wouldn't take me out while I was alive,
I don't want them to take me out when I'm dead.'
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to 'Honor thy
father and thy mother,' she asked,
'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to
treat our brothers and sisters?'
Without missing a beat, one little boy answered,
'Thou shall not kill..'
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These are a few responses from a dear conservative friends and fellow memo reader, to my last memo.
"Dick,
I'm sure you know this already, but the point you're not making is that Barack Hussein is a closet Marxist and is purposely trying to weaken us abroad and at home in the hopes that it will create a Marxist-Leninist styled revolution. He is doing a great job of it so far, and we must hope that the GOP victories in 2014 will stop his train from crashing us all.
The Barack Hussein propaganda machine is breathtakingly successful. His poll numbers are back above 50%, and you can see why when you watch the MSM news shows. They avoid any stories that cast him in any light except showing him speaking with his key "talking points." Only the weekend news talk shows (watched by almost nobody) delve into the scandals, Presidential overreach, foreign policy collapse, ISIS successes, etc.
It is really little different than Putin's propaganda machine, except that we do have one news channel (Fox), blogs, and talk radio, though the latter are concentrating their guns on the new GOP majority and how Republicans are no different than Democrats. This, of course, led to the 7 million white voters who voted in 2008, but stayed home in 2014.
Only a new, young, charismatic conservative will bring out the vote in 2016…..do I hear Walker or Rubio?
I watched CNN News last night, which featured the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot. Clever how they cover it. Essentially, they dwell upon how angry the Jordanian people are and seeking revenge, and then feature Our Dear Leader and his response to it (about how we join the Jordanians in being against ISIL [sic]), which is a lie front to end as we have not sent any meaningful amount of hard weaponry there, or to Iraq or to Syria, just medical supplies and trucks, etc. There is no comment from CNN, just our dear leader's words, as if they mean anything or have ever meant anything.
No wonder people who watch NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC don't understand that we are not sending any meaningful military arms to the Ukrainian people, to Nigeria, to Iraq, to Syria…just bullshit, and they know it."
It is really little different than Putin's propaganda machine, except that we do have one news channel (Fox), blogs, and talk radio, though the latter are concentrating their guns on the new GOP majority and how Republicans are no different than Democrats. This, of course, led to the 7 million white voters who voted in 2008, but stayed home in 2014.
Only a new, young, charismatic conservative will bring out the vote in 2016…..do I hear Walker or Rubio?
I watched CNN News last night, which featured the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot. Clever how they cover it. Essentially, they dwell upon how angry the Jordanian people are and seeking revenge, and then feature Our Dear Leader and his response to it (about how we join the Jordanians in being against ISIL [sic]), which is a lie front to end as we have not sent any meaningful amount of hard weaponry there, or to Iraq or to Syria, just medical supplies and trucks, etc. There is no comment from CNN, just our dear leader's words, as if they mean anything or have ever meant anything.
No wonder people who watch NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC don't understand that we are not sending any meaningful military arms to the Ukrainian people, to Nigeria, to Iraq, to Syria…just bullshit, and they know it."
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I responded that I have have inferred, in previous memos,that Obama is the equivalent of The Manchurian Candidate but thought a less frontal approach might come off more credible.
The key to deciphering any politician's true intent is watch what they do and pay little, if any, attention to what they say
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China and The Middle East! (See 2 below.)
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Is Obama the only soul who believes he defeated the Taliban? Bless his soul! (See 3 below.)
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Hatred continues on California campus. Where are you Michael Moore and your Hollywood bleeding hearts? (See 4 below.)
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Why has the world turned against Israel and anti-Semtism is on the rise.
Ron Dermer was hand chosen by Netanyahu to be Israel's Ambassador to America. Dermer is a very close friend of a member of my family who lives in Israel. Dermer is the son of the former Democrat Mayor of Miami Beach as was Dermer's brother.
He has been criticized for being very partisan and very pro Republican. Dermer therefore, runs the risk of being less effective because he could be frozen out by Obama and his State Department lackeys who already have a 'thing' about Israel. Time will tell.
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Dick
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1) How the Democrats Plan to Defeat Scott Walker
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"He [Obama] hopes ISIS will fight Iran for supremacy.
Realistic? I don't think so.
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"It is naive to expect Obama to be critical of a fellow Muslin. G-----"
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Democrats have a history of doing whatever it takes to win because winning is so important to them. We have all witnessed their smear tactics and campaigns. The latest was the job they did on Romney with able assistance from the candidate.
Furthermore, Democrats have the press and media on their side so that must be considered as an able assist.
Republicans often play dirty too but they seem not to have their heart in it and generally succumb when their hand is called by the press and media who perch above like vultures waiting to pounce.
Hypocrisy and double standards is the game method the media and press love to play.
(See 1 below.)
===China and The Middle East! (See 2 below.)
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Is Obama the only soul who believes he defeated the Taliban? Bless his soul! (See 3 below.)
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Hatred continues on California campus. Where are you Michael Moore and your Hollywood bleeding hearts? (See 4 below.)
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Why has the world turned against Israel and anti-Semtism is on the rise.
I believe the turn against Israel begot the rise in anti-Semitism and this is my reasoning.
When Israel won the '67 War they were no longer deemed the underdog. Arabs became the victim. The world loves the victim.
Russia, as arms supplier to the Arabs, was made to seem weak. Furthermore, Russian Jews decided to emigrate to Israel. This gave hope to other Russian dissidents and Zionism became public enemy. Consequently, Russia let loose with a flood of anti-Israel propaganda.
Oil: Europe remains dependent upon oil. Whether it comes from Russia or The Middle East, Europe cowers at the prospect of being brought to their knees as in the past. This fear manifests itself in being pro Arab and anti-Jew.
Intellectual shift: Leftist thinking prevails among the press and media and progressive thinking emanates ironically from liberal Jewish Hollywood, California Campuses and elite Ivy League Universities.
Demographics: Israel, with a population of 6 million Jews, is surrounded by Arab and Muslim nations with a collective population of over 300 million. Arabs and Muslims, therefore, enjoy a 5 to 1 advantage and an even greater population disparity world wide. They have used this leverage to take over the U.N. which is decidedly biased against Israel.
Obama: His foreign policy is predicated on an anti-Colonial sympathetic Muslim basis and his continued foreign policy failures, flops, blunders work against Israel.
Even Mark Twain understood, when it comes to politicians, care not what they say. Watch what they do.
Notwithstanding Obama's comment that he has Israel's back watch how he allows Iran to become nuclear, ISIS and radical Islamists, which he cannot bring himself to define, are growing and their influence is spreading.
Economic and world tensions: anti-Semitism rises when world order is under attack. Man has character flaws and is always looking to project his concerns . Jews are an historically convenient 'pinata.'
I am sure there are other reasons but these are mine.
Netayahu is one of the very few world leaders who understands the threat and, though one can lament the controversy surrounding his invitation to address Congress, America and the world, I consider his warnings the equivalence of Churchill's against Chamberlain's naivety and fecklessness
===Ron Dermer was hand chosen by Netanyahu to be Israel's Ambassador to America. Dermer is a very close friend of a member of my family who lives in Israel. Dermer is the son of the former Democrat Mayor of Miami Beach as was Dermer's brother.
He has been criticized for being very partisan and very pro Republican. Dermer therefore, runs the risk of being less effective because he could be frozen out by Obama and his State Department lackeys who already have a 'thing' about Israel. Time will tell.
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1) How the Democrats Plan to Defeat Scott Walker
Republicans should take note and not let them define him.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of this Slate article, “Divide and Conquer,” by Jamelle Bouie. He has done the GOP a favor by revealing the Democratic party’s strategic plan for defeating Scott Walker in 2016: smearing him as a “divisive” candidate who will send dog whistles to his white supporters and seek to run the table with the still-majority white voters to win the White House.
This article is the 2015 equivalent to the Zimmerman Telegram, and the GOP deserves to lose the White House if it ignores it. Governor Walker and the RNC will repeat Mitt Romney’s fatal mistake if they let this become the national narrative. Romney failed to respond to Obama’s early attacks on his wealth, and was painted into a corner as an out-of-touch plutocrat who tied his dog to the roof of his car. Romney never recovered from the populist suspicion.
Now, after eight years of what objective observers must describe as the most divisive presidency in American history — a presidency marked by IRS targeting of conservatives, by explicit appeals to minority groups, by a chief executive telling those who oppose law enforcement that he is “their” president, by the tarring of financiers as “fat cats,” by the smearing of religious folk as “bitter clingers” — the Democrats seek to pull an act of political legerdemain and paint Scott Walker as the divisive danger to America’s future.
And they will win, if Republicans and Walker don’t fight back.
Scott Walker has a long way to go before winning the GOP nomination, but Democrats have rightly identified him as a threat. His impressive early start, his proven record of accomplishment in Wisconsin, and his electoral prowess show he is serious. He is no popular media sideshow like Sarah Palin or Donald Trump. Nor does he have the electoral or familial baggage of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. He is the real deal, a Midwestern conservative who has successfully taken on public unions and governed a center-left state.
Psychologists might well say that the article’s author, Bouie, is engaging in a classic case of transference. Take these lines, for example, referring to Walker’s speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit last week: “His message, in short, was that he was effective, unwavering, and uncompromising. There was no need for outreach or a ‘big tent.’”
This must be an unconscious parody by Bouie of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, whereby the author applied the president’s own flight from reality to Walker, a governor repeatedly elected by hundreds of thousands of liberal constituents. Or maybe Bouie understands exactly what Barack Obama has done twice to get elected and realizes it’s so effective a tool that of course any credible GOP candidate must adopt the same polarizing approach.
Here lies revealed the pathology at the core of modern progressivism. Progressives believe that winning can come only from dividing, from alienating and isolating non-mainstream groups. There is no “America” in this view, just racial categories, special interests, and economic classes, all of which are interchangeable levers to be plugged in when necessary for electoral victory. It’s Marxian in its spirit, less about an American people than narrowly self-interested splinters that can be manipulated by a ruling elite.
Sadly, this is a view that can only feed on itself. It has no room to grow, no ability to see beyond its self-imposed limits. It cannot provide an optimistic view of the future, because it cannot see how to transcend the divisions it reifies (and celebrates) to engender something larger.
Ultimately, this is because the progressive vision does not embrace freedom at its core, but rather the technocratic imposition of expertise. There is no real role for the American citizen, other than as the bill payer for socially transformative programs (all of which must be defended without question) and the electoral source of legitimacy for the elites, to whom he turns over the keys to society.
Conservatives, however, ignore the genius of the progressive strategy at their peril. Progressives pretend to defend a united American society while portraying anyone truly interested in empowering citizens as a threat to the larger community as well as to minorities, the working class, pro-choicers, etc.
The GOP regularly falls into the trap of letting the progressive Democrats define the national conversation and then trying to claw its way back to parity. Scott Walker should not make the same mistake.
— Michael Auslin is a frequent contributor to National Review Online.
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2) China's Growing Middle East Footprint: Israel's Opportunity
by David P. Goldman
BESA Center Perspectives
BESA Center Perspectives
China's "New Silk Road" might become history's most ambitious investment in infrastructure. Some Chinese strategists predict an Israeli role in the project on par with, or possibly even more important than, that of Turkey. China calls the project "One Belt and One Road," referring to a belt of railroads, highways, pipelines and broadband communications stretching through China to the West, and a "maritime Silk Road" combining sea routes with port infrastructure from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
Israel's location makes it possible for the Jewish state to "play the role of bridgehead for 'One Belt and One Road' with the completion of the 'Red-Med' rail project," said Dr. Liu Zongyi at a November seminar at Remnin University. Dr. Liu, based at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, spoke of a $2 billion, 300 km rail line linking Ashkelon with the Red Sea. The "Red-Med" project is usually presented in more modest terms, as a way of absorbing excess traffic from the Suez Canal, or as an alternative route in the event of political disruption.
What China calls "One Belt and One Road" proposes that China, with the Mediterranean on the East-West axis, will have the opportunity to create high-speed rail lines in Southeast Asia, India, and Africa. China aims to double its 12,000 kilometers of railway track by 2020, with high-speed lines comprising most of the expansion. It is building a rail network south through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia to Singapore, and west to Istanbul.
China is seeking ways to enhance its regional security presence without attempting to play a superpower role in the Middle East.
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Some Chinese strategists see "Red-Med" as emblematic of a more ambitious design for the region. For example, Sino-Israeli collaboration aims to include counterterrorism and anti-piracy operations, as well as economic support for Arab countries. Israel can provide advanced technologies, such as in agriculture, to support the industrialization of the Middle East in the context of "One Belt and One Road." The Chinese have even pointed out to Israel that their navy is conducting anti-pirate missions in the Indian Ocean and The Gulf of Aden that Israel can participate in.
The project implies a radical shift in China's perceptions of regional security in the Middle East. China's net oil imports have nearly tripled in the past decade, from 100 million tons per month in 2005 to nearly 300 million tons today, and most of the increase has come from the Persian Gulf. China's dependence on Middle Eastern oil will continue to rise. Until recently, China was content to follow America's lead on Gulf security. After the collapse of Syria and Iraq, however, China's complacency has turned to concern, and China is seeking ways to enhance its regional security presence without attempting to play a superpower role in the region.
The suddenness of America's decline in the region has left China unprepared and unsure of its next steps.
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There is a new consensus in China that the world's second superpower will have to play a more central role in the Middle East. But the suddenness of America's decline in the region has left China unprepared and unsure of its next steps, as Chinese analysts are quick to acknowledge in private conversations. China has joined the P5+1 negotiations with Iran and offered to become a fifth member of the Quartet (UN, US, Europe, Russia), but these are pro forma proposals to assert China's interest in the region rather than a policy per se. In the past, China has voted with the Palestinians at the United Nations, and it will not alter its diplomatic position in the foreseeable future.
There is an overarching theme to Chinese policy, though, and it stems from China's economic strengths. The transformation of the Eurasian landmass by high-speed transport and communications will lift large parts of the continent out of backwardness, China believes, and make long-term political stability possible. Building the New Silk Road, though, demands the suppression of security threats that could disrupt trade flows. In both respects Beijing is sizing up Israel as a strategic partner.
Not until 2014 did China come to the conclusion that the United States would fail to stop Iran's drive for nuclear weapons. Under the assumption that it was working under an American security umbrella, Beijing attempted to maintain a delicate balance in its relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran. One Chinese analyst observes that although China's weapons deliveries to Iran are larger in absolute terms than its sales to Saudi Arabia, it has given the Saudis its best medium-range missiles, which constitute a "formidable deterrent" against Iran.
As China sees the matter, its overall dependency on imported oil is rising, and the proportion of that oil coming from Iran and its perceived allies is rising as well. Saudi Arabia may be China's biggest provider, but Iraq and Oman account for the lion's share of the increase in oil imports. China doesn't want to rock the boat with either prospective adversary. That policy worked well when the US stood for surety for peace in the Persian Gulf, but it has reached its best-used-by date and Beijing is still considering what to do next.
With Beijing's Middle East stance in the midst of a grand reconsideration, Israel has an important window of opportunity to influence Chinese thinking.
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Because China's Middle East stance is in the midst of a grand reconsideration, Israel has an important window of opportunity to influence Chinese thinking. In the absence of a dominant American presence in the Persian Gulf, the risks of regional war and an interruption of China's oil supplies will rise above the threshold of acceptability to Beijing,
How India will interact with the "New Silk Road" is not yet clear, but it seems increasingly likely that India and China will collaborate rather than quarrel. After President Xi Jinping's September 2014 state visit to India, the new government of Narendra Modi may draw on Chinese expertise and financing to alleviate critical infrastructure bottlenecks. The two countries are negotiating a $33 billion high-speed rail scheme, for example, the first major improvement in a rail system built by the British in the 19th century. Economics trumps petty concerns over borders in the mountainous wasteland that separates the world's two most populous nations.
There also is a strategic dimension to the growing sense of agreement between China and India. From India's vantage point, China's support for Pakistan's army is a concern, but it cuts both ways. Pakistan remains at perpetual risk of tipping over towards militant Islam, and the main guarantor of its stability is the army. China wants to strengthen the army as a bulwark against the Islamic radicals, who threaten China's Xinjiang province as much as they do India, and that probably serves India's interests as well as any Chinese policy might.
Meanwhile the rise of Islamist extremism worries Beijing. At least a hundred, and perhaps many more, Chinese Uyghurs are reportedly fighting with Islamic State, presumably in order to acquire terrorist skills to bring back home to China. Chinese analysts have a very low opinion of the Obama administration's approach to dealing with IS, but they do not have an alternative policy. There is an opportunity for low-profile but significant security cooperation between Israel and China.
China's role in Egypt exemplifies how Beijing may use its economic muscle to contribute to regional stability. Egyptian President Fatah al-Sisi signed a "comprehensive strategic partnership" with China during his late-December state visit to Beijing. China envisions a second Suez Canal flanked by a high-speed rail line, as well as "cooperation in infrastructure, nuclear power, new energy, aviation, finance and other sectors," Chinese President Xi Jinping said in December. Israel may have a role in Sino-Egyptian cooperation. As aforementioned, Israel can provide advanced agricultural technologies to support the industrialization of Middle Eastern countries in the context of One Belt, One Road.
China's policy-making is careful, conservative and consensus-driven. Its overriding concern is its own economy. The pace of transformation of the Middle East has surprised it, and it is trying to decide what to do next. What China will do in the future cannot be predicted. But it seems inevitable that China's basic interests will lead it to far greater involvement in the region, all the more so as the US withdraws. Israel will remain an American ally, and this alliance strictly delimits the scope of Sino-Israeli collaboration. Within these limits, though, Israel has great room to maneuver, and the opportunity to help shape Chinese thinking and strategy in the region for decades to come.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------David P. Goldman is a Managing Director at Reorient Group, a Hong-Kong based investment bank, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Sino-Israel Government Network and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL). His book How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying, Too) was published by Regency Press in September 2011. A volume of his essays on culture, religion and economics, It's Not the End of the World – It's Just the End of You, also appeared that fall.
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The world is helpless against jihad
Op-ed: After 9/11, it seemed the world would be never be the same, that it was waking up, beginning to understand; but jihad has become stronger and more murderous, and the free world is even more powerless. Ben-Dror Yemini It's no longer a war with a radical organization. It's something else. Something the human mind finds difficult to deal with.
There are wars. There is brutality against rivals and enemies. There are exceptions in every war. But when it comes to jihad, horror is a norm.
Slaughtering a person in front of the cameras appeared to be the lowest point. We were wrong. The burning of the Jordanian pilot clarifies that we are witnessing something much darker. Pure evil that is turned into a snuff film.
Make no mistake. The Islamic State is not just the organization operating in Syria and Iraq. Why in the past year we saw schoolchildren being massacred and entire villages being burned down with their residents in Pakistan and Nigeria. There is no real different between Boko Haram, the Taliban and ISIS. ISIS just likes to do it in front of the cameras.
We should pay attention to the numbers. In 2013, jihad killed 17,958 people. In 2014, the death toll jumped to 32,007. We are not talking about wars. We are only talking about jihad massacres. Tens of thousands are a statistic. One slaughter, followed by others, and the burning of a man alive, are making the full scope of the horror clear.
 ISIS and the captured Jordanian pilot it burned to death. When it comes to jihad, horror is a norm.
The free world is helpless. So is the Muslim world. It's helpless in the face of the thousands, or tens of thousands, who have joined the circles of murderous Islam. It's also helpless in the face of the support the murderers receive in almost every Muslim community in the world.
Even if we assume that the approval rates are low, an average of 7% in Arab countries, according to a research institute in Doha, and a similar percentage in the Muslim communities in the West, we are likely talking about tens of millions in the Muslim world and hundreds of thousands in Europe. It's horrifying.
Saudi King Abdullah, who died two weeks ago, warned several months before his death that it is a danger to world peace. He knew what he was walking about. Why it was Saudi Arabia that funded this radicalization for at least two decades, until it blew up in its face.
But the free world is finding it difficult to understand. Some Hamas leaders are explicitly talking about the need to annihilate Jews, and not just Jews, but also Christians – and the response is another pro-Hamas rally, encouraged by the "forces of progress." It doesn’t end with an understanding towards Hamas. It continues with understanding, justification and sympathy towards ISIS as well among similar circles in the world and in Israel.
After the terror attacks in the United States, it seemed that the world would never be the same. That it was waking up. That it was beginning to understand. This was mere illusion.
Jihad has become much stronger and more murderous. The world which is fighting it has become even more powerless. We should only hope that it sobers up at some point. Let's hope that by the time that happens, it won't be too late.
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Jewish frat tagged with swastikas after UC-wide Israel boycott
Anti-Semitism in the University of California (UC) system continues to go unchecked as a fraternity at UC Davis was tagged with swastikas following a system-wide vote to boycott Israel.
Not long after pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists coordinated a campaign across all ten campuses in the UC system – a campaign that spurred a student council vote to endorse divestment from Israel – another round of anti-Semitism on the UC Davis campus ensued. The painted swastikas sent the message to Jewish students on campus that their support of Israel on campus is not welcome.
After the pro-Palestinian vote beat out the pro-Israel vote, a student government body called on the UC Board of Regents last week to divest from "corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories," according to Sacramento CBS affiliate CBS13.
The spray-painted swastikas — commonly identified as symbols of Adolf Hitler's and Nazi Germany's hate of the Jewish People — were emblazoned over UC Davis' Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) strategically on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. The anti-Semitic crime came right after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Poland, where between one and two million Jews were killed during World War II.
In search of the perpetrators
A search for those responsible for the spray painting of swastikas has revealed some potential leads. "AEPi members believe their fraternity was attacked in retaliation for its support for Israel," Breitbart reported shortly after the incident.
Other allegations were found by many to be more questionable, such as those made by anti-Israel activists, who claim that the tagging rampage was staged by members of the AEPi Jewish fraternity, according to the Times of Israel.
It is reported that UC Davis campus police are currently investigating the racially motivated attack as a hate crime against the Jewish students.
Allowing and condemning anti-Semitism on campus?
Even though the UC system allowed the system-wide voting that resulted in the anti-Semitic boycott of Israel — reaching a campus population of nearly a quarter of a million students — the administration at UC Davis posted an announcement on Facebook condemning the anti-Semitic criminal behavior.
In their public statement to students, parents and the community, school officials insisted that anti-Semitic displays are not welcomed on campus. This assurance was given without mention of the UC system's sweeping anti-Semitic boycott of Israel — the nation many UC Davis students consider as their homeland.
"This kind of behavior is not only repugnant and a gross violation of the values our university holds dear, it is unacceptable and must not be tolerated on our campus or anywhere else," UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and other school officials assured in their written statement. "No matter what religious, political or personal beliefs we hold, as members of a university community, we have an obligation to treat each other with respect and dignity, even when we disagree."
UC Davis administrators then addressed the nature of the attack head-on by pointing out how the swastika historically represents the Nazi Germans' hatred of the Jewish People. This was said, however, without mentioning how the anti-Semitic/pro-Palestinian Muslim community on campus has been anything but silent in expressing a similar antipathy — reminiscent of the 1930s and 1940s — toward Jewish people in Israel and on campus.
"Nothing rivals a swastika as a more potent or offensive symbol of hatred and violence toward our Jewish community members, but this odious symbol is an affront to us all," UC Davis officials proclaimed. "As campus leaders, we are saddened and outraged that this occurred in our community."
Countering AEPi's contention that the vandalism could be tied to those behind the Israel boycott, Muslim-sympathizing student groups supporting the Palestinians contended that the anti-Semitic vote over the Israel debate had nothing to do with the vandalism.
"We reject any attempts to blame this on any single student community, including the UC Davis Divestment movement," stated a letter jointly prepared by a number of student organizations, including the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
More prevalent than you think
According to California's largest daily newspaper, anti-Semitic vandalism is nothing new on university campuses in the United States. "The Davis chapter of the Jewish fraternity is not the first to be vandalized with the symbol in recent memory," the Los Angeles Times reports. "An AEPi house at Emory University in Atlanta was painted with swastikas in October, shortly after the end of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur."
After last year's anti-Semitic crime took place on the Georgia campus, AEPi executive director Andrew Borans proclaimed a public warning about the widespread persecution of Jewish people. "[T]his is not an isolated incident on college campuses in North America and across the world," he asserted.
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