Why can't American Jews figure this out?
The Toronto Star (a left-wing newspaper) is reporting today that Canadian Jews are shifting their allegiances over to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative party due to Harper's support for Israel in the recent war against Hezbullah:David Gelberman has thought of himself as a Liberal his whole life, but that has changed, he declares, because of the Prime Minister. "Thank God for Stephen Harper," says Gelberman, 57, his eyes fixed on the television news from Israel.I'm still having trouble getting over Joe Lieberman losing the Connecticut primary. But it seems that I'm not the only one with that problem....
"It's about time someone had some cojones. Most other politicians are wishy-washy."
There are enthusiastic nods from his customers, smoked meat sandwiches in hand, at Wolfie's Deli, on Sheppard Ave., which Gelberman runs with his wife Gila and father-in-law Wolf Zimmerman. "I was always a Liberal," says Gelberman, looking natty in a straw hat, black shirt and gold jewellery. "I was only a Liberal. Will this affect the way I vote? Absolutely. I will vote Tory from now on."
More nods from the men at the table where he has joined in the conversation. Harper is not so scary, says a customer named Joseph (he declines to give his last name), who organizes trade shows. He too, has been a Liberal supporter. "But I'm going to change that."
On the same day that British investigators exposed a massive terrorist plot to blow up as many as 10 transatlantic flights, the men see even more reason to support Harper and his position that Israel's military action against Hezbollah guerrillas was a "measured response."
Harper made his pro-Israel views known quickly, issuing a statement the day after Israel sent its forces into Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Liberals' perspective remained unclear. Five days passed before interim Liberal leader Bill Graham said the government's position was a "grave error," one that threatened Canada's reputation as a peace broker and mediator. Leadership candidates offered a range of opinions.
In the meantime, high-profile Jewish Liberals, including Onex Corp. President Gerry Schwartz, his wife, Indigo Books & Music CEO Heather Reisman, and film producer Robert Lantos, publicly expressed support for Harper's stance and, in the case of the latter two, tore up their party membership cards, if not in fact, then in their minds.
At a July 26 rally in Toronto to support Israel, Lantos received a standing ovation when he thanked Harper for his government's "principled support" and said he was tossing off his "lifelong federal Liberal hat."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:34 PM
3 Comments:
I read that yesterday and thought the same thing. Here, in the States, Jews are so tied to the Dems that they cannot see that it is not the Dem party of their parents. And so many Jews are liberal.
If 9/11 did not wake them up? I shudder to think what would.
The Dems no more support the Jews than Eurabia does. They are now out to get Joe Lieberman because he dared support the war.
Hopefully the voters of CT will do the right thing.Shrillery and a number of Dems immedaitely went for the unknown candidate, and spit on Lieberman. Novemner is not that far away, and then there is this article from a CT paper:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-21173831.apds.m0477.bc-ct--connaug21,0,1673985.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
Why can't American Jews figure what out? We can't vote for Harper - he lives in Canada. I suspect that CT Jews did vote for Lieberman, and he's a democrat.
I can't even figure out what you think we can't figure out.
Bret, here's my take on it:
There are certain parallel strains of what passes for thought in the left of the West. Today, these include strong tendencies of denial and appeasement towards global Islamofascism and also not so subtle anti-Semitic undertones.
Specific to the Democratic Party are those wanting to run up the white flag and retreat from the Middle East. They also want the US to back of in global war on Islamofascist terrorism, pretending it's a "law enforcement issue". These intellectual lights favoring this include Howard Dean the current Chairman of the DNC; Ted Kennedy; John Kerry and others. The negative implications for Israel are pretty clear in that philosophy.
As far as the anti-Semitism, one need only do a bit of reading about the likes of very prominent Democrats such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cynthia McKinney and others.
The Democratic Party is no longer the party of FDR and Harry Truman. And the neo-fascist hard left that's taken over the party now has made it not the party of Joe Lieberman.
To summarize them, it's now philosophically the party of Michael Moore and Jesse Jackson.
Apparently, I'm not the only one baffled by the fact that even in 2004, about 90% of Jewish Americans, despite all this, chose to vote for this Democratic Party and John Kerry, over George Bush and the Republican Party.
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