[ April 28, 2024 ]
AIPAC is an utter disgrace. At a time when the Left is slandering Israel over the murder of George Floyd, AIPAC chooses to give the anti-Semitic Democrats their blessing to bash Israel, over declaring their rightful sovereignty of Judea and Samaria. Bloody cowards! This is just the latest example of why AIPAC needs to be replaced by a strong pro-Israel Jewish organization. An organization that knows how to fight a war. An organization that does not cower to the Left like AIPAC does. That organization is the Republican Jewish Coalition. Exodus!
AIPAC's shocking betrayal and sellout to the increasingly anti-Israel Democrat Partyhttps://t.co/bLYYpN0Rpa
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 11, 2020
Not a gop partisan!! There’s bipartisan consensus that the Dems are moving away from Israel. https://t.co/117QPeFokX
— Matt Brooks (@mbrooksrjc) June 10, 2020
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AIPAC gives lawmakers a green light to criticize Israel over annexation
Does AIPAC support Israel’s leadership at all costs, or does it draw a line on actions it believes endangers the Jewish state’s future?
By Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2020
WASHINGTON — The leading pro-Israel lobby in the United States is telling lawmakers that they are free to criticize Israel’s looming annexation plans — just as long as the criticism stops there.
Two sources — a congressional aide and a donor — say the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is delivering that guidance in Zoom meetings and phone calls with lawmakers. The message is unusual because the group assiduously discourages public criticism of Israel.
But these are unusual times: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set a July 1 deadline to annex parts of the West Bank, over the criticism of people at home and abroad who say the move would set back any efforts to bring peace to the region.With anxiety pervading the US Jewish community ahead of that deadline, AIPAC faces a thorny question: Does it support Israel’s leadership at all costs, or does it draw a line on actions it believes endangers the Jewish state’s future?So far, the group has remained publicly silent. But in private, AIPAC is telling lawmakers that as long as they don’t push to limit the United States’ aid to Israel, they can criticize the annexation plan without risking future support from the lobby group.How far AIPAC is urging lawmakers to go is unclear. A spokesman would not comment except to point to a May 11 statement warning against proposals to reduce ties with Israel should annexation take place. “Doing anything to weaken this vital relationship would be a mistake,” AIPAC said then.
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19 Comments
3 years ago
AIPAC goes Full Leftard …
… someone should tell them
… never go full Leftard …
… How did that work out the last time?
Not too well according to my Politically Incorrect history books …
3 years ago
Disclaimer: I’m Jewish, went to a yeshiva, dad was orthodox (but conservative), I’m an escapee and refugee from Brooklyn, and I DESPISE liberal Jews!
That said… Don’t you think that Jews, easily the MOST liberal creatures on the planet, kinda DESERVE this?
Israel is plagued as we are, by hordes of LEFTIST LIBERAL JEWS! They are an anathema.
Look at NYC, upstate NY, and southeastern Florida, the biggest Jewish communities in the U.S. — overwhelmingly DEMOCRAT VOTERS!
You can’t fix stupid, Pamela!
And they keep coming back for more.
3 years ago
Reply to
BanLiberals
You are 100% correct. Liberal Jews will always look to appease those trying to destroy them. I remember stories told to me about Jewish store owners employed minorities instead of their own people, the owners wanted to help so much. Yet sometime later those they hired looted the stores and sometimes beat their employ or killed them.
We see this garbage by fellow Jews throughout history. Examples being killing each other in Masada instead of fighting to your last breathe. Going to willingly to concentration camps when warning signs everywhere.
I would not be surprised if many Jews still vote for Biden. A man who hates Israel and menachem Begin had to say to him that he would bend his knee to no one. If Hitler ran as a Democrat liberal Jews would vote for him. Trump moves the embassy as past leaders promised and approved by Congress yet it took him to to do so. Nailer and Schumer refused to attend ceremony but they hit in their knees with African scarf for photo op.
3 years ago
Reply to
Glen Benjamin
Masada was different; with impending capture and death at the hands of the Romans, and the likely crucifixion of survivors, suicide was not dishonorable.
In fact, suicide was more common in the ancient world – it was regarded by the Stoics as a reasonable way to exit an intolerable situation.
Your Holocaust analogy is somewhat apt, but you overlook the presence of the Jewish councils and the Jewish police, who assisted the Nazis, and who were ubiquitous. Now there was a betrayal of horrendous proportions, which is rarely if ever discussed.
Hannah Arendt pursued this, but she was quickly declared persona non grata.
AIPAC, which is chaired by an Obama acolyte, is simply reflecting the wishes of seventy-five percent of the Jewish electorate, that adored Obama and will vote for the next Democrat. Indeed, the great majority of Jews will support the Democrats, regardless of the fact that the Democrats no longer conceal their intention to sell them out.
Just recently, it was noted that many of the large Jewish organizations, while singing the praises of deceased career criminal George Floyd, made no mention of the deliberate attacks on Jewish stores, schools and synagogues during the rioting.
That’s all you need to know about the state of secular Jewish sensibility in 2020.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
Simon Bar Kochba and his rebellion did well in the short term, they defeated all the Roman forces that were in and around Israel, but he never anticipated the mobilization of legions across the empire to put down his revolt. He should’ve sought out the Persian Empire as allies against the decadent, degenerate, but still militarily powerful, Roman empire.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
Sorry I disagree with you on Masada. You do not honor yourself and your people by having your brother and sisters kill each other. You fight to the death and take as many if the enemy with you.
As the great poem by Dylan Thomas says and what all Jews should follow is “ do not go gentle into that good night, rage against the dying of the light.”
3 years ago
I used to donate to AIPAC, no more until they straighten up their act.
3 years ago
You can’t annex what is ALREADY YOURS.
“palestinian” squatters need to go elsewhere – they produce nothing, only concern is violence.
3 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
Agree!
The “Palestinians” have always rejected “land for peace” and anything else offered so why not formally claim what is yours to begin with. It wasn’t the end of the world when Trump formally acknowledged Jerusalem as their rightful capital and moved our embassy there.
3 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
Agree!
The “Palestinians” have always rejected “land for peace” and anything else offered so why not formally claim what is yours to begin with. It wasn’t the end of the world when Trump formally acknowledged Jerusalem as their rightful capital and moved our embassy there.
3 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
Yep, they did not want that land until Israel turned it green.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Wasn’t Hawaii essentially annexed? Didn’t a group of US mercenaries go into Hawaii, murder and destroy, and then give the queen the choice of having all her people murdered in the streets and the entire island further destroyed unless she surrendered? Yes, that was annexation back then.
The areas Israel wants to annex are almost devoid of anyone other than Jews, was part of traditional Israel, was promised to Israel, was held for Israel, given away illegally by the UK, annexed by TransJordan, then taken back by Israel in a war for its survival. Annexation should have been put into place back in 1967.
AIPAC: shunda!
3 years ago
I remember I once met a member of CAMERA, an org devoted to exposing lies about Israel in the enemedia. He stated publishing lies and muslum propaganda about Israel was so commonplace across the enemedia CAMERA had to pick its battles, because it couldn’t fight the disinformation/propaganda being spread about Israel everywhere at once. Sometimes the best they could hope for was a retraction about a given news story and the retractions were never front page news.
3 years ago
AICPAC will have another problem when after the election and the rejection by the PLO and Abbas of the Trump deal Israel annexes the rest of Samara and Judea and send the so-called Palestinians packing off to whatever Muslim hellhole will accept them.
3 years ago
First of all, the utterly ridiculous claim that the Jewish people have no claim to the land of Palestine is completely false.
In response to this myth, I think I should begin by pointing out that the word, Palestine, is not a biblical word. You will not find it anywhere in your Bible except as a label on maps in the back of your Bible.
That label is totally incorrect. What came to be called Palestine was the land of Israel for over 1,500 years — the period of the biblical judges and kings. The land did not become known as Palestine until after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD and began to disperse the Jewish people worldwide.
The word, Palestine, is derived from the Roman word for Philistines. So, to humiliate the Jewish people, the Romans renamed the land after their enemy.
Now, as to whether or not the Jews have any rightful claim on that land, the answer is absolutely yes! The God of the Jewish people is the One who created the universe, and Psalm 24:1 says He owns all of it. He therefore has the right to give any part of this earth to whomsoever He pleases.
And it pleased God to give a large section of the Middle East to the Jewish people. This gift occurred 4,000 years ago when God appeared to Abraham and gave him and his descendants a land grant as pictured below, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River (Genesis 15:18- 21). This is a land grant that has never been fully realized, but will be during the Millennial reign of Jesus. A small portion of this grant is what is currently referred to as Palestine. At the time that Abraham was promised the land, the area was called “The Land of Canaan.”
The initial promise of this land to Abraham and his descendants was specified in general terms in the Abrahamic Covenant contained in Genesis 12. Genesis 12:1-2,7
1) The LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your country… to the land which I will show you;
2) And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great…
7) To your descendants I will give this land.
This promise was reconfirmed to Abraham six more times and was spelled out in detail in Genesis 15:18-21. In Genesis 17:7, God declared the promise of the land to be “an everlasting covenant.” The promise was reconfirmed to Isaac and to Jacob, and it was reconfirmed through King David in Psalm 105 when he wrote: Psalm 105:1,8-11
1) Oh give thanks to the Lord…
8) For He has remembered His covenant forever…
9) The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac,
10) Then He confirmed it to Jacob… and to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11) Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
The fact that the Jews were dispersed from the land for 1,878 years — from 70 AD to 1948 — does not in any way mean that God invalidated their deed to the land. For, you see, God had a second covenant with the Jewish people concerning their land.
The first covenant was a Land Title Covenant given through Abraham. It was unconditional. The second was a Land Use Covenant given through Moses. It was conditional.
In the Land Use Covenant God told the Jewish people that their enjoyment of the land would be dependent on their obedience to His Word — if faithful, blessings; if unfaithful, curses.
And He made it clear that if they became disobedient and persisted in that disobedience, the ultimate judgment He would place on them would be exile from the land. But the land would still belong to them. Let me illustrate this:
Suppose you give your teenage son a car and put the title in his name. But you make it clear that as long as he is living at home, under your authority, there will be rules for using the car. If the rules are broken, depending on the seriousness of the offense, the car will be locked up in the garage for a period of time. The car will still belong to the teen, but the enjoyment of it will be lost.
The crucial point here is that although the Jewish people were dispersed from their land in discipline, they were not dispossessed of their land. The title to the land remained in their name.
Political Right to the Land
Now, the world, of course, could care less about the Jews’ biblical and eternal title to the land. So let’s take a look at their right to the land from a political and legal standpoint. The fact that they have a legal right to the land can be easily established.
In November of 1947, the United Nations officially and legally authorized the creation of the modern state of Israel.
Prior to that time the land had been a League of Nations Mandate, established after World War I. Britain had been entrusted with this Mandate, the purpose of which was to prepare the people living in the area for ultimate self-rule.
In 1947, when the British announced that they were ready to surrender the Mandate, the United Nations approved a division of the land between the Jews and the Arabs. That division is illustrated in the map below. The three light orange areas were to be the Jewish state; the three purple areas, the Arab state. Jerusalem was to be internationalized.
UNSOPs Majority Proposal 1947
The Jews reluctantly accepted the proposal and proceeded to establish their state. The Arabs refused to accept the UN action and resorted to war.
No one can truthfully claim that the Jews have no right to the land. It belongs to them both biblically and legally.
The claim that the Palestinians are the true indigenous people of the land — like the American Indians — and that the Jews are colonialist invaders from Europe, is a big lie.This is one of the fundamental contentions of the BDS Movement — the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement — that so many American corporations and churches have bought into.
For a long time the Palestinians argued they were descendants of the Philistines. But when it was brought to their attention that the Philistines originated in the Greek Aegean Islands and came to Israel in about 1,300 BC when the Greeks expelled them, the “indigenous people” argument was changed, and the Palestinians started claiming to be descendants of the Canaanites! The idea that the Jews in Israel today are colonial occupiers is completely absurd. There has been an uninterrupted Jewish presence in the Holy Land for 4,000 years. Even during the dispersion of the Jews after 70 AD, there continued to be Jewish people living in Jerusalem and in the Galilee.
And the Jews who have returned to their homeland have not just returned from Europe. They have come from over 100 countries scattered all over the world. There is just no way they can be considered a European “colonial force.”
Nor can the Palestinians be considered descendants of the Canaanites. There is simply no genealogical or genetic evidence that connects the Arabs to the extinct Canaanites.
In reality, the Palestinians in the Middle East are Arabs who migrated to the area from places like Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt. Yasser Arafat, for example, was born and raised in Egypt. And notice this revealing quote of his:
“The Palestinian people have no identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.”
In 2012, the Hamas Minister of the Interior and of Security, Fathi Hammad, stated that “half the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.”
