Why does the Left Hate Israel?

[Teresa Heilevang]

There was a time not all that long ago when most of us agreed about what constituted good and evil.  But that time, I’m afraid, has come and gone and is now as passé as five cent cigars and 45 cents-a-gallon gasoline.
 
Our former sense of morality hasn’t been replaced by immorality, at least not entirely, but by something that’s probably more dangerous because it comes cleverly disguised as broad-mindedness.
 
Those in the mass media and academia ridicule people who still believe there are nations, values and cultures, that are superior to others, and they regard those Americans who have the boldness and audacity to disagree with them as yokels, super patriots and religious hypocrites.  The elitists trumpet moral equivalency as an ideal.... and yet, time and time again, they display their own double standards.  The same folks who were so upset about Bush's time in the Air National Guard and his early problems with ol' Jack Daniel's and a few snorts of blow at Yale aren’t the least put out by Barack Hussien Obuma’s avoidance of MILITARY SERVICE and his admitted use of the illegal drugs, maryjane and cocaine.  Apparently even moral equivalency doesn’t exist if one of the parties is a Republican and the other is a Democrat.
 
More recently, we had Barack Hussien Obuma’s insisting that Israel’s taking steps to defend itself against the constant missile attacks from Hamas is as inexcusable as the attacks, themselves.  But then what can you expect from a narcissistic nut case who kept insisting that Iran wasn’t worth worrying about and that the Jews should seriously consider giving up half of Jerusalem to people who insist that any piece of real estate they covet is a holy Islamic city?
 
Those on the left regard themselves as the moral, as well as intellectual, superiors of those on the right because they claim to see shades of gray whereas conservatives see only black and white.
 
The problem is that most things are black and white, and the inability to realize that doesn’t suggest clearer vision.... but only lack of courage and conviction which, I might add, the left knows NOTHING about.  So, while those on the right are convinced that capitalism, for instance, is better than communism, marxism and socialism, and have no problem saying as much, liberals go around parroting sound bites.  Hell, they would have you believe that Guantanamo is the same as Buchenwald, Bush is the same as Hitler, and that the members of the U.S. military are either the same as storm troopers, in the words of Dick Durbin, or merely uneducated suckers, according to Massachusetts clown, John Kerry.
 
It is not the height of sophistication to insist, as left-wingers do, that modern day Judaism and Christianity are no better than Islamic fundamentalism when the Islamists are blowing up school buses and pizza parlors, flying jet planes into skyscrapers and beheading innocent human beings, to suggest that these blood-thirsty Neanderthals are the moral equals of Christians and Jews is not only absurd, it’s an evil slander of religious people who have never done anything wrong, and who are guilty of nothing worse than worshipping a God whose name doesn’t happen to be Allah.
 
Furthermore, when leftists claim that Israel is no better than its enemies, they are not merely mistaken, they are LYING and, what’s more, they know it.  After all, Israel is a western-style democracy.  They don’t go in for honor killings.  They don’t go in for suicide bombings.  They don’t bestow honors on people who bash in the heads of little children. They even allow Israeli Arabs to vote and to hold elected office.  What’s more, Israel is the only real ally America has in the Middle East, no matter how many bribes we pay out to the Arab world and no matter how much lip service our politicians pay to the likes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
 
Whenever I hear someone claim that he’s not an anti-Semite just because he’s always condemning Israel’s policies, I know he’s lying.  On its worst day, Israel is better than Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority.  When a nation of five million Jews is surrounded by 150 plus million enemies who, day in and day out, plan and pray for its extermination, only a confirmed Jew-hater would insist that it’s Israel that must be reined in.
 
In conclusion, let me just say that moral equivalency may be a lot of things, but moral isn’t one of them.

[Pathfinder]

That's one of the questions that has plagued me for decades. Most of the Jews I have known are flaming leftists and uber-libs except where Israel is concerned. in the past decade, though, even that has changed.

I think part of it is a raging anti-semitism (Lenin came from a society in which anti-semitism was rampant in the form of open discrimination and pogroms) wrapped up in leftist "victimization" ideology and the lefty Jews don't know how to counter it and so go along - Palestinian rights and all that against the evil aggressor Israel is one outcome. Even though Israel is a leftist Socialist country.

The other part is the secular religion of the State that is so much at the heart of leftists - the state knows all, saves all, enslaves all - oops, strike that last part. But you get the idea.

I still recall the time I got an email from my leftist SIL who was shocked - shocked I tell you! - at the discovery of CNN's bias against Israel. I chuckled and pointed out a number of other biases ol' Mr. Hanoi Jane had in my response, and welcomed her to the land of reality.

[tombogan03884]

 M'ette posted
"Those in the mass media and academia ridicule people who still believe there are nations, values and cultures, that are superior to others, and they regard those Americans who have the boldness and audacity to disagree with them as yokels, super patriots and religious hypocrites.  The elitists trumpet moral equivalency as an ideal.... and yet, time and time again, they display their own double standards.  The same folks who were so upset about Bush's time in the Air National Guard and his early problems with ol' Jack Daniel's and a few snorts of blow at Yale aren’t the least put out by Barack Hussien Obuma’s avoidance of MILITARY SERVICE and his admitted use of the illegal drugs, maryjane and cocaine.  Apparently even moral equivalency doesn’t exist if one of the parties is a Republican and the other is a Democrat."

You must be a racist to post something like that ! On the other hand, what did an African ever invent.

To slightly correct Pathfinder, Lenin came from a culture where if it rained on a picnic they went and killed some Jews, if the babushka burned supper they went and killed some Jews. but the assholes flocked to then and still do today. I will give them credit though, the "Fighting Jews" of Sobibor, Warsaw, and Auschwitz were usually formed around a core of ORGANIZED socialists.

[twyacht]

Remember Senator Hillary Clinton promised the moon to the left-wing Jewish lobbyists in NY while campaigning for that seat, and won.

Here in S. Florida, the large contingent of former North East liberal Jews have made a foothold. Just the way it goes in any aspect of of diverse population.

However, when it comes to Israel, there is also a large portion that know Israelis don"t need the U.S. They are perfectly capable of fighting for their own self defense when the UN/pacifist/liberal mindset says "stop" defending yourself,...bombing those Hamas strongholds in a civilian bldg. where they are used as human shields....

Politics make strange bedfellows, and having Israel be the "lone wolf" of the Middle East IMHO is a good thing...

Unfortunately, the pendulum swings in this country with whomever has the political majority.  BHO is an appeaser, and it will take another attack to wake people up to that fact.

[runstowin]

The long and short of it is that the Children of Israel are God's chosen people, and the left hate God.

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[tumblebug]

MONEY LENDERS ?

[tombogan03884]

MONEY LENDERS ?

Are you taking idiot lessons from FQ ?
The entire financial system is based on debt, the left, in the form of that usurping socialist bastard, just borrowed Trillions from WHOM ? Chinese money lenders. Besides, the money lenders Jesus drove from the Temple were only offensive to the devout believers in GOD, we all know the left believes ,not in God, but in the UN.