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Palin may “support” Israel, but she is no friend to Jews.
October 11th, 2008 [Election 2008, General, Law & Politics, Middle East, News, Religion, US]
9 Comments »With friends like Sarah Palin, who needs enemies?! I would rather see somebody supporting Israel by trying to further peace in the Middle East, rather than supporting Israel blindly in the hopes that the resulting wars will bring about the End of Days just a little bit sooner, or because as long as Israel holds out, there’s still a chance all the Jews will move there and either accept Jesus or die.
I don’t want this woman anywhere near the international peace process – or the proverbial “red button.” Religion is a personal matter, but not when her religious motivations will guide her every move in office. A religious politician – EVERY politician, really – has to have some level of humility; as we’ve seen from the past 8 years, when an official believes he has God’s mandate to rule and has been placed there to do God’s work and have God speak through him… well… I think we know how well that goes.
Does Sarah Palin Have a Pentecostal Problem? – TIME:
And finally, a videotape surfaced of a 2005 service at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, the Pentecostal church that Palin attended for most of her life. In the scene captured on video, Palin stands at the front of the sanctuary while a visiting African pastor prays that God will help her gubernatorial campaign and protect her “from every form of witchcraft.” Later in the same service, the pastor complains that “Israelites” held too many prominent positions in business, a comment that has further alienated Jewish voters.
Sarah Palin And The Anti-Semitism Question – The Jed Report:
Yesterday, Ben Smith posted a remarkable story about Sarah Palin’s attendance at an anti-Semitic sermon delivered at her church just two weeks ago.
The sermon, given by the executive director of Jews for Jesus, blamed Jewish victims of terrorism for the attacks which claimed their lives. If Jews had just converted to Christianity, he said, they would have lived.
This is crazy, paranoid stuff, and it is far beyond anything Jeremiah Wright ever said, yet we went through six weeks of nonstop scrutiny over his politically extreme statements.
Sarah Palin and the Jewish community | Op-Ed Contributors | Jerusalem Post:
FINALLY, THERE is the matter of two anti-Israel politicians – Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. In February Palin in an interview lavished praise on Ron Paul. There is also a controversy over whether Palin has supported former presidential aspirant Pat Buchanan. To be fair there is no evidence that Palin shares either of these Republicans’ anti-Israel creed. However, since the beginning of the GOP narrative within the Jewish community is that Obama can not be trusted because of a handful of people who have endorsed him. If this guilt by association standard is one the McCain stands by, then they also need to deal with Palin’s past support for anti-Israel politicians.
Sarah Palin’s Jewish Problem – Michael Fox – Open Salon:
In his talk at Wasilla on August 17, 2008, with Palin in the audience, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" on Jews who have not converted to Christianity.
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At the conclusion of Brickner's sermon, the congregation contributed money for Jews for Jesus' mission of converting
the Jews and and prayed that Jews would come to accept Jesus.
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John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate has already cost him the vote of at least one prominent Jewish politician — former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.Koch, who endorsed George W. Bush in 2004, said that McCain’s choice of Palin has led him to endorse Barack Obama.
“She’s scary,” Koch said.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I would think that Israel is ready to be treated as a full adult, not micromanaged, snotty nose-wiped and diapered the way the run of the mill “pro-Israel” politicians want to do for it. Don’t we give many times the money to Israel’s enemies combined anyway?
If I were Israel, I would want to grow up, stand on my own, and deal with my affairs like a big boy without America’s constant meddling and interference. When your kid comes home bloody-nosed, you hurt for him, and want to deck the kid that did it, but you know it’s best left to him to work it out himself. We all must someday fight our own battles. But we must not go on belly-aching when Israel kicks the s**t out of its enemies like in the 1967 war. This non-intervention must work both ways.. Somehow,I remember it was that Ron Paul guy who stood up for Israel’s right to defend itself by taking out a reactor in Iraq. When they wanted to deal with weapons in Syria last year, wasn’t it good ol’ “Condi” from our “pro-Israel” State Department that caused them to delay taking care of this threat to their security? Israel is a great nation and does not need our money, coddling or micro-management of its affairs. It can well take care of itself without our “help”.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:57 am
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Sarah Palin is Jewish, at least 75% finds a geneology website. Her Mother is fully Jewish, but her Father also has Jewish ancestry through his maternal Grandmother.
This is it! This is the game changer. Florida will now go completely Republican this year.
And as a Jewish libertarian Republican, I couldn’t be happier.
Go Sarah! Go Sarah! Go Sarah!!
Full story at Libertarian Republican blog. (click on link above)
October 12th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Are you kidding me? She wasn’t raised Jewish. In any event, Jews are more likely to shun a Jew who is “born again” to Christianity than they are to shun a Christian in the first place. It’s the ultimate betrayal, and she’s more likely to proselytize to other Jews, which makes her even more of a danger – if that’s even true, which I sincerely doubt it is. In any event, it doesn’t really matter if her father has any Jewish lineage – and I doubt her mother is a practicing Jew.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
p.s. Eric, if you’re using the JDL as your source of information, you sure aren’t gonna gain any credibility among Jews who were ever even the tiniest bit progressive or liberal or even law abiding. You know they’re a terrorist group, right? You know they bomb mosques? The JDL is no organization to be quoting in any article pandering to Jews. They’ll distance themselves faster than you can say “Irv Rubin.”
October 13th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Who gives a flying “f*ck” about progressive or liberal Jews. They’ve sold out to the Nazi enemy in the Obama campaign. They hate Freedom.
To save the Jewish race from the coming Nazi administration of Barack Hussein Muhammed Obama, we need an alliance of moderate, conservative and liberatarian Jews. And I dare say, there are far more libertarian-minded Jews, THANKFULLY! than there are Nazi-loving liberal Jews.
October 13th, 2008 at 4:50 am
That whole “born again” bs is a completely made up story by the ultra-liberal Leftwing media.
I was in Alaska for a while. Palin had a reputation there as a “libertarian” Republican. In fact, the social conservatives didn’t like her much. They even started a whisper campaign, that “Sarah is nice and all, but she’s a closet libertarian…”
Palin had some ties to the Alaska Libertarian Party, which hurt her amongst some mainline Republicans.
Incredible now, that the media has spinned the story line on her from being a libertarian to being some sort of social conservative.
My gosh, are the media hopelessly biased for Fascist Obama. They’ll say and do anything to get that Nazi elected.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:09 am
I am a Jewish believer in Jesus. Most blogs and news services have quoted the same one paragraph of the six-page transcript of the message that David Brickner of Jews for Jesus delivered at Sarah Palin’s church, giving the false impression that he is saying that a bulldozer attack by a deranged Palestinian is God’s judgment on the Jewish people. Please read or listen to the entire message for yourself at http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20080817 so that you can hear Brickner’s remarks in context. Please also take a look at Brickner’s comments concerning his message at Wasilla Bible Church, as well as interviews by Christianity Today and MSNBC with Brickner about this issue, at http://www.jewsforjesus.org. Among other things, Brickner says, “The comments attributed to me were taken out of context. The notion that the terrorist, bulldozer attack in Jerusalem this summer was God’s judgment on Israel for not believing in Jesus, is absolutely not what I believe. In retrospect, I can see how my rhetoric might be misunderstood and I truly regret that . . . . Let me be clear. I don’t believe that any one event whether a terrorist attack or a natural disaster is a specific fulfillment of or manifestation of a Biblical prediction of judgment. I don’t believe that the newspaper should be used to interpret the Bible. The Bible interprets the Bible. I love my Jewish people and the land of Israel. I stand with and support her against all efforts to harm her or her people in any way.”
October 13th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Eric, your description of Obama’s name pretty much ruins your credibility (along with your citing to the JDL). When and how did Obama pick up a Mohammad? There is no Mohammad in his name, and the only reason there is a Hussein is that he is named after his father, a Kenyan. You people just keep building upon lies in order to distract people from the truth. It’s Jews lying to other Jews – deception of the worst kind. It’s a shande and you don’t even see it.
And Eric, believe me, Sarah Palin is NOT Jewish, not by any means. She is Pentacostal. If you don’t believe it, go watch the video of her having hands “laid upon her” to cast away witchcraft and help her bring the nation to the “Lord.” A video is worth a million words. That pastor, like Palin is no friend to the Jews, or “the Israelites,” as he later called us as he lamented how well we’re doing in society. I do not understand this new relationship between conservative Jews and the uber-right-wing Christians who hate Jews. What strange bedfellows. Again, I ask – with friends like that, who needs enemies? Do you care that they pray for the conversion of all Jews to Christianity? How many Jews throughout history have risked their lives to remain Jewish rather than take the easy route and believe in some false messiah? Do you just not CARE about targeted proselytizing to Jews? Do you not CARE that Jews are being led toward Christianity and basically annihilated spiritually instead of physically?
Matt, I read the transcript. I don’t care how he spins it later or backpedals – he did say that the violence in Israel is judgment for Jews not accepting Jesus. There is no getting around what he said, and he’s not alone in saying it. I’ve heard Christian ministers say it outright to their congregations, as this guy did – I’ve even heard them claim that we’re still being punished for the freaking golden calf. In any event, “Jews for Jesus,” in my opinion, commits the spiritual equivalent of genocide, which makes you dangerous to the Jewish people – and most of you aren’t even really Jewish. And don’t try to pretend you’re just some average Jew who happens to believe in Jesus – your email address is a dead giveaway. You work for “Jews for Jesus.” I don’t care if you personally are ethnically Jewish or if you just claim to be Jewish to try to deceive real Jews into accepting a false messiah. You are a danger to Jewish souls and peoplehood. It’s the ultimate insult to the millions of Jews throughout history who have risked their lives to defy conversion to Christianity – which is what “Jews for Jesus” actually promotes. It’s a disgrace. If you are truly halakhically Jewish, well, that just makes it even worse. I hope God can forgive you for abandoning your responsibilities and community and turning you into a pied piper.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am
p.s. Eric, I give a fuck about progressive and liberal Jews, and so should you, because without progressive and liberal Jews, there would be virtually no Jewish people today. To be fair, without traditional Jews, there would be no Judaism today. You keep Jewish traditions alive among progressive and liberal Jews, and we keep the Jewish people alive and in touch with modern society, and evolving in order to survive in a changing world. We keep each other alive and Jewish, so suck it up and get used to it, because we need each other to survive as a people. Assuming you are observant, that is. It’s possible you’ve become one of those secular Ayn Rand types who has a “chosen people” complex without any sense of the social, moral and religious responsibility that comes along with it. If that’s the case, then you are the kind of person who gives the rest of us a bad name, and I pity you.