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September 11, 2009
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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  Why are Jews Liberals?
By Jeff Jacoby
Like Norman Podhoretz, I am often asked by non-Jewish conservatives why American Jews cling so tenaciously to the left and vote so consistently for Democrats, and like him I believe the answer to that question is theological: Liberalism has superseded Judaism as the religion of most American Jews.
Unlike Podhoretz, however, I cannot personally remember a time when this ardent liberalism seemed a sensible response to American Jewish life. Nor did I take it in with my mother's milk. One of my earliest political memories is of accompanying my father to the polls early on Election Day in November 1968. It was the first time I had seen the inside of a voting booth, and my father let me pull the lever for Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic presidential candidate. When I described this adventure to my mother after returning home, she told me that she would be going later that day to cast her own vote -- for Richard Nixon. At a young age, therefore, I absorbed the lesson that Jews need not vote in lockstep, and that voting for a Republican was as normal as voting for a Democrat. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Israel’s former Ambassador to the U.S. Yoram Ettinger said: Beware of Serial White House Middle East Blunders! Israeli policy-makers and public opinion molders tend to accept US Administrations as top authorities on the Middle East. They have sometimes chosen to depart sharply from their own ideology/strategy under US Administration pressure - in spite of systematic and dramatic US policy blunders, which have undermined US interests in the Middle East and have jeopardized Israel's existence. …
[For example] President Bush's "Two State Vision" which has been adopted by President Obama constitutes an extension of the severely-flawed White House track record in the Middle East.
The nature of the leadership of the proposed Palestinian state can be deduced from the profile of its potential leaders, who have become role models of inter-Arab treachery, subversion and terrorism. The 'Good Cop,' Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) a graduate of KGB training and of Moscow University and the engineer of hate education was expelled from Egypt (1955), Syria (1966) and Jordan (1970) for subversion. He played a key role in the PLO violent attempts to topple the government in Beirut and PLO collaboration with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
A Palestinian state would doom the Hashemite [Kingdom of Jordon] regime to oblivion, would constitute a tailwind to pro-Saddam terrorists in Iraq and to Islamic terrorists in Egypt, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf and would provide a foothold in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean to Iran, Russia, China and North Korea. A substantial annual net-emigration/flight, by moderate Palestinians, attests to the Palestinians' own expectations of the proposed Palestinian state.
The proposed Palestinian state on one hand, and Middle East stability and US and Israel national security on the other hand, constitute a classic oxymoron. A Palestinian state would add fuel and not water to the fire of terrorism and Middle East turbulence. The promotion of 'The Two State Solution' proves that the US and Israeli policy-makers are determined to learn from history by repeating rather than by avoiding past dramatic blunders.
God says: “Woe to the obstinate children, declares the LORD, to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin; without consulting me … everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them who bring neither help nor advantage but only shame and disgrace. … In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” (Isaiah 30:1-5, 15).
The Jerusalem Connection says: The great tragedy of our day is that our leaders are ignorant of God’s principles for ruling nations especially is this true regarding Israel and the U.S. We must pray they will be contained, restrained and guided by God despite their spiritual ignorance and incompetence. We who know God’s Word and the events that face us have a special responsibility to pray in accordance with God’s revealed Word. | |  The Myth of the Two State Solution
Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post and the Center for Security Policy discusses myths of the 'two-state solution' in the Middle East and lays out her blueprint for "Ending The Stalemate."
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