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American Jews are like other Americans who love America. They know full well, perhaps even fuller than most, that this great country of ours is not perfect, but it is way ahead of whatever miserable choice currently occupies second place. This is why people who hunger for what America has to offer have been laboring against all obstacles to become Americans for over 200 years.
Everyone is familiar with the pejorative slurs that Jew-haters everywhere love to perpetuate. My favorite one is "Jews are clever with money!" I like that one especially because it reveals, albeit in a slanderous contortion, two well-known attributes of many Jewish people: they have always emphasized education ("clever") and they have a high regard for opportunity ("money"), which has been severely restricted from them through the ages.
Nevertheless, no people are faultless. As Moses discovered during the Exodus, Jews can at times be a pain-in-the-neck:
Likewise, American Jews were big supporters of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. And it was no surprise that they supported Barack Obama to the tune of 77% of the Jewish-American vote, only exceeded by the 92% of the African-American vote for him. Despite the ominous signs during the campaign, most especially the Jew-hating and America-hating videos of Obama's pastor, American Jews chose to ignore such hateful associations and proceeded to drink the Kool-Aid in droves.
I wonder how many American Jews have noticed the growing trend of Jew-hatred in our land of opportunity since Obama's election.
Post #759 American Juice
“Four men due in court Thursday to face charges of plotting to bomb Jewish sites and shoot down military planes were arrested after planting what they thought were explosive devices near a synagogue and community center [Riverdale Temple], authorities say.”American Jews are like Jews everywhere else. Aside from a handful of cretins like Noam Chomsky, they love America for the simple reason that Abraham Lincoln stated best — America is "the last best hope of humanity".
[Disclosure: I once attended a wedding in this Riverdale Temple. — TheBigHenry]
American Jews are like other Americans who love America. They know full well, perhaps even fuller than most, that this great country of ours is not perfect, but it is way ahead of whatever miserable choice currently occupies second place. This is why people who hunger for what America has to offer have been laboring against all obstacles to become Americans for over 200 years.
Everyone is familiar with the pejorative slurs that Jew-haters everywhere love to perpetuate. My favorite one is "Jews are clever with money!" I like that one especially because it reveals, albeit in a slanderous contortion, two well-known attributes of many Jewish people: they have always emphasized education ("clever") and they have a high regard for opportunity ("money"), which has been severely restricted from them through the ages.
Nevertheless, no people are faultless. As Moses discovered during the Exodus, Jews can at times be a pain-in-the-neck:
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.Jews have an annoying tendency to root for the underdog. I suppose if you have been the world's favorite scapegoat for millennia, it kind of makes sense. In the New York Metropolitan area, which had 3 Major-League-Baseball teams prior to 1958, the Jewish kids were likely to be Brooklyn-Dodger fans because, except for the magical year of 1955, the Yankees always beat the Dodgers in the World Series, and the Giants killed the Dodgers in that miserable 1951 pennant-playoff game with Bobby Thomson's shot-heard-'round-the-world. [As an aside, that day in 1951 was when our very first television (an Admiral brand) was delivered to our home; I remember, because Thomson's home run was the only news clip they showed on TV all night long!]
Likewise, American Jews were big supporters of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. And it was no surprise that they supported Barack Obama to the tune of 77% of the Jewish-American vote, only exceeded by the 92% of the African-American vote for him. Despite the ominous signs during the campaign, most especially the Jew-hating and America-hating videos of Obama's pastor, American Jews chose to ignore such hateful associations and proceeded to drink the Kool-Aid in droves.
I wonder how many American Jews have noticed the growing trend of Jew-hatred in our land of opportunity since Obama's election.
Post #759 American Juice
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