Walsh schools American Jews on Israel

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thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/163397-republican-us-jews-should-be-more-pro-israel- "Republican lawmaker says US Jews should be more pro-Israel
By Jordan Fabian - 05/26/11 06:45 AM ET

A freshman House Republican on Wednesday singled out "most" liberal American Jews for not being sufficiently pro-Israel.

Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) questioned why U.S. Jews have not expressed more outrage over President Obama's demand that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process be based around the 1967 borders, with mutually agreeable land swaps.



"The short answer is that most American Jews are liberal, and most American liberals side with the Palestinians and vague notions of 'peace' instead of with Israel’s well-being and security," Walsh wrote in an op-ed for the conservative Daily Caller.


Walsh, who is Catholic, added that the American Jewish community should be more pro-Israel.


"Like the president, the U.N., and most of Europe, too many American Jews aren’t as pro-Israel as they should be and too many share his belief that the Palestinians are victims of Israeli occupation," he wrote. "Nothing could be further from the truth."


While members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have broken with Obama over his statements about the Israeli-Palestinian border, few if any have publicly questioned the response from the Jewish community.

Several major Jewish groups have defended the president's position. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said that Obama understands the "nuances" involved in the conflict.".....

[ed1066]

He's right...

[marshabar1]

Courageous of Walsh in the face of so much hatred.

Here's what some Palestinians think of Jewish support.


Solidarity from "Pro-Palestinian" Jews Revisited





Ibrahim Alloush



No Palestinian Arab would ever argue whether international solidarity with our cause is welcome or not. In fact, it's our obligation to garner such support wherever we may. Moreover, we can never neglect our obligation to confront Zionist propaganda internationally and to debunk Zionist myths in any language, shape, or form. So at least as far as this goes, ALL Palestinian activists would NOT disagree.



The question remains, however, what actually constitutes support for the Palestinian cause: sympathy with the victimization of Palestinians, like one would sympathize with road kills for example, conscious political support for a platform for liberation, or something in between?



There are plenty of people out there who claim to be 'pro-Palestinian', or to support 'Palestinian rights'. And many of us are taken in by such people, especially that some of us have a soft spot for Westerners and therefore feel flabbergasted when they see one of them leaning a tad our way... (Some call it an inferiority complex but I will not get into that here).



Nevertheless, not everyone who claims to support us is actually a supporter. Many such supporters actually oppose some of the most crucial things we stand for, except they dislike some of the human rights violations that the Zionists are visiting upon us. That is, they: 1) recognize the right of "Israel" to exist and the alleged right of Jews to settle in Palestine, 2) they oppose our strategy to liberate Palestine, and 3) they especially oppose the armed struggle of Palestinian organizations. Such 'supporters' are not actually supporting us, but simply trying to make themselves feel better...



In some cases, you find Jews claiming to support the Palestinian cause. But when you scrutinize carefully what they stand for, you'll find they simply want what amounts to a 'nice occupation', as opposed to a brutal one. In reality they just wish there could be an occupation without administrative detentions, targeted assassinations, land confiscations, house demolitions, and all the rest. Otherwise, those same 'supporters' try as hard as they could to convince Palestinians to present their case 'in a civilized manner' without resorting to human bombs and military operations, especially against what they call "Israeli civilians". One such Jewish 'supporter' is Noam Chomsky who says that it would be immoral for Palestinians to target even an off-duty "Israeli" soldier!



This makes one wonder whether these Jewish "supporters" are just trying to whitewash the occupation with their own professed guilt, as Jews, or whether they're simply out to present another 'positive' side of Zionism!



Some of us are so happy to see a Jew or a Westerner criticize Zionist oppression that they trip all over themselves to the point of becoming oblivious to the essence of the POLITICAL MESSAGE such 'criticism' of Zionism is concealing. There are Zionists criticizing each other all the time for goodness sakes. That doesn't make them anymore pro-Palestinian than Arabs criticizing each other are pro-Zionist.



Let's put the issue in a nutshell: Palestine is occupied. Palestine is not only occupied by an army of soldiers, but by an army of colonists. In any country, when there is occupation, the natural anecdote is liberation. No one in their right mind would have asked Europeans to tolerate or to coexist with the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe or France. Yet that is exactly what is being asked of Palestinians today by 'our supporters'. These supporters are basically asking us to either cede most of Palestine to colonists under a two-state solution, or to embrace the right of colonists to live in Palestine under a one-state solution. The latter 'solution', in fact, amounts to embracing the fruits of Zionism in retrospect, since Zionism is nothing but the project of building a Jewish colony in Palestine.



So, we don't need 'supporters' who try to dictate to us what our political strategy should be.

www.freearabvoice.org/articles/SolidarityfromPro-PalestinianJewsRevisited.htm


Simply, it is liberalism. That dishonest, self-appeasing, self-indulgent, feel good guilt.

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May 26, 2011 9:50:39 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

He's right...

God love the Jews, I know He does, but they frequently oppose their own interests. Why a Jew would support the new Gaza Democratic Party of the Obama regime is beyond comprehension.