My friends, I realize that this is late, and that
this is a long essay reaching as it does into history, ethics, domestic policy,
foreign policy and economics. I also realise that you have probably already made up your
mind as to your vote in the US presidential election. But if not now, then when? You may also resent a
non-American presuming to give you advice on voting in America. If this is
true, then nothing I write below will reach you. But I feel that I must try, because the stakes are too high
for the democracies of this planet.
This is an election that is critical not only to the
future of America, but to the future of the Free World. Even more, this
election is absolutely critical to the state of Israel and to the entire future
of the Jewish people.
Thus, before you cast your vote on Tuesday, just
consider if you believe you would have the same rights and opportunities in the
US without the existence of the state of Israel? If you believe you would, then just
ask your grandparents and parents what life was like for Jews before Israel’s
rebirth. Even ask them what life was like before 1967.
Do you trust the future of the Jewish people to
BHObama?
Do you trust BHObama to ensure the ability of Jews
to pray at the Kotel (Western Wall of the Second Temple), the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron, the tomb of the Matriarch Rachel, Joseph’s tomb? If those
names and places mean nothing to you, other than ancient myths, and yet you
believe in the modern myth of BHObama’s economic and foreign policies, then go
ahead and vote for him.
Vote for a man who believes that the 1949 armstice
lines, established when 7 Arab armies invaded the 600,000 Jews of Israel and
slaughtered 1% of them just 3 years after the Holocaust ended, should be the
line that determine where a Judenrein region of Judea and Samaria should
begin..
Do you trust BHObama when he says he will not allow
Iran to obtain nuclear weapons? Do you believe he is not being cute, because although
he will not say that he won't let Iran gain the ability to develop
nuclear weapons, he actually means both things?
Not only that, why are his minions despatched around
the globe to disparage Israel's deterrence capability? Why would he threaten
Israel’s leaders against a pre-emptive attack that would try to stave off another
Holocaust? Yet Iran’s leaders already deny the Holocaust committed via Nazi
Germany and friends, whilst they still promise another as soon as they can enact it. BHObama's action are not those of a friend, they are not even the actions of a neutral.
At a time, when the Jewish people are again faced
with the threat of 6 million Jews being exterminated, and nevertheless 120
non-aligned countries turn up in Tehran in spite of BHObama’s vaunted
sanctions, the president of the USA decided to denigrate and humiliate the
Prime Minister of Israel. Still he found time for late night chat shows. Nonetheless, funds and welcomes are showered on the leaders of
the nazi-inspired, and initially sponsored, Muslim Brotherhood.
I have heard many things directly from people who
have met BHObama, primarily as the 2008 candidate. One tale in particular stuck
out (although there is one story I cannot repeat because I don't have permission to breach a confidence that involves a direct meeting with BHObama and which would shake any supporter of Israel).
BHObama was in Gilo (which is a South Western suburb of Jerusalem although
BHObama ignoring the compass, declared it to be East Jerusalem with the loaded
political baggage that entails) and we both stood at the same spot, being shown
the same things by the same guide. We both looked up and saw the pock marks of
bullets fired at civilians in the Jerusalem stone of residential apartments, and
the bullet proof shutters required by the inhabitants that overlooked a
beautiful valley. Israel had finally constructed a part of the security fence
in the middle of the valley to try to protect the civilians. BHObama’s
immediate comment was that this was purely a land grab. He ignored the evidence
of the terrorist bullets, he ignored the fact that this was Jewish owned land
before the British trained and commanded Arab Legion of TransJordan had
captured the area in 1948 and ethnically cleansed it of Jews. Somehow,
BHObama’s default position was that this Jewish owned land was a "land grab" by Jews.
When I was born, Jews were not allowed to visit the
Kotel. Jews could pay some nuns and they may then be allowed to climb a tower
and have a look at the Kotel in the distance. BHObama’s pressure on Israel is
to relinquish all areas of Israel that resonate with Jewish history, and be
left with an indefensible 9 mile waist. If re-elected that pressure will be all but irresistable. Israel will be abandoned on the world stage by the USA, possibly left with only Canada as a friend.
Not only this, but if you actually know the history
of the area, you will know that the deliverance of another swath of the Middle
East to create yet another modern Arab country that has never existed in
history, is based on fictions. But that may be irrelevant to your sensibilities.
You should be able to guess where my thoughts are
going. Let me say that voting for BHObama is not a treacherous thing for an
American to do in terms of the American people, it may be damaging to them, but it is not treacherous. But voting for BHObama is a treacherous
thing for a Jew to do in terms of the
Jewish people.
I have lived many years in both Europe and North
America, and I simply don’t panic. Yet, I have seen the demise of European Jewry
to approximately one million souls, but bullied and harassed souls, turned into
frightened shells of communities protected by barbed wire, closed circuit
cameras, defended by young Jews, tombstones laid flat so that they cannot be desecrated and
windows that cannot be opened in schools or synagogues. This, less than 70
years after a third of the Jewish people were wiped out on that continent, and
where today, Jews fear to defend Israel in polite company at schools, universities, the office, golf clubs (if let in), the media; as Israel yet
defends its citizens from theocratic terrorists who rain missiles upon
civilians. The modern day blood libel of apartheid is stuck on the backs of all
Jews who are not turncoats to their history, and as with the Nazis, boycotts of
products of the Jewish homeland are promoted to punish Jews. This is what you
are facing too if you re-elect a leader who wants to lead you down a European
track of supposed sophistry and entitlement.
Perhaps your vote will ignore the above and simply
be in pursuit of social justice, and for some reason in the US, the right of women to
have government funded abortion on demand seems especially critical. But have
you looked at the Democratic Party recently? Just like the Liberal Democrats in
the UK and the National Democratic Party in Canada, it has morphed into a
collection of radical causes that have found a political home. It’s not a focused
party any more, just a wave of tearing down morals that have existed.
Personally, I don’t have a firm conclusion on
abortion but I do know that a large number of my UK colleagues used abortion as
their form of contraception, and that cannot be good on any level for any
party. Yet, there are the obvious cases where abortion is not just warranted,
but required, and sadly in the UK, there are still too many children being born
into the treadmill of poverty and social welfare.
The fact is, those women who want abortions will
continue to be able to get them whoever is in power, no matter what you are
being told by mendacious attack ads. Abortion is not a reason to vote for
BHObama.
Social Justice? Quickly research the lobby groups at
the Democratic National Convention. I am not going to direct you to those
groups, simply look at them and see if they truly represent values you wish to
dominate your country.
Economy? Well, I remember Ronald Reagan facing a
terrible economic climate, but I don’t recall him continually blaming Carter
and he began to turn things around almost immediately. Reagan didn’t continue
to dig so deep that, even now, I have no clue how the USA is going to get out
of the exponentially devastating $16 Trillion debt hole. I do believe in
universal health care, but as King Solomon allegedly said, there is a time for
everything. In the worst global recession in 80 years, that is not the time to
restructure a sixth of the economy under government controls. “Stimulus” is
simply illogical, and deters the private sector from competing with a
government that can abuse its own laws and rules, as it did with the secured
lenders of the auto companies.
You don't get the ability to promote a viable social justice program without a functioning economy. An economy that simply borrows without the ability to pay the debt, is not a functioning economy.
So, I see no reason on domestic policy to vote for
Obama.
But Jews need to go back to what Israel will face during
another 4 years of BHObama rule. Iran will develop nuclear arms capability. No
ifs, no buts.
Will Iran attack? Possibly not immediately, but they
are governed by brutal theocratic tyranny led by people who believe in an
apocalyptic vision that involves initiating a world war to inspire the return
of the 12th hidden Mahdi. Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism across the
globe, on every continent and who knows where a weapon may one day emerge?
Iran’s soldiers are currently slaughtering Syrians, and aiding their puppet
Assad. Do you think they will care more about the lives of duplicitous apes and
pigs, as Jews are described in the Koran? It is merely a matter of time before
they deploy a nuclear arsenal.
Even after a nuclear attack by Iran, probably via
Hezbollah to provide plausible deniability, then being pummelled by the tens of
thousands of missiles prepared under the “watch” of UN forces in Lebanon, and
from Gaza, and possibly attacks now from Egypt, Israel will survive in some
form. However, it will once again be at the cost of 1 in 3 of the
approximately 12 million Jews left in the world. Jews did not recover to the
pre-Holocaust number of 18 million even after the best 70 years in 1,800 years of Jewish
history. What chance is there of a real future if the numbers are reduced once
more and the homeland left as a radioactive pool?
Let’s leave some final words to Tevye of Fiddler on the Roof fame, as he reflects
on the decision you must make. Most American Jews will at least be aware of
Tevye and his torments. Let him guide you.
How can I turn my back on my faith
My people
If I try and bend that far
I will break
On the other hand
No! There is no other hand
Given his actions to date and speeches around the
world, I ask you again.
Do you really trust BHObama with the future of the
Jewish people?
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