Pavlovian Obeisance: Hillary deleted from Orthodox Jewish newspaper photo

This is a WTF photo. Was the Mossad invoved?

We hope not, but the rationale for photoshopping Hillary out of the photo must be peculiar.

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Wikianswers: Sarah Palin can use the term "blood libel' because she is Jewish

Sarah Palin has Jewish ancestry based on Jewish tradition that makes one "Jewish" if born to a mother of Jewish mother

Sarah Palin's mother (Sally Sheigam) was of Lithuanian Jewish heritage as were both of her mother's parents, Louise Sheigam and Shmuel Sheigam.

Her maternal grandfather, Schmuel Sheigam, was a Lithuanian Jew born in 1912 in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, near Vilnius.

The Sheigam family immigrated to America, via Hamburg in 1915 because of WWI.

The grandmother was was originally named Gower. Her father Chuck Heath can be considered of Jewish blood because it is believed his mother, Beatrice Coleman, was of Jewish decent.

The Wall Street Journal agrees:

Sarah Palin has every right to use it. The expression may be used whenever an amorphous mass is collectively accused of being murderers or accessories to murder.

Further information on Governor Palin's ancestors can easily be found in the vital records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius. See http://www.archyvai.lt/ 

This may explain why Palin was familiar with the term, "blood libel."  Palin may be the second Jewish Repblican candidate to run in 2012. 

Earlier Rightardia wrote and article explaining the  Mormons consider themselves to be Jewish, Therefore, Mormon bishop Mitt Romney is also Jewish. See http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2011/01/mormons-lost-aryan-tribe-of-israel.html

sources:

http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-has-jewish-ancestry.html
 
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Sarah_Palin_Jewish

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703583404576079823067585318.html

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Haaretz: Jewish population increase in the US

By The Forward Published 15:43 23.12.10 Latest update 15:43 23.12.10

There are more Jews in the United States than widely thought — 20 percent more.

The Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University says that there are now 6.5 million Jews in America, 1 million more than the last time they counted.

That’s the major finding in a new study conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University, which says there are 1 million more than the last time a major count was attempted. 

According to Wikipedia, 5,660,700 Jewish individuals live in Israel.

Therefore, the US has a larger Jewish population than Israel does.

Research: Leonard Saxe is a leading Jewish demographer.
Courtesy of Leonard Saxe
 
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Newsy.com: Ohio GOP Congressional Candidate joined Nazi Reenactor group

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Ohio Republican Rich Iott is the newest addition to the growing list of November candidates with unusual pasttimes. The Tea Party favorite used to take part in Nazi reenactments as an SS officer. 

The Wiking SS group in which Lott was a reenactor, exterminated Jews in Hungary. 

As German Wehrmacht occupied adjacent countries with German-speaking populations under the Nazi policy of Lebensraum, the SS units would move in and round up the local Jewish populations and deport them to concentration camps if the indigenous Jews were lucky. 

Most of the local Jewish population were lined up near buldozed trenches and executed. Many Jews had to dig thier own graves.

Sources:WUPW  HBO  The American Pundit  The Atlantic

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Al Jazeera: J Street Survey indicates AIPAC does not represent the majority of the Amerrican Jewish community

Rightardia comment: We have been impressed with the journalistic standards and impartiality of Al Jazeera. Today Al Jazeera  ran a J Street survey. J Street is a progressive American  Jewish organization. 

Despite the continued strength of the Israel lobby, it is increasingly clear that its hard-line, uncritical stance does not represent the majority of the American Jewish community.

A new poll of American Jews from the pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby J Street reveals that Obama enjoys significant Jewish community support for a strong US role in the peace process.

Obama's approval rating in the Jewish community remains strong, holding steady at 62 per cent (Gallup previously reported 64 per cent approval rating in an October 2009 poll).

Obama's approval rating among Jews is 15 points higher than among all Americans (47 per cent) according to a Gallup poll conducted during the same period.

American Jews by a four-to-one margin, 82-18 per cent, support the US playing an active role in helping the parties to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Some 73 per cent of American Jews support this active role even if it resulted in public disagreements with both the Israelis and the Arabs.

According to the same polls, 60 per cent of American Jews believe Israel's announcement of new housing in East Jerusalem caused damage to US-Israel relations.

Fifty-five per cent say the White House was right to strongly criticise the Israeli announcement of new housing in East Jerusalem during Biden's visit.

source: Al Jazeera

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Haaretz: Why do Israelis dislike Barack Obama?

By Bradley Burston

There are many people, gifted with rare intelligence and tolerance for humankind, who, when addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, run off the rails.

This week, it was the turn of former American Jewish Congress national director Henry Siegman. Noting opinion polls showing that a bare six to eight percent of the Israeli public supports Barack Obama, Siegman concludes that the dislike for Obama is a reflection not of the president's policies, but of something essential - and fundamentally defective - in the Israeli people itself:

"The Israeli reaction to serious peacemaking efforts is nothing less than pathological," Siegman writes, calling it "the consequence of an inability to adjust to the Jewish people's reentry into history with a state of their own following 2,000 years of powerlessness and victimhood."

He concedes that polls show that a clear majority of Israelis favor a two-state solution, and thus, Palestinian statehood. But he argues that, while they insist that they much prefer peace, if put to the test, Israelis will prove to be liars, and opt for occupation. "Israel's public never tires of proclaiming to pollsters its aspiration for peace and its support of a two-state solution." Nonetheless, "the reason for this unprecedented Israeli hostility toward an American president is a fear that President Obama is serious about ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza."

Siegman's thesis makes no room for the possibility that the administration may have made more major mistakes in handling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, than it has made in any other primary policy sphere.

There is no allowance for the sense that when Barack Obama made an early priority of his presidency a high profile visit to Cairo, its centerpiece an extended address to the Muslim world, a subsequent personal appeal to Israelis might have helped him advance his peacemaking goals.

There is no consideration of the possibility that the administration failed in doing requisite preparation with Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak prior to dropping on Israel the bomb of a blanket settlement freeze demand - which might have been well-received by the Israeli public, had it been accompanied by gestures on the Palestinian or wider Arab side. As it was, rumors of normalization moves were humiliatingly waved away by Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, who wrote that a settlement freeze, even if agreed to by Israel, fell far, far short of his key nation's minimum preconditions for any steps toward relations with Israel.

Demanding not a freeze but total removal of all existing settlements as a mere initial precondition, the prince states that any gestures will have to wait until the return to Arab hands of the West Bank, the Golan, and Shabaa Farms in Lebanon. "For Saudis to take steps toward diplomatic normalization before this land is returned to its rightful owners would undermine international law and turn a blind eye to immorality."

But what should any of that matter to Henry Siegman? From the tone of his arguments, he belongs to the school of thought which suggests that hating Israelis is a form of working for peace.

So willing is Siegman to disavow any legitimate feelings on the part of Israelis, that he suggests that that their worst fears - of Iran, of rocket attacks, of world isolation and abandonment - not only are baseless, but are also a source of consolation:

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's message that the whole world is against Israel and that Israelis are at risk of another Holocaust - a fear he invoked repeatedly during his address in September at the United Nations General Assembly in order to discredit Judge Richard Goldstone's Gaza fact-finding report is unfortunately still a more comforting message for too many Israelis."

Siegman doesn't merely think that Israelis are mistaken. He loathes them. In his reading, they are venal, deceitful, the source of the conflict and the obstruction to its solution. In Siegman's reading "the conflict continues because U.S. presidents ... have accommodated a pathology that can only be cured by its defiance."

It may be argued that Israel has much more to fear from people who think like Henry Siegman, than from Richard Goldstone. A close reading of the Goldstone report, and an open hearing of his views, as in this interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun, shows that Justice Goldstone cares a great deal about Israelis and the direction in which their country is headed.

Meanwhile, given Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's opaque, work-in-progress assessment of current Israeli policy as an unprecedented restriction on settlement, but far short of what the administration would like, it should surprise no one in Washington if the White House has now managed simultaneously to alienate Israel's left, right, and center.

For Israel's sake, for the Palestinians' sake, and for the good of his presidency, the administration must radically reassess its approach to the Mideast conflict.

The fears of Israelis are real. The grievances of the Palestinians are just. If both peoples have one trait in common, it is that they cannot be bludgeoned, bribed, or sweet-talked into supporting a policy which favors only side.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are nothing if not good students. It is time to go back and hit the books. If they can broker a package deal which addresses the most critical needs of the Palestinians (including fostering Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, furthering PA security and solcial welfare responsibilities, easing the Gaza siege, and curbing settlement) as well as providing something Israelis can reasonably view as an advance over their current situation (such as making good on hopes for Muslim-world normalization measures), they have a chance of success.

Rightardia comment: Our writers beleive that Obama is not popular in Israel because he is more of an honest broker who has no innate prejudices against Muslims like other US presidents have had since he had lived in an Islamic country.

Of interest, two of three Jewish Americans supported his presidency so theire is a split beween American Jews and Israel. Many of the intellectuals in the Democratic party are Jewish. It is hard to ignore the contributions of David Axlerod and Rahm Emanuel to the Obama administration.


source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125324.html

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