Earl (08-25-2019)
very good piece by NPR
Trump's comments display a lack of understanding of how and why Jewish Americans vote the way they do, which is overwhelmingly Democratic. While Israel is a threshold issue for Jewish voters, it is not determinative to the votes of most of them — and many don't agree with President Trump's or Republicans' approach to Israel. Jewish people who vote Democratic care about what Democrats care about — social justice, health care, climate change, the welfare of immigrants and more.
What's more, Jewish voters went for Democrats in the 2018 midterms by an even higher percentage -- 79%. And that was after Trump moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
"We see evidence that it [the Jewish vote] is moving even more towards Democrats now during Trump's presidency," said Jim Gerstein, a Democratic pollster. He added that American Jews don't even necessarily agree with Trump's policies toward Israel — and they have other concerns.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/75313...t-how-they-vot
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
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Earl (08-25-2019)
Trump is spot on. How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that believes in abortion on demand? How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that is anti-semitic?
How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that defends Islam while impugning every other religion on the planet? How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that is anti-Capitalistic?
How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology based on Marxist ideological views? How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that wants to turn its citizens into dependent wards of the state?
How can a Jewish religious group support an ideology that promotes group think and false narratives?
You have to be a complete idiot to support an ideology built on lies and anti-Americanism.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Earl (08-25-2019)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
Truth Detector (08-22-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Trump Doesn’t Get It: Our Hatred Of Him Is Our Loyalty To America
It must annoy the president terribly that 79% of us Jews continue to vote Democratic.
Mr. Trump must understand that we American Jews, fully engaged in the democratic process that is this nation’s pride, are not one-issue voters. All that we have achieved in this country has been due to the equal playing-field created by America’s welcoming of ethnic and religious diversity. We tend to identify with the rights and needs of minorities because we are, and hope to remain, a distinctive minority group in America.
Our worst nightmares, recently realized in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, are of his white nationalist buddies, not of congress members Tlaib and Omar. We are a people raised on the memory of our ancestors’ liberation from slavery, celebrated each year in our people’s most widespread religious practice.
https://forward.com/opinion/429998/t...-as-a-greater/
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
Earl (08-25-2019)
The Democrats in the House have shown their support for the anti-Semites who are supporting BDS which would cause the death of the State of Israel.
They did not even mention the anti-Semites by name in their resolution.
Not Jewish here but I will never understand why a Jewish person would vote for the destruction of Israel.
Surely, social liberalism would rate lower than the destruction of the Jewish State.
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