Israel Thrives: President Obama Speaks on Preventing Mass Atrocities

Thursday, April 26, 2012

President Obama Speaks on Preventing Mass Atrocities

geoffff

I keep my own counsel about who should be the American president in an election year. This is because I am a foreigner and out of respect for the American people. But like foreigners everywhere I am watching closely

This speech by President Obama at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum is getting the attention of Australian Jewry today.

A moving introduction by Elie Wiesel.

Every unspeakable horror in history was unthinkable before it happened.

Crossposted Geoffff's Joint, Bar and Grill

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Mike L.April 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Y'know, geoffff, I do not see why you would need to remain silent on your preferences in American politics.

Any American election is, in a sense, a discussion among Americans... well, really, a shouting match among Americans!... but that doesn't mean that non-American voices are irrelevant.

Cheers!
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geoffffApril 27, 2012 at 3:00 PM
I do this to avoid hypocrisy. Everyone in the West seems to have an opinion on who should be US president, the US electoral system, the state of US democracy, the economy ... often it masks an insipid anti-Americanism and everything ugly that entails. Cowardice, parochialism, supercilious condescension, head spinnig moral equivalence, above all hypocrisy ... It matters nothing at all they are not in a position to know what they are talking about.

I am a fervent opponent of capital punishment. It chills me to the bones but I kept quiet about it whenever I was in the US and especially in states like Texas or Florida --- taking the view that in liberal democracies, what people do in their own country is their business. Nothing on the planet is more disgusting than some European leftie luvvie like George Galloway or whatever denouncing the US on this and then going on Press TV to celebrate the Iranian regime.

But to hell with it. Rules are meant to be broken, even your own. If I was an American I wouldn't vote for Obama either.
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Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

President Obama Speaks on Preventing Mass Atrocities

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