The Dilemma of the Jewish Leftist

Steven-Sotloff-Thumbnail-1Originally published by the Jerusalem Post

During his yearlong captivity at the hands of the barbarians from Islamic State, Steven Sotloff’s colleagues in Israeli media organs purged all of his articles from their websites to erase his connections to Israel and hide the fact that he was an Israeli citizen. So, too, every effort was made to hide the fact that he was Jewish.

The reason was clear. Given the genocidal Jew-hatred endemic in jihadist doctrine, it was obvious that if Sotloff’s Judaism was exposed, he would have been singled out for torture and execution.

Much has been written since Islamic State released the video of its British executioner chopping off James Foley’s head last month. We have been told by leaders and commentators alike that with this singular crime, Islamic State awakened the sleeping lion of the West. That act of barbarism, we have been assured, will now force the US to lead a global coalition against this Islamic army of butchers.

Clearly Islamic State is not convinced. With the release of the Sotloff beheading video this week, it appears that Islamic State thinks its cinematographers will move the West in another direction – apathy.

Foley’s execution video ended with the preview of coming attractions for the Sotloff execution video.

And the Sotloff execution video ended with the preview of a British hostage’s execution video.

By releasing the films gradually, Islamic State is apparently trying to routinize beheadings. Its leaders are probably betting that by the seventh or eighth beheading video, we will greet the violence with a shrug of our shoulders.

In this, Islamic State is channeling Iran, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban.

No, it isn’t that all these terror-supporting regimes and terror groups have engaged in beheading. It is simply that when they began engaging in terrorism, their actions shocked the civilized world until their actions didn’t shock the civilized world anymore.

Once the shock wore off, these terror states and enterprises began enjoying the stature of legitimate parties to a political dispute. As Islamic State sees it, it is only a matter of time before it too is accepted as a legitimate force in world affairs.

To understand why its gamble may well pay off, it is worth considering a seemingly unrelated matter.

At the beginning of the week, the ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor group was expelled from a Mayan village in Guatemala. Earlier this year Lev Tahor members had fled to Guatemala from Canada.

They left Canada to evade a child abuse probe.

The group set up shop in Canada after fleeing Israel, due to similar charges.

Lev Tahor is a fanatical cult that numbers a few hundred members. Its women and girls are clad in all-black robes and covered from head to toe. The only thing they are allowed to expose is their faces.

According to Canadian child services authorities, Lev Tahor married off girls as young as 12. Its members routinely engage in polygamy. Child abuse, including forced medication with unprescribed psychiatric drugs and starvation, is allegedly rampant.

Moreover, according to Canadian officials, the cult denies its children access to education.

Lev Tahor’s alleged behavioral norms are an affront to the rule of law and human rights. Although the cult was apparently expelled from the village in Guatemala due to anti-Semitism, its members fled both the Canadian and the Israeli authorities to evade prosecution.

And yet for all of its alleged moral depravity and criminal behavior, that fact is that Lev Tahor’s treatment of its girls is certainly no worse, and in many respects better, than the treatment that Islamic societies mete out on their girls and women. And the sad truth is that for hundreds of thousands of Muslim women and girls in the West, their residency in human rights-protecting societies has failed to protect them.

Consider female genital mutilation, which Lev Tahor is not accused of engaging in.

In late July, Islamic State forces in Mosul, Iraq, decreed that all girls and women between the ages of 12 and 42 must have their genitals mutilated.

The order was an act of pure evil. Yet it was not particularly controversial within the Islamist context Islamic State operates.

As Soeren Kern wrote for the Gatestone Institute last July, throughout the world, some 140 million women and girls, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslims, have been subjected to the barbaric practice. Three million girls under the age of 15 are forced to undergo clitoridectomies each year.

In Europe, at least 180,000 Muslim females have undergone this defilement. According to British authorities, in England alone, at least 20,000 girls are at risk of “being cut” each year.

Yet, despite the cruelty and degradation inherent to female genital mutilation, and despite the fact that under British law, anyone found guilty of carrying out this practice is supposed to face criminal charges and up to 14 years in prison, so far no one has been convicted and only a five or six offenders have even been charged for the crime.

There are two principal causes for British authorities’ failure to protect Muslim girls residing in England. First, neither the children themselves, who live in a permanent state of terror and abuse, nor their communities, which turn a blind eye, and so condone the practice, are willing to come forward and finger those responsible for this endemic abuse and violence.

And second, non-Islamic British authorities, including welfare workers and teachers, who are in a position to protect the children, are unwilling to stick their necks out. This unwillingness has two causes.

First, they fear for their lives. The murder of Theo van Gogh and the repeated attempts by Muslim fanatics to execute the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures of Muhammad are central components of the cost-benefit analysis most Westerners carry out when considering whether or not to get involved with human rights abuses carried out by Muslims.

Second, they fear excommunication from and defamation at the hands of the Left. Over the past 15 years, the international Left has consistently expanded its political alliance with Islamists in the West.

Among other things, this alliance has required the Left to turn a blind eye to barbaric Islamic practices like female genital mutilation and rape and to defame those who dare to openly oppose these reactionary, obscene behaviors as Islamophobic racists.

And so we have a situation where, both at home and abroad, the West has become habituated to Islamic barbarism and passive in the face of its expanding threat to their lives and their way of life both abroad and at home. Observing this behavior, clearly Islamic State’s terror masters are betting that once habituated to the beheading of Westerners, the West will yawn and go to sleep as Islamic State expands its conquests to additional countries.

It isn’t that the Westerners, led by the leftist elite, lack the ability to feel or express moral outrage. It is just that they refuse to direct it against Islamic jihadists.

And this brings us back to their political alliance with the Islamists.

The only meaningful commonality between Islamist and leftist dogma is hatred for Jews with power, first and foremost for Israel. And the singular creation of this alliance is the sides’ joint determination that it isn’t racist to hate the Jewish state, or Jews who refuse to condemn it.

In this state of affairs, the only outlet that leftists have for their moral outrage is Israel. Because while they fear being called racist, they know that being anti-Semitic will not expose them to charges of racism.

And they know Jews won’t assault them for attacking Israel and its supporters. So they project all the crimes perpetrated by Islamic fanatics on Israel.

For instance, this week Megan Marzec, the president of Ohio University’s Student Senate, posted a video of herself dousing herself in a bucket of “blood.”

Marzec explained, “This bucket of blood symbolizes the thousands of displaced and murdered Palestinians – atrocities which OU is directly complacent in [sic] through cultural and economic ties with the Israeli state.”

In other words, she accused Israel of the crimes Hamas seeks to inflict on Israel, and of the crimes that Islamist forces, such as al-Qaida, Islamic State and Boko Haram, are currently carrying out in their areas of operations.

The growing prevalence of anti-Semitism in leftist circles has placed Jewish leftists in a vulnerable position.

Their ideological movement is denying Jews the right to self-defense and self-determination and siding with Islamists who seek to annihilate them. For a growing number of leftist Jews, their new status as members of a hated group has made them feel it necessary to publicly side with Israel’s enemies against it.

Consider the recent New York Times op-ed by Antony Lerman which ran under the title “The End of Liberal Zionism.”

Lerman insisted that there is no way to square Zionism with liberal values.

According to this disaffected Jewish leftist, “The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe.”

But of course, outside the fringes of Israeli society, no such movement exists.

Rather, Lerman is describing Islamic supremacism and, like his fellow leftists, projecting its pathologies on Israel, which Islamic supremacists seek to destroy.

Lerman quoted an article published a few weeks before his in The New York Review of Books by Jonathan Freedland titled “Liberal Zionism After Gaza.”

Freedland argued that as the two-state solution becomes more and more remote, liberal Zionists “will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist.”

But this is of course absurd. The only way a person can uphold liberal values is by being a Zionist. Israel is the only country in the region that is a human rights-respecting liberal democracy that is governed by the rule of law.

What is becoming more and more difficult is being a Zionist while being a leftist. As the Left becomes more and more tied to Islamic fanatics, anti-Semitism is going to become more and more of a staple of leftist dogma. And that anti-Semitism will express itself first and foremost as a virulent rejection of Israel and of Jews who refuse to disavow and condemn the Jewish state.

Sotloff reportedly maintained faith with his Judaism in secret while in captivity. He refused food on Yom Kippur and secretly prayed toward Jerusalem.

In so doing, he showed that the evil that controlled him physically, could not penetrate his soul. For this he died a Jewish hero.

Leftist Jews must take a lesson from Sotloff, who was reportedly a product of a Jewish-leftist worldview.

They should understand that the decision they are being required to make is not a choice between liberalism and Zionism, but between liberalism and a reactionary dogma that sits comfortably with genocidal Jew-haters and misogynist oppressors. It shouldn’t be a particularly difficult choice.

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  • Surak1

    I’m sorry to have to disagree with Ms. Glick’s conclusion; I usually admire her work greatly.

    It is a mistake to conflate liberalism with leftism. Classical liberals are in fact conservatives. The Democrat party has been hijacked by the left, and isn’t liberal at all.

    The 2012 DNC vote on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel should have opened the eyes of millions of Jews – but of course it didn’t. As half the delegates booed the proposal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, America’s Jews should have understood that as a cry for their blood. They have abandoned Torah for leftism.

    Meanwhile, polls by Gallup, CNN, and others continually show support for Israel about 40% higher among conservative Republican Tea Party supporters than among the (self-described) “liberal” Democrat Tea Party opponents whom American Jews admire so much.

    Yes indeed, my fellow American Jews must choose, as in Deut. 30:19. Choose survival with Moses or death with Korach.

    • Bamaguje

      “I’m sorry to have to disagree with Ms. Glick’s conclusion… It is a mistake to conflate liberalism with leftism. Classical liberals are in fact conservatives” – Surak1

      You are misquoting her. She specifically dissociated true liberalism from leftism. Re-read the 5th & 6th paragraphs counting from below:

      “The only way a person can uphold liberal values is by being a Zionist. Israel is the only country in the region that is a human rights-respecting liberal democracy that is governed by the rule of law.
      What is becoming more and more difficult is being a Zionist while being a
      leftist. As the Left becomes more and more tied to Islamic fanatics,
      anti-Semitism is going to become more and more of a staple of leftist
      dogma.”

      • Surak1

        Thank you for your observation. I was looking at the conclusion: “Leftist Jews must take a lesson from Sotloff, who was reportedly a product of a Jewish-leftist worldview. They
        should understand that the decision they are being required to make is
        not a choice between liberalism and Zionism, but between liberalism and a
        reactionary dogma that sits comfortably with genocidal Jew-haters and
        misogynist oppressors. It shouldn’t be a particularly difficult choice.”

    • Crazycatkid

      I’m sorry but you referring to “American Jews” is wrong and more of a mistake than Glick using the word liberal (as many people do) to refer to today’s left. American Jews are NOT monolithic and do not ALL admire Islam or leftism or any other one thing. This is so simplistic a fact that I wonder about your motives in writing. Many, many Jews living in America have no use for the left or Democrat party of today and are well aware of what is happening in the world and in Israel specifically. How absurd to lump us all together and generalize in such an insulting way. Perhaps you need to spend some time among the real Jews(my definition) who put their heritage and faith first and do not follow the doctrines of the left. Leftists, whether Catholic, Protestant or of Jewish descent seem to always put leftism first and foremost. Leftism is a religion unto itself and it supersedes other faiths. Sadly, Christianity and Judaism have lost congregants to this leftism. The question is do they not know how corrupt and evil this is? But that’s a discussion for another time.

      • Surak1

        I have to question YOUR motives in writing. You cannot be unaware that nearly 80% of American Jews voted for the RE-election of Barack Hussein 0bama after the disaster of his first term, when they could have chosen one of PM Netanyahu’s best friends, Gov. Romney. 0bama still maintains a ~50% approval rating among American Jews. Watch the video of the 2012 DNC vote on Jerusalem and ask yourself how 80% of Jews could vote for that.

        I spend plenty of time among faithful Jews. I also know that the majority of the Jews I know, and throughout the country, mock Torah observance, dismiss genocidal threats to Israel, dismiss administrative bullying of Israel, and relentlessly pursue only the Democrat national platform. If you aren’t aware of these facts, you should read the recent Pew report.

        I’m saying we can’t bury our heads in the sand. We are undergoing a schism. Don’t forget that the Midrash holds that the majority of the Israelites refused to leave Egypt at the time of the Exodus. We are undergoing a similar attrition today. It is happening. We can’t pretend it’s not there.

        • bob smith

          I have deduced that You are a sandwich short of a picnic basket.

          • Michael Garfinkel

            I think Ms. Glick’s insight that the bestiality of the Islamist is projected onto the (safer) target of the Jew is excellent.

            In the Christian period, the Jew was the Christ killer.

            In the modern period, he was the Capitalist to the Left, and the Leftist to the Right.

            Now, when Islamic savagery frightens the West, it is the Jew who embodies savagery.

            It seems as if the whole post-war decline of anti-semitism is disappearing under the weight of this new crisis.

          • bob smith

            I couldn’t agree more with you Michael. This is what I pointed out to surak1 in my original rebuttal to his post. These are dangerous times whereby liberalism is lost to “reactionary dogma”.

          • Michael Garfinkel

            Exactly.

          • donethattoo

            Isaiah 5:20
            20 Woe
            unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
            light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
            bitter!

          • bob smith

            Thank you

    • bob smith

      “It is a mistake to conflate liberalism with leftism. Classical liberals are in fact conservatives. The Democrat party has been hijacked by the left, and isn’t liberal at all.”

      I believe you are mistaken in your disagreement of Ms. Glick’s brilliant conclusion. Nowhere does she speak of politics be it demon rats or rhinos. Nor did she even once “conflate” liberals with leftism.

      She speaks directly to the aspirations of those on the left whose self-created dilemma is to choose “reactionary dogma that sits comfortably with genocidal Jew-haters and misogynist oppressors” over liberalism.

      Her inference is quite clear. Those of the left are siding with evil. This is a choice we have seen repeatedly made throughout history and to this day, quite possibly a never-ending scenario. Does an infamous episode of the 1930′s that resulted in the deaths of better than 60 million people ring out in your ears?

      You completely missed her point. It shouldn’t be a particularly difficult choice.

    • CensoredSpeech

      We no longer have to conflate liberalism with leftism as they are now one and the same!! What have you been on for the last 64 years?

      • Surak1

        I would have to assume that you are either a leftist yourself or a deluded “liberal”. If you re-read my comment, you will note that I said that true, classical liberals are in fact conservative. Then again, you may not understand what it means to be a true, classical liberal. Anyone who supports a smaller, less intrusive government is a classical liberal. It is one of the successes of leftist propaganda to redefine liberalism to mean leftism. What have you been on for the last 82 years?

        • CensoredSpeech

          Neither. You are letting the past interfere with the current reality!! What was true in the past is no longer true!!

  • Bamaguje

    After the beheading of Daniel Pearl by Pakistani Jihadists, why would Sotloff or any Jew in his right mind, go reporting in a Muslim conflict zone?

    • Eldridge Davis

      Why would any Westerner go reporting in a Muslim conflict ‘period’?

      • William

        To get to the truth.

        • Eldridge Davis

          The truth? We can see the truth on TV when its reported by non-Western news reporters. Time and time again nothing but chants of death to America, death to the UK, and death to the West. I think we already know the truth of those conflicts.

          • William

            Unfortunately you need to go to foreign press in order to get the story without US war propaganda spin.

          • Eldridge Davis

            Well all news sources use some form of propaganda (Reuters, RT, BBC, Al Jazeerha, etc) in some way. Its just a matter of how much propaganda a news source uses.You have to be able to cut through alot of the bias and misleading information to get to the truth (and this can be difficult). But in reality, we’re all a bit biased and our bias in one form or another promote or publicize a particular political cause or view point. The nature of human reality I guess.

          • William

            I can’t disagree there.

          • Eldridge Davis

            Brother. Its gotten so bad that even so called independent news is imposing its own commentary on an issue instead of just reporting the news and letting the viewer decide. So we just have to take what is reported, dissect it, and draw our own conclusions while trying our very best to separate the truth from the misleading propaganda. Believe me. Its pretty daunting.

          • William

            The only news outlets I trust these days is Indy Media, Democracy Now, Vice News and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.

          • Eldridge Davis

            Never watched much Indy Media, I like Democracy Now, Vice News I use to like but on a few of their videos (mainly concerning Russia, the riots in the UK, and some videos in Latin America) they were extremely one sided to the point that I had to cut a few videos off. I like Rachel Maddow but MSNBC is too apologetic for my taste and Martin Bashir was forced to resign plus Melissa Perry seems to apologize for everything these days.

          • bob smith

            Listen troll, when you mention msnbc and that traitorous spin doctor then you have affirmed you are FOS.

            Run along now, your mommy is calling.

          • nobullhere

            How do you spin a head being sliced off, ignoramus, without coming to the conclusion that ISIS are barbarians? Of course, you will try.

          • William

            It’s not spin to show what’s led up to the instability and killings in Iraq. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And it looks like we’re repeating it, again.

          • Ellsworth Toohey

            You are right, the big mistake of the US has been to think they could introduce democracy in a muslim country. Problem is that Americans believe others share the same democratic values. Either you kill all the mullah, destroy all the mosques, forbid iSSlam or you accept a ruthless dictatorship.

          • bob smith

            William, your drivel isn’t worth spit. Tell that nonsensical bit of malarkey to your demon rat colleagues. Your leader and king, odumbo is the spin doctor, repeater extraordinaire…if he could only understand that he is neither king George nor the second coming, he would do well to remember that he was elected by the people to uphold the laws of the land.

            Defending The Republic and it’s citizens ranks at the top of that list as does working with representatives (Congress) of the people in a bi-partisan manner.

            When an entity declares war on The USA, do you recommend just ignoring that until it reaches your front door?

            Open a damn book and educate yourself what Islam has done across the world since the 7th C. Your ignorance is that which will lead to the demise of western culture in favour of your dithering “why can’t we all just get along”.

            We can’t BECAUSE THE DAMN MUSLIMS in their quest for universal adaptation of sharia for all, especially ambivalent twits like you

          • Kruton

            Also the f#g spin.

          • bob smith

            US war propaganda?

            Are you on any particular medication? That statement is so outlandish, tired and worn. Exactly what war propaganda are you blithering about?

        • Ellsworth Toohey

          Hey nancy boy, tell us YOUR truth.

        • lostlegends

          You are just plain stupid. Besides that you need to find a hair stylist.

    • William

      Because the main stream corporate newsmedia is not doing their job is covering the wars.

    • tickletik

      Because that was his job.

      • lostlegends

        That doesn’t answer the question at all. He was a fool to go in there and his employers are an accessory to his murder.

        • tickletik

          I answered your question just fine.

          His job was to find out the truth and bring that news to the public. He went into a dangerous zone to find that news. He risked his life to do his job, and this time it didn’t work out for him. That’s what men do. And his employers should be consoled, not condemned.

          Our society is way too estrogen saturated, and has zero appreciation of what it takes to make things work. We pass endless laws, and create all sorts programs too make everything safe. Well the end result do all that “safety” is a stifled, choked society about three minutes away from a total economic and social meltdown.

  • Sara

    The politically correct term is “female circumcision”, equating female genital mutilation with male circumcision. It now can be seen as a religious right of passage. Problem solved once again by the left’s use of magic words.

    • chelmer

      Yeah, it kills 2 birds with one stone. It legitimizes barbaric Islamic practices and stigmatizes legitimate Jewish practice.

    • Pete

      American is a gadfly troll. IT is not very bright unfortunately for all around it.

      Americana will spill barrels of ink (electronic equivalent) about how FGM arose as a pre-Islamic African practice.

      But that is not the point. The point is where is it practiced now? Islamic societies in Africa and the MIDDLE EAST.

      If it were not practiced in Muslim societies we would have been able to eradicate FGM through education programs and by law a long time ago if it were just non Muslim African or middle Eastern countries.

      So yeah this is a Moslem problem.

  • billobillo54

    Every point Mrs. Glick makes in this article is correct, but she needs to add another point. The left does align itself with Islamicists due to the left’s hatred for Israel and Zionism. But the left also hates Christianity and so does Islam. And the left and Islam both especially hate the Christians who reject Islam and perceive it as completely evil, who reject the Palestinian cause as a fraud and illegitimate and who love and support Israel. The left is in league with Christians who accept Islam as some form of legitimate expression of faith in God and civil society, support the Palestinian cause and who reject Zionism and perceive Zionism has racist and oppressive. Admittedly it is difficult for many Jews let alone a liberal, Democrat Party. American Jew to have anything but contempt for any Christian due to the horrible things Christians have done to Jews throughout history. And let’s face it, for many “Christians” the horrible acts of hatred continue and are expanding against the Jews today. However, the Christians who are politically conservative, Zionist, and orthodox in their theology, are despised by many American Jews, the left and of course, Muslims due to their conservative politics (which violate the religion of many American Jews: liberalism).

  • William

    If I recall, Caroline Glick posted a fake telephone transcript of a call between Netanyahu and Obama which makes Netanyahu appear anti-American. You really can’t trust someone like that. I’ve noticed there’s quite a bit of anti-American propaganda in the fringe media in Israel that is spread around on right winged American sites.

    • Kruton

      F#g boy is back!

    • Ellsworth Toohey

      Not anti america, anti obam’a america ! Quite TWo different things isn’t it mister obamamerican ?

      • William

        Obama’s America is still America.

        • Ellsworth Toohey

          So fuck off and Hail to Poutine !

        • billobillo54

          Obama is a socialist, Islamophile, Jacobin, stooge of the Nuevo Ordo Seclorum. An Alinskyite, Manchurian President.

          • William

            U paranoid, brah?

          • chelmer

            Obama is not an Alinskyite? You want to run with that story?

          • William

            Alinsky was a radical and very much anti-war and anti-corporate, and would probably consider Obama the enemy of the USA if he were still alive.

          • laura r

            and takes orders from george soros.

        • chelmer

          Asserting something doesn’t make it true.

    • billobillo54

      I can and will trust Caroline Glick. What I do not trust and actually loathe is the liberal, left wing.

      • William

        Trust a proven liar and anti-American propagandist if you wish, you are free to do so.

        • billobillo54

          While liars and anti-Americans are found everywhere, I find both lying and anti-Americanism are inherent and defining characteristic of the Saul Alinsky, progressive, liberal, Jacobin, Democrat Party left. And, Caroline Glick is an angel of deliverance to a nation (i.e. The United States) that under the current Jacobin leadership of a president who is determined to destroy us.

          • William

            From what I’ve seen she’s trying to turn Israelis against the USA. She had no reason to lie with that bogus telephone transcript story.

          • chelmer

            Dude, your loss of credibility means that you are merely typing

          • billobillo54

            Stop slandering a woman who only tells the truth. Mrs. Glick is trying to stop the U.S. from continuing on the destructive path of supporting the Nazi-Islamicists in the PA, Fatah, Hamas and The Muslim Brotherhood, all committed to destroying Israel and eventually western civilization with the help of the Jacobin, lying, liberal Democrat Party left and the miserable neocons who are willing to sell our freedoms out to kleptocratic Muslim misogynists for 30 pieces of silver . The left has finally exposed themselves for what they have always been: lying, deceptive, authoritarian, cleptocratic, socialist scum. The left is in league with Islamicism, hates Zionism, hates orthodox Christianity, hates classic liberal western values and is spiraling into a post modern alliance with the most evil force in the history of the world: ISLAM.

          • William

            I’ve read a few of her articles, and it is clear that she is obsessed Muslims and Obama. I believe she also badmouthed Secretary of State John Kerry. She may not like a religion, but that’s no excuse to make up lies about the US government.

    • chelmer

      William, you need to be aware that accusing someone of lying is a serious, serious offense. We on this side of the aisle value truth. We’re not liberals, leftists, hippies, or other degenerate forms of life. We value the truth highly.

      Making an accusation like that without foundation is disgusting and evil.

      • William

        A number of political blogs looked into her claims and found them to be bogus. She got busted.

  • Kruton

    All leftists must be physically annihilated.

  • Vinegar Hill

    “Once the shock wore off, these terror
    states and enterprises began enjoying the stature of legitimate parties
    to a political dispute. As Islamic State sees it, it is only a matter of
    time before it too is accepted as a legitimate force in world affairs.”
    This reminds me of a story about a state established in 1948…..I think for the first time ever I agree with Glick!

  • bob smith

    thanks brother.

  • Michael Garfinkel

    You again.

    Well, the anti-Israel and anti-zionist demonstrations world-wide against the IDF campaign in Gaza are replete with accusations of savagery, aren’t they?

    I suppose you’re compelled to issue tiresome objections, but that doesn’t make them any less annoying.

  • robert levine

    Why was Lev Tahor mentioned?? They were expelled from their village in Guatemala not because of anti-Semitism. They were expelled for the same reason that Canada and Israel expelled them.They are pedophiles and child abusers.Why are you trying to make the case that they are not as bad as the Islamic terrorists?Both need to be cleanse from this earth.