Opinion  Sever Plocker
Obama and the Jews
Sever Plocker
Published: 25.03.08, 16:29
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1. Elections
stephen ,   usa   (03.25.08)
Take a good look at your own voters, in your own land. your own leaders are those that want to give up the land and split Jerusalem. Rapist, and robbers of the peoples wealth. Yep, you all know how to pick them.
2. American Jewish intellectuals revere the 'New Yorker'
Jake   (03.25.08)
as their Torah, so what do you expect?
3. Many Jews supported Hitler in 1931
Gerry ,   Boston   (03.25.08)
Obama is a professional lier. He is an ugly individual. He and his people will initiate pogroms not the small one during the Dinkins time in NYC. Jews supported Hitler, they thought that if they served in the WWi or were in high position in the University nothing would happen to them.
4. Obama Osama let me call my Mama is a disaster
Yankel the Jew   (03.25.08)
for Israel, and especially the Jews in America. He is a closet anti-semite of the worst sort. Get ready for a very rough ride should he win. In fact American Jews will have a Crown Heights riot on their hands in every community they inhabit. That includes LA, Atlanta, NYC, Philly, etc It happened before when MLK was killed. These towns burned and 40 years later the blacks in America are the most anti-semitic of the lot. Jews , dont allow your so called schnorrer leaders lead you down the path to oblivion, prepare yourselves.
5. Obama anti Israel's crew
Rod ,   Fargo N.Dakota   (03.25.08)
Some of Obama's advisors Brezynski well known for being in a debate on the side of walt and mearshimer, his military advisor a well known long time Israel basher Merril McPeak http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=563#more-563 and then whe have malley a well known arabist
6. The same people of Ilinois who elected Obama to theUS Senate
Rivkah   (03.25.08)
wrongly convicted so many people of murder who were later found innocent by DNA evidence that the Governor of Ilinois had to suspend the death penalty rather than to risk executing innocent people on death row. Pastor Jeremiah White is not the only racist Pastor that Barak Obama is associated with. Pastor James Meeks also influenced Obama and Pastor Meeks calls White Mayors "SLAVE MASTERS" and also calls Blacks who have worked at the White House as employees or government appointees "WHITE HOUSE NIGGERS." That means he thinks former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was a WHITE HOUSE NIGGER. He thinks General Colin Powell and Dr. Condoleeza Rice who were both Black Secretaries of State are WHITE HOUSE NIGGERS. What does that tell me about those pastors and Obama? It tell me they are the equivalent of HUTU Rwanda tribesmen who are waiting to massacre White America just like the HUTUS massacred the lighter skinned Tsutsu...nearly a million in six weeks, a feat even Adolf Hitler could not equal.
7. Yes, this is what the ultra-left is all about
William ,   USA   (03.25.08)
They are the delusional creatures who continue to dream about utopia.
8. Obama is a clear and present danger
David Masada ,   Orlando, USA   (03.25.08)
Obama is antisemite and racist. Anyone attending a church like the on he has attended for past 2 decades is anti-semite and racist at best. Wake up democrat Jews, let's not repeat a Germany post 1938 please!!!
9. And the other candidates?
Mike ,   Atlanta, USA   (03.25.08)
With Clinton you might have another Oslo. And with McCain? Unsure, but at least he's not so tightly wed to the Saudis.
10. bemet
Alon ,   TA Israel   (03.25.08)
I'm sorry but I lost track at which point this article lost its psudo-intellecutalism and just became banal Am I supposed to be scared or happy Obama may become the next president? I think the author is suffering a type of blindness from Obama himself that he derides other Jews for, primarily a lack of coherence of thought.....
11. Obama Wants to be my President?
Jeff ,   Cherry Hill, NJ USA   (03.25.08)
Obama seems to be a liberal, quasi-socialist. He also appears to be a globalist. He sponsored the Global Poverty Act which commits the US to pay a tax to the UN of almost $900 billion (with a "b"). The UN?! It gives me no comfort whatsoever that Obama is trying to convince the electorate now that he is not an anti-semite or a black separatist. The fact that these are even arguable, at this stage in the primary, disqualifies him in my eyes. McCain in 2008.
12. Thank you
E.s. ,   Montreal Canada   (03.25.08)
It"s one of the best article I have read about Obama. Short, no concessions, everything is clear, facts only facts. I wish that all the east-side liberal jews (no to mention those of Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto in Canada) will wake up, before it's too late. I mean, what do they need? Jeremia Wright, Farakhan (the latter received an award for lifetime achievement by the church of Wright!!!) ... What else now? Himmler? WAKE UP PEOPLE, PLEASE.
13. McCain chose James Baker
Mark ,   Boston   (03.25.08)
James Baker is not Pro-Israel, to say the very least. He really hates Israel and does not hide his true feelings.
14. Condi Rice hates Jews too!
Mark ,   Boston   (03.25.08)
the United States War Leaders are to seek Russia’s ‘cooperation’ in what the American’s are stating is their goal of ‘the efficient detention and removal to Israel of the entire Jewish population of North America Russian Foreign Ministry Officials are reported to be in ‘shock’ over the secret summit agenda provided by the United States and meant to cover the agenda for the upcoming visit to Russia by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates [both pictured top left with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov] over the American’s plan to install their missile shield in Eastern Europe
15. Jews of America, wake up and smell the coffee.
David Powell ,   Everett, Wa. USA   (03.25.08)
Barack Hussein Obama is not the messiah. Period
16. It's just racism.
Abe Froman ,   NY, NY   (03.25.08)
First the Right Wing yelled at Obama for being a closet Arab. That didn't work. Then the Right Wing yelled at Obama for not being "black" enough. Which is it? Be honest, Right Wingers, and admit to yourselves that *any* non-white President scares the hell out of you. Don't concoct rationales to cover up that sad reality. It's obvious.
17. Could Islamo-fascist in W. House be good for Israel?
Steve ,   U.S.   (03.25.08)
Let's see, we've had 7 plus years of "Israel's best friend ever" in the White House. In response to this best friend we've given Gaza to Hamas, ethnically cleansed the Holy Land of thousands of our Jewish citizens and we are on the brink of establishing a Palestinian jihadist-killer state right at the Jews' collective throat; all this in response to pressure from George W. Bush, Israel's best friend ever. This is what we get from our good friends; ones who are perceived as such by the Jews at any rate. Maybe a known enemy in the White House would be good for Israel and Israel's leaders. Mr. Plocker appears to make this point. Isn't Mr. Plocker on the political left? Yet Plocker is able to ferret out an anti-Semitic leftist candidate for U.S. president. Maybe there is hope for the Jews yet.
18. I am impressed with Obama
Avinoam ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (03.25.08)
Recently Obama addressed the issue of his pastor. It was the most intelligent speech I have ever heard given by a politician. After that I am pro Obama. "To Obama’s credit, in his speech he did not bluff or beat around the bush. He did not try to make things look pretty, but rather, he drew on his persuasion skills in order to respond..." So why exactly is he a bad choice? If he is intelligent and honest then he will be good for Israel, because we are in the right, certainly.
19. Barack Obama
Ger ,   Raanana, Israel`   (03.25.08)
All true---yet over 70% of American Jews will vote for him if he is the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
20. TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT OBAMA, PLEASE READ THIS SITE
Dave ,   NYC   (03.25.08)
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm Everything there is supported with links to credible sources (i.e. CNN, AP, e.t.c.)
21. 18 Avinoham: You want a LIAR to be elected?
Rivkah   (03.25.08)
Obama said publicly he NEVER went to a Madrassa Moslem school. His school records show he attended a WAHABI Madrassa in Indonesia as well as a Catholic school until the age of twelve. But he can't remember? No. He is a LIAR.
22. The Real Obama
Shaka   (03.25.08)
Obama's record has not been tested enough to know him well as he is a junior first term Senator. Therefore, we can only understand who he is by the company that he keeps and what he says. He says he is the candidate of good judgment and unity. As elequent as his speech was he could not explain why he did not have the judgment to stand up and leave the church that spews separatism, anti-american sentiments and anti-semitic sentiments. If I heard my Rabbi say we should blame America for 9/11, that America is the KKK of America, and that America started AID's etc. . . I would have the judgment not only to leave that shul and not come back but to give that person a piece of my mind. At first Barak Obama said he didn't hear any of this stuff. . . after 20 years of going to this church that was BS, then he acknowledged that he heard some contraversial things but chose not only to stay but never disagreed with this view before it broke out to the media. Michelle Obama's statement "that she is proud of America for the first time in her life (now that Barak may win the nomination) makes sence when you come from a church/belief doctrone that hates America. . . how can we elect a person who's church and family don't love and appreciate this country, worse, blame this country for every woe and believe in segregation. . . Black value system etc. Not only does Barak Obama's church and his spiritual mentor believe in blaming America for everything his Political and foreign advisors do the same. If he does not have the judgment to choose good people to advise him than he should not be elected. Lastly Barak Obama is like any other politician. He only chose to distance himself from his pastors remarks when they became public. If he did not agree he should have left the church along time ago. No matter how much good the pastor does for his community. . . hitler did good for the germans too.
23. American Jews are so clued out politically that they
Al   (03.25.08)
would vote for a blind pig, were it nominated as the Democratic candidate, The short of it being that like most Jews in the world they have no real understanding of how it works. In almost all cases they put way too much belief in what they want to hear instead of what is being said. That being said, so long as America does well economically then they are safe, should there be trouble in paradise, than they are cooked.
24. #16, Abe Froman's ridiculous reply
Phil ,   US   (03.25.08)
Actually Abe, the racism that is present is your racism. As a political moderate, I resent your generalization that those who are opposed to Obama are racists because Obama happens to be an African American. You are the type of person that the author of this piece is referring to. Obama is basically a blank slate. He has not even served one term in the senate and the only thing that one can get from his voting record is that he is very, very liberal. Someone who never deviates frm a political philosophy is scary to me--whether that person is left or right in his/her thinking. Obama keeps referring to the fact that he opposed the Iraq War. Well, I know a lot of people who opposed the Iraq War and some of them did so out of reasoned thought while others were automatically against any military action. In other words, some would oppose military action against an invader that was conquering American territory. Since he was not in the Senate and not the recipient of information that was given to American senators, nobody knows if he would have reacted to the briefings of weapons of mass destruction by supporting the war (like Hillary) or automatically oppose the war. I hope that he has not internalized his minister's statements that the US was responsible for 9-11 and deliberately injected the AIDS virus into people of color because if he believes that, he just is incapable of believing that the US needs to be defended. Obama's speech about racism was nice except the controversy is not about racism (As knee-jerk leftists like you delude yourself into believing). The controversy was about a vicious and paranoid minister who has given anti-American and anti-Israel sermons. Barak Obama was pitiful in comparing his grandmother's fear of black men to a minister who is either nuts or a liar. In addition,Obama exposes his impressionable daughters to this hateful bigotry and that is the issue. He did not satisfactorily explain why he continued to belong to this church even after knowing about his pastor's feelings. This reflects on Obama's judgement or of his basic decency. Maybe in another 4 years, Obama will have proven himself to be capable of being President. I know he is bright and a good speaker. Those qualities do not automatically make him fit to be resident----- especially with other questions about his judgement and true feelings still unanswered.
25. a Jewish Clinton supporter defends Obama
avram moshe   (03.25.08)
Obama went out of his way in his speech to reject any moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas -let his words not tea leaves judge him. As for the Wright connection even our Talmud is ambiguous on the issue. Rabbi Meier the greatest of Tannaim maintains a closed relationship with the heretic Elisha ben Abuya engendering the famous quote that he drank of his fruit while spitting out his pits. In addtion if one looks at the 10principles of Wrights church and subsititutes Jewish for Black it is a healthy statement of ethnic pride and maintaining ethnic identiy. Wright is a blowhard and an anti-zionist but his church and his movement are important parts of the American and Black convrsation. Lastly, should not all civilized Israeli politicians reject the racism and hatreds of Shas and Rav Ovadia....or do we also drink of their fruits???
26. It is Fair to compare NAFTA to the way Home Mortgages have b
Tony ,   AZ USA   (03.25.08)
Subject: It is Fair to compare NAFTA to the way Home Mortgages have been used to turn Intrinsic Asset into Cash to use for Financing the USA Trade Deficits , and the Holder of the debt is our Trade partners , SO the Question is Like the Bear Stearns Bailout has Been topic of Debate , " Who & How is the Debt going to be serviced with our Trade partners , once the Burden of holding the US Dollar by these partners , decides its not worth holding anymore ?? This is what has happened to our Home Mortgage Industry , so is this the next Path of Total destruction of US asset , and US security , because of a Flawed NAFTA trade Policy that was Designed like the Last phase of home loans were ??????????????? this is worth a Healthy Debate , isn't it ?????????????????????????????????? "An ex-president, a mining deal and a big donor " Huge Kazakh deal follows financier's trip with Clinton, precedes donation . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?ex=1359435600&en=33a4d96a239655bf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss This article below was reported and is important in Determining the Independence of the office of the presidents ability to draft unbiased Government Policy , so we need total Transparency ( we the people deserve to see those Tax records of the Clintons ), when electing a President in 2008 , given how messed up things are , don't you all agree ?? We the people deserve to see the Clintons Tax Records , with these kinds of Conflicts of Interest involved , this is Fascism, is it not ???????? this is whats wrong with the way NAFTA is Designed; http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib137
27. Obama
ERNIE ,   MIAMI USA   (03.25.08)
Much of the criticism of him is vile! All of it is balderdash.
28. Hardly
Sharon ,   Boston   (03.25.08)
I hardly think Obama is "a smart, deep man." He is a manipulative politician who understands that emotional appeal is all he needs to garner support from Leftists-- facts are irrelevant. Leftist Jews are Jews in name only. Their Leftist agenda is their religion.
29. confessions of a leftist yid reply to #28
marshall   (03.25.08)
my people are Jews, my religion is Judaism, my politics are left and zionist and there is no contradiction thank you! and you my right wing sister are still welcome at my seder. may the conversation continue for the sake of heaven.
30. Fast Boat to Germany
Ola Dug ,   Costa Mesa, USA   (03.25.08)
We should judge a person by their actions and not their words. The fact that Obama choose Mr. Wright as his spiritual teacher for 20 years and included Mr. Wright in his election staff speaks well for Mr. Obama’s thinking and actions. Words are easy to manipulate and it is UNLIKELY that Obama's recent race speech was written by Mr. Obama himself, but of course written by his spin machine. And regardless that he is ‘fashionably black’ and that many of you have some desire to prove to yourself or to others that you are not prejudice and that you like ‘black people’ with an attitude of ‘See, I like black people, I’m voting for a black person,’ such an attitude of voting for a person because of their race is the definition of prejudice. But it seems to me if Mr. Obama had a lighter skin tone, there is no way he would be tolerated in as much he is aligned with a violent religious group, and never says anything substantial. And not only that, consider yesterday’s announcement that the chief of the firm involved in the State Department’s passport breach is Obama’s adviser. And that Obama has been caught lying about Rezko, regarding the amount of money Rezko gave him, and that Obama still hasn’t come clean about his Rezko land deal. If Obama were to become president, what would stop Mr. Obama from appointing Mr. Wright to his cabinet? And to be sure, if anyone complained about Mr. Wright’s appointment, they would be called racist. We should have as our country’s leader someone with wisdom and knowledge regardless of race, not someone hungry for power for the sake of power. Out of all the 300 million people in America, is this really who you want for president – blindly popular with young people, power hungry, deceptive, vague, and coldly self-centered? If Obama wins, those of the Jewish faith had better get on a fast boat to Germany.
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