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Government’s message to US liberal Jews could cost us dearly
Yossi Shain
Published: 10.03.18, 16:57
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1. liberal jews will distance themselves from Israel as long as
DOV ,   USA   (03.10.18)
Netanyahu and Trump are heads of state. How can a jew align himself and call Trump a friend when we all know that Trump backed the racist protesters in N.C. American jews are not going to forget. What kind of message does this send to young American jews. That it's ok to support an antisemite as long as he relocates the embassy. Big deal. I think Israel and the US are paying a heavy price now for it's elected corrupt leaders.
2. 200% correct! Right-wing sold its soul for short-term gain,
Rafi ,   US   (03.10.18)
potential long-term disaster...

Consensus - rather than selfish destructiveness - is ALWAYS the way to go.

This began long ago with the secret Netanyahu - Newt Gingrich coalition to block the Y. Rabin /Oslo effort.

Whether you agree with Oslo or not - you NEVER turn against your countryman abroad.

But Bibi & Newt had no compunctions against doing this... Both are self-centered fire-throwers... We see the results today including a severely divided if not paralyzed US, and an Israel which has lost its values. With the exception of a narrow angry base in the US, Israel has less & less support in an increasingly divided world.

And who benefits most from this degradation of western democracy ? They're sitting in the Kremlin and Tehran.
3. AIPAC no longer relevant
(03.10.18)
4. Liberal U.S. Jews put Israel last on their list of concerns
jerry ,   los angeles   (03.10.18)
Thankfully Bibi is not inclined to side with liberal U.S. Jews. I am not a religious person but i'm very strong on the state of Israel and its security needs. Liberal Jews are more concerned with making political alliances with blacks and other minorities in the the U.S., who aren't fond of Jews to begin with. Liberal Jews voted twice for Obama, who wasn't a good friend of Israel, to say the least. Why would Bibi want to ally himself with traitors like Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer, who can't see the forest from the trees when it comes to Israel's security concerns and the muslim threat to the west? Politics are changing in the U.S., and the Democratic party is head for a schism, and Jews who care about Israel will find no alternative but to vote Republican when the Warrens and the Sanders wing take over the Democratic party.
5. Schiff, Schumer, Blumenthal perpetuating Russia hoax are...
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (03.10.18)
very much guilty of this rift
6. WHO NEEDS AIPAC ?
DA RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED RAP HOUSE   (03.10.18)
We have 2pac ( Tupac) and JayZ and WC and T.I. and J-LO and 50 cent and Dr Dre.
7. To Prof Yossi Shain :
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (03.10.18)
Sir, with all due respect please grow a spine ,man up. E nough with kvetching " what will the US liberal jews think of us ? what will the goyim think of us ? " that way of thinking has brough we jews nothing but suffering for the past two thousand years. Who cares what these liberals think? why are their opinions so important ?
8. Liberal values are not Jewish values.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (03.10.18)
9. Impossible to please all of the people
CAPTAIN REALITY ,   SAFED HONESTY   (03.10.18)
It is not possible to please all of the people all of the time, and it is a big mistake to try to do so.
10. "Liberal Jews" in History meant Assimilated and Lost as Jews
TheyChose2Assimilate ,   Jerusalem Israel   (03.11.18)
no choice rather than to build a new and stronger even though smaller
Jewish Community in America but it should be evident to truly live a
a committed Jewish Life it can only be done in the Jewish Homeland
Most American Jews chose to run not walk away from the basics
of Judaism one example Boston 300,000 Jews less than half
Halachicly Jews and the city has only one small Kosher Café open
for lunch for" 300,000 Jews" it has become the center of Self
Hating anti Israel Jewish "Liberalism" once huge liberal
"Temples" closing every year all over the Greater Boston Area
Chabad trying to pick up the pieces
11. FORGET AIPAC ,WE HAVE TUPAC
DA RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED RAP HOUSE   (03.11.18)
12. Israel is wise to roll with the Trump Era
Cameron   (03.11.18)
Have your liberal brethren stood at your side & come through for you?

Trump has and then some.
13. Star of David is rising while Stars&Stripes barely hang on!
(03.12.18)
14. TheJewish Liberal Intelectual Has no place to go
Daniel ,   Tel Aviv   (03.12.18)
Intelectuals who once supported AIPAC have been leaving over their support of trump and the oligarchical Republican Agenda. Jews who supported J Street have left due to J Street’s aggressively pro-Palestinian Anti-Israel stance. To support trump is to support alternative facts and a man who could not condemn NAZIS. A man who is so in Putin’s pocket that no word was said when Putin blamed Jews for America’s el cation tampering. To support the Netanyahu government is to support racism bigotry and corruption. There is just no place to turn
15. Ignore liberal Jewish dodo birds as they go extinct
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.12.18)
Israel needs to ignore the idiotic advice of liberal Jewish dodo birds, who are fast going extinct. Taking advice from Jewish liberals is like taking medical advice from a doctor who kills all his patients. Or fighting taking advice from a boxer who loses every fight. Or academic advice from a student who fails every exam...

Like dodo birds, liberal Jews are dumb and fast going extinct (due to low birthrates and sky high intermarriage rates). Israel needs to ignore the idiots as they go extinct. Israel is built to thrive and increase. Dodo birds are built to go extinct. The only value of liberal advice is as a reverse barometer.
16. Same US Jews blame Russia for Trump election - no loyalty
(03.12.18)
17. Peter Beinart? Show your agenda again Ynet hostile to Israel
(03.12.18)
18. Liberalism = liberty and equality - JST/Ynet fascists
(03.12.18)
19. Fascist - forcible suppression of opposition = Jst/Beinard
(03.12.18)
20. US Jewry lies on Israel create more antisemitism than Nazis
(03.12.18)
21. Liberal Intellectual Jews
Tova   (03.18.18)
During WW11 Liberal /intellectual Jews never could believe or imagine that the Nazism party would succeed.

These liberal/intellectual Jews when given the chance to leave Germany - they didn't. They thought their loyalty to Germany would exclude from from any war.

Well we all know that didn't happen.

It seems that Liberal/Intellectuals Jews are doing the same in the United States.

Hollywood Liberal Successful Jews will soon fear for their lives.

Speilberg said he would vote for Ophrah. An amazing film maker. but his political is very very stupid.

Liberal Jews only have 2 options. 1: Support Israel completely or 2. wait for them to come knocking on your door - as say bye bye to your millions .

It is no different in Canada. Trudeau is a very dangerous person, more dangerous than Trump. Trudeau is a schoolboy who has not grown up up.

Both Trudeau and his wife still think Disenyland is the real world. And that's is very very dangerous.
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