Ever Since the Republican party’s convention took place last week in St. Paul, MN I have read, seen and heard all this talk about the new direction the Republican party has taken with the nomination of Sarah Palin as VP. I will not spend much time talking about the horrible hypocrisy of it all, a woman’s face brought in to give the party’s face some youth and a little beauty. I’m not very concerned with the fact that Sarah Palin acts like she is going to break the glass ceiling for women in the country by becoming VP, while supporting legislation that would push women back a few decades. I’m not even worried about the fact that Sarah Palin has no real experience other than running a town whose population is about 9000, or a state, which in spite of it’s huge land mass holds less electoral votes than Connecticut. These things are disturbing, as well as the fact that she is being taken so seriously by people in her own party who accused Obama of the same lack of experience, though he has much more than her. But I am not going to focus on these things. I believe that as the campaign wears on and the black of the Republican smoke screen clears, people will come around and realize that they need to vote on policy, not on star quality, unless we are to model our country after American Idol.
What concerns me particularly at this moment is Palin’s attitude towards Israel, Jews in general, and the place of her religion in foreign policy. Obviously, McCain is the one running for President and he does have lots of experience in this area. However, the likelyhood of Palin taking over for McCain is not all that remote, considering McCain’s age. If we were to end up with Palin as our president, one has to wonder how she would approach Israel in actuality. She is the sort of person who wears her religion on her sleeve, and seems to think that the only truely good people in this world are american protestants who follow puritan laws and come from small towns, because big cities breed the gays and minorities and such. Now, I don’t know if this is true, but the internet is all abuzz about a comment she made regarding the situation for Jews in Israel. I do not know the quote word for word, but the basic idea is that Israel is having a hard time finding peace with the Arabs because we have not yet accepted Jesus as our savior. Now I know that there are plenty of people out there who keep saying that bad things happen to Jews because we are just too, um what’s the word? Jewish!
We were told this during the Spanish Inquisition, during the pogroms in Eastern Europe, during the Holocaust, and during the cold war Jews stuck in Russia had the same problem. So, here we are in 21st century good old US of A, and we have to hear this again? And from a person who is running for public office? I think it’s a very bad idea to give a person like this any kind of power, especially power that extends to how this country deals with other countries.
Now I’m sure that if this comment was made, though it’s not so far fetched, considering her background, but for all Israelis who read this blog, think a little more about this question before saying that you trust McCain more than Obama for support, and for all the American Jews out there who are sure they’re voting for McCain, think a little harder on what kind of friends Israel really needs before casting your votes. Thank you all for taking the time to read this.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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September 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Seems simple to me: Palin might act decisively in favor of Israel should that time come, but there is absolutely no doubt that her social beliefs are at odds with most of American Jews’.
That said, Obama is just as untested in foreign experience as Palin is. But you know that his domestic policies are more Jewish than Palin’s.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I wonder when belief in Jesus became a prerequisite for being the president of the US? And that these same people seem to think that god is only concerned about America seems kind of simplistic to me. John McCain is scarey but Sarah Palin is frightening!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Hello my dearest Israeli friends. I am an American and belong to the republican party. I will say that I’m positive that Sarah Palin is a true friend of Israel just as I am. Although we are christian and believe in Jesus doesn’t mean that we don’t believe that you are not God’s chosen people! I cannot speak for anyone other than myself but I truly believe that the republican party will stand firm with support of Israel long beyond the democratic party! I don’t trust Obama in anything that he says. Based on his remarks and language he doesn’t appear to support the US long standing policy of supporting Israel under any circumstance as I know Sen. Mcain does. Please don’t believe everything you hear on the blogs because many of the things are coming from the media whom is totally pushing the Obama win due to his liberal beliefs. Again, I want to say that I, as an American soldier, a republican, and christian love the jewish people, Israel, and am willing to support and fight for Israel.
Sincerely, your American friend Tony