Democrats' Arab Appeasement Lays An Egg

The Democratic Party and its Jewish Constituency Ignore Islamic Bigotry

by James A. Bridge

From ad-Dustur, Jordan, July 22, 2008 (from ADL's website), July

Blogger Ted Belman of Israpundit in his recent post points out that American Jews are likely to vote along party lines in the coming 2008 Presidential election. He says, "(t)hus, for them, party loyalty is preferable to Israel loyalty."

The numbers say that roughly 60+ percent of America's 8 million Jews will vote Democrat, while 30+ percent will vote Republican. This breakdown is hard to believe, given the historical facts of two things:

1. the Democratic Party has been the party of unilateral Arab/Muslim appeasement and inclusion;

2. the Arab/Muslim world is so thoroughly anti-Semitic, that any meaningful peace between Israel and its almost 6 million Jews and the billion or so Muslims in their extended neighborhood between Africa and Indonesia cannot reasonably be seen as a possibility without confronting it.

The facts and history here are troubling. The Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been linked to terror funding. The FBI named CAIR in the Texas Holy Land Funding mistrial as as "unindicted co-conspirator". CAIR's very leadership founded Hamas, yet this clearly suspicious organization has been embraced and lauded by Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7th, PA) at a April, 2007 CAIR fundraiser (<=click for Washington Times article), by Democratic Ohio Governor at yet another CAIR fundraiser in June of 2007, reported by NewsBusters but ignored by Ohio's newspapers. CAIR not only ran Keith Ellison's (D-5th, MN) successful Congressional campaign through strategic marketing CAIR-PA staffer Adeeba al-Zaman (reported in an American's Against Hate 2007 blog), but CAIR foot-soldiers are constantly used by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7th, PA) to hand out his literature throughout his district, by his own admission.

How deep is CAIR's penetration of the Democratic Party? CAIR scores big with Democrats. On CAIR's own comments page , 36 of 39 Federal elected officials and governors listed are Democrats.

Given former President Jimmy Carter's antipathy toward Jews and the state of Israel vis-a-vis Arab/Muslim interest, the fact that Islamic focus groups like CAIR, with its lineage of terror and anti-Semitic hate and violence run to Democrats is no surprise.

(Cartoon right: al-Watan, June 11, 2008, Saudi Arabia)

But why do Democrats abide them in their midst? And why are the Jews of the Democratic Party not directly confronting the anti-Semitic/anti-Israeli sentiments of these Muslim/Arab groups that curry their support?

CAIR's own webite calls the state of Israel "a brutal occupation" of Palestine, and urges Israel's removal--but not with violence. "Illegitimate and counterproductive tactics must not be used in the legitimate struggle to end Israel’s brutal occupation.” How you remove Israel without violence is the conundrum within the statement, but not important. Getting rid of Israel is their declared intent, and is the declared intent of the entire Islamic world, save for Egypt and Jordan, both of whom have recognized Israel.

Arab/Muslim media run regular political cartoons of Jew-hating and Jew-bashing. From al-Quds, Palestinian Authority, titled, "Obama's View":

Thanks for these images to the Anti-Defamation League. But their work to protect the world's Jews from another Holocaust goes on as if in the vacuum of outer space. This image of Barack Obama coming out of the back of Israel's pants is clearly what many "educated" Arabs and Muslims believe. This political expression of religious hatred from what is a Palestinian Intelligencia should ring alarm bells in every Democrat's head, let alone in every Jewish Democrat's heart.

But these alarm bells, if heard, are ignored.

These are disturbing yet revealing images of today's Arab and Muslim world. For as Arab vie for the full attention of a America's great Democratic Party when it comes to the Middle East (read: Israel)--and they have accomplished this feat, clearly--Arabs and Muslims essentially, demonstrably, detest Jews and the idea of Israel. As stated above, the Democratic Party embraces CAIR, attends its fundraisers, uses its labor--all without questioning the clear anti-Semitism that permeates the Islamic Media and must even have expression on CAIR's own website in declaring as a legitimate aim the destruction of Israel.

The Democratic Party, and its constituent Jews, must confront this basic, frighteningly pervasion of Arab and Muslim hatred of Jews and Israel. Nearly half of all Democrats support Arabs over Israel, according to a Daniel Pipes 2006 study, while nearly 75% of Republicans support Israel. Republicans seem willing to hold Arabs and Muslims accountable for their Holocaust talk and anti-Semitic diatribe. It is time for the Democratic Party to do the same. Democrats must recognize their folly in working for Arab and Muslim causes without at once demanding an end to this anti-Semitic rhetoric, and then actually stopping it. Tolerating it and ignoring it any longer is akin of itself to Holocaust denial.

(from www.amin.org, a purveyor of cartoons for Arab media)

McCain Takes On The Press

Wednesday July 23, 2008
by James A. Bridge

Senator John McCain yesterday squared off against his biggest obstacle to the Presidency--the mainstream media of the United States of America.

The Media Is In Love campaign is a brilliant move in a campaign that has been dragged into the shadows by the editors, publishers and producers of every stripe of the media. Both print and broadcast media have isolated the McCain campaign while chasing after Barack Obama where ever he goes, trumpeting whatever he says. The happy, light slap at the media was done with a call to supporters to vote for one of two videos he will run as adverts: "The Media Is In Love With Barack", version one to the music "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You", version two, "My Eyes Adored You," both played to identical snippets of Press Icons not only pandering to Senator Obama, but offering words of worship, devotion, and outright infatuation.

Infatuation means, from the Latin: "in a foolish state." And how foolish they all seem, our so-called "news" purveyors.

Brian Williams and Chris Matthews lead the pack of nowhere-near-unbiased media giants as they utter their disgraceful, auto-hypnotic revelations about personal affinity for the mere presence of Barack Obama, and the sound of his voice. Williams: "It's hard to be objective." Matthews, when not weeping about how much he is moved by Obama, says he "feels a thrill coming up his leg." He says he doesn't get it too often. (I'll reserve further comment on that.)

The McCain Press-attack campaign is perfectly timed. Ohio polls reveal that 51 percent of Ohioans think that reporters are trying to get Obama elected. (From Rasmussen Reports (http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/ohio/election_2008_ohio_presidential_election ) The buzz on the street is that the Press is disgracing itself in ignoring all the issues, while centering only on their perceived charisma of the Democratic Party's presumptive Nominee.

So enamored of him are they that they miss the obvious. Barack Obama has lounged in his journeys to Afghanistan and Iraq upon the soft pillow of a fawning media circus, while, without their taking any notice, he has reversed prior positions, and has controverted the stated Iraq/Afghanistan War policy of Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA, D 8th) and Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV, D).

Now THAT is big news--"Obama Changes Foreign Policy Position of Democratic Party"..."An Adventure No Longer, Iraq Praises Bush's Iraq Success"..."Obama Will Fight al-Quaeda In Afghanistan."

Will we see it today or this week in print or on the air? Will we hear it on the radio?

(My eyes adored you....)

What is that you're humming, Brian? Chris? No, I doubt we'll see the Press rip at this newly opened seam in the Democratic Party's rhetoric about the War Against Terror.

This is no surprise, though, at this point. The Press have generally refused to either tug at the ugly baggage around the junior Senator form Illinois or press him on his own constant flip-flopping on issues.

Those issues are important ones.

On Iraq: He told the world that the troop surge wouldn't work and that the troops must come home, yet while in Iraq, he praises its success, and tells us that we must move those troops on to Afghanistan.

On Jerusalem: He tells Israelis that Jerusalem will never be divided; as soon as he is off Israeli soil, he comes off that position, calling it "unfortunate wording".

On Iran: "After all, Peru, North Korea and Iran, they're all tiny countries. They don't pose much of a threat to us." THREE DAYS LATER: "I have always said that Iran is a serious threat to the security of this country."

On ignoring--or not noticing--over 20 years the racism of his own close friend and pastor, Reverend Wright. On his friendship with self-confessed Weather Underground bomber William Ayers. On the sweetheart real estate deal he got from convicted contractor Tony Rezko, guilty on 16 counts of fraud and money laundering.

The McCain Campaign used a good bit of humor to challenge the swooning, clearly Obama-biased mainstream media to do their jobs. REPORT THE NEWS. BE OBJECTIVE. ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS.

We demand it. We deserve it. Well done, Senator McCain.