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Lately there has been an outbreak of articles asking the old question, "Why are Jews Liberals ?" Personally I don't really know any liberal Jews. Of the three synagogues I go to, only one man voted for Obama, and hardly a day went by without that sole fact resulting in heated arguments with the regulars that often seemed on the verge of breaking out into fistfights. Next week I will be heading out to Williamsburg, the Brooklyn neighborhood where three quarters of the residents speak Yiddish, and where McCain defeated Obama by a comfortable 84 to 16 percent margin. This in a borough where Obama won overall by nearly 80 percent. The last time I visited Williamsburg, I saw McCain bumper stickers on the cars of Chassidim, who are usually as likely to attach national election stickers to their bumpers as they are to break dance, and Chassidic ladies admiring Sarah Palin's look , which is not too different from their own. To encounter liberal Jews, I usually have to lo...

Myth 1: " Israel was created because Europe felt guilty about the Holocaust ." This left wing myth has been widely repeated, most recently by Desmond Tutu. While blatantly false on a level that even the most serious anti-Israel historian can recognize, it persists because its function is to delegitimize Israel as the product of post-war colonial guilt, rather than longstanding Israeli national aspirations. Israel was not created in 1947. By 1947, Israel already was a functioning country with a language, culture, agriculture, universities, newspapers and military forces which proved capable of defending against the armies of several Arab nations. The only thing that happened after the Holocaust was a UN vote in 1947 for a partition plan that was never implemented because the Arab world instead chose to try and destroy Israel. Israel however would have declared independence and fought for its own survival, with the same exact outcome, regardless of UN Resolution 181. This vote ...

(The following is a speech that Obama might have given, if he were willing to actually be honest with America's schoolchildren.) Hey Kids, This is me. Barack Obama. You might know me from a lot of magazine covers. Also I helped Spider-Man fight crime and I keep interrupting American Idol to give speeches that no one listens to anymore. Well just try turning me off now. That's right, you can't. Because you're in school, which means you have to listen to me. Now because I appeared in comic books and my loyal press corps keeps taking photos of me with haloes shining around my head, you might think I'm an imaginary character like Spider-Man or George Washington, but don't worry, I'm completely real and I'm running the government. Mostly anyway. Some parts of it Congress runs and the rest is in the hands of my many Czars, like this week's Czar, LeRoi Muhammad Johnson, Czar of Children. Yes that's you. Take a bow LeRoi. You all belong to LeRoi no...

Obama is falling and contrary to what anyone might have expected, it was not the marginalized Republican party under the inept leadership of Michael Steele or its stable of Congressional Republicans providing nothing but token opposition, who gave him that big push. While the official Republican leadership sat in the corner, information flew back and forth between bloggers, activists and talk show hosts and the result was an authentic grass roots movement. "The Mobs" that panicked Democratic politicians and their media press corps decry represent the one thing that a phony grass roots movement like the Obama campaign fears the most... being confronted with an authentic grass roots movement. Their campaigns against radio and TV hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck reveal that they cannot understand what is going in any terms, but as a top down operation, rather than a genuine outbreak of public outrage. After all they are supposed to represent "The People", but ...

More than 5000 women are victims of honor killings each year. Most of those women are Muslim, and while most of them are killed in Muslim countries-- more and more of them are being killed in Europe, Canada and America. A 2007 study by Dr. Amin Muhammad and Dr. Sujay Patel in Canada's Memorial Hospital observed that honor killing spreads when those whose who practice it emigrate to Western countries. Honor killings however are only the final act in the drama of a Muslim woman's life. Before that she is expected to walk behind a man, to be a second class citizen, to cover herself as much as possible in order to deflect male desire and to take the blame for the sexual intentions that men have toward her. She knows that if she fails to deflect male desire, she may suffer a variety of penalties from imprisonment to death. In countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran, those penalties are imposed by courts. In countries like Afghanistan or Pakistan, they are imposed by rough tribal justi...

To begin the Friday Afternoon Roundup, there's wobbling on Afghanistan, mixed messages on Israel and Obama can't seem to do anything right. While the media is still in Obama's corner, lately it doesn't seem like anyone else is. After a free ride, all of a sudden anything Obama touches turn to dust. From ObamaCare, which is now the subject of a long protracted Health Care Protest War, to Israel, where it remains unclear what if any commitments have been made, even down to Obama's plans to address the nation's youth and tell them how to serve him... everything he does begins to implode. The heavily promoted boycott of Glenn Beck, promoted by the media of course, despite the political thuggishness and conflict of interest involved in promoting a boycott against a rival news network, has now turned around into serious questions about Van Jones . Now Jones is retreating from his own record, and the White House may be retreating from Jones. The Obama admin had ...

In the conventional politically correct narrative, terrorism is a kind of desperate activism taken in reaction to oppression or some form of action taken against it. So for example, Osama bin Laden carried out 9/11 in reaction to US foreign policy. A Fatah or Hamas suicide bomber blows up an Israeli bus in reaction to the assassination of their leader. In reaction to their participation in the War on Terror, Spain and England suffered bombings. Cars are torched in Paris, gang rapes happen in Oslo, rockets are fired in Lebanon, teachers are beheaded in Thailand and journalists are beheaded in Pakistan all because something made them do it. Within this narrative, each terrorist atrocity is a reaction to a provocation that can be prevented by nullifying the provocation. So the "Reactive Theory of Terrorism" argues that if the US improves its image with Muslims, Israel gives up territory to the terrorists, England and Spain withdraw from the War on Terror-- terrorism will no lo...

At the end of September, Obama is set to mediate a summit between Israel and the PA's Abbas. But the real question is who will mediate between Israel and Obama? The Obama Administration's general hostility toward Israel, as well as its efforts to prevent Jews from building houses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, has resulted in a poll showing that the majority of Israelis believe that Obama is biased toward the Palestinian Arab side, with barely a third believing him to be neutral. Now the same pundits and diplomats who clamored that the US must be seen as an honest broker, must explain how Obama will show that he is an honest broker. In the post-election reality, Obama has demonstrated with that he shares none of Israel's concerns, whether over POW's, terrorism or Iran's nuclear program; but all of the concerns of the Palestinian Arab side. He has showcased that with the areas his administration has chosen to focus on most. His administration has not only a...