Loving Israel by hating Obama (Ha'aretz)

Last update - 19:35 09/06/2009
Loving Israel by hating Obama
By Bradley Burston

... Understandably, Jews abroad have voiced fears that the unapologetic racism in this ostensibly ultra-Zionist criticism of Obama could foster anti-Semitism, further strain black-Jewish relations, and add fuel to anti-Israel fires.

All this comes at a time when confusing hatred of the Other with support for Israel, has come into decidedly wider fashion. In historically liberal Minnesota, Chabad Rabbi Manis Friedman contributed the following to an "Ask the Rabbis" discussion conducted by the North American Jewish magazine Moment, which asked the question "How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?"

"I don't believe in western morality, i.e. don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries, don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral," Rabbi Friedman began ...

The haters of Obama, the haters of Arabs, and the outpost gunslingers should bear in mind what happened at the end of that Channel Two report on the Gilad Farm activists: not long after they started the fire on their neighbors' field, smoke and flame were licking at the walls and windows of their own houses.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091234.html

Rabbi Friedman committed khillul hashem which one of the worst "sins" in Judaism.

These noisy RW nuts are not patriots in the least: not only do they embarrass their country abroad, but they are defying the law, interfering with any government activities directed at establishing peace, and directly causing trouble for their fellow citizens, both Arab and Jewish.

Sadly, the far right seem to be crawling out of the woodwork everywhere. The RW settlers in Israel. The murderer of Tiller and the Holocaust Museum shooter in America. Britain electing two BNP members to the Europaean Parliament. Other Europaean countries also sending neo-fascists to Europe. Aaargh and ugh to all far-righties who create trouble for us all.