Sarah Palin puts on her Star of David necklace in show of solidarity with Israel

Full title: Sarah Palin puts on her Star of David necklace in show of solidarity with Israel as she visits Jerusalem

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"Sarah Palin has arrived in Jerusalem today wearing a Star of David necklace as she expressed her solidarity with Israel.

The former Alaska governor is on a trip that has raised speculation she is honing her foreign policy credentials ahead of a run for the U.S. presidency next year.

She arrived in Israel this afternoon after a stop in India."

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as a candidate for any political office in this nation -- is an indictment of our entire society.

This country has FAILED.

That they take the fool seriously is worse than her being a fool.

"you Jews are doomed to hell and damnation, but we need you for the rapture" t-shirt?

Well, her followers need a mirror.

It should have read: Palin led away for strip search by Israeli Airport Security Officers.

or something stupid like that.

The 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, landed in Ben-Gurion airport on Sunday afternoon for her first ever visit to Israel.

"As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel," Palin said in a statement.

Meanwhile Ynet has learned that US President Barack Obama may be planning a visit to Israel as well, this summer.

The visit may be scheduled to coincide with the Israeli Presidential Conference, which is set to take place June 20-23, with the participation of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. No official confirmation has been given for the report.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4045160,00.html

puts on the pentagram and it burns it burns it's image into his chest comes to mind

However isn't it condescending and in somewhat bad taste to wear the symbol of a religion that one does not adhere to?

garbage-- meaning "Jews are only useful for Xian survival." :eyes:

At some point in the future even if the Earth is not hit by a large extinction level comet, meteor and or does not suffer from some other internal or external extinction level event. The fact is in about 5 billion years our sun will eventually run out of hydrogen and will burn us up by expanding 200 times its size becoming a red giant star before it ultimately completely dies out.

If the magen david was a religious symbol which it isn't.

I know, judaism is SO confusing.

I am sure Sarah would be appreciative of your insight and knowledge, it is used as a symbol of Judaism, however but semantic exactitude is all important isn't it?

The Star of David , known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian , Modern Hebrew , Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid <ˈmɔɡeɪn ˈdɔvid> or Mogen Dovid) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.<1>

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_David

members of the Bloods gang it is part of their emblem or one of them which is a trident with a number of symbols that is actually a voodoo symbol but that's another kettle of fish

However isn't it condescending and in somewhat bad taste to wear the symbol of a religion that one does not adhere to?

The magen david is not a religious symbol. While it's an icon that has been connected to Judaism for a long time it was never the equivalent of a cross or anything like that. In more modern times it was co-opted for use by the Zionists and is now more of a symbol used to signify that more than anything else. Her wearing it really just shows her support of Zionism, it isn't offensive at all.

oh a stained glass window? now mind you I never said it was worshiped or prayed to or at like a cross which is what is being made out here for 'some' reason , I said it was a symbol

Like I said, it's a symbol long associated with Judaism. But it has zero religious significance and is Zionism's primary icon. Which is the reason it was chosen as such.

The practice of putting the symbol on synagogues dates back a few hundred years when it was likely adopted as a means of distinguishing them as Jewish houses of worship. It doesn't mean anything beyond this loose association.

There's certainly nothing obnoxious about Palin wearing one.

but if you wish to defend Sarah Palin wearing a star of david which it seems you are doing? then who am I to stop you?

You asked a question. I answered it. I have no idea what your problem is.

condescending and you got an answer you didn't like. Why attack the person who took the trouble to answer you and how does answering the question make the person answering a fan of palin? You sound like an idiot.

in an obvious attempt to patronize you are entitled to your opinion of course, but I did not say a fan of Palin I asked about his apparent attempt to defend her wearing the star of david, my so called question was worded to be obviously rhetorical and telling me I sound like an idiot is a personal attack

"However isn't it condescending and in somewhat bad taste to wear the symbol of a religion that one does not adhere to?"

I think so. I also think it's blatantly obvious pandering, and therefore insulting of everyone's intelligence. How stupid does she think we are?

I don't doubt that she is true friend of Israel, nor that she is a loyal American. Nevertheless, there is something about the "gesture" that doesn't ring true to me.

JERUSALEM — Sarah Palin, darling of the US Republican right, joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner at his Jerusalem residence on Monday on the second day of a "private visit" to Israel.

The meeting, at which the two were accompanied by their spouses, was off-limits to the media, and Netanyahu's office did not immediately publish any statement.

A photograph released by the Israeli Government Press Office showed the two couples standing in front of the Israeli and United States flags in the residence.

The former Alaska governor arrived on Sunday afternoon with her husband Todd and went straight to Jerusalem's walled Old City where she visited the Western Wall, the most sacred site where Jews are allowed to pray.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3Wj6mD8rAWrrVQL4AP1LJtM33dg?docId=CNG.a807bd69f3debaa7a6b4ca2383f9500b.e01

If they ever do release a photo, I hope you will post it so we can see what everyone was wearing!

Note - I could not find it at the PMO website so I used the google.

It's tough for a Republican politician to lose friends by visiting Israel. Yet Sarah Palin is in danger of doing so.

Ben Smith in Politico reports that the trip was booked through a Christian tour operator. But the real news is who did not book the trip: the Republican Jewish Coalition, the group that brought George W. Bush to Israel in 1998, Mitt Romney in 2007, Haley Barbour in 2011, and many other presidential hopefuls beside

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Over the months since November 2008, the RJC had repeatedly offered to organize an Israel tour for Palin. They have repeatedly invited Palin to speak at their meetings. As a member of the RJC board, I know that Palin's team engaged in extended conversations about these invitations. Yet they were abruptly shelved. The RJC organization learned that its invitation would not be accepted the same way everybody else did: by reading the newspaper.

Why? We cannot know for certain. But we do know this: Some members of the RJC board -- including me, and one or two others -- have publicly said critical things about Palin.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/21/frum.palin.israel/