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Before the fall: Reflexive Jewish support for Dems

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Now that President Obama has enough senators that a veto of the bill opposing the Iran nuclear deal cannot be overturned, the postmortems have started. Some blame the president, others blame the Democratic Party. I would argue that they are both partially correct but they’re omitting the biggest enabler, the Jewish community itself, especially the “Jewish leadership.”

Thirty years ago, Republican James Baker famously said,  “F— the Jews. They won’t vote for us anyway.” But because of a blind loyalty to the Democratic Party by most Jews, Democrats Party politicians today act as if their stance is, “F— the Jews, they will vote for us whatever we do!”

In 2008, despite all the warnings, despite the fact that Barack Obama sat in a church listening to anti-Semitic sermons for two decades, despite the fact that he was a close friend with Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalid, the mainstream media and the Jewish community ignored the warning signs. Even before the election the Jewish community knew about the 2003 event honoring Khalidi, where Obama had made a toast that was so anti-Israel that the liberal L.A. Times hid the tape. Before the 2008 election Obama had already surrounded himself with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel advisers. Ignoring all that, the Jewish community gave Obama 78 percent of the Jewish vote. The leadership of certain major Jewish organizations, despite their phony claims of bi-partisanship, had a blind allegiance to the Democratic Party.

During his first term, President Obama proved to be the most anti-Israel president since the modern state of Israel was created in 1948. But it shouldn’t have been as surprise.

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