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Rush's Timeless Wisdom - Why Don’t More Liberal Jews Support Israel?

Jul 28, 20218 min
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RUSH: All right. The question is on the table: “Why is it that liberal Jews — Hollywood Jews, Jewish people, liberals all over the country — don’t seem to join the fight for Israel?” There are many theories out there, but the simplest explanation, folks — and it’s going to sound simplistic, and oftentimes trust the simplistic because the simplistic is right on the money. Most liberals, whatever their faith, put their liberalism first. Liberalism is a more powerful religion than any other, to the committed liberal. In the world of liberalism, Israel is too powerful. Israel is using jets against these defenseless little backwards terrorists. That’s not fair. Israel is richer. Israel is allied by the United States. This is just not right.


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All right, the question is on the table. Why is it that liberal Jews, Hollywood Jews, Jewish people are liberal all over the country don't seem to join the fight for Israel. Uh. There are many theories out there, but the simplest explanation, folks, and I have, I have it. It's gonna sound simplistic, and oftentimes trust the simplistic because the simplistic is right in the money. Most liberals, whatever their faith, put their liberalism first. Liberalism is a more

powerful religion uh than any other. To the committed liberal in the world of liberalism. Israel is too powerful. Israel is using jets against these defenseless, little backwards terrorists. That's not fair. Israel is richer. Uh Uh, it's Israel is like the United States. Uh. This, this is just not right. And you cannot exclude from this the element of guilt

which pervades liberalism and and perpetuates it. Um. A liberal in the United States is really no different than the liberal in Europe or liberal working at the United Nations. They have the same worldview. Liberal here was no different than the liberal in the Soviet Union. They all, I don't care where you go find a liberal in Congo. Find a liberal in Kuala Lumpur. Find a liberal in Tibet. Find anybody in Tibet. You're talking about a bunch of

people getting the butts kicked. Nobody cares about that because nobody's got the guts to go up against the Chinese. But I get sidetracked. Find a liberal anywhere. They all think we need to negotiate with terrorists, that we should have a Manhattan Project for terrorists and so forth, that we uh, I need to examine what it is we're doing to cause these people to become terrorists? Why do they hate us? So it's our fault, well not, there's

the liberals, of course, of the understanding and compassion. It's the it's the it's the blockheads, the conservatives and others. They're the ones causing the problem. Conservatives and conservatism pose

a much greater threat to liberals than terrorists. Do check their language against the terrorists versus their language against George W. Bush or me or any other prominent conservative public figure, and ask yourself about whom do they have the most criticism for loom did they have the most criticism and about whom do they speak in the most harshest of terms. It's not the terrorists. Liberals in this country want terrorists to have essentially constitutional rights, the Al Qaida Bill of Rights.

Another story today in the stack. United Nations emit all this going on with the Hezbos and the Israelis, the United Nations demanding that we close our secret prisons around the world. Well, if they're secret, how do those bone heads know that we have any? But number two, who the hell are they? A bunch of liberals of the United Nate, the Human Rights UH Committee Conference whatever they call themselves up there, And don't forget this, this human

rights club. But the United Nations can have as one of its leaders somebody likes Addam Hussein or a country like a rock under Saddam Hussein, it rotates, So it does matter Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. The only competition liberals really have of the religions is the religion of Gaea, which is the earth, a tree whatever that's They're a little conflicted there, but they don't see Israel as anything UH with which they have in common UH in any way,

religious or otherwise. They have no understanding of this enemy, as they had no understanding of Communism. And for the longest time, they had no understanding of Nazism, and actually they still don't have a real understanding of Nazism. The associate Nazism with conservatism when Nazism is is one of those horrible things as you get on the left, Communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism, those are all on the left side of center. But liberals have found a way to put it on the right.

And of course that's become popular confect conventional wisdom. Now, just like the Voting Rights Act, the President Bush signed a Voting Rights Act extension, and liberals out there, oh, whoa, this is a wonder of the voting what I teks the wonderful, wonderful. What they don't tell you is it was a bunch of Democrats that made the damn thing necessary. It was a bunch of democrats came up with the poll tax, it was a bunch of democrats, came up

with literacy tests. It's a bunch of democrats and liberals that came up with the restrictions. But somehow that's been reversed, uh in in popular culture and conventional wisdom today. There are exceptions to this, however, as I said, Alan Dersher Witch writing today in the Washington Times would be the Washington Times for those of you in uh Rio, Linda.

He writes, as a liberal Democrat, I listened carefully to the opposition voiced by many Democratic Senators to the nomination of John Bolton as our chief representative to the the UN. Mr Bolton has been representing as at a U n since August during the current Middle East crisis. I've been able to listen and for myself to what Mr Bolton has been saying at the United Nations. On the basis of his performance, I have become a Bolton supporter. He

speaks with moral clarity. He is extremely well prepared, He's extraordinarily articulate. He places the best face on America policy, particularly in the Middle East during this crucial time. But Mr Bolton is right to be skeptical, and all the great US ambassadors to the United Nations, from Stevenson to Goldberg to Moynahander Kirkpatrick, have shared that skepticism of the body. Bolton's absolutely justified in pushing for reform of the notoriously

corrupt and inefficient bureaucratic structure at Turtle Bay. As he once said, if member countries want the UN to be respected, they should begin by making sure it's worthy of respect. I have observed Mr Bolton's performance with regard to Israel and its conflicts with Hezbollah and Hamas. On many other fronts, he has proved himself a staunch advocate of freedom and

human rights, specific in Sudan, North Korea, and Cuba. Some critics of argue that Mr Bolton is better in his public role as advocate than his besides behind the scenes role as conciliator. But at this point in history, the United States needs a public advocate who con further its case in the court of public opinion. No one does that better than John Bolton. So Dershowitz, uh, you'll, you'll, You'll not hear this from any liberal in Hollywood, regardless

their religion. But Dershowitz does have an alliance and a deep love and the relationship with Israel and has written books about it. And this is fabulous. By the way. I was happy to see this, happy to read it. But and I don't want to poison it or sadden it. But I do have just one small complaint. It would it would just it would just be wonderful if Mr Dershowitz would join his country and other efforts, as he

has joined us in our effort in Israel. That's the one thing that I would uh, I would add because if it's not Israel, than the usual liberalism in mister Dersherwood surfaces, and he is part of that chorus. I hope this helps answer the question, Ladies and gentlemen, really no more complicated than that.

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