The Omission of Jews: Glaring, Yet Not Surprising
[guest post by Dana]
Freshman Congressman Lee Zeldin, who happens to be Jewish, observed a glaring omission from the president’s proposed Islamic State war authorization:
Bipartisan criticism of President Barack Obama’s proposed authorization of force against ISIS mostly has to do with the use of U.S. troops and limits on the commander-in-chief. But one Republican lawmaker noticed something else that he calls quite troubling – omission of the word “Jews.”
Freshman Lee Zeldin is the only Republican Jewish member of Congress, and says it immediately leapt off the page that the President’s proposed resolution specifically singles out several ethnic groups threatened by ISIS: Iraqi Christians, Yezidis and Turkmens, but says nothing about Jews.
“I see an understanding, a recognition in the resolution with regards to ISIS attacks on Muslims, on Christians and others, and I didn’t see a reference to Jews,” Zeldin told CNN in an interview. “And one of the efforts I’ve been involved in is trying to raise awareness for the rising tide of anti-semitism.”
The New York Republican questioned whether the White House deliberately left out Jews as an ethnic group that ISIS has threatened.
“I think that when the White House is drafting a resolution for the authorization of force, that every single word, every phrase in there is done deliberately — it has to be,” said Zeldin.
In defense:
But the White House argues that its war request draft language borrows from the resolution passed in the then-Democratic led Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year.
And it clearly does. However, that was written prior to the Jewish Kosher deli attacks that took place right after the Hebdo massacre. One would think that in the name of accuracy and public relations, the White House would immediately jump to edit and correct the text to include Jews on the list of targets. This especially given last week’s clumsy, childish efforts by the White House and State Dept. to clean up the messy, egregious misspeak made by the president when he claimed the attack at the kosher deli was simply “random”.
If the White House isn’t careful, the public might actually start to believe this administration is not really a friend to the Jewish people.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (8e74ce) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:33 amBut all the Jews in the ISIS-controlled areas are dead now, so it’s not an issue.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:36 amOmg, so that’s their rationale…
Dana (8e74ce) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:39 amObama’s spiritual mentor, speaking about the Jews and the bad-Jew Zionists:
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:41 amImagine what these organizations would be saying if it was, say, Karl Rove or Rush Limbaugh talking this way.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:43 amYeah, the omission of the Jooooz is a real mystery given Obama’s go-to guy on race relations.
Steve57 (560f3e) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:49 amSherlock Holmes once commented on the something like the Obama administration and its attitude toward Jews.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
Mike K (90dfdc) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:51 amHolmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
Holmes: “That was the curious incident.
They left a long time ago, except maybe from Aleppo, and if ISIS ever got close, they left.. I don’t think Aleppo has been overrun anyway.
They did kill an American Jew, Steven Sotloff, although he didn’t really make it known to them he was Jewish, and had become an Israeli citizen also, at one time, to boot.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/ISISmedia.html
This web page chronicles the foreign hostages killed by ISIS, but, as of now, has not been updated to include Kayla Mueller.
Also, when ISIS was al Qaeda in Iraq, I think they killed one or two American Jews who had ventured into Iraq for adventure, supporting themsleves by some business, like fixing antennas. That was Nicholas Berg. They wanted Americans, but I think Jews were worth double or triple points.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/world/struggle-for-iraq-revenge-killing-iraq-tape-shows-decapitation-american.html
And of course Daniel Pearl, but that was Original al Qaeda ® ™ back when it wss all one organization. Khalid sheik Muhammed, one of the chief plotters of the September 11 2001
attacks, now in the middle of a very long protracted process of being put on trial – it seems like thay are going to wait for final victory before executing him – said he had done it himselg and the thinking is that that is the truth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012000057.html
Daniel Pearl too, was decapitated, although maybe not until after he was dead.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:53 amHello Dana.
I wonder what my Senator, Dianne Feinstein, thinks of this.
(Trick question: she’s so senile that it doesn’t even enter her orbit).
I wonder what Chuck Schumer thinks of this.
(Trick question: there’s no partisan advantage to be gained, so he doesn’t care.)
JVW (27e4a7) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:54 amDidn’t claim he was Jewish in his soul though?
Dana (8e74ce) — 2/13/2015 @ 9:57 amWell, they did kill little black baby Jesus. Them and them Eytalians, with their long garlicky noses. (Or is it just the Jews that have long noses and the Eytalians garlicky ones?)
nk (dbc370) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:00 am“…they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is.”
Twitchy.com is the same way.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:03 amI just knew there was something that was not kosher about that war authorization.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:22 amThe much better-looking Dana wrote:
Barack Hussein Obama won 69% of the American Jewish vote in 2012, and if that seems like a huge percentage, it’s actually under the normal Jewish vote for Democratic presidential candidates. American Jews are learning that this Administration doesn’t give a damn about them — other, of course, than their money; the Democrats care a great deal about that! — but far too slowly. And since Mr Obama can’t run again himself, the Democratic nominee in 2016 will probably be right back to the 77% of the Jewish vote normally expected.
The realistic Dana (f6a568) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:22 amAnd since Mr Obama can’t run again himself, the Democratic nominee in 2016 will probably be right back to the 77% of the Jewish vote normally expected.
Hillary! or whomever emerges from that sewer will have to figure out how much of Obama’s minority and millennial vote the Dems can count on. If they feel that their vote totals are slipping there, look for them to pander more to the Jewish community and to gently repudiate Obama’s outreach to Iran and the other hotbeds of radical Islam. But if they think they can make up for the loss of minorities and millennials by expanding their vote totals among married white women, perhaps they can afford to continue to take the Jewish vote for granted.
JVW (27e4a7) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:28 amnk @10, as an Eyetalian I can assure you we have both long and garlicky noses plus greasy olive picker’s hair.
Hope that helps.
Steve57 (560f3e) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:45 amKevin @2
kishnevi (9c4b9c) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:54 amFor the most part, there are no Jews in the areas IS controls. They were chased out by their neighboring nonjihadi neighbors post 1948. To the best of my knowledge, the only Jew killed by IS was Mr. Sotloff. Even if you make the rhetorical stretch of ascribing Hyper Cacher and Hebdo to IS, that is 7 Jews, compared to thousands of Yazidis, Shi’ites, gays, secular Arabs, Christians,Muslim women, etc.
There is also the fact that by not mentioning Jews, it avoids setting off the Arab reflex of seeing Mossad in every US action.
This is straining at gnats. Just like Benghazi, in which the complaints centered not on why Americans were allowed to be killed but on whether or not Susan Rice had used the correct incantation in casting her spells. There are enough problems with Obama’s request… What is he actually planning to do?
Steve, Jackie Mason once had a routine based on the line that Italians are Jews who don’t know they are Jews. And every parallel he picked was hilariously accurate.
kishnevi (9c4b9c) — 2/13/2015 @ 10:57 amDana,
You could elaborate on exactly why you think it’s not surprising (which I agree with).
Gerald A (9d7d51) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:24 amobama hates jews but he loves their money
this is where the “jewish in my soul” thing comes from
he’s just a really sick person
happyfeet (a037ad) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:30 amActually, they is being careful. Vewwwey careful to signal the dregs of humanity that it is witching hour.
Get yer freak on every which way seems proper.
When we ‘restore’ order you’ll have a seat at the table. Pinkie swear.
DNF (5a32e8) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:31 amItalians are Jews who don’t know they are Jews
Is it like the punchline, “I don’t understand how the Jews let such a great business [the Catholic Church] go to the Italians”?
nk (dbc370) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:46 am“But the White House argues that its war request draft language borrows from the resolution passed in the then-Democratic led Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year.”
So, obama is not the only anti semite democrat. The “Democratic led Senate Foreign Relations Committee” is too.
Jim (84e66d) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:53 amthey’re boycotting Mr. netanyahu in droves Mr. Jim
democrats are done playing nicey nice
happyfeet (a037ad) — 2/13/2015 @ 11:56 ampretty much they are all munafakim, even if they Moslem
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-jihadi-in-syria-linked-to-video-of-jordanian-pilot-being-burned-10044130.html
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/13/2015 @ 12:03 pmthey booed God and Israel at the convention, Pikachu.
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/13/2015 @ 12:04 pmI hope it’s on Youtube. I’ll give it a go.
Steve57 (560f3e) — 2/13/2015 @ 12:21 pmAl Sharpton is advising Obama. He’s got a track record with da juice.
Steve57 (560f3e) — 2/13/2015 @ 12:24 pmSteve,possible but doubtful. I heard him do it about 30 years ago. New Years Eve, he opened for Ben Vereen.
nk, it was simply picking obvious behaviors.
Italian mother: Mangia, mangia!*
Jewish mother: Ess, ess, mein kind!
And of course the similar powers of mothers in both cultures.**
*my possibly mangled spelling of the actual Italian word
**ironically, I was escorting my mother on the only fling in her life at going out on Dec. 31. She normally despised New Years.
kishnevi (426b6a) — 2/13/2015 @ 1:46 pmYou’re right; YouTube yeild, well. Not much.
Steve57 (2430ba) — 2/13/2015 @ 3:19 pmTerrorism is not an existential threat:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2015/02/barack-obama-is-mainstreaming-anti.html?m=1
OTOH its open season on muzzies.
DNF (31dc21) — 2/14/2015 @ 5:58 amWell, everyone probably knows that I am no fan of President Obama,
but I sort of agree with Kevin M. up at #2.
If the intent is to authorize action against the forces of Isis at work in the area of Iraq and Syria, I’m not aware of there being any significant Jewish presence there, where those mentioned are.
As to the activity of “Isis” factions operating elsewhere in the world, the current action does not directly effect any of that, correct?
I’m not really protesting the Congressman’s claim,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/14/2015 @ 7:25 amjust adding a side note.
I now see that kishnevi already weighed in on this at #16 as well.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 2/14/2015 @ 7:27 amI continue to marvel at the fact that American Jews dependably show up at Obama White House functions at all, given the way he treats Israel and her leaders:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/7521220/Obama-snubbed-Netanyahu-for-dinner-with-Michelle-and-the-girls-Israelis-claim.html
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Dirty Old Man (0e8026) — 2/14/2015 @ 9:26 pmDid Sammy mention that there was a reason ‘Bibi’ asked for the change from Feb to Mar 3rd?
seeRpea (181740) — 2/17/2015 @ 11:25 am