A Lie That Would Bring a Tear to the Eye of Joseph Goebbels

I can’t believe there are Jewish Democrats who are trying to portray Sarah Palin as an anti-Semite. This is insane. The claim? She “supported Pat Buchanan” in an election bid. The truth? While working for the Steve Forbes campaign, Buchanan showed up for a visit, and she put on a Buchanan button, as a courtesy.

How can you work for the Forbes campaign and be a Buchanan supporter? You can’t. I bought a Nader shirt, as a joke. I guess that makes me a liberal.

When are American Jews going to realize that Bible-believing American Christians are their most powerful allies, and that as far as Israel is concerned, the bank accounts of American Christians are God’s purse?

Sarah Palin governs a state with very few Jews. She’s extremely popular, so she has no need to court favor with a small minority. Yet she works hard to maintain good relations with them, she decorates her office with an Israeli flag, and she wears an Israeli flag pin. This is in contrast to Barack Obama, who had to be bullied into wearing the flag of his own country, and who has a decades-long track record of close friendship with–and of absorbing religious and moral instruction from–an anti-Semitic pastor. Alaskan Jewish leaders have nothing but good things to say about her. If they knew of a problem, don’t you think they’d be complaining?

Buchanan is a disgrace, and it was a mistake to wear the button. But if wearing a Buchanan button for one day is proof of hostility to Jews, why don’t we condemn his publisher and the liberal cable network that keep him on their payrolls? Actually, condemning MNBC is a pretty good idea. Buchanan’s issues with Jews and Israel are sufficiently well documented to make the granting of regular television airtime utterly inappropriate and somewhat offensive.

How can American Jews be so blind about the intentions of conservative Christians like Sarah Palin? It has to be the result of a deliberate effort to ignore the facts. All over America, we are supporting Israel and the Jews financially and in prayer, and we even base our votes largely on Israel’s interests. More than Jews do. And we do it all gladly, with no expectation of reward or even the opportunity to proselytize. What more can we do?

Obviously, Christians are not Jews. We don’t agree on doctrine. We think Jews are mistaken about some of their beliefs. We would love to see them all wake up one day and decide Jesus is the Messiah. So what? Our money and our loyalty and our prayers have no strings attached. Aren’t benevolent Christians who help you all they can better than hostile leftists who call Israel “Palestine”?

There are Jewish leaders who do everything they can to prevent Christian money from reaching Israel. That’s beyond belief. If we can think you’re wrong and still give you hundreds of millions of dollars, can’t you think we’re wrong and take it?

“Hundreds of millions” is probably understating the case. The International Federation of Christians and Jews (Christians donating, Jews coordinating and distributing) has provided hundreds of millions, all by itself. And politicans we elect have the power to send much more.

If liberal American Jews think our money is tainted, they should be sending so much of their own, ours isn’t needed. But they aren’t. Show me a Jew other Jews aren’t helping, and then tell me a Christian shouldn’t pitch in. Tell me it’s wrong for a Christian to send money to fly an Ethiopian Jewish couple home to Israel. Take a look at the way oppressed Jews are living in filthy Ethiopian camps and then try to sell me. Tell me we shouldn’t be buying hot food for Holocaust survivors who are alone and too old to take care of themselves. I would like to hear your arguments. Christians have sent hundreds of thousands of Jews home to Israel. How many has George Soros sent? We are responsible for the existence of a substantial percentage of Israel’s population. How big a percentage? At least 5%. Imagine the US without Michigan and Minnesota.

Americans send charity money to people all over the world. How can it be possible that Jews are the only people we should not help?

You know what Jewry’s punishment will be, if American Jews don’t wake up and accept the Christian right as friends? NOTHING. We’re going to send money ANYWAY. How can you beat a deal like that? This is one of the few areas in which we begin to approach Jesus’s altruistic style. We’re doing something consistent with what we preach. Give us a break. Acknowledge it. The ancient Jews let the Gentile Cyrus build the second temple. As the Jews fled Egypt, they accepted money and treasure from their former tormentors, who feared the Jewish God. Surely my money is just as clean. Why discount one of the most beautiful developments in your history?

If we are on the side of Jews in Israel, it stands to reason that we are on the side of Jews in the US. We may differ on social issues, but in an increasingly anti-Semitic world, in which the people who agree with you politically get more hostile every year, how important is that?

If anything, Sarah Palin’s political and religious beliefs indicate she is very likely to be a diehard friend of the Jews. That ought to be obvious. Goebbels said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will perceive it as the truth. Funny how that doesn’t seem to work for the truth itself.