I think if I could put a dividing line, the Orthodox and Conservatives who have a Torah appreciation give us wholehearted support. The rest [of Jews] who are not driven by the Word of God have a liberal agenda.
And the liberal agenda is they are pro-abortion. They're pro-homosexual. They're pro-gay marriage -- they want men to marry men and women to marry women -- and their difference with me is not really what I'm doing with Israel. Their hostility to me is poisoned by their liberalism. They take a liberal position that poisons their view of what we could be doing for Israel.
Note that a bit more than one-third of American Jews (around 41%, per the latest PEW survey) belong to the Reform (or "liberal," as Hagee would say) denomination of Judaism. More here.
McCain supporter Pastor John Hagee, who seems to have some kind of odd control over McCain - McCain refuses to renounce the man's endorsement - has some rather disturbing things to say about Catholics (they worship a "whore"), about gays (they're responsible for Katrina), and now Jews:
"It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day....
How utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking to God for His chosen people to credit idols with bringing blessings He had showered upon the chosen people. Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of anti-Semitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come.... it rises from the judgment of God uppon his rebellious chosen people."
The Republican party hasn't lost its ability to hate just about everybody. I had thought with all their attention of late to Muslim-bashing and gay-bashing, they'd forgotten about the Jews. But alas, no suck luck. The GOP propaganda organ, and cult-run newspaper, Washington Times has joined the recent surge of George-Soros-Jew bashing that's been on the uptick of late in the Republican party and among their surrogates (is it just a coincidence that GOP surrogate and CNN host Glenn Beck last night noted that America just can't afford a Jew as president?)
In this latest broadside in the Moonie paper, we learn that the "amoral" and "wealthy super-elite" George Soros has a "hatred of Christianity" and "control" over a vast conspiracy to take over the world.
What, no comment about his nose?
The article even attacks Atrios as part of the great Jewish conspiracy (I hear his name was Atriosowitz before he emigrated).
You can read the piece for yourself, it's equal parts bizarre (accusing MoveOn of being fringe for opposing the Iraq war (along with the overwhelming majority of the American people) and supporting John Kerry for president (along with 49% of the American people)) - yeah, pretty fringe there - and equal parts simply disgusting for its implied bigotry. At what point will Republicans learn that Jew-baiting and gay-bashing, trashing blacks and Muslims and Latinos, isn't what this country is about, and it isn't what the majority of Republicans are about?
At what point will the Republican party stand for anything more than fear? Do they have any vision for the future that doesn't include bashing someone they hate?
