Progressives…
14 February 2008 - 9 אדר א' 5768 by Huw
Rabbi Michael Learner points out Obama’s Jewish Problem:
Obama is a spiritual progressive. He believes that human beings are equally valuable whether they are white or black, American or Asian or African or European. Apply that to the Middle East and you get policy inclinations very different from those which have been insisted upon by the Israel Lobby, supported by most of the establishment Jewish institutions which, through the power of their organized pressure have become the dominant policy supported by both parties in rare unanimity.
This seems to me to be a problem of the two religions functioning, in this case, within Judaism. Rabbi Learner mentions receiving “hundreds of emails from young Jews distraught at the television images of tens of thousands of Palestinians breaking out of the prison camp that Gaza has become, desperate for food, fuel and other goods that have been denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli army. A new generation of young Jews no longer blindly adopts the strategy of domination or salutes to the policies of the current government of Israel.”
Yet, another Rabbi chides Obama - and his supporters - because Obama actually wants to talk to Iran. Talking. ZOMFG. What next? Treating them like people?
It’s the younger generation that moves me. Leftward. There is hope. But, eh… most young people grow up into old farts (ie, Yer Host).
