What the Jews Think about President Obama

What the Jews Think about President Obama Ed Koch was mayor of New York City (elected in 1973) and, although long retired, his words still get picked up, especially when they are incendiary. Otherwise, I would not even bother addressing his recent column. But Koch was once mayor of America's premier city so he's hard to simply ignore, especially when his accusations are so utterly obscene.

In a column written for RealClearPolitics, and excerpted in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, Koch condemns the American Jewish community and members of Congress for not speaking out against President Obama's stance on Israeli settlements.

Koch considers Obama's criticism of the Israeli government over settlements as indicative of disrespect and hostility toward the State of Israel and to Jews.

Koch writes:

President Obama's abysmal attitude toward the State of Israel and his humiliating treatment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shocking. [...]

In the 1930s, the Jewish community and its leadership, with few exceptions, were silent when their coreligionists were being attacked, hunted down, incarcerated and slaughtered. Ultimately 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. [...]

[W]here are our Senators, Schumer and Gillibrand? And, where are the voices, not only of the 31 members of the House and 14 Senators who are Jewish, but the Christian members of the House and Senate who support the State of Israel? Where are the peoples' voices? Remember the words of Pastor Niemoller, so familiar that I will not recite them, except for the last line: "Then they came for me, and by that time, there was no one left to speak up."

Not too subtle.

While most of those who attack Netanyahu's critics only hint at Holocaust analogies, Koch drops the H-bomb with reckless abandon, standard operating procedure when one is on the losing side of an argument about the Middle East.

None of this should be a surprise.

Koch, a nominal Democrat, is first and foremost a neocon. He believes George W. Bush was a great President. In fact, he bolted the Democratic Party in 2004 to support Bush over John Kerry because he was grateful that Bush's Vice President, Dick Cheney, had successfully manipulated the United States into Iraq.

Koch thought that the war would be good for Israel when, in fact, it proved to be disastrous for Israel by eliminating Iraq as Iran's counterweight.

But being wrong never deters the neocons. If it did, they would have gone out of business long ago rather than hanging out in their bunkers hoping for some mega-disaster that will afford them the satisfaction of saying "I told you so."

Koch gets his 20th century history wrong too. The American Jewish community was not silent about the Holocaust. But there was not much American Jews could do other than enlist in the US effort to defeat Nazi Germany (and Imperial Japan), which they did (including Koch himself), in numbers out of proportion to their percentage in the population.

What would Koch have had them do other than fight and, often, die?

Then there is Koch's main point. Are Jews silent in the face of Obama's opposition to Netanyahu's settlement policies?

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[JOSUE1987]

There is nothing more ridiculous then middle-Class Americans acting like Victims of oppression.

[LeathaFace956]

Hahaa, dam jews mad because Obama teabagged their mom's soft wet mouth.

[abrahamkarr12]

This is hillarious. Im not a big fan of Obama either but not for the reasons of Isreal. .FUCK ISREAL and all you dirty American Kikes who get dual citizenship over there. Isreal and you Zionist fuckes are the reason American Society is so perverse and fucked up. A dirty big nosed red head jew man approached me once and offered to sell me a women; I said "no thank you I dont feel like catching any diseases" the red haired jew replied "Diseases but Sir she has no diseases; she is my own daughter".

[Hangshai]

disgusting

[Makarov884]

are you jewish no then youll lose

[Makarov884]

your president is a weak man

[Makarov884]

im a jew and obama is muslim or nazi obama you lie

[heckler171]

these ppl are so filthy and unholy. no president has done more for these demons then obama. soon these ppl will get what they deserve

[AsianAmerican2007]

damn I thought they were smart

[AsianAmerican2007]

Zach Morris is an israeli.