Oh, wow, I didn’t see this coming. What a shocka!

I wonder why he’s doing this? There was nothing in his campaign rhetoric to indicate he might turn on Israel like this, and his friends and political advisers were all staunch Israel supporters. J Street said so.

I wonder what happened. I am truly mystified. Maybe Jewish Voice For Peace can enlighten me.

But there’s a way to express your views. I probably even agree with you more than most others here (I am no Obama supporter), but when you just go ahead and say what you did about Israeli socialists like that, you’ve stepped over the line. Remember, regardless of how much you or I disagree with them – they did found the state.

You say yourself you posts are “acerbic and rash” – but if you have valid points, why don’t you just make them? Why do you feel the need to come off as a lunatic?

In any case, I definitely didn’t mean to push you away from here.

Point 1: Israel should do just that. Tell him to shove it. Cozy up to whomever it wants other than the US. It must worry about its interests first like any nation.

Point 2: Muslim Roots – yes, I know all this. I have nearly as many Muslim acquaintances and friends as Jews but that has nothing to do with taking the chance with my freedoms by giving someone with vastly different interests than me the ability to rule over me. You and I have Jewish roots, and you would deny that they play into our personal goals and interests? We’re not robots and we’re not objective. No one is.

Point 3: Sorry I offended you so much, that was not my intention. While I’m very thankful, on behalf of my family, for your service to the Jewish people, (I think I’ve mentioned I have relatives there serving right now as well), I don’t see why I can’t insult socialists no matter where they live and whether or not Jewish, Israeli, both or neither. I apologize that we disagree on the issue, but I detest Socialists, Communists and anyone that believes in either of those principles. While I appreciate the sacrifice you made, I also have a history which includes awful treatment of family members by followers of those two ideologies; those that believed the State and collective were more important than my family member’s individual freedoms. So while I may be lashing out, and probably a chickenshit coward (I’ll give you that one, I probably am, for now), I will always consider Socialists an enemy to me, even if they are distantly related and will never try to find common ground with them. Sorry. Perhaps I’ll take you up on your offer of Aliyah if that’s the way I can do my part to rid the world of Socialism, whether in Israel, America, or anywhere else.

And yet, I find another reason why I stopped posting here. My acerbic and rash posts offend more people than necessary. I honestly feel bad that I offended you, but I don’t feel any different about the people I speak of. So, I’ll keep playing in the fever swamps of like minded capitalists, individuals, and I guess neocons and come back every now and then to get the pro-Obama stuff. I guess I’ll see you on Twitter.

I don’t like that anymore than you do – but Israel is still sovereign (in theory) – and can tell Obama to shove it (G-d willing). No one elected Obama to lead Israel, which is how you’re treating it.

And Muslim roots don’t mean anything – granted they are not the mainstream, but there are Muslims who do not hate Israel (one example), not to mention the Muslims (Bedouins – trackers are incredible in their help to Israel) who serve in the IDF – unlike most who decide to criticize (from Left OR Right) from their American armchair.

Ok, you posted another comment while I was typing – “there are more bat shit crazy filthy socialists in Israel than here” WTF?! I’m generally pretty civil regardless of any disagreement I have, or how long the argument is (ask themiddle, over the past few weeks) – but that’s way over the line. Filthy?? Who gave you the right to criticize anyone who actually has decided to put his ass on the line? You have no standing to utter anything against anyone in Israel. You’re not crazy – you’re disrespectful in the worse way. I didn’t spent years in that green uniform, with no sleep at nights in the freezing cold of the Judean mountains for some chickenshit coward with a big mouth to criticize MY country. If you don’t like Israeli policy (e.g. any socialist proclivities) then the word is ALIYAH. Until then – sit your ass back down into your la-z-boy and shut the f*** up.

American Jews, for the most part, are more gullible than Bible Thumpers and yet they see more of chasm between them than with Hamas. Somehow I always forget why I stopped posting here, and then on the day Obama goes to the Arab World, snubs Israel in the process, prepared to detonate US-Israeli relations, and on top of it has the Chutzpah to tell Jews in their own country where they can and can’t live, and like clockwork, there’s old Jewlicious.com to whitewash what every Jew secretly knows and refuses to say about our President with declassified Muslim roots and Sarah Silverman prepared to blow him. With friends like us, who needs enemies. It’s time for Israelis to commit sepuku on their own. Why wait?

Sure, this is a rant of a crazy man. Beyond all means, consider me crazy. The bar has already been set so low by all of the calm, rational, deep thinking, sane types. Every day, I wake up and think I’m dreaming and every day Barrack does something new to make American Jews look like fools, and they quietly go on cursing Sarah Palin and dreaming about peace with cannibals.

He needs to give a gift to the Arabs and his gift is pressure on settlements. It’s not the end of the world.

Perspective is important, and while “Barry is a disaster for Israel-US relations” is an argument somewhere in the realm of reasonable – it’s a mighty big leap from that to Jews being marched off to camps again.