Obama on the Israel's 60th Independence Day

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Here's Obama's statement on Israel's 60th Independence Day...



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religious faith full acknowledgement

I am an Obama supporter and an anti-Zionist (not an anti-Semite - two very different things) and find it sad that all American candidates play along with the kowtowing to Israel.

It is sad that they cannot mention the oppression of the Palestinian people and the horrors they have had to endure, all the UN resolutions (most vetoed by the US) against Israel, and the government-supported campaign of terrorism there.

It is too bad that candidates cannot present both sides of this difficult situation and rarely if ever mention Israeli violence against those that they oppress. But then if anyone ever did do that, then they would most certainly never be elected.

"I am an Obama supporter and an anti-Zionist (not an anti-Semite - two very different things) and find it sad that all American candidates play along with the kowtowing to Israel."

Its curious how the CNN banner running along the bottom says, "60th Anniversary of Jewish State" while Obama talks about them sharing America's values of Civil Rights. I mean, how would it be taken if it read, "60th Anniversary of White State" or "60th Anniversary of Black State" or if you want to define in terms of religion instead of "race", "60th Anniversary of Catholic State" or "60th Anniversary of Mormon State" or "60th Anniversary of Islamic State".

How in the world is it possible to honestly state that the Declaration of Independence's "All Men are Created Equal" equates to using the powers of Government to favor one ethic-cultural group over another as in a "Jewish State" ??

And how on earth can it honestly be said that the First Civil Right (First Amendment) is somehow harmonious with Israel's (Zionist) practice of using the powers of Government to respect one establishment of Religion over another by creating a "Jewish State" ??

And how can any real democracy-loving person ever honestly say that its perfectly "democratic" to use the powers of Government to make sure that a certain ethnic-cultural group is always the majority that therefore rules? How can any real democracy-loving person honestly say that it is perfectly democratic to use the powers of Government to maintain adherents of a certain religious tradition (& their descendents) as the majority that therefore rules?? Ludicrous!! The American Civil Rights tradition stands opposed from the very beginning to such practices of using Government Powers to favor one ethnic or religious group over others to maintain it as the ruling majority. America's founders saw such absurd practice as the root cause of centuries of race & religious wars in the Old World and refused to seed them into the New Republic, the New World Order of Government of ALL the People, by ALL the People and for ALL the People in EQUAL measure -- not favoring one particular ethnic or religious over the rest. THIS is the "FREEDOM," THIS is the "DEMOCRACY," THESE are the "CIVIL RIGHTS BY WHICH ALL MEN ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR" for which generations of Americans have fought to secure and defend here and around the world. And they believed fervently in their hearts that it is the basis for PEACE among people. Early deviation from these Principles helped incite the blood-filled Civil War.

Why should it be of any import to the American Federal Government that a Foreign State be established and maintained whose primary reason for being is to provide a homeland for the practitioners & descendants of a specific religious tradition? Or for a particular cultural group? As unrighteous as it is to employ the powers of Government to set apart the States of Virginia & Maryland as a Roman Catholic states, or the State of Georgia as a Southern Baptist State, or the State of Utah as a Mormon State, or New Jersey as a Jewish State, so is unrighteous to employ the powers of Government to maintain a Jewish State anywhere else. As racist as it is to employ the powers of Government to ensure Black rule in Louisiana, or enforce White rule in Mississippi, or Hispanic rule in Texas, it is racist to use the powers of Government to enforce a Jewish rule, whether inside America or abroad. A moral principle is either right or wrong everywhere just the same or it is hypocrisy. Just as undemocratic as it would be for the State Government of New Jersey to employ the powers of Government to establish & maintain therein a Jewish majority, so it is equally undemocratic for the government of Israel to employ the powers of Government to establish and maintain for itself a Jewish ruling majority.

Whether based upon religious or racial criteria, it is inherently contrary to America's Principles of Freedom, Democracy & Civil Rights to employ the powers of Government to ensure a Jewish majority, here or abroad.

DOES NOT SUCH HYPOCRISY DISCREDIT & UNDERMINE AMERICA'S CALLING TO PROPAGATE FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY & CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?

Peace, Not Apartheid.

Israel's Zionism (Jewish Supremacy) is incompatible with America's traditions of Freedom, Democracy & Civil Rights
and is the root cause to the ceaseless race & religious warring in that region ever since it was introduced. Remove that bitter root and plant genuine, Government-secured Freedom of Religion & Racial-Cultural Equality in its place and you will raise up a harvest of PEACE in that place that has only known race & religous war these last 60 years. While I enjoy the best of Jewish culture every place it is found, I reject using the powers of Government to enforce Jewish Supremacy over any land.

when they are able to come back to the table thats when progress will be made

But there is no sense of spreading a table of spinning delusions that contradict the very principles upon which America was founded, for which generations of American families since Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King 'til today have sacrificed to secure & defend. Israel needs to come to our table, not us to theirs, especially since we are picking up the tab & leaving the tip.