Israel Matzav: 'America will be cursed if we reject Israel'

'America will be cursed if we reject Israel'

Robert Avrech reports on a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition by another female Israel supporter whom the Left loves to hate: Michele Bachmann.

Why the liberal hatred and obsession with Bachmann and Palin?

It's not hard to understand.

Articulate and appealing Conservative women—Bachmann, Palin, Coulter, Malkin—are a direct and powerful rebuke to the liberal so-called feminist narrative. A narrative that is based on the Orwellian notion that only liberals can be authentic feminists, and by implication authentic women. Those who deviate from this political and social orthodoxy are not just ideological opponents, but existential enemies.

As Lenin said, “We are not interested in debating our opponents but in destroying them.”

As every screenwriter knows, a compelling narrative deperately needs a worthy antagonist. Thus Bachmann and Palin—in fact, all Conservative women—have become the anatagonists of choice for the rapidly collapsing liberal narrative.

Yup. Andrew Sullivan has already called Bachmann insane, although for now, at least, he has not commented on her body parts.

Here's the money quote from Bachmann on Israel:

I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States . . . [W]e have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play. And my husband and I are both Christians, and we believe very strongly the verse from Genesis [Genesis 12:3], we believe very strongly that nations also receive blessings as they bless Israel. It is a strong and beautiful principle.

A lot of Leftist Jews feel queasy when they hear Christians quoting the bible about Jews. I want to address that. One should not take Christians quoting the bible or speaking about Jews in religious terms as necessarily meaning that they want to convert us. Christians from both the Right and the Left may quote the bible to and about Jews. Consider this from President Clinton's October 27, 1994 speech to the Knesset.

Thirteen years ago, he said, he and Mrs. Clinton visited Jerusalem's holy sites with their pastor as part of a religious mission. A few years later, "when he became desperately ill, he said he thought I might one day become President." At that point, Clinton recounted, his friend and teacher told him, " 'If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you.' He said it is God's will that Israel, the biblical home of the people of Israel, continue for ever and ever."

What that article doesn't tell you, but which I recall from radio coverage at the time, is that the ultra-Orthodox parties were thrilled with Clinton quoting the bible, and Israel's Leftist parties were not. And Clinton is definitely not a Rightist. Was he trying to convert us?

Hmmm.

Israel Matzav: 'America will be cursed if we reject Israel'