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By Zbigniew Zwgstkstwig
Ann Coulter's recent unrepentant tweets complaining that there was too much talk about the "f---ing Jews" in the presidential debates shocked many pro-Israel Americans.
While the usually anti-Israel left and other anti-Semites relished the controversy, pro-Israel Americans were aghast. But why the shock?
The candidates' traditional pilgrimage to Israel
Israelis are the first to be amazed at the US presidential candidates tradition of flocking to Israel for a photo-op and to establish evidence of their pro-Israel bona fides.
Neither Israel nor US Jews demand it or expect it. So, why do they do it? Because being pro-Israel is STILL A MUST in any US presidential campaign, a sign that the candidate stands for what is morally right.
Even those who dislike or even hate Israel make the required pilgrimage during their campaign. Once in office they show their true colors.
Left: Candidate Obama visiting Jerusalem's Western Wall during his 2008 presidential campaign.
As president he went on to repeatedly reject Israel's right to Jerusalem, a city that was already part of Jewish civilization thousands of years ago, when North America was populated only by Aboriginals, and Africa was in the Stone Age.
Because of Obama US citizens born in Jerusalem cannot list Israel as their country of birth on their passports. Obama has also engaged in a still ongoing diplomatic and propaganda war against PM Netanyahu, and has downplayed basic notions of Israeli security.
As US demographics change and Muslims continue to pour money into American institutions - and into US politicians' pockets - future presidential candidates' required pilgrimage may no longer be to Jerusalem but to Qatar, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia.
For the time being the most obvious reason for this pandering to Jews is simply the candidates' desperate need for money, although one must hope that some of them may feel a sincere solidarity with the State of Israel.
But a full presidential campaign requires hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, and money is blood for a candidate. Not enough money, and the dreams of sitting in the Oval Office are dashed.
Illustration above: To put some hard numbers on what it takes to get through the first four states, Fortune magazine surveyed leading party strategists, fundraisers, media consultants, and the historical record. This illustration outlines the cost of the Republican presidential slugfest’s opening round.
Many Jewish donors not only have big pockets but a generous heart as well, and they have been an important source of revenue for candidates - usually for Democrats because the majority of US Jews vote Democrat.
Quite frankly, many of these Jewish donors and supporters expect their candidate to make an unequivocal statement of support for the State of Israel, and then once in office he can tear Israel's security to shreds, for all they care.
The Obama administration has promoted an Iran Deal that facilitates the development of nuclear bombs by that terror-sponsoring country, unleashes a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, and rises considerably the constant threat of nuclear annihilation for Israel. But most Democrats, including Jewish Democrats, continue to chant "My Obama right or wrong".
Ann Coulter could have denounced this hypocritical and mercenary pandering to US Jewish donors, when candidates pretend to care for Israel, only to throw it under the bus once they get elected. But instead she exposed her prejudices by using the term "f---ing Jews".
Candidates pander to all sorts of ethnic groups and interests. It's part of their job. But in her view, only the Jews can be referred to using such gutter language. She would have never used it with Hispanics, Afro-Americans, homosexuals, or any other group that politicians consider worthy of pandering to. But it's not all her fault.
First of all, she grew up in a world where Jews are still a convenient and easy target to blame for everything.
Whether you hate capitalism, Marxism, religion, atheism, or anything at all, you can safely blame the Jews with no repercussions whatsoever. No fear of Muslim Fatwas, or violent revenge, or even the threat of a lawsuit for defamation. Jews are fair game and have been taking it for two thousand years.
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Second, Ann Coulter has been a right wing favorite enjoying unconditional support from her fans who overlook her often bizarre, absurd, offensive, and uninformed opinions. She counts on her immunity from right wing criticism.
RADIATION IS GOOD FOR YOU
Take for example her views on the dangers of radiation. As the damaged Fukushima power plant unleashed its deadly radiation all around and into the ocean, Ann Coulter has this to say:
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. ...excess radiation operates as a sort of cancer vaccine.
And she had this to day about fat people and the disabled:
she told Breitbart that she would refuse to allow overweight girls in if she were in charge of immigration. .... Coulter implied in an interview that her ban would also extend to the blind and those who require wheelchairs.
Stephen Hawking, don't even bother to apply for US citizenship in Ann Coulter's ideal America.
She did not even spare the 9/11 widows:
Coulter writes in her book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."
She also wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."
The time when talking too much about the fate of the Jews was deliberately avoided.
The following may seem unrelated to 21st century US politics, but once you get down to the real issue behind this controversy, there is a parallel with another time when the fate of the Jews was also silenced.
As information about the Holocaust began to come in to Jewish organizations AND the White House during World War II, there was a complicity of silence about the extermination of Jews in Europe.
Even American Jews - for their own reasons - were key participants in this deliberate censoring of information.
Just as the media today chooses what news to publish and which ones to cover up, during WW2 even top newspapers such as the New York Times decided to hide incontrovertible information of the mass murder of Jews in Nazi Europe.
Nothing was said. And so it came as a surprise for GIs to find Jews that looked like skeletons in Nazi death camps, and piles and piles of corpses. They were shocked because it had been White House and Allies policy to hide the truth.
In private conversations the Allies acknowledged that they did not want to deal with "too many survivors" after the war, so not only they refused to expose the mass gassing and incineration of European Jews, but they REFUSED to bomb the Nazi gas chambers and the railroads leading to them - even though they bombed other targets not far from them.
Today Israel is being threatened daily. While other countries can afford to lose wars and then recover from their defeats - if Israel loses just ONE war its population will be exterminated in another Holocaust. This is the difference between Israel and all other countries in turmoil, and this is why it is important to speak out about Israel's security, particularly during a US presidential campaign.
Iran constantly threatens Israel with extermination, while the Obama administration continues to defend a deal that allows Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
Arab countries are just biding their time till the moment when they can ONCE AGAIN attack and invade Israel. They don't just plan to occupy it. They want to slaughter its Jewish population.
And in spite of their open belligerent racism and threats, the United States government has continued to sell Arab countries state-of-the-art weapons and war planes to be used against what they consider their only true enemy: Israel.
So dear Ann Coulter and everyone who thinks American politicians should not even mention Israel - you are wrong.
Where standing regarding Israel is the litmus test for the morality of individuals and countries.
Those who dismiss the precarious situation of Jews in Israel, and choose to forget the 2000 year old history of persecution and genocide that culminated in the Holocaust merely 70 years ago, are showing their true human values or lack of them.
And Ann Coulter - after a long career built on offending everyone - has finally showed where all that vitriol comes from. Not from a refreshing and rational criticism of political correctness, but most likely from a darker place.
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