Watching Glenn Beck’s show on Headline News right now. Some interesting guests and quotes:
Beck’s first guest was Anne Bayefsky, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute — the topic was the UN:
Beck: “Are they [the UN] just incompetent, or are they an American foe?”
Bayefsky: “They are the later. It’s quite clear — especially with this last set of resolutions — that they have become essentially the politcal arm of Hezbollah. They have no definition of terrorism; they have no comprehensive convention against terrorism…”
“The UN is part of the problem, not the solution.”
Yep.
Beck’s second guest was Jackie Mason, who is suing Jews for Jesus for using his name and a caricature of his face on a pamphlet (in which Jews for Jesus wonders if Mason might be a gentile):
Beck: I don’t understand, at least currently, why there aren’t more Jewish conservatives.
Jackie Mason: This is the most unbelievable thing in the world.
The greatest support that the Jews always have is from the conservative Republicans. The further the right the Republican is, the more he is likely to be supportive of the Jew. And the more he sees it as their Biblical homeland, as far as Israel is concerned. And they’re 10 times more in favor of Israel and Judaism than the Jews are.
Jackie Mason is a funny guy. But there’s a lot of truth in his humerous musing about the conservative support of Jews and Israel.
It a fallacy to believe that everyone in Israel is a member of Likkud and that the only way to ’support’ Israel is by supporting the policies of one political party. Even now there is harsh criticism regarding the way the fighting with Hezbollah was conducted that may lead to the resignations of high ranking military figures.
Ah, accountability…
(All that assumes that American Jews shared domestic philosophies with Republicans or wanted their kids taught about Jesus in public school…)
Left by Preston on August 29th, 2006 at 9:32 am