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From J.C Hawkins at the American Thinker...

"...Israel was created six decades ago, the Western democracies were returning a people to their cherished homeland where they had flourished 2,000 years before. With almost 40% of Jews exterminated in World War II, this action was the least the world could do to right the most heinous wrong in human history.

At the time, the war victors contemplated a two-state solution, with an Arab state adjoining Israel. But conflict immediately broke out upon Israel's creation, and the Jews there have been fighting for their lives ever since."

Credit for the notion of the creation of Israel goes to Theodore Herzl, who in 1896 wrote the map for the creation of Zionism in The Jewish State...

THE PLAN

The whole plan is in its essence perfectly simple, as it must necessarily be if it is to come within the comprehension of all.

Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves.

The creation of a new State is neither ridiculous nor impossible. We have in our day witnessed the process in connection with nations which were not largely members of the middle class, but poorer, less educated, and consequently weaker than ourselves. The Governments of all countries scourged by Anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want.

Theodore Herzl was a Jewish German. It took another German, Adolph Hitler, with his death camps and the horror of Nazi Eugenics to spur the U.N to create Israel in 1948. From the link...

With the rise of National Socialism, the advocates of sterilization and euthanasia found ever-increasing support. More than half of Germany's doctors joined the Nazi party. In 1935, Adolf Hitler gave his approval for the elimination of the "incurably ill." In October 1939, Germany began its euthanasia program. This program involved virtually the entire psychiatric community and a large part of the general medical community.

In August 1941, when Hitler officially stopped the euthanasia program because of outspoken criticism by church leaders and increasing public concern, German doctors and nurses had already killed at least 70,000 mentally or physically disabled people. Other than their disabilities, most of the victims were ordinary Germans citizens and non-Jews. It was not until after April 1940 that doctors began specifically targeting institutionalized German Jews .

Though the euthanasia program had been officially halted, it was secretly continued by a number of doctors committed to the cause of what was called "racial hygiene," which would soon become the rationalization for genocide against the Jews, the Slavs and the Gypsies. The "Final Solution," put in motion in 1942, was but a small step away.

Today, Israel has precarious footing in the Middle East. George Bush is a strong supporter of Israel; but unfortunately we are seeing the rise of Leftism and Democratic Fascism here in the United States. From Protein Wisdom, Jeff Goldstein...

For those of you still unfamiliar with the thesis of Goldberg’s book — and with the general thematic arc of this site — allow me to note that the New Left, whose desire it was to destroy the “establishment” (often quite literally), are the heirs to both the German youth movement of the early 1900s (specifically, the Neue Schar of 1919) and, in political philosophy, the fascists, who in the US were aligned (by way both of socialism and an appeal to forging “community”) with the “Progressives.”

Today, Barack Obama is running for President on the watered-down, vague, and milquetoast rhetoric of that same “activist” spirit — and not surprisingly, he is supported in his efforts by the remnants of the New Left, by modern progressives, and by the bourgeois white liberals who, during the sixties, threw their lot in with the “revolutionaries” rather than end “up against the wall, motherfuckers!” (in Mark Rudd’s famous phrase).

Some commenters here have noted that the American people don’t care about such past associations — that the connection between Obama and the New Left, when pointed out, is a “smear” (just as it is when it gets pointed out that Black Liberation Theology is Marxist and anti-white, and in that respect carries the torch for the Black Panther movement) — and they may be right: forty-plus years onward after the brash Port Huron Statement, these one-time ostentatious radicals have learned to fold into the system like innocuous egg whites.

But make no mistake: for many of these folks, their radicalism marked the highlight of their lives, and their lack of remorse is perfectly in keeping with their self-worth, which they tie to those frequently romanticized identities, and to the mythos of the 60s and early 70s.

That Barack Obama is one of those liberal elites who has chosen to hob nob with domestic terrorists as a way to shore up his New Left bona fides — and cement himself as a progressive left “intellectual” whose identity markers make him a prime candidate for political success, given today’s complex racial calculus — should concern even those who have no real memory of the era of “peace and love” (and university takeovers, and race riots, and domestic bombings, and ambushes on police, and “smashing the establishment” by way of vandalism and random violence — Brownshirtism in sandals and mock-revolutionary garb played out to the soundtrack of Buffalo Springfield and Barry Maguire and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy).

Yes, today's Liberal Progressives have more in common with fascism than with Classic Liberalism. We see their anger, their hatred, their desire for 'changeyness' and we wonder if our own Nation will survive.

Israel's fate? Again from American Thinker...

Leading Islamofascists like Ahmadinejad of Iran talk of "wiping Israel off the map" and call it "a stinking corpse." At least no one can accuse him of subtlety. But what is really distressing is the response from the West, which can be characterized as "whatever."

Where the Left once could be counted on to stand up for Israel, it now has taken up the banner of the Palestinians. Ex-president Jimmy Carter has lent whatever remains of his tattered prestige to accuse the Israelis of human rights violations against the Palestinians. Indeed, Europe, which forever wears the stain of the Holocaust, seems indifferent at best, and downright hostile in the main, toward Israel's right to exist.

I believe our fate here in the U.S. is ultimately tied to Israel's fate in the Middle East. Whether we like it or not, we are Israel's primary ally; even Hillary shocked the world two weeks ago with her statement

“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran,” she said when she was asked what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them...”

Empty words from a desperate politician fighting to retain a chance at the nomination? Probably.

Enough of that worry now. The future will take care of itself.

But bottom line, we must continue to support Israel. Our fates, Israel's and the U.S.'s, are tied, whether we realize it now or not.

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