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the "Prism" of Jewish World Review June 9, 2004 / 20 Sivan, 5764

A strategic partner - {right up Front!}

By Jonathan Tobin


RIGHT THINKERS — AND DOERS: President Reagan with former Israeli Prime Minister Shamir

[http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/Khazar.html]

Reagan's place in Jewish history rests on more than record number of votes




http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Whenever the question comes up of how a Republican presidential contender may do among Jewish voters, the name "Ronald Reagan" is bound to be mentioned. In a record that may stand for a long time, Reagan won approximately 39 percent of the Jewish vote (as estimated by pollsters) in 1980. He remains imprinted on modern Jewish history as the answer to a favorite trivia question for pundits. -[http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/HiddenTyranny.html] -


But as America mourns the passing of its 40th president, we need not focus on that event. Reagan's place in Jewish history will not depend on how long his 1980 record lasts.


Though death tends to soften even the most bitter partisans, Reagan's significance can be lost amid all the praise from his admirers and some of the brickbats that his political opponents are still hurling at him.


Though most liberals will go to their graves still wrongly believing him to be an ignorant fool, the truth is that their bitterness is fueled by a grudging acknowledgement that his masterly political skills doomed the welfare state as we knew it, and changed the terms of political discourse in this country. Under Reagan's leadership, conservatives left the margins and became the majority.


Liberal revisionists will also continue to claim rather foolishly that Reagan's policies did not hasten the end of the Soviet Union. They assert that nobody won the Cold War, and that all he left was a sunny personality and the debris of the ill-considered Iran Contra scandal. - [http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=38] -

'EVIL EMPIRE' DROVE THEM CRAZY
In the last couple of years, the notion of American hubris has become something of an article of faith for critics of the Iraq war and George W. Bush's foreign policy, but those who are quick to dismiss the idea that America can transform the world in its image should remember that Reagan's challenge to the Soviet Union did just that. And without Reagan's infusion of self-confidence into the American psyche, it might not have been possible to put an end to the dark night of Soviet hegemony.


As much as liberals might deny it now, Reagan's 1983 description of the Soviet Union and its satellites as an "evil empire" drove many of them crazy. It was a direct challenge to the way the U.S. political establishment — mainstream Democrats and Republicans alike — viewed its global rival. - [http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=97] -


Rather than merely accommodating that evil and implicitly acknowledging that it was on the same moral plane as our own flawed society, Reagan drew a bright line of distinction. That undermined the twisted logic of appeasement of the Soviets via détente. -[http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/RitualMurder3.html] -





And it was exactly the sort of language that the movement to free Soviet Jewry had needed to mobilize Americans.


Natan Sharansky recalled in a tribute to Reagan how he first learned of the "evil empire" speech in a Siberian prison cell, where he had been sent for trying to gain the right to move to Israel, as well as for speaking up for the human rights of the Russian people. Sharansky and others who suffered under communism understood what Reagan's sophisticated American critics could not: Casting our struggle with the Soviets as one of good against evil was a vital step on the road to freedom for Soviet Jews and for the people of Eastern Europe.
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In that sense, Ronald Reagan was the Jews' greatest ally in the battle to open the gates of the Soviet Union. It's no coincidence that it was during his presidency that the Soviet Jewry movement changed from being an afterthought for the makers of American foreign policy into a fundamental component of strategy.


It was also during his presidency that the relationship between Israel and the United States changed from one of pure dependency into one where the contributions of Israel to American security finally merited it the status of strategic partner.-[http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/index1.htm] -

NOT A BED OF ROSES
Historians will rightly note that U.S.-Israel relations were not a bed of roses during Reagan's eight years in the White House. Battles over American weapon sales to Israel's Arab enemies, the Lebanon war, the hostility of some members of his administration toward Israel (notably Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger) and the incredible stupidity of Israel in using Jonathan Pollard, an American Jewish employee of the Navy Department, as a spy all made for controversy. Reagan's foray to Bitburg, Germany, in 1985, where he spoke at a military cemetery where members of the Nazi S.S. were buried, also broke the hearts of many of his Jewish fans.


But none of this changes the essential philosophy that lay behind his political career and his presidency: the rejection of a philosophy of moral equivalence.


Reagan believed that there was no equating a Communist system which turned an entire nation into a prison, with the free world. He believed that victims of terror and terrorists themselves should not be viewed in the same light. And he attempted, though not always successfully, to make American foreign policy reflect these truths. Reagan's ideas are still the "prism" though which we can understand the controversies of today. - {Here IT is.} - [http://www.israelect.com/reference/Willie-Martin/QuotesByJews.html] -


He truly believed in American exceptionalism — America as the proverbial "city on a hill" that reflected not merely democracy, but the last best hope of humankind.


Unlike those who are embarrassed by such rhetoric, he embraced it wholeheartedly and followed the logic of this faith to its inevitable conclusion: The forces of freedom can never accept the legitimacy of the forces of tyranny. The war between them may not always be hot, but it is never over. - [http://www.rense.com/Datapages/zionismdata.htm] -


For this, the left judged him a simpleton. But history will judge who were the idiots and who the moral giant of his time. -
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Reagan won that record number of Jewish votes in 1980 precisely because he rejected Jimmy Carter's attitude that placed both Israel and Soviet Jews on the same moral plane as Arab terrorists and dictators and the masters of the gulag archipelago. And though his presidency did not always live up to the promise of that rhetoric, without his achievement of rolling back the "evil empire," there would be no hope for doing the same in a Middle East where Islamists are just as bent on freedom's destruction.
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That is why his greatness transcends the still-smoldering embers of the political firestorms of his time. Let us pray that his successors will continue to find inspiration in these simple, yet inescapable, truths. "It is rather surprising is it not? That which ever way you turn to trace the harmful streams of influence that flow through society, you come upon a group of Jews. In sports corruption, a group of Jews. In exploiting finance, a group of Jews. In theatrical degeneracy, a group of Jews. In liquor propaganda, a group of Jews. Absolutely dominating the wireless communications of the world, a group of Jews. The menace of the movies, a group of Jews. In control of the press through business and financial pressure, a group of Jews. War profiteers, 80 percent of them, Jews. The mezmia of so-called popular music, which combines weak mindedness, with every suggestion of lewdness, Jews. Organizations of anti-Christian laws and customs, again Jews. It is time to show that the cry of bigot is raised mostly by bigots. There is a religious prejudice in this country; there is, indeed, a religious persecution, there is a forcible shoving aside of the religious liberties of the majority of the people. And this prejudice and persecution and use of force, is Jewish and nothing but Jewish.

If it is anti-Semitism to say that Communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it. But to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world and not only in Russia is Jewish." (International Jew, by Henry Ford, 1922)

"Within the B'nai B'rith there is a machinery of leadership, perfected after ninety-seven years of experience for dealing with all matters that effect the Jewish people, whether it be a program in some distant land, a hurricane in the tropics, the Jewish Youth problem in America, anti-Semitism, aiding refugees, the preservation of Jewish cultural values...In other words B'nai B'rith is so organized that it can utilize its machinery to supply Jewish needs of almost every character." (B'nai B'rith Magazine, September, 1940) "You {non-Jews} resent us {Jews}, but you cannot clearly say why...Not so many years ago I used to hear that we were money-grubbers and commercial materialists; now the complaint is being whispered around that no art and no profession is safe from Jewish invasion...

We shirk our patriotic duty in war time because we are pacifists by nature and tradition, and WE ARE THE ARCH-PLOTTERS OF UNIVERSAL WARS AND THE CHIEF BENEFICIARIES OF THOSE WARS. We are at once the founders and leading adherents of capitalism and the chief perpetrators of the rebellion against capitalism. Surely, history has nothing like us for versatility!...

You accuse us of stirring up revolution in {Moscow} -Iraq and the Middle East. Suppose we admit the charge. What of it?...You make much noise and fury about undue Jewish influence in your theaters and movie palaces. Very good; granted your complaint is well founded. But WHAT IS THAT COMPARED TO OUR STAGGERING INFLUENCE IN YOUR CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, YOUR LAWS AND YOUR GOVERNMENT, AND THE VERY THOUGHTS YOU THINK EVERY DAY?...'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' which shows that we plotted to bring on the late World War. You believe that book. All right...we will underwrite every word of it. It is genuine and authentic. But what is that besides the unquestionable historical conspiracy which we have carried out, which we never have denied because you never had the courage to charge us with it, and of which the full record is extant for anybody to read?

If you really are serious when you talk of Jewish plots, may I not direct your attention to one worth talking about? What use is it wasting words on the alleged control of your public opinion by Jewish financiers, newspaper owners, and movie magnates, when you might as well also justly accuse us of the proved control of your whole civilization...

You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. WE ARE INTRUDERS. WE ARE SUBVERTERS. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and have played havoc with them. WE {Jews} HAVE BEEN AT THE BOTTOM OF NOT MERELY OF THE LATEST WAR {WWI} BUT OF NEARLY ALL YOUR WARS, NOT ONLY OF THE RUSSIAN BUT OF EVERY OTHER MAJOR REVOLUTION IN YOUR HISTORY. WE HAVE BROUGHT DISCORD AND CONFUSION AND FRUSTRATION INTO YOUR PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE. WE ARE STILL DOING IT. NO ONE CAN TELL HOW LONG WE SHALL GO ON DOING IT...Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone.

But we did not leave you alone. We took you in hand and pulled down the beautiful and generous structure you had reared, and changed the whole course of your history. We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia. And we did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda...

Take the three principal revolutions in modern times, the French, the American and Russian. What are they but the triumph of the Jewish idea of social, political and economic justice? And the end is still a long way off. We still dominate you...