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Don’t Be Surprised!
Paul Gottfried
LewRockwell.com
Sunday November 18, 2007
During the last few weeks, I’ve been looking at the indignant
notes sent to me from Jews for Ron Paul, a high-spirited group
to which I lent my radioactive name, about the crude behavior
of the Republican Jewish Coalition and its National Chairman David
Flaum. Ron Paul did not receive an invitation to appear with other
Republican presidential hopefuls at the RJC’s Presidential
Candidates’ Forum. Furthermore, a member of the RJC staff
has suggested that Dr. Paul’s movement, which categorically
opposes the dispersing of foreign aid and the waging of neo-Wilsonian
crusades in the Middle East, had been infiltrated by nasty Nazi
types. This particular accusation against Dr. Paul was never proved,
although presumably those of us who question the aims of the RJC,
e.g., a "US-Israeli alliance" to disseminate "democracy
and liberty," must be fans of Hitler and the Waffen-SS. Otherwise,
we would be faithfully parroting the RJC, by calling for extensive
US military adventures – and even bigger gifts of foreign
aid to the "only democracy" in the Middle East.
My question to other Jews for Ron Paul is this: Why would you
expect the RJC to behave any differently from the way it does?
Like the NAACP, the Armenian Assembly of America, and La Raza,
it is a group of ethnic whiners organized to influence foreign
and domestic policies. The RJC is doing exactly what it was set
up to accomplish, and the discussion of its purpose was put into
the extensive treatment of AIPAC and the Republican Party in the
Mearsheimer-Walt book on the American-Israeli lobby. The problem
is not really the RJC, whose sinister designs are clear enough.
The real culprit is the Republican Party, with its questionable
efforts at outreach.
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Every time the Republican Party, which has the look of a scared
gang of WASP placeholders, tries to reach out, it continues to
weaken our already eroded constitutional liberties. Unlike the
Democrats, who are multicultural, big-government maniacs but who
know what they are, the Republicans are merely greasy operators.
They pretend to be interested in "getting government off
our backs" but expand the welfare state and federal control
over education while unleashing costly wars of choice. And they
would sell their mothers into slavery to receive the endorsement
of the NAACP or to elicit a compliment from Abe Foxman. Although
I could not conceive of the Democrats courting Phyllis Schlafly
or Burt Blumert, I could easily imagine the big-tent Republicans
at Heritage groveling before the ADL. They did it last month.
In a decent small-government Republican Party, there would be
Jews for Ron Paul but not the Zionist lobbyists organized around
the RJC pushing us into foreign wars. There is in fact nothing
anti-Israeli about Ron Paul’s campaign. It is simply raising
a different point of view about this country’s relation
to the rest of the world. Dr Paul wants neither to "bomb
nor to subsidize foreign countries," and his disinclination
to subsidize Israel, which has been the most favored recipient
of our public as well as private largess, used to be voiced repeatedly
by Irving Kristol in the Wall Street Journal. I first encountered
that view in the 1980s in Mr. Kristol’s columns, although
that eventually-to-be-discarded opinion, just like Ron Paul’s
reservations about foreign aid and entangling alliances, may have
come from Nazi advisors. Undoubtedly the RJC will soon be discovering
who they are.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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