DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had a Sophie’s
Choice moment. What does she
sacrifice? President Barack Obama’s
idiotic Iranian nuclear “executive agreement” or the future of Israel and American lives. She chose the Democratic Party over her own people.
Holding back tears, Wasserman Schultz said that in her op-ed, she
talks about her "Jewish heart and how important this [decision] was to me
... as a Jewish mother."
"In weighing everything, all the
information, I've concluded the best thing to do is vote in support of the Iran
deal and put Iran years away from being a nuclear state," she said. The
Obama administration secured enough votes this week to ensure the deal will
survive efforts to kill it.
Once again, Americans witness the Jewish conundrum of overt support
for progressive ideology over basic self-interest.
Books, symposiums and countless articles have tried to solve the Rubik’s
Cube of the American Jews counterintuitive support for socialism and/or
communism and the evils therein. After
all, how many times have they, as a people, suffered at the hands of these two
ideologies?
National Review published an article on this very topic. Here is an excerpt:
In my opinion, Jewish attraction to liberalism flows in part from
a basic survival instinct that over time evolved into an emotional yearning.
Jews, since the ghetto walls began to crumble during the Age of Reason,
estimated that survival would be contingent upon acceptance among the broader
populace. For the better part of the past two centuries, acceptance,
particularly in Western Europe, was thought to have been subject, first and
foremost, to the abandonment of some, if not all, aspects of Jewish identity.
Depending upon time and place, the abandonment of Jewish identity — and the
Torah as a heavenly document — ranged from modest acculturation to total
assimilation. This strategy was, overall, an unmitigated disaster. Take the
micro cases of Karl Marx and Alfred Dreyfus and the macro cases of the Soviet
Union and the Weimar Republic.
In America, Jews decided that if fully erasing Jewish identity was
still not enough to eliminate anti-Semitism, it was time for a novel approach.
During the civil-rights era and the rise of identity politics, Jews bet on
progressivism, figuring that by loving everyone else, they would cause everyone
else to love them forever in return. (Or at least, if times ever got truly
hairy again, they would have adequate allies to rush to their defense.)
This approach too necessitated deserting faith in the Torah as
divine. For if one believes that the Torah is divine (i.e., not created by man)
and that failure to observe its teachings involves eternal repercussions, then
one cannot easily support gay marriage or abortion. These are just two examples
that show that to unwaveringly stand for the Torah is to inescapably stand
against, oppose, and — God forbid — offend others. For Jews who have thirsted
to be applauded as “open-minded,” “tolerant,” and “cosmopolitan,” liberalism,
to a degree, had to replace Judaism as religion. There is no way to be fully in
tune with popular culture and, at the same time, to believe that the Torah is
directly, word for word, from the Lord of Hosts.
Did Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz really have a choice? I’m sure she and George Soros have a lot to
talk about.
