Below is a letter from the writer Naomi Ragen which nails the issues we face on Nov 4th. While the economic issues take center stage, the problem of Islamic theology which causes terror will be much more of an issue over the next four years than the economy.
If we as a nation believe in freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we must elect leaders who stand for those values.
If we elect Obama our freedoms and way of life will be destroyed if not forever, then at least for some considerable time to come.
Germany elected Hitler and the economy improved but a much bigger evil was created.
I will choose economic difficulty any day over the opening of our borders, to infiltration of our law enforcement and military by an Islamic 5th column, to a fairness doctrine restricting free speech of people who have conservative views, and the selling out of Israel on false peace with a Jewish community both here and in Israel lost for leadership and strength.
We Jews have been persecuted for 3000 years, why does every Jewish generation seem to always hope that all of sudden the world has changed its views on Jews?
Keith Davies, Walid Shoebat Foundaton
LEARNING THE HARD WAY
Sitting here in Jerusalem reading the poll numbers, I have a feeling of déjà
vu. There was a time in Israel when the Oslo Accords and the sincerity of
Yasser Arafat were, believe it or not, controversial subjects. More than
that, anyone who was against Oslo, who believed Arafat was a terrorist and a
liar, and that land for peace was a deception that would lead to terror and
war, was vilified. What didn't they call us realists? War-mongers. Partners
with Yigal Amir. There was no debate, just hysteria and vilification. I have
to say that even my own family felt we should 'give peace a chance' and
watched the handshake on the White House lawn (which I refused to watch and
which made me ill) with hope. I was informed that since I wasn't going to be
serving in the army, I had no right to suggest that signing this peace
agreement was a bad thing.
You know what? It intimidated me. I started to think: how could it be that
everyone was so happy and enthusiastic, and I was miserable and depressed?
How could they see doves and handshakes when all I could see was terrorist
bombs and dead bodies?
So I tried to see the world through their glasses. I tried to be hopeful
too. And when it came time to vote, I even voted for a Peace Now candidate,
not because I thought there would be peace, but because I thought that it
was better for the country to at least put into practice it's wrong ideas,
and to experience first hand how badly it was all going to work out. That
there was no other way to have unity, because if they didn't get that
chance, they would never shut up, and would always blame the opposition for
not giving them a chance. I stopped speaking out. I went along.
What we got, of course, was hell on earth. Thousands were killed, thousands
more were injured as Arafat unleashed unbridled terrorist attacks, using the
guns our government had given him to kill Israelis, many of them women and
children; using the free access into Israel to blow up pizza parlors and
discos and bar mitzvah celebrations.
And then came my turn, sitting in the Park Hotel with my family, including
my child and political opponent, who was all in favor of Oslo, when the
building blew up.
When I came out of that alive with my husband and children, I swore never to
be intimidated again. I swore that next time when no-nothings asserted
political beliefs that were blatantly wrong, and would lead to disaster, I
would oppose them openly, come what may. I would also never again suspend my
disbelief that other people knew better, including high level academics,
intellectuals, and other elites. Including my closest family members. I
would keep my common sense.
The Presidential election of the most liberal and inexperienced politician
in America, a man with strong Muslim ties and a strong Muslim background; a
man who IS linked to domestic terrorism through Bill Ayers, and to numerous
pro-Islamic and anti-American advisors - all of whom side with Israel's
Leftist enemies (including some Israelis) as well as to anti-American,
anti-Semites like Reverend Wright; a man whose supporters are among the same
people who brought down the American economy with their 'liberalism' in
money-lending, is just about a fait accompli. I have no idea what has
happened to the America I knew. I have no idea what happened to the American
Jewish community's support for Israel, how it has been washed away by
deceptive self-interest and propaganda lies. But when I think what is in
store for the America which is doing this to herself, and the American
Jewish community who thinks by selling out Israel it will somehow achieve
"change" that will benefit it, my heart aches.
I know that I am helpless to stop this juggernaut towards disaster. Perhaps
it is America's turn to experience first hand what we in Israel experienced:
the consequences of electing a leadership which does not have the best
interests of the country in mind; which has an agenda that has nothing to do
with those interests. Sometimes people have to make horrible mistakes in
order to learn that they are horrible mistakes. In Israel, this included
over 25,000 terrorist attacks. Children dying in the streets. Being afraid
to walk to the bus stop or even enter a store......
Americans have had a wonderful life in a wonderful country. Everybody in the
world wants to live in America. Now, Americans want 'change.' They are about
to get it.
May G-d watch over them. Maybe this is how G-d intends to get them all to
make Aliyah? I wonder how they'll feel when they are sitting here with the
rest of us, Obama in the White House, and Iran with a atom bomb.
--Naomi Ragen, citizen of both Israel and the USA
Keith Davies, Walid Shoebat Foundaton
LEARNING THE HARD WAY
Sitting here in Jerusalem reading the poll numbers, I have a feeling of déjà
vu. There was a time in Israel when the Oslo Accords and the sincerity of
Yasser Arafat were, believe it or not, controversial subjects. More than
that, anyone who was against Oslo, who believed Arafat was a terrorist and a
liar, and that land for peace was a deception that would lead to terror and
war, was vilified. What didn't they call us realists? War-mongers. Partners
with Yigal Amir. There was no debate, just hysteria and vilification. I have
to say that even my own family felt we should 'give peace a chance' and
watched the handshake on the White House lawn (which I refused to watch and
which made me ill) with hope. I was informed that since I wasn't going to be
serving in the army, I had no right to suggest that signing this peace
agreement was a bad thing.
You know what? It intimidated me. I started to think: how could it be that
everyone was so happy and enthusiastic, and I was miserable and depressed?
How could they see doves and handshakes when all I could see was terrorist
bombs and dead bodies?
So I tried to see the world through their glasses. I tried to be hopeful
too. And when it came time to vote, I even voted for a Peace Now candidate,
not because I thought there would be peace, but because I thought that it
was better for the country to at least put into practice it's wrong ideas,
and to experience first hand how badly it was all going to work out. That
there was no other way to have unity, because if they didn't get that
chance, they would never shut up, and would always blame the opposition for
not giving them a chance. I stopped speaking out. I went along.
What we got, of course, was hell on earth. Thousands were killed, thousands
more were injured as Arafat unleashed unbridled terrorist attacks, using the
guns our government had given him to kill Israelis, many of them women and
children; using the free access into Israel to blow up pizza parlors and
discos and bar mitzvah celebrations.
And then came my turn, sitting in the Park Hotel with my family, including
my child and political opponent, who was all in favor of Oslo, when the
building blew up.
When I came out of that alive with my husband and children, I swore never to
be intimidated again. I swore that next time when no-nothings asserted
political beliefs that were blatantly wrong, and would lead to disaster, I
would oppose them openly, come what may. I would also never again suspend my
disbelief that other people knew better, including high level academics,
intellectuals, and other elites. Including my closest family members. I
would keep my common sense.
The Presidential election of the most liberal and inexperienced politician
in America, a man with strong Muslim ties and a strong Muslim background; a
man who IS linked to domestic terrorism through Bill Ayers, and to numerous
pro-Islamic and anti-American advisors - all of whom side with Israel's
Leftist enemies (including some Israelis) as well as to anti-American,
anti-Semites like Reverend Wright; a man whose supporters are among the same
people who brought down the American economy with their 'liberalism' in
money-lending, is just about a fait accompli. I have no idea what has
happened to the America I knew. I have no idea what happened to the American
Jewish community's support for Israel, how it has been washed away by
deceptive self-interest and propaganda lies. But when I think what is in
store for the America which is doing this to herself, and the American
Jewish community who thinks by selling out Israel it will somehow achieve
"change" that will benefit it, my heart aches.
I know that I am helpless to stop this juggernaut towards disaster. Perhaps
it is America's turn to experience first hand what we in Israel experienced:
the consequences of electing a leadership which does not have the best
interests of the country in mind; which has an agenda that has nothing to do
with those interests. Sometimes people have to make horrible mistakes in
order to learn that they are horrible mistakes. In Israel, this included
over 25,000 terrorist attacks. Children dying in the streets. Being afraid
to walk to the bus stop or even enter a store......
Americans have had a wonderful life in a wonderful country. Everybody in the
world wants to live in America. Now, Americans want 'change.' They are about
to get it.
May G-d watch over them. Maybe this is how G-d intends to get them all to
make Aliyah? I wonder how they'll feel when they are sitting here with the
rest of us, Obama in the White House, and Iran with a atom bomb.
--Naomi Ragen, citizen of both Israel and the USA
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