{"id":9277,"date":"2010-03-18T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:59:41","slug":"oy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9277","title":{"rendered":"Oy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been down this road before.<\/p>\n

I first heard this during the Carter Administration.\u00a0 I first heard it seriously<\/em> during the Clinton years.\u00a0 Jews, tired of the Democratic party’s one-sided approach to Israel, will eventually bolt from the Tics.\u00a0 Someday.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Honest.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to think American Jews are to Israel the way American Catholics are to pro-life politics; the theoretical tie frays when you get down to specifics; “progressive” politics beats out the purported big issue.<\/p>\n

But Roger L. Simon thinks things may be, honestly, seriously, maybe changing<\/a>, probably:<\/p>\n

But I suspect something is brewing. [The Tics’] kind of excessive and weirdly paternalistic attitude to the state of Israel, directed so clearly from the top, seems to come out of a kind of unexamined personal animus. The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Whatever the etiology, group love affairs with political parties cannot help but be self-destructive. They may begin in a burst of mutual admiration but they will almost always devolve into a self-desturctive \u201ctaking for granted\u201d that could only work to the benefit of one party (if that). The love affair between African-Americans and the Democratic Party has been similarly useless for blacks. In the forty years I have lived in Los Angeles, I haven\u2019t noticed life getting significantly better in South Central, a region of the city in which Republicans are about as scarce as killer whales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right.\u00a0 See also Detroit, DC, Philadelphia and Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean I think Jews or blacks or anybody else should become Republicans. They should think for themselves and even change sides when it\u2019s advantageous. For Jews, Obama\u2019s behavior is indeed a \u201cteaching moment.\u201d The bizarre over-reaction to a minor incident in Israel should serve as a wake up call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I say the odds are it’s all wishful thinking.\u00a0 But who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been down this road before. I first heard this during the Carter Administration.\u00a0 I first heard it seriously during the Clinton years.\u00a0 Jews, tired of the Democratic party’s one-sided approach to Israel, will eventually bolt from the Tics.\u00a0 Someday.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Honest. I’m starting to think American Jews are to Israel the way American Catholics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}