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2006-12-06 Fifth Column

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Posted by Anginenter Pherelet4024 2006-12-06 18:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not surprising at all, if true. Here's another example. I can't vouch for the veracity of CNS or Mitrokhin or Romerstein, but this one wouldn't surprise me either.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-12-06 19:34|| 2006-12-06 19:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Anginenter Pherelet4024 was me. Cookie monster. grrr

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2006-12-06 19:40|| 2006-12-06 19:40|| Front Page Top

#3 What xbalanke said.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-06 19:55|| 2006-12-06 19:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't doubt it for a moment.

I just can't figure out why they're bothering to keep it a secret.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-06 20:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-06 20:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Sooner or later the Democrats will have to choose between the Jewish vote and the Muslim vote.

Posted by Grunter 2006-12-06 20:34|| 2006-12-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll go for quantity over quality.

Posted by Pappy 2006-12-06 20:52|| 2006-12-06 20:52|| Front Page Top

#7 The Democrats chose several elections ago, Grunter. They went with the population group that better fit with their real goals and aspirations. The key is that more and more Jews are figuring it out, too, and voting with their feet.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-06 21:08|| 2006-12-06 21:08|| Front Page Top

#8 "Sooner or later the Democrats will have to choose between the Jewish vote and the Muslim vote."

They already have.

Anymore the only kind of politics the Democrats know how to play is what I call the Politics of Parasitism: pick a cohesive, readily identifiable group of people predisposed to feeling sorry for themselves, and figure out how to buy their votes by handing out free shit to them-- either $$$$ or special group priviledges, or both. Then figure out who's going to serve as wallet in this vote-buying scheme (usually you and me), and concoct some superficially-plausible but bullshit rationale for grabbing a chunk of their hard-earned paychecks. Then set the MSM loose on the task of pimping for the former group, while demonizing the latter.

And then sit back and wait for the votes to come rollin' in.

With Islam and the Democrats, you have a marriage made in Hell: the world's foremost whiney self-pitiers locked in a slimy embrace with the world's foremost sympathy-pimps.

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-12-06 21:25|| 2006-12-06 21:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Meeting with sinister types, MUCH?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-12-06 21:29|| 2006-12-06 21:29|| Front Page Top

#10 The Dems havent abandoned the Jewishvote nor has thee Jewishvote abandoned the Dems. In the past election the Jewish vote ranged up to 85% Dem.

Even Keith Ellison was supported by 65% of the Jewishvote. This was partly because Ellison had made a number of apparently antiTerrorism statements and the Jewish leaders in the District didn't notice (or pretended not to notice) the caveats, the ambiguities, etc.

Posted by mhw 2006-12-06 21:34|| 2006-12-06 21:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Dave D. - words spun from pure gold. Write a book - I'll be first in line.

Posted by DigitalPatriot 2006-12-06 22:11|| 2006-12-06 22:11|| Front Page Top

#12 The link in the leader does not work. Here is another article dealing with the same news item.

"Sooner or later the Democrats will have to choose between the Jewish vote and the Muslim vote."

They already have.

You beat me to it, David D.

In their febrile haste to regain political ascendancy, the democrats have disregarded every single notion of protecting America's interests or its people. The almighty vote will be sought at any cost, even that of national security.

Any democrat-Muslim alliance represents the height of political malfeasance. The majority of democratic causes are pure anathema to Islam. Unseating vigorous supporters of the Global War on Terrorism is the sole objective of democratic voting Muslims and they would just as soon be chopping off the hands and heads of all other democrat followers at the soonest possible moment.

If the democrats are found to be consorting with Palestinian terrorists, or any other terrorists for that matter, they should be brought up on charges of treason. There are limits and this goes so far beyond all acceptable conduct that legal action must await any such betrayal.

The source told Maannews the Democrats expressed an understanding with the Hamas principal of not recognizing Israel and applauded Hamas' willingness to accept a long-term cease-fire with the Jewish state in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal to what is known as the pre-1967 borders meaning an evacuation of the Gaza Strip, West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem.

IF, this is true, it is an outright betrayal of American interests. It also gives undue validation to a known terrorist group and there should be criminal charges arising from it.

"Of course Americans should vote Democrat," Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, told WND last month.

"This is why American Muslims will support the Democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq. It is time that the American people support those who want to take them out of this Iraqi mud," said Jaara, speaking to WND from exile in Ireland, where he was sent as part of an internationally brokered deal that ended the church siege.

Jaara was the chief in Bethlehem of the Brigades, the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

Never forget, Jaara is the turd who desecrated the Church of the Nativity. I'm surprised he has managed to survive in Ireland. Someone needs to leak his true identity.

This is a blatantly transparent marriage of convenience. If the democrats are idiotic enough not to figure this out, then there needs to be some sort of legal action taken. Again, this is treason.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-06 23:04|| 2006-12-06 23:04|| Front Page Top

#13 It is blatantly obvious that Hamas, Hezbo and AQ share the same public affairs agency. The agency simply changes the letter head, the text is analogous

Posted by Captain America 2006-12-06 23:14|| 2006-12-06 23:14|| Front Page Top

#14 mhw, the claim that 85% of Jews voted Democrat in the November election was based on faulty sampling -- I posted a lovely analysis of the data
here a week later. From the article:

one specific result within the exit poll data: namely how Jewish voters within the national sample, had voted in the races for the U.S. House of Representatives. That sub-sample of just over 200 people who self-identified as Jewish voters (about 2% of the total survey sample), reported that they had voted 87% for Democrats 12% for Republicans.

The same day the national voter survey data was made available, the RJC released a survey of a much larger sample of Jews conducted by Arthur J. Finkelstein & Associates in three states and Congressional districts with close races this past week. The RJC survey suggested that the 2006 Jewish voting pattern closely resembled that in 2004: 26% support for Republicans in the House races, and 27% in the Senate contest (there were also Senate races in Pennsylvania and Florida this year). The Finkelstein survey of 1,000 Jewish voters interviewed both older and younger voters, and members of the different Jewish branches in America reform, conservative, and orthodox. Age and the branch of Judaism, both seemed to matter a lot in the 2004 survey results, and they did again this year: the more often a Jew attended synagogue, the more likely he or she was to vote Republican. Similarly, younger Jews, and in particular younger Jewish males, were much more likely to vote Republican. Orthodox Jews were more than twice as likely to vote Republican as Reform Jews.

The authors are an analyst and a statistics professor, and they really tear into the details of the statistics -- a fascinating read, I thought. "Lies, damned lies and statistics" indeed.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-06 23:43|| 2006-12-06 23:43|| Front Page Top

#15 TW,

I was aware of the sampling problems (not even close to as well read as you on the subject) that why I said "up to 85%" (and I could have said it better)

Posted by mhw 2006-12-06 23:51|| 2006-12-06 23:51|| Front Page Top

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