Why Does the Left Hate Israel?
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/20/2021 10:15:11 PM
As over 3,000 rockets are fired into Israel by Hamas, the establishment of the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war. It is not just that they fear that the squad, Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and the woke institutions such as professional sports, academia, and the media are now unapologetically anti-Israel. They are in terror also that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism. And soon the Democratic Party will end up disdained as much as was the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
weirdone 5/20/2021 10:23:05 PM (No. 792079)
Because they hate every thing and everyone they can't control.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 5/20/2021 10:27:42 PM (No. 792084)
Simple. Israel represents God to them, and they hate and want to deny God.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
deerejon 5/20/2021 10:33:43 PM (No. 792086)
And Why do most Jewish people in this country Identify as Democrats.I just don't understand that at all.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 5/20/2021 10:34:36 PM (No. 792087)
Khomeini ( Iraq) once said that the USA was the great Satan and Israel was the little Satan. It's a term to denigrate America and by extension , Israel. Israel is the only country in the mid east where muslims can have a better life that if they lived in a muslim country. They can run for office, work at what job they are able to. AND they will not be executed for being gay which is what can happen in a muslim country.Israelis invent, innovate and discover. Muslim countries , their big business is the manufacturing of hate. Hating/blaming Jews is nothing new, it goes back over 4 thousand years and occurs in just about every country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/20/2021 10:37:26 PM (No. 792088)
Because Democrats hate God, Christianity, and the Bible, and Jews were responsible for our Bible (yes, Jesus was a Jew as were the Apostles).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rbruce20 5/20/2021 10:40:01 PM (No. 792096)
Left hates Israel for the same reason they hate Catholics/Christians/Jews; supremacy of God, free will, morality, sin, marriage, and punishment. Left views Islam differently since governance is a vital element of the religion.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/20/2021 10:49:26 PM (No. 792099)
Because the left is demonic satanic and hate God. Israel is Gods chosen people who He has delivered through history. Try reading the Old Testament for a real history lesson on God and Israel. God always delivers their enemies into their hands for complete destruction. The left is like a fly about to be swatted flat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/20/2021 10:53:37 PM (No. 792100)
Because they hate God.
Genesis 12:2-3.
Read it and weep.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 5/20/2021 11:14:49 PM (No. 792116)
Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend!!!
Lie-berals hate the USA. Israel is a friend of the USA. Islamoterrorists states hate the USA. So lie-berals love islamoterrorist states and hate Israel.
It doesn't matter that pretty much everything lie-berals love would get you tortured and killed in an Islamoterrorist state. And that pretty much everything lie-berals love is honored and accepted in Israel. Israel is a friend of the USA, so they must be hated.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bgarrett 5/20/2021 11:18:54 PM (No. 792120)
Why Does the Left Hate Israel?
The question I havent seen the answer to: Why have so many people hated jews for hundreds of years?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/20/2021 11:22:33 PM (No. 792125)
Because the Left are the new Nazis.
How many times have we heard dem say they want to round US up & exterminate?
We must ultimately deal with dem as we dealt with the Nazis.
Real historians will note they pushed US too far & paid for it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/20/2021 11:26:47 PM (No. 792129)
Nationalism is the opposite of globalism.
If you don't have a home, the world is your plaything.
Too many assume a strong nation means incipient Nazism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/20/2021 11:39:49 PM (No. 792135)
The unhinged, hateful, lunatic left hates everyone who is strong, and ethical and good. All the things that they are not, and never can be.
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How many years since we took prayer out of schools ? Nobody saw the results coming ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/21/2021 12:37:06 AM (No. 792156)
I remember the left hated GW Bush, no reason ever specified. Then, GW went running out of office, saying capitalism had failed, and leaving the Democrats with an $800B slush fund, which Obama spent on himself, and his friends. Then GW discovered how much he loved Bill Clinton, brother from a different mother, he said. I do not understand people, Democrat or Republican. The proverbs say put your faith in God, as people will always disappoint. Never correct a fool, as they will only hate you for it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/21/2021 1:07:06 AM (No. 792167)
Wait a minute, I'll ask Hillary Clinton or Suha Arafat. I've lost my photo of their big smooch.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/21/2021 5:33:53 AM (No. 792214)
The world is taking sides and the delineation is pretty evident, the Godless versus God believers. When it becomes normal to openly hate Israel and Jews all over the world, they will come after Christians. Nothing can stop it, it has been building since the beginning of time. It is the ultimate showdown. When Lucifer was cast out of Heaven, the conflict between good and evil began in earnest. We are just witnessing its culmination. The speed with which the unthinkable is happening is shocking. God’s creation has been rebellious since Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. The influence of the enemy of God has run rampant throughout history. It is now reaching the point of no return.
Whether we believe ourselves to be too sophisticated to believe an archaic book written thousands of years ago, its truth remains unchanging. More than ever before we see the seemingly illogical rage against anything good. Look at the radical left. They make no logical sense. Their war on law enforcement and embrace of the violent, angry mob and their willingness to lie cheat and steal is a matter of routine not even questioned. It is who they are. Their complete unwillingness to discuss or debate issues is an indication that we have crossed the Rubicon of reason.
To anyone who has studied the Bible in regards to the end times, this is no surprise. It is, however, still shocking that so many people can be persuaded that good is evil and evil is good is terribly disturbing. If you wonder where all this is going, pick up a Bible and a good commentary.
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It has always been spiritual warfare against the future Messiah.
Why did Jacob need to run for his life from Esau?
Why did Pharaoh chase Moses into the sea?
Why did King Saul do his best to kill David?
Why did Herod kill all the boys under two years of age?
Satan has been trying to wipe out God's chosen people (Jacob's descendants) ever since Abraham followed God's instructions and went into the land of Israel.
Satan (the world's very first community organizer) hates it when someone follows God and receives His blessing, because he refused to obey God.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/21/2021 6:19:45 AM (No. 792236)
As so many of our posters have already said, because Israel reminds them of God.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/21/2021 6:24:30 AM (No. 792240)
Thank you for all of the comments. God tells us either you believe or you don't - there is no "in between" but I think there a lot of people who think there is. That includes Jewish people. When a person does not read the Bible, they are missing out on the message in Ecclesiastes that all wisdom comes from God and without Him, we are nothing.
It is so circular. Democrats hate Israel because they are trying so hard to take God out of society.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Krause 5/21/2021 6:49:58 AM (No. 792251)
same reason they hate Trump. Trump is a winner and wants good things for America. Israel also wants good thing for themselves, but they are surrounded by people who hate them more than they want good things for their people. The left, by and large, are losers and throw in with the people who hate Trump and Israel.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/21/2021 7:34:20 AM (No. 792299)
It's simple, really. The Jews are the Promised people of God.
That didn't change because Jesus came. Jesus, to Christians, was the Ultimate result of that promise. So Jews are the basis of all the morality that the Left is restrained by in their lust for personal godhood. So of course they try to destroy them. They would like to erase them from history.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mjwall69 5/21/2021 8:03:27 AM (No. 792333)
Isn't that like the frog asking the scorpion why it stung him? It's what they do - they're communists at best, and fascists at worst. https://thescorpionandthefrog.com/about/
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/21/2021 8:21:50 AM (No. 792349)
Back in the early 70’s, when I was in college, my father and I had a conversation about Israel and why it was so hated by the countries around it. My father, whose father was a Jew, named envy as the reason. In less than 20 years, the people of Israel had turned their country from a desert into a paradise. All around them, in the Muslim countries, people sat on their arses in the sand and did nothing. Israel became a first world country surrounded by a third world cesspool.
Hanson touched on that briefly in this excellent column.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
TCloud 5/21/2021 8:34:37 AM (No. 792362)
They should be applauding the IDF for going War Lite. The Left invented War Lite/PC/ROE for some reason and that is not to win nor lose. Vern says War Gods do not care for PC/War Lite at all!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/21/2021 8:51:15 AM (No. 792386)
The left hates themselves and the mythic Jew that Hitler portrayed looms large to them, blacks are just plain ignorant and just need a punching bag and more often follow Muslims. The American Jewish community are just trained seals like white guilt people who back BLM. Let's call them what they are, Jew-haters not anti-Israel or anti-Semites they are Jew-haters be harsh and say the words.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
aasilver 5/21/2021 8:53:26 AM (No. 792388)
What percentage of African-Americans are Muslim.
Without the African-American vote the Democrats are dead.
Democrats must be anti-Semitic and anti Israel.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 5/21/2021 9:13:07 AM (No. 792415)
Leftists hate Israel because Israel is an unapologetically proud country. It is successful by all standards. It is a good country for the region and it is a good country for Arabs. Leftists hate America, especially Trump Republicans, because we are unapologetically proud of our country. We are successful by all standards and we are a great country for the World. Leftists hate success, patriotism, Western culture and as others have said God and those who believe in Him. In a nutshell, Leftists hate Israel and America because they hate themselves first and most.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
qr4j 5/21/2021 9:31:52 AM (No. 792443)
Interesting article. Nicely summarizes the behavior and attitudes of the Left toward Israel, the Jews, and even the United States itself. But it still doesn't quite tell me why the Left behaves this way and holds these attitudes.
Reply No. 1 gets it: The Left hates everything and everyone they cannot control. But they cannot control governments like that of China and Iran, you say. Nope. But they can partner with them to control us.
It amazes me the audacity of the Left to sympathize and befriend governments and organizations that horribly mistreat some of the very people the Left demands we protect in special ways. What does the Left think Iran would do with gays, lesbians, and transgendered folks? And as the article says, where is the outcry against China for its treatment of Muslims within its borders? And yet Biden will cut deals with China, be in league with China -- for profit! Of course, the average person isn't supposed to be successful and make money according to the Left. They want to tax us out of existence and into dependence.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/21/2021 9:33:04 AM (No. 792445)
Thank you poster #1... spot on!!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 5/21/2021 9:34:18 AM (No. 792447)
Lorrie lightfoot in Chicago, Banned white reporters as the easiest and relatively speaking simplest way of getting rid of Jewish reporters and newsmen. She is an antisemite, too!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
marbles 5/21/2021 10:27:09 AM (No. 792502)
Netanyahu once said they ( or word to the effect) to a reporter that is was lucky that Israel did not have oil. When asked why Netanyahu said that it forced them to to use their brains. And they have.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/21/2021 10:45:41 AM (No. 792510)
Many insightful comments here especially #17 and #24. The Bible speaks about the End Times repeatedly and cites 26 signs of the End Times. All 26 signs are evident today except one - famine.
Yes, at the heart of today's chaos - envy. It is a powerful emotion that manifests itself in the human condition each and every day. People everywhere spend way too much time comparing their own failures to other peoples' successes. A vicious circle.
In my youth, I was raised and confirmed in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. In 7th and 8th Grade confirmation classes, the message of strong character and morality was pounded into us loud and clear and to resist the temptation of judging others for any reason because we ourselves were not perfect and were students of God.
Even after I fledged home in 1970 for my college days in New Mexico, my dad, a fairly religious person, continued to express concern with deteriorating conditions in the world. He spoke of the End Times occasionally. Neither of my parents are alive today. If they were, they would be basket cases observing the increasing hate toward Israel and Christianity and emergence of the Great Reset. But, belief in God always pulled them though in this life.
In re #3, there is much research on this topic. There are secular Jews and religious Jews. Both hold world views, but their world views are polar opposites from each other. You can research this interesting question.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Felixed 5/21/2021 11:14:38 AM (No. 792542)
While speculating on reason for hating Israel, it is instructive in noting who does the hating.
In this, one finds answers to knowing about someone by knowing who their friends (and enemies) are.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/21/2021 11:57:27 AM (No. 792590)
Israel and the Old Testament Jews are the Elder Brothers to the Christians of the New Testament. We are linked together forever!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Casper27 5/21/2021 3:44:05 PM (No. 792840)
Yeshua Machiach(Jesus Christ) was half Jew. He was conceived of a virgin. His dna is God. I am that I am...meaning: The Being. He is half Jew. Gentiles were made in His image in the beginning when there were no Jews. Lets pray for our Jewish brethren enduring the Bush's and Cheney's war on them right now, by bringing muslims here.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
pmcclure 5/21/2021 7:51:03 PM (No. 793058)
Because they hate the God of Israel.
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