Oy--My People Are Too Rich!

This week I did an article for New York Magazine on a big financier with houses all over who is in trouble in Florida for soliciting prostitution. The Palm Beach police record says that he had two girls a day come to his mansion to give him naked massages, and some of the girls were under 16. One was 14. The massages generally led to sexual activity. The financier gave the girls $200 to $300 a pop. According to one friend, the financier is blaming Palm Beach's (zealous) investigation of his private life on antisemitism. Two weeks back in New York Magazine they did a piece about a 14-year-old hustler in downtown New York who has the run of fancy restaurants and stores and hotels, chats up A-listers in the Hamptons, and is a brand-name fanatic. A Jewish kid. Nouveau Jews.

25 years ago, when I was a young journalist, an older friend urged me not to run an article about a rabbi who was arrested for stealing money. "It's not good for the Jews," he said. It was a "shonde" for the goyim. Even one little story like that would embarrass Jews in the eyes of the gentiles. Something's changed. No one seems to care anymore. My people are fat and happy. All around me is Jewish wealth. My mother is always saying she will show me the middle-class Jews who live in her community, but I don't think they're representative of my people. My own family was once all middle class. Now we're upper- and better. And a lot of my middle-class friends in college have become members in good standing of the establishment.

I sense that Jewish entrepreneurialism is the engine of the American economy. The Republican Party is now losing the money race to the Democratic Party, according to the Times, and meantime the Washington Post reported some years ago that more than half of Democratic presidential giving is coming from Jews, while Steve Rabinowitz, Clinton friend, told me this year that if anyone did a study of how much Dem money comes from Jews, it would fuel conspiracy theories... We helped invent the service and information economy. We're all over the hedge funds that have altered the flows of capital around the world, we are all over the media. I know this is impressionistic--and I live in New York--but we're everywhere. I pick up my wife at the airport and a guy is wearing a Bloomberg School sweatshirt. Steve Walt has the Belfer chair at Harvard, Niall Ferguson (who lectured at Yivo about Jews and Money) has the Tisch chair there. I lost this blog at the Observer because the paper was bought by a conservative Jew. Sheldon Adelson is the biggest supporter of the new Republican pro-Iraq war group Freedom's Watch, while Steve Grossman is one of the leading fundraisers for Hillary in New England, and Grossman attacks Desmond Tutu for speaking about Palestinian suffering; and when the political establishment/Hillary push ahead to confront Iran, Sy Hersh says it's about "Jewish money." I go to a concert at the beautiful Paramount in Peekskill, N.Y., and the chairman of the Paramount board is a guy named Rubin. At times it seems like Jewish money is the only game in town. Like when Obama folded, sickeningly, on a Walt-and-Mearsheimer book ad on his website. Or when the New York Theatre Workshop folded, grotesquely, on the Rachel Corrie play. The thinktanks in Washington--forget about it. Two years back I heard that Cato scholars were being told to watch what they said about Israel, because of funding concerns. 

Obviously Jewish wealth is playing a huge part in U.S. politics and foreign policy. My theory is that the strength of the Israel lobby is a reflection of class and economic power in American life; I'm going to blog about that. But let's put politics aside for a moment. I'm talking now about my historical culture, Jewish culture. I go to a party and see an old serious friend in the media and he tells me about selling a website for a ton of money to some new investors. He's sheepish about his news. He didn't get into the business to be rich. In the old days he would have been a quiet toiling star at the New York Times. In Isaac Singer's tales of Warsaw, he would have been a starving nebbish. In today's economy, he's rich.

As I've said here before, Yiddish writers of the 19th century all talked about the dangers of wealth. People lost their compass. They turned into pigs like that financier of whom I wrote, or that 14-year-old who runs around to brand-name restaurants. I fear other consequences. I fear an inability on the part of privileged Jews to be able to sincerely relate to segments of society that have to work with their hands or their bodies, or who are at risk to go to Iraq. I fear an inability on the part of Jewish kids to identify with the underprivileged, let alone the downtrodden. The Jewish kids I see tend to be ambitious and a little entitled. I know, not that different from WASP kids.  But because Jews still think of themselves as outsiders, there's nothing like the "noblesse-oblige" ethos which characterized the WASP ascendancy of the previous 200 years.

The WASPs resigned. Mutilated by the Vietnam War and sensitive to the criticism of their caste as exclusive and snobbish and racist, they calmly decamped and left the scene. Joseph Epstein wrote that there has never been a sociological surrender like that one, without a shot being fired, in history. I'm hoping for a sociological capitulation on my people's part, a return to other values. Yes we are the kings of the information age. But look how disfiguring it is.

[Earlier version of this post gave Grossman's name as Gross. Thanks to Hilda Silverman for alerting me to the error...]

Comments

[Jerome Slater]

Readers of this blog should not fail to read Henry Siegman's brilliant analysis of the Annapolis conference, in the Dec. 31 Nation, available now online, I believe. It simply doesn't get any better than this.

[Richard Witty]

You are in New York Phil.

And, you're not looking all the way around.

The Jewish community in my home town is lawyers, accountants (me), artists, farmers, factory workers, homeless.

Nearly certainly similarly in New York, and in your new hometown.

Unless something has radically changed in the past three years, your parents are still middle class (even with an inflated home value). I don't know about your brothers and sisters.

The world itself has grown more conservative, including politically. The conservative movement in the US is/was NOT largely Jewish. Ronald Reagon had Jewish supporters certainly, but the majority of the conservative wave (evangelical, free-market) was not Jewish in origin.

The anti-tax movement is not particularly a Jewish movement. But, that is what has created the aristocracy society that we now have (and coming to have).

There was a divestiture of public assets, great inflation in minimum necessities. Twenty years ago, it shocked me that people in Japan earning $40,000/year had to afford a $300,000 house as that was what was available there. The US was different then.

Its not now. It TAKES a high income to make ends meet now. (Maybe not so much if you don't have children.)

The ethnic composition of class relations is not that significant from where I sit.

Asking, what can make things different, better, the ethnic questions are NOT the ones that make a difference.

Again, I like Edwards' emphasis on work as the basis of community prosperity. Even with disparities in compensation for work, the range of income from work maybe is in the 100-1 range, across all of society.

In contrast the range of income from investments (ownership, not from work) is in the range of infinity - 1. (There is no "infinity - 1", but you get the idea.)

Currently, income from investment is taxed at a maximum of 15%, with no exposure to alternative minimum tax.

In contrast, including social security taxes, a typical self-employed plumber will pay 40 - 45% federal income taxes.

The republicans are to "thank" for the new aristocracy and regulatory negligence, while the democrats are to "thank" for high costs of real estate and health care run up by favored tax status.

[Richard Witty]

Also, Phil.

I think the points about how come there are rich Jews, we discussed at 15. They should all be idealistic, and forego greed.

[David Seaton]

The last time the doodoo really hit the fan in 1929, the majority ethnic group. the WASPs were at the helm. Obviously nobody was going to make conspiracy theories about THEM.

But, if as you say in your post, Phil, Jewish people, "helped invent the service and information economy. (are)all over the hedge funds that have altered the flows of capital around the world, (...)are all over the media. (are)everywhere", then it stands to reason that if the wheels fall off the USA again like they did in the 30s, people are going to look around for someone to blame and a minority makes an easier target.

Have you read Krauthammer today?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301501.html
Neocons like he is were very happy to have the support of evangelicals on the Middle East till now. Why, these nerves about Romney and Huckabee?

[David Seaton]

The last time the doodoo really hit the fan in 1929, the majority ethnic group. the WASPs were at the helm. Obviously nobody was going to make conspiracy theories about THEM.

But, if as you say in your post, Phil, Jewish people, "helped invent the service and information economy. (are)all over the hedge funds that have altered the flows of capital around the world, (...)are all over the media. (are)everywhere", then it stands to reason that if the wheels fall off the USA again like they did in the 30s, people are going to look around for someone to blame and a minority makes an easier target.

Have you read Krauthammer today?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301501.html
Neocons like he is were very happy to have the support of evangelicals on the Middle East till now. Why, these nerves about Romney and Huckabee?

[David Seaton]

Sorry, I don't know why my post repeated itself like that.

[Ed.]

Phil makes some great points, and no question there is a hugely disproportionate imbalance of Jewish wealth in this country. Of course, there is also now a lot of Asian wealth in this country, too. The difference is that, unlike their Asian counterparts, many Jews (whether they will admit it or not, even to themselves) harbor latent animus towards their gentile neighbors, either because they are Christians or Muslims (with all the historical baggage that that association implies), or because they are gentiles in general (Jews have basically been historically persecuted and despised nearly everywhere they have gone).

That explains why many gentile-hating Jews are attracted to media, the Hollywood/Entertainment industry, advertising, finance and law -- they provide lucrative and influential outlets in which they can kill two birds with one stone: get rich and simultaneously pervert and undermine gentile society, culture and institutions.

It's no accident that the rise of Jewish power and wealth in this country is inversely proportionate to America’s social and moral decline. Just look at the smut that is broadcast 24/7 from heavily-Jewish media centers such as LA and NY.

Phil says "I sense that Jewish entrepreneurialism is the engine of the American economy." Unfortunately, its the wrong kind of entrepreneurialism and it has created the wrong kind of incentives; it’s increasingly an ephemeral casino economy fueled by parasitic bankers and lawyers and Madison Avenue and Hollywood smut-merchants and, on the bottom, the service industry workers that cater to their whims.

Phil's instincts to open his piece by pointing up the Jewish pervert trying to hide his degeneracy behind charges of anti-Semitism were right on: there is something wrong with many of these people. I’m glad more Jews are starting to see it. It’s time to reign them in.

[Jim S.]

This is so true, Phil. It is quite depressing.

One hopes that the old belief in social justice revives. Or that people start reading those old Yiddish books again.

[Rich Gentile]

LMAO.

Very funny Phil.

[Klaus Bloemker, Frankfurt, Germany]

How the hell did they get so rich?
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One has to remember: most Jewish immigrants arrived pennyless in New York, like the Irish. But unlike the Irish ...

It's Jewish ambition and intelligence.
There is a sociological explanation for higher ambition but is there an explanation for higher Jewish intelligence?

[Charles Keating]

The Irish who came here in droves were starving small time farmers, de facto serfs, real indentured servants; there is a difference between them and the Jews as a whole who came with in fact or a sense of being a middleman for centuries--look to the difference between the socio-economic class of these two respective ethnic groups since the middle ages. One was prominent in all the fluid forbidden trades, tax collectors, bankers, traders, etc; the other? River Dance came down from
the fact the Irish were forbidden to express their culture even among their own in their own land--one had to dance, celebrating their own culture amongst themselves, only from the waist down where such activity could not be seen from the hedges due to the window sill height.

A handful of London Irish writers (Wilde, Shaw, Yeats) left a larger recognisably ‘Irish’ mark on English literature than Jewish writers left on any 19th-century European literature.

[NOMOREWAR_FORISRAEL]

Letters to the Editor of the Daily Princestonian by Mearsheimer/Walt & retired CIA analyst Bill Christison

http://tinyurl.com/2jekk2

[Lower Middle Class Jew]

"I fear an inability on the part of privileged Jews to be able to sincerely relate to segments of society that have to work with their hands or their bodies, or who are at risk to go to Iraq."

Did you know that Jews are actually OVER represented in the US military in Iraq? Something like 4% of soldiers, and less than 2% of the general population?
You're really not well-informed on this issue--poor Jews like me are having lots of kids. Some of us are even teaching them Hebrew!
Yiddish, thank G-d, is dead. And when people like you die (childless) there won't even be a memory of it, and its sick legacy, disfiguring legacy.

[Charles Keating]

To Lower Middle Class Jew:

1.) Where do you get your numbers?

2.) Try these compared to about 2% of the USA population:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 5/12/05

CONTACT: Miriam Rinn, Communications Manager | 212-786-5092 | send an e-mail The Jewish Publication Society and JWB Jewish Chaplains Council send 2,750 pocket editions of The Book of Psalms and The Torah: The Five Books of Moses to U.S. Military Personnel overseas

Philadelphia, PA, May 12, 2005: The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and JCC Association's JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is renewing a decades-old partnership to provide essential Jewish books to U.S. service personnel. In the next week, 2,750 copies of The Book of Psalms and The Torah: The Five Books of Moses will be shipped to Jewish U.S. service personnel serving in the Middle East and elsewhere overseas, and in the U.S. to arrive in time for Shavuot, the holiday which celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. At no time since the Vietnam War have so many Jewish men and women served on active duty in our country's Armed Forces.

Historically, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council has turned to JPS to provide them with Jewish books. Through JWB's network of Jewish chaplains and lay leaders, JPS publications are distributed to Jewish men and women serving in theaters of war and around the world. The current military activity in the Middle East has created a greater demand for Jewish Bibles and other texts, which provide inspiration and comfort, and together, JPS and JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is meeting this demand. Through mutually-beneficial fundraising efforts, The Jewish Publication Society is now raising money to continue to fund the JWB efforts to supply these lightweight, compact editions. So far, enough has been raised to distribute 1,750 copies. JWB Jewish Chaplains Council has purchased another 1,000 books, thanks to direct donations to JWB.

In the coming months, JPS and JWB will jointly publish a complete pocket edition of the JPS translation of the TANAKH (Hebrew Bible) in an even more compact edition. Thousands of copies of this lightweight edition will be printed, specifically sized to fit the needs of those in the military, and will be made available wherever there is a need. There has not been such a joint publication since World War II.

The Jewish Publication Society is a nonprofit educational organization formed to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life. Since 1888, JPS is the world's oldest publisher of Jewish books in English.

JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is authorized by the U.S. government to meet the religious, educational and morale needs of Jewish men and women serving in the Armed Forces, and to certify and provide ongoing services to Jewish chaplains and lay leaders serving the military. It has been meeting these needs since World War I.

For further information contact Barry Nove, Director of Development, at The Jewish Publication Society, (215) 832-0621 or Miriam Rinn at JWB Jewish Chaplains Council at (212) 212- 786-5092.

[Support Our Tribe]

"Something like 4% of soldiers, and less than 2% of the general population?"

hehehe

Who starts these canards? And who believes them?

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=11368

[Antispanimous]

Klaus,

KMac - Jewish Intelligence:

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/blog-IQ.htm

[Eleanor Lambertson]

There is no question that Jews, like other immigrant groups before them, have made great fortunes in America, but the difference is that instead of becoming Americans, many have used their fortunes to destroy America. The well-financed Israel Lobby, with its stranglehold on the politicians and the media, has subverted our foreign policy, converting it into an instrument designed to perpetuate the Israeli occupation of Palestine. For this reason we were attacked on 9/11, and since then we have morphed into Israel, occupying Iraq (to benefit Israel) and creating more anti-American terrorists. It has even reached the point where, unlike other countries,like China, who happily buy oil from friendly Muslim countries, America now feels it can only secure oil through force and occupation since we are hated so much. Meanwhile we're going backrupt and no doubt extinct like the USSR.

[Support Our Tribe]

4% of soldiers in Iraq, not of the general population of the military. And, moreover, nearly 4% of casualties.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0604/jewish_servicemen.php3

[American Joe]

I don't support any "Tribe", but I think the amount of bullshit on this blog and in the comments is quite high.

Phil Weiss - is this your idea of therapy?

I'm an American and my religion is Judaism. I have never seen combat but I served in the National Guard. For all of you who have a problem with me or with my pursuing wealth through perfectly legal means I have a message for you. It starts with an F and ends with a U. I have never done any thing to destroy America. I love this country.

[Charles Keating]

2,750 copies shipped to Jewish American soldiers serving in the middle east and elsewhere overseas.

"There are no statistics revealing the number of Jews currently in service, says Rabbi Nathan Landman, a former Air Force chaplain and now the deputy director of the Jewish Welfare Board's Jewish Chaplain's Council, a division of the Jewish Community Centers Association (www.jcca.org) -- but experience tells him the numbers are low.
"Half the percentage of the population level would be optimistic," Landman says. (google: Synagogues Wage Campaign to Keep Military Jews' Morale High)

Jews account for 2.1 percent of the U.S. population, according to the latest census figures. If Landman's estimate is correct, out of an Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps totaling 1.4 million, fewer than 15,000 are Jewish."

Jewish News Weekly of Northern California:

Email to A Friend
Friday October 26, 2001

Attention: Where are the Jews in the U.S. military?

Maj. RobLevinson

As an active duty Air Force officer currently stationed overseas, and as a Jew who grew up in the Bay Area, it is gratifying to see the overwhelming support the Bay Area Jewish community is showing for our current efforts to fight terrorism. We in the community, closely connected to Israel as we are, have understood the need to fight terror for a long time. Now, unfortunately, this need has tragically been brought home to all Americans. However, while I take great pride in the support the Jewish community is showing, a certain question keeps gnawing at me: Where are the Jews in the United States military?

Try this experiment at your next synagogue service or other Jewish gathering. Ask all the veterans to stand up. My guess is that the average age will be in the 70s as the proud veterans of World War II represent the majority. Then ask those who have a son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter who is a veteran or serving on active duty to stand up. Finally, ask those who currently know somebody serving on active duty to stand up as well. Sadly my guess is that the groups of people answering yes to the last two questions will be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Unfortunately, while Jews in the United States are over-represented in virtually every profession from law to medicine to science, they are few and far between in the armed forces of our country. Truth be told, nice Jewish boys and girls aren't raised to grow up and be soldiers, except of course in Israel. Throughout my career in the Air Force, I can't recall a single time that I didn't have trouble finding a minyan at any base I have been to.

Now some may think that this has always been the case, but this is simply not true. The oldest U.S. veterans' organization is the Jewish War Veterans. It was formed shortly after the Civil War, partly to counter the impression that Jews did not serve their country. Fifty percent of the first graduating class of West Point was Jewish: There were two graduates; one was a Jew. Jews can proudly take their place among America's war heroes like Admirals Uriah Levy and Hyman Rickover, or Congressional Medal of Honor winner John Levitow, an airman. Without a change in current trends of declining Jewish participation in the armed forces, this proud history may be at an end.

The reasons for this are many. Undoubtedly the Jewish community, primarily being upper-middle class, similar to most non-Jews of this class, doesn't see the military as terribly upwardly mobile. Today, those who have military-age children, the baby boomers, formed their impressions of the military in the 1960s and these impressions are generally negative. Others perceive the military as an institution as somehow anti-Semitic. From personal experience I can tell you that if anything, the military is rather philo-Semitic, perhaps owing to the great professional respect many personnel have for the Israeli Defense Force. There may be other reasons as well, but they pale when compared to the reasons we should serve.

No people owes more to America than its Jews. Without a doubt we are the freest, most prosperous, most influential Jewish community in the history of the world. We owe this to a country founded upon a set of principles, defended by the blood of patriots for over two centuries. Just as America has blessed its Jews, we Jews have blessed America. We are presidents of corporations, senators and congressmen, justices of the Supreme Court, doctors and lawyers, Nobel Prize winners and other achievers too numerous to mention. Given this wonderful history, it is clear that we also have a duty to our country to take our place beside others who are prepared to defend it. Do we really want to say, thank you America, but let others put their lives on the line? I don't think so.

Along with pushing our sons and daughters to medicine at Stanford or law at Harvard, we need to ask them to consider Annapolis or West Point, or for a really fine education, the Air Force Academy (my bias shines through). We also need to consider how we as a community support our armed forces. Do we commemorate Memorial Day and Veterans Day? Do we call the local military bases and find out if every Jewish soldier, sailor, or member of the Marines, Air Force or Coast Guard has a place to go for Shabbat dinner, Pesach, or the High Holy Days? Do we volunteer for the USO? Do our rabbis serve as chaplains (sadly this is a problem that is nearly a crisis)?

In the wake of the terrible events of Sept. 11, the call has gone out once again for America to defend freedom. As we proudly stood with those who fought to free the slaves and defeat Hitler, we must again answer: America's Jews are present and ready for duty!

[Ed.]

"For all of you who have a problem with me or with my pursuing wealth through perfectly legal means I have a message for you..."

And therein lies the problem: if its "legal," or can be made legal through lobbying and buying-off politicians with "contributions", its perfectly okay, no matter how depraved or socially destructive.

America used to be a society of God fearing individualists who also liked to make money. Now it is a society of money-worshipping materialists being played for fools by money and Israel-worshipping tribalists.

It looks like the "Franklin prophecy"
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/franklin_prophecy/franklin_prophecy.asp
(forgery or not) is coming to pass.

[Charles Keating]

Pen-Pals in NYC
Posted by staceygc on November 10, 2005
I am famous at my synagogue, as I am “The Woman Whose Husband is in the U.S. Army.” Every Shabbat without fail, someone starts talking to me about my husband. And every Shabbat without fail, that person says, “I’ve never met anyone who was in the U.S. Army before.” Israeli army, sure! But U.S. Army – unheard of for this little (800 families strong!) synagogue in New York City.

There is a genuine inquisitiveness regarding Jewish service men and women. I answer a ton of questions each week about Army life, training, kosher food, being able to keep Shabbat, my husband’s motivation, etc. But, perhaps better than me (a civilian, Army wife) answering these questions are actual Jewish service men and women answering them.

If you would like to be a part of the Pen-Pals program, please send your name and address to penpal@jewsingreen.com (be sure to put Pen-Pal Program in the subject line). You will be connected with a Jewish family, who will contact you with their address. Let the exchanges begin!

[David]

I am a Jew and I was in the US Army from 1983-1989. It's a JOB and has nothing to do with patriotism. Patriotism is paying your taxes. You are a a bunch of blowhard MCarthites with your bullshit claims of Patriotism. Desperate people join the Army- not patriots.

The more taxes you pay, the more people you employ- the more you are doing for America.

Weiss is a creep and an so is his crippled bitch.

[Charles Keating]

1) Jews serving in Iraq (as distinguished from neocons or congressmen or lobbyists):
"It is estimated that around two thousand Jewish soldiers are currently serving in Iraq."
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1189097203

2.) http://www.usaweekend.com/04_issues/040314/040314militaryfaith.html:
NAME/RANK/AGE: Spc. Joe Kashnow, 25
HOMETOWN: Baltimore
IN IRAQ: Rifle at his side, he donned his prayer shawl.
"I got grief because I wouldn't exercise on the Sabbath."
-- Spc. Joe Kashnow

Being an Orthodox Jew in the military has presented some complications. There are only an estimated 1,500 Jewish soldiers in the Army, which has nearly 500,000 active members. (That's 1,500 who identify themselves as such to the Army; there are those who choose not to.) Serving with the 4th Infantry Division, based out of Fort Carson, Colo., I was deployed with members of my division on April 3, 2003. When we got to Kuwait, I realized the kosher MREs ("meals ready to eat")... Everything I went through to maintain my traditions and faith, and the miracle of surviving something that was intended to kill me, has deepened my commitment to God. While recovering, I met a guy who told me that he was wounded driving his truck over an anti-tank mine. An anti-tank mine? And he was still alive? That isn't something you see every day. He was meant to stay alive for a reason.

Today, while focused on getting better, I've started my own non-profit group, the Jewish Soldier Foundation (jewishsoldier.org), to help others dealing with the same situations. With donations, we work to get shipments of kosher foods to Iraq for holidays such as Passover. And we're lobbying Congress so we can get the bare minimum of accommodations for Jewish men and women serving their country, like allowing them to have the Sabbath off while based at home. That's what it's all about: serving your God and your country.

3.) Current Honor list of fallen Jewish American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan:
http://www.jewishsoldier.org/wallofhonor_cat.php
 Spc. Daniel Freeman O"H 
 Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson O"H 
 Sgt. Howard Allen O"H 
 Spc. Benyahmin Ben Yahudah O"H 
 Ssg. Michael B. Shackelford O"H 
 1Lt. Andrew K. Stern O"H 
 Cpl. Mark Asher Evnin, O"H 
 Cpt. Michael Tarlaysky, O?H 
 Sgt. Alan Sherman, O?H 
 Cpl. Dustin Schrage, O?H 
 Petty Officer Nathan Bruckenthal, O?H 
 Sgt. Elijah Tai Wah Wong, O?H 
 Pfc. Jacob Fletcher, O?H 
 Spc. Jeffery Wershow O?H 
 Sgt. Marc Seiden, O"H 
 1Lt. David Bernstein, O"H 
 1Lt. Seth Dvorin, O"H 

4.) Christiancommonlaw-gov.org/pipermail/news-editorials_christiancommonlaw-gov.org/Week-of-Mon-20040405/000571.html:
"---- Original Message -----
From:
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: Passover in Iraqi Presidential Palaces--Saddam’s out, seder’s in--
Passover in Iraqi Presidential Palaces
The seder marked another historic milestone: In a rare move, the Department of Defense requisitioned “seder kits” from a civilian supplier for the estimated 1,000 Jews serving in the Iraqi war effort and elsewhere.

RePortersNotebook memo: Only 125 are Jewish soldiers. Out of 600 dead bodies shipped back home, only one was Jewish. The point? If the majority of the soldiers killed were Jewish, the Neo-Cons would have figured a way out of this mess a long time ago!

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See photo at:
http://jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13964&intcategoryid=4"

[Ed.]

'In a rare move, the Department of Defense requisitioned “seder kits” from a civilian supplier for the estimated 1,000 Jews serving in the Iraqi war effort and elsewhere.'

I wonder if it will requisition "Christmas kits" for the rest of the military. But of course not; that would be a violation of the Separation clause.

There are a few things to remember in this brave new Neocon world of ours:

Separation of religion and state in majority gentile states = Good.
Separation of religion and state in majority Jewish states = Bad.

Religious integration/suppression of majority religious culture in gentile states = Good.
Religous integration/suppression of majority religious culture in Israel = Bad.

Jewish racism in Jewish majority states = Good.
Gentile racism in Jewish minority states = Bad.

It's all about Jewish "choseness," dontcha know? So long as gentile humanity allows Jewish fanatics to do as they please (including murdering and pillaging whomever they see fit) there won't be any trouble. But question that divine right and the fur will fly. It's written somewhere in the Neocon Manifesto.

[David]

Hey douchebag Ed,

The US Military is one gigantic celebration of Christmas- Christmas Trees in mess halls, Christmas Feasts, toys-for-tots campaigns, etc.

"I wonder if it will requisition "Christmas kits" for the rest of the military. But of course not; that would be a violation of the Separation clause."

You are totally out of it. Plus, you're a scumbag.

[Anonymous]

The Synagogue of Saddam

http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/Arkansas_Menorah_in_the_Baghdad_Palace.asp

[Ed.]

David wrote:

"I am a Jew and I was in the US Army from 1983-1989...

"You are a a bunch of blowhard MCarthites with your bullshit claims of Patriotism...

"Weiss is a creep and an so is his crippled bitch.

"Hey douchebag Ed,...You are totally out of it. Plus, you're a scumbag."

Need I say more about the character of many contemporary Jews in this country, even those ostensibly assimilated?

With that kind of anger and hatred for their fellow Americans broiling beneath the skin, one wonders why more don't just make aliyah and get it over with...Oh, that's right...they like the money they can make in America better.

There's a Catholic saying I recently came across that goes something like this: "Either you will find the Church, or you will die a broken and bitter man."

In the case of Jews, the saying would be: "Either you will make aliyah, or you will die a broken and bitter man."

Hey Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Wurmser, Chertoff, Krauthammer, Kristol, Podhoretz, Redstone et. al.: Did you catch that?

[Charles Keating]

On an earlier Mondoweiss back on 9/26/07 thread re neocon Abrams and the issue of dual loyalty:

Percentage of the US Military which is Jewish American - 0.2%

[David]

I am only talking about dipshits like you, Ed-
not the innovative, hard-working, tax-paying Americans that make America great.

I probably pay more in taxes than you make in a year you creepy punk. Go do something for your country you hapless piece of shit.

[Charles Keating]

DOD stats for most recent period available (1999-2000)
Percentage of the US Military Reserve which is Jewish (self-defined) - 2.7%

As I said, OVER represented.

The truth hurts Chucky! Maybe you can compensate a bit by joining and getting your ugly ass blown up.

[Ed.]

"Go do something for your country you hapless piece of shit."

Hounding Judeofascists back into Israel before they lie America into another war IS doing something for my country.

PS: Take every dollar that every Jew has ever paid in taxes in the history of America and it wouldn't even begin to pay back the billions sent to Israel on the gentile's back, let alone the billions more wasted on the Iraq war which never would have been fought but for Judeofascist scheming.

[Jewlatto]

It's now common knowledge that about 40-50% of America's billionaires are Jews even though Jews are only 2-3% of America's population (and I'm quite sure that the percentage is even higher when it comes to millionaires and tother members of the upper-class in America). Such skewed statistics startle me (and even though I am half Jewish) and I totally agree and will freely admit that "OY! Jews are too rich and influential" for their tiny numbers relative to the overall population.

Just one question: how 'democratic' is it that a minority group which is only 2-3% of the population has so much influence and power (financial and otherwise) when it comes the media (NYC and Hollywood), banking/finance (based in NYC), publishing (also based in NYC), politics/foreign policy, and so forth?

[Jewlatto]

It's now common knowledge that about 40-50% of America's billionaires are Jews even though Jews are only 2-3% of America's population (and I'm quite sure that the percentage is even higher when it comes to millionaires and other members of the upper-class in America).

Such skewed statistics startle me (even though I am half Jewish) and I totally agree and will freely admit that "OY! Jews are too rich and influential" for their tiny numbers relative to the overall population in America.

Just one question: how 'democratic' is it that a minority group (Jews, but it could just as well be ANY minority group) which is only 2-3% of the population has so much influence and power [financial and otherwise] when it comes the media (based in NYC and Hollywood), banking/finance (based in NYC), publishing (also based in NYC), politics/foreign policy, and so forth?

[Gene]

"I am a Jew and I was in the US Army from 1983-1989..."

"Weiss is a creep and an so is his crippled bitch."

Thanks for your service, David. What did they do to make you so angry--throw you out as a pederast?"

[Gene]

Jews were resented in the former Soviet Union because comprised a disproportionate fraction of the Communist elite. Now that the WASPS have given up control in this country the Jews have increasingly taken their place. My brother recently returned from a ski resort west of Denver where he'd gone to visit his newly married daughter. He was astounded, he said, at the arrogance and sense of entitlement that Jews there displayed in the restaurants, bars and stores. He couldn't believe that in America people would act like that. Actually it's old hat. As Lord Acton said a century ago, "Absolute power (money) corrupts absolutely."

[David]

"Hounding Judeofascists back into Israel before they lie America into another war IS doing something for my country."

Exactly my point.

Go get a job you loser.

[Gene]

"'Hounding Judeofascists back into Israel before they lie America into another war IS doing something for my country.'"

"Exactly my point."

"Go get a job you loser."

Dear David, that "Hounding Judeofascist" remark is from Ed, not me. Are you responding to the right person?

As for my getting a job (assuming you intended that remark for me and not Ed), I already have a job, but thanks for asking.

I'm af

[Foppe Dykstra]

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Superrich.html

[Ed.]

"I am a Jew and I was in the US Army from 1983-1989...

"You are a a bunch of blowhard MCarthites with your bullshit claims of Patriotism...

"Weiss is a creep and an so is his crippled bitch.

"Hey douchebag Ed,...You are totally out of it. Plus, you're a scumbag."

"I probably pay more in taxes than you make in a year you creepy punk. Go do something for your country you hapless piece of shit."

"Go get a job you loser."

David, if your ethics are commensurate with your crass, primitive communication skills, I highly doubt any contribution you make to the American tax base is worth the social costs you extract from American society.

Face it, no matter how much money you make, you and your kind are nothing but parasites. Go leach off of the Israelis for awhile.

[Loch]

Hi Phil, I'm one of those WASPs that quietly bowed out. I come from old Virginia and Plymouth Rock families, Princeton alumni for generations, big in banking and real estate in the 20's through the 60's.

My parents said fuck it. They went back to the land. I was raised on a tiny farmstead in the mountains of Appalachia, with no running water or electricity.

My friends were Ledbetters, and Paynes, instead of Farqhars and Cookes. I spoke a dialect of English that was a 300 year-old patois straight from the Ulster countryside.

I learned things my parents never learned in Choate and Rosemary Hall, like how to butcher hogs, split firewood, and chop tobacco.

Instead of the high arched spaces of an Anglican cathedral, I picked up spiritual values in a whitewashed one room Primitive Baptist meeting hall, where we all had to bring in firewood to heat the room before the services began.

Where I grew up, people wore Orange on St. Patrick's day, and the wars of the reformation were as real as if they had been fought yesterday. The take-home lesson was that no-one could take your freedom away from you, and that no-one could save it for you except yourself.

I learned to hunt, weld, fix things other people threw away, farm, work with horses, move all day at an agricultural pace.

I learned that it is a sign of respect to mind my own business. I learned that sometimes it is better to shoot first and ask questions later. I learned that social workers, law enforcement officers, city folks, real estate agents, loan officers, and all government employees were agents of slavery. They infiltrated the tiny community with a cash economy, lied, wrote devious contracts, stole children, corrupted values, brought in a miasmic atmosphere of distrust and corruption and infected the people with a hunger for material things instead of an appetite for freedom.

Down there, back there, we didn't differentiate between types of "outsiders", except if they were "Floridians" or New Yorkers". They were all pushy, culturally retarded, had no sense of when they were grinding a mans dignity into the ground, and above all , greedy and arrogant.

The Appalachia I grew up in was not Deliverance country. It was a tidy, clean network of small crofters, who worked hard to turn the landscape into a visual and practical paradise. The people didn't have much, but they did have freedom, and a sense of their own purpose.

The newcomers destroyed all of that. Giant paperboard mansions now pollute the hillsides that once were pastures or fields. Property values have driven off all farmers- they can't afford to live a traditional subsistence life any more, and their city-bred neighbors sue them to make them replace their unsightly (but free) houses and barns.

The old culture is dead, the children of my generation all addicted to video games and high fructose corn syrup. The public education wasn't so good when I was there, but everyone learned to reead and cipher, and there were lots of other things to learn how to do that were just as important, like how to rebuild a 451 modified engine, or solder a still together, or notch logs. Now the kids don't have any skills at all.

Whose fault is it? I won't say any race of people, but I will say it's the city folks. If this country is heading down the road toward an unConstitutional police state, towards economic chaos, and moral ruin, I say its the fault of the city people, the cash economy, and an arrogance that can only be described as one based on ignorance of Divine Justice.

Where did the WASPs go? The smart ones went into the hills, because they sensed, unconsciously, that there was something more important that fancy gew-gaws, tinsel, and shiny playthings. Those more important things were integrity, manhood, personal responsibility, freedom, honesty, moral courage, and the sure knowledge that we ALL must stand before the Judgement seat and, as individuals, give an account of ourselves.

Jew or Gentile, it makes no difference. What is the quality of your character?

Asa Thomas Jefferson said,

"The idle multitudes of the great cities are to the health of the Republic just as sores are to the human body."

[sabanaoeste]

"I am a Jew and I was in the US Army from 1983-1989. It's a JOB and has nothing to do with patriotism. Patriotism is paying your taxes. You are a a bunch of blowhard MCarthites with your bullshit claims of Patriotism. Desperate people join the Army- not patriots."

This reads like it was really written by a semi-literate skinhead troll. Does anyone really think like this? If so, why serve six years with a bunch of losers -excluding yourself, of course.

[Michael Santomauro]

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish.

Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box."

[Michael Santomauro]

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish.

Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box."

[p.SURESH]

PRAISE THE LORD I AM SO HAPPY JEWISH PEOPLE
(NUM 6:24 TO 26 ) bLESS YOU rEV.SURESH ESTHER.