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Thread ID: 17979 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-04-26
2005-04-26 18:56 | User Profile
Lost in American memory has been the name of David Ifshin. The more astute lurkers will soon ascertain why with only a little help. From my book: [QUOTE]Not once did Johnny Carson care to challenge the malevolent lies. Miss Fonda was not without her admirers to include her husband, television magnate, Ted Turner. If she ever felt disengaged from American culture, she was compensated by an award she received from the American Jewish Committee for her efforts to aid political prisoners in the Soviet Union.[1] These Jews obviously did not consider what she did to her countrymen to be of much importance compared to whatever effort she made for their kin in the Soviet Union. Nor did the American press feel fit to comment on it. Similarly David Ifshin went to Hanoi and urged American troops to turn against their commanders. His words were taped and played to American prisoners in Hanoi. Later he became a director of the [B][I]American-Israel Public Affairs Committee[/I][/B].[2] Suffering and deaths of Americans not Jewish counted for very little.
If there were a group or cause which illustrated the disinterest of much of the national media, the prisoners of the Vietnam War and their fate must be on the top of the list. They were white, in the military, above the teenage years and not Jewish. It seems obvious now that Nixon and Kissinger knowingly did leave captured airmen in Laos. Not only the media, but the blustering Reagan administration along with those of Carter and Ford did not pursue their cause. Their deaths now must be assumed, but not forgotten.
From the Forward: [url]http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:n7Bq2yHnfhMJ:www.forward.com/issues/1998/98.05.01/news.html+david+ifshin&hl=en[/url] [QUOTE]The president stunned and delighted friends and supporters by showing up unannounced at a small reception [I]honoring the memory of a pro-Israel activist David Ifshin [/I] and then, in an extraordinary and intimate encounter, unburdening himself of his hopes and fears as Israel prepares to mark its 50th anniversary. He spoke with particular passion of his desire to thwart the ambition of the assassin who felled Prime Minister Rabin, saying he missed the former prime minister and [I]keeps a yarmulke from his funeral and a rock from his grave in front of a picture of Rabin that he looks at every day[/I].
What is significant in the encounter is not just the substance of what Mr. Clinton said - the combination of hopes and fears for Israel - but the personal nature of the comments. The gathering at which he made his unannounced appearance was honoring the memory of a Washington D.C. lawyer, [B][I]David Ifshin, who had been a young activist against the war in Vietnam during the 1960s only to move right-ward, largely over the issue of Israel, and to surface in the 1980s as general counsel to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee[/I][/B] and, in the 1990s, as a friend and informal adviser to the president and as the lawyer to the Clinton campaign. How much Mr. Clinton identified personally with Ifshin's own political trajectory was unclear Monday. But the president appeared to be deeply moved by the memory of his friend, who died of cancer two years ago at the age of 47, only days after spending, with his wife and children, a night at the White House. Earlier in the day Monday, Mr. Clinton had marked Israel's 50th anniversary in ceremonies at the White House, where he was more formal and circumspect in his remarks. At the Ifshin evening, only a handful of reporters were present and the president spoke in a sharply more animated fashion. [/QUOTE]As ever issues affecting Jews were paramount. Goyim and their lives mattered little.
2005-04-26 20:02 | User Profile
....only to move right-ward, largely over the issue of Israel....
There you have it: "conservatism" defined. At least the sort of "conservatism" we enjoy today, with Jews jabbing a finger into your chest and demanding to know why there are no American-flag decals on your car.
But don't hold your breath waiting for them to laud the Founding Fathers. Those powdered-wig Commies favored the anti-semitic politics of isolationism and hate-speech like 'don't tread on me'. No sir - in * today's* conservative America, the only Founding Fathers who matter all sport unpronouncable names and did their thing in 1948. A few more years of this sort of conservatism and the flag will have a kosher-for-passover U added beneath the stars and stripes.
2005-04-27 10:21 | User Profile
But the president appeared to be deeply moved by the memory of his friend, [SIZE=5][COLOR=Red]who died of cancer two years ago at the age of 47......[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Screaming in agony & terror, if there's any cosmic justice.
2005-04-27 13:22 | User Profile
Shades of Horowitz! Thanks for reminding me of this scondrel, Edward.