With friends like you, we don’t need enemies

В начале апреля была опубликована небольшая статья – ответ А. Гофена на статью Щедрова.

За это время мы получили несколько телефонных звонков и имейлов.

Мы в который раз просим понять всех, что при всем нашем желании общаться такой роскоши, как  участие в дискуссиях по телефону или по имейлу  с одним человеком мы не можем себе позволить.
Если вы хотите опровергнуть или поддержать г. Щедрова, присылайте нам полноценный материал, и не 2-3 предложения типа «Вы же нормальные, приличные люди, зачем вы такую чушь печатаете? Щедров же просто безграмотен!»  или «Только не рассусоливайте мне про свободу слова».

Уважаемые читатели, просим вас понять, что свобода слова в нашем понимании – это не то, что думает или чего хочет редакция. Это то, что хотят высказать разные люди, нравится нам их мнение или нет. Если оно выражено  по-хамски, мы печатать не будем, но в остальных случаях… Свобода слова, конечно, под угрозой сегодня в нашей стране, но пока еще существует. И мы обязаны ее поддерживать.

Мы не леваки, чтоб закрывать рот тем, кто думает иначе. И это касается любой проблемы и любой темы – США, Израиля, Украины, России, Байдена, Трампа, Навального, Зеленского, Путина, НАТО, Дня Победы, абортов, расовых проблем и проч… Мы и сами не любим шагать строем, и никому не советуем. Не надо клеить ярлыки «ах вы, сволочи-трамписты», вариант – путинисты, вариант – сионисты, бибисты… и далее по списку… вы почему не пришли на митинг в поддержку Н. или против Биби или за аборты?
Мы ходим туда, куда считаем нужным пойти и куда в состоянии прийти… И диктовать нам, куда ходить, какое мнение нам иметь, мы не советуем.
Мы никому не навязываем свое мнение. Мы его высказываем откровенно и по возможности аргументированно. Скорее всего именно аргументация и стиль сильнее всего раздражают наших оппонентов. Но это уже не наши проблемы.

Так что ждем ваши отклики.

Dear Jewish American voter! It is 2024 and we are endlessly thankful for your incessant warnings about Trump.

We owe you for exposing him for the Nazi values he held so close to his evil heart. If it wasn’t for you, your Jewish kids could have still been attending college without the fear of being assaulted by a kafia-wrapped bully.

A standing ovation for removing Trump from further bankrupting Iran with his crippling sanctions and funds-freezing of the world’s number one sponsor of terror. Your vote in 2020 helped Iran get back on its financial feet so quickly that the Islamist dream of October 7th became a resounding success! Much of Israel thanks you for your part in sizing down Israel’s Jewish population, it was getting out of hand.

No gratitude is enough for having this monster removed from the Oval Office. You cursed Trump and told us “He will be the cause of an imminent world war” when he moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem. That sage-like prophecy still hangs over our slow-processing conservative minds.

You were brilliant in your tragic assessment of Trump’s pronouncement of The Golan as sovereign to Israel. How dare he? This, you said back in 2019, was the beginning of another war, this time in the Middle East, with Israel’s neighbors.

But the orange man didn’t stop there. With Aryan arrogance and conviction of 1940s Germany, he dared to proclaim Judea and Samaria indigenous to Jews of Israel. What in the name of God…?

Heck, do you recall your piercing wisdom when you informed that the orange Nazi will cause yet another bloody war, one with Iran, after Trump’s operation “Dead Soleimani”?

You hated Trump’s elimination of ISIS! Orange Trump, Orange ISIS -both Nazis and both needed elimination. The world is so much safer today because you, Jewish American Democrats, did your thing at the ballot box in 2020! Thank you, smart ones!

You laughed and mocked Trump when he signed presidential bills to protect Jewish students on American campuses. That unpresidential 21st century Hitler was so phony and disingenuous.

Who can forget your astute warning about fascist Trump on his friendship with Bibi and his impeccable safeguarding of Israel from all external attacks during his entire presidency? Come to think of it…safeguarding the world from all wars! Damn him!

Trump’s border wall? Our heads bow low at your feet as we heeded your alarm-ringing about that inhumane security measure which kept record number of fentanyl-supplying killers from entering our country. Dodged that one, all thanks to you!

Those Mussolini-style Abraham Accords Trump and his evil son-in-law put together, ensuring Jordan and the Saudis assist Israel in airspace against Iran’s missiles in 2024! Historic unprecedented moment – what horror!

We remember with utter disgust all those Israel-loving speeches Trump’s appointee, Nikki Haley gave at the UN! Yes, the same speeches that made you so uncomfortably Jewish because they out-ed you as a Jew loudly. Good thing you put an end to that circus!

If it wasn’t for your heightened intelligence in recognizing this orange Hitler amongst us, your teenager could have still been wearing his Star of David around his neck without you having to ask him to turn it around…like you do.

Alas, if it wasn’t for your good sense of moral superiority over Trump’s indecency, your Jewish students could’ve still been attending your favorite elite schools in person, rather than having to hide in your attics.

Oh, and if it wasn’t for your biblical knowledge of Trump’s hatred of Jews, universities and colleges would’ve never been allowed Hamas flags, Hamas death chants and daily pro-Hamas rallies under the guise of “free speech”.

You connected all the dots with your astute analysis of Trump’s administration as the Fourth Reich. Keeping us safe on the streets of American cities (with or without an Israeli flag) under the leadership of Israel-undermining military-defunding Biden is so much more progressive! All because of you!

Your paralyzing fear of the MAGA hat empowered and enriched China, the same communist China Trump warned us about while preventing CPP from obtaining oil from Iran. In love with hatred of fellow red-hatted Americans, you ensured skyrocketing Iranian oil revenues and subsequent financing of Hamas. Damn those Nazi red hats – hostages and slaughter of fellow Jews is a small price to pay!

How can we forget your deathly fear of Trump’s KKK “friends”, three and a half Charlottesville white supremacists and his best buddy (the one he never met) David Duke. Today’s world rampant with never-seen before Jew-hating violence and synagogue burnings is certainly better off with your visionary ideas.

That mean-tweeting man caused so much harm to the safety and quality of American Jewish life and society at large that even your forward-thinking reform Rabbis, 400 of them, wrote a letter of disgust directly to Trump to thank him, of course, for all the damage he’d done.

A round of applause for you for truly recognizing who Trump was: a threat to democracy with a pretend Jewish daughter and fake Jewish grandchildren and all those fake deeds to keep Jews in America, Israel and around the world safe, thriving and respected. It was all an act.

We are indebted to you for elucidating that the greatest threat to world peace currently is Bibi Netanyahu. Trump’s version 2.0 is undoubtedly enemy #1. Once he’s removed, Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah and Muslim Brotherhood will give up their Mohammedan jihad and embrace you as their soul brothers. 130 Hostages will be swiftly returned unharmed and un-raped and the upstanding lovely Palestinians will finally accept Israel’s right to exist.

Thank you, dearest Jewish American Democrats, for years of visionary insight into Trump. With friends like you, we don’t need enemies. Undoubtedly, you’ll continue with that crystallized clarity on preventing Trump from returning to office in November. Your ever-steep learning curve will once again lead you to vote for that senile mumbling old puppet of the guy who once asked Israel to immediately return to 1967 borders. (You’ll remember him…he’s that hero with your preferred skin color).

No matter what happens to Israel or Jewish children around the world, “Anyone but Trump!” will remain your life-long mantra! Come hell or high water, let Trump rot in jail for all those manufactured crimes …as long as you are perceived as adequately liberal and worthy of acceptance by the Hamas-loving, diverse and inclusionary leftist mob. And, of course, never ever take your seat at the table of polite, accomplished, Jew-hating leftist company for granted. We wouldn’t want you to lose your job, your influence or your friends amongst Israel haters. After all, you’re an American first and Jew-ish only when Israel is not in the news.

We look forward to further normalization of anti-Semitism courtesy of your voting patterns. We hear your “Never Again!” whispers from the comfort and safety of your living rooms and/or Jewish Federation offices. With all your college degrees, board seats and intellectual sophistication, you must be painfully aware that those two words originated with the real sage, Rabbi Meir Kahane. The original Nazi.

Valery Sobel