[Vision2020] Sarah Palin and the Jews

[Jeff Harkins]

I agree with you Kai.  It is surprising that Nick would find this 
essay worthy of consideration.  The far left is getting very desperate.

At 06:28 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
>This is has just sent the Acme "Stoopid Meter" off the charts.
>
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>From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:39 PM
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Sarah Palin and the Jews
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> > Greetings:
> >
> > Even if you have to skim most of this, you must read about the slaughter
> > at the end.  Iranians (Persians), on your guard!
> >
> > Nick Gier
> >
> >
> > Sarah Palin and the Jews
> > posted by Jon Wiener on 09/08/2008 @ 4:25pm
> > The Nation Magazine
> >
> > Sarah Palin took the biblical Queen Esther as her role model when she
> > became governor, according to her former pastor--a report that suggests
> > her ties to Jewish history are stronger than you might have expected.
> >
> > When Palin took office as governor in 2006, according to the New York
> > Times, she asked her former pastor in the Assembly of God church in
> > Wasilla for "a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what
> > was the secret of their leadership"--that's what Paul E. Riley, the
> > pastor, told Kirk Johnson and Kim Severson of the Times. He recommended
> > the Old Testament story of Esther, the beautiful Jewish queen who
> > persuaded the Persian king to save the Jews from annihilation and instead
> > let them kill their enemies. The story is celebrated by Jews annually in
> > the Feast of Purim.
> >
> > The parallels are clear. Esther was selected queen in a beauty contest;
> > Palin was runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant.
> >
> > So Queen Esther apparently provided the role model for the former beauty
> > queen who went to our own king and asked for earmarks for her people.
> >
> > The Palin/Queen Esther report has sparked a flood of commentary from
> > fundamentalist Christian web sites. One reports that "Sarah Palin, like
> > Esther, was an unlikely choice. Sarah Palin, like Esther, is bold and
> > courageous in the face of fear. Sarah Palin, like Esther, proves you can
> > be loyal and devoted to your family while having a high position. But
> > perhaps, more than anything, . . . we are seeing someone right before our
> > eyes who is capturing the hearts of the American people in a way that
> > defies description" - just like the Bible says, "And Esther won the favor
> > of everyone who saw her."
> >
> > Another says "Every once in a while a woman comes along who is made for
> > the times. Sarah Palin is such a woman. . . . Another woman, Esther, was
> > brought on the scene by God at just the right time. God's timing was
> > perfect for he used Esther to save the Jews"--and now he is using Palin to
> > save the Republicans.
> >
> > One problem with this view -that God sent Palin the way He sent Esther --
> > is that the Book of Esther never mentions God. It never says God sent
> > Esther to save His people, or even that Esther's belief in God gave her
> > the power to defeat her enemies. Somebody should point this out to the
> > fundamentalists.
> >
> > If you follow the logic in the story - as another fundamentalist Christian
> > website did - you find a "major, and creepily precise" parallel between
> > the threats to Jews then and now. In Esther's day the threat came from
> > Persia - and what country is the modern successor to Persia? Iran, of
> > course -- "the same Iran that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map and is
> > well on their way to acquiring the nuclear weaponry to do so . . . . And
> > along comes tough, clear-eyed, plain-speaking Sarah Palin."
> >
> > The implications for Palin's Iran policy are clear. In the Bible, after
> > the Jews are saved from annihilation, and after the first day of Jewish
> > revenge against their enemies, the King tells Esther the Jews have killed
> > 500 people, and asks what she wants to do next. Esther says she wants
> > permission for a second day of killing - so the king grants the Jews the
> > right "to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish the entire host of
> > every people and province that oppress them, small children and women, and
> > to take their spoils for plunder."
> >
> > The Bible says the Jews then killed 75,000 more of their enemies. It
> > doesn't say anything about Jewish casualties, which makes it seem like a
> > one-sided slaughter. (This part usually doesn't get mentioned at the Purim
> > carnival.)
> >
> > The cover of Newsweek this week is a photo of Palin with a shotgun. The
> > Iranians should be worried - and so should the Americans.
> >
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