I am sure many of us remember the 1995 Israeli November election between the Labor Party of Yitzhak Rabin which supported peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the Likud Party lead by US raised Benjamin Netanyahu which apposed any peace and reconciliations between the Arabs and Israel which ended in the murder of the late Yitzhak Rabin at the hand of a right wing Yigal Amir a supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud.
Any one following the Israeli elections can see were the election was heading with the Likud painting Yitzhak Rabin as a traitor to the Zionist cause with posters appearing everywhere with Rabin wearing the Arab head dress "Kafyia" with some members of the Likud calling Rabin the hero of 48, and 56 a Nazi The Likud incitement against Labor and especially Rabin reminds us of what is going on the Republican Party and US presidential election.
While the Republican Party and John McCain may be not be a Likud or a Benjamin Netanyahu, however many of the Republican Party faithful and core supporters and ideologue are in fact Likud with disdain for the Democratic Party and its candidate Barack Obama not much different from the way the Likud was inciting anger, fear even hate against the Labor candidate Rabin culminating in the cold blooded murder of Yitzhak Rabin dashing any chance for peace in the Middle East.
The last few weeks have seen the ugly face of the Netanyahu Factor in American politics with both Sarah Palin and John McCain creating the "conditions" for the anger and hate speech we hear and we see prevalent in all of the McCain-Palin elections rallies. The Likud and Zionist supporters of McCain and Palin have been leading the "hateful" charge against Barack Obama, distributing some 40 millions DVD "Obsession" linking Obama with "Radical Islam" and even giving the impression that Obama is a "closet" Muslim, with some even going further claiming he is an "Arab". To McCain and Palin and their supporters and the Jewish Likud and Evangelical Zionists there is nothing wrong with being an Arab or a Muslim, just like there is nothing wrong with being Christian or Jewish or Black or White or Hispanic. We should do our best to make sure that America does not become an Israel. Certainly there is nothing wrong with a Black and Christian Obama.
Like the Likud Party of Israel the Republican Party is desperate to win the election and will not put an end to the "hate" speech often heard at McCain-Palin election rallies. John McCain is borrowing so much from Benjamin Netanyahu election campaign against Yitzhak Rabin with so much hateful incitement, if not encouraging hateful and the spreading of rumors and lies, John McCain is failing to distance himself and his election campaign from hate organization such as those that sponsored and distributed 40 million DVD's full of hate and venom against Obama, Muslims and Arabs. "Obsession" is a Netanyahu Factor that can God/Allah forbid leads to the Israelization of US elections. John McCain and Sarah Palin should be careful and must and should take immediate steps to put an end to the Netanyahu Factor in America's Presidential Elections.
We hope that the Likudist's and the Evangelical Zionists within the Republican Party, the US and within the McCain-Palin campaign will put an end to their venom and hateful incident against Barack Obama, Arabs and Muslims in the US and injections of race, faith into the presidential election and undermining the American political process that survived and made American a leader in the world. It is enough they have undermined America's political, military and economic leadership in the world. John McCain and Sarah Palin should learn the lesson from the Netanyahu Factor and concentrate in the remaining days on the issues important to the American public. The economy, social justice and America's leadership in the world are of great importance to the American public and must be the only issues in the this very, perhaps most critical election in US history where the American voters will decide whether we will have another 8 years of George Bush disastrous leadership and Zionist Likud policies both domestic and international or we take America forward toward 21st Century different from the one envisioned by Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, Alan Greenspan who brought us nothing but a total disaster at home and abroad.
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