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Jewish and Christian Pro-Israel Groups Slam Democratic Party for Inviting Jimmy Carter to Speak at DNC Convention…During Prime Time

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Within hours of Tuesday’s announcement that former President Jimmy Carter is going to address the Democratic National Convention, Jewish groups have begun lining up to protest the Democratic Party’s move. Though the speech will be pumped into the Charlotte venue via video, supporters of Israel are aghast the former president who has spent his years out of office promoting an anti-Israel agenda is being granted a prime time slot.

While President Obama has been trying to present himself as a champion of Israel in the hopes of maintaining the Jewish majority which supported him in 2008, Carter’s inclusion conveys a starkly different message. In 2006, Carter authored the book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid which made great strides in legitimizing the “apartheid” canard against Israel, even though most visitors to Israel immediately recognize the falsehood in comparing the Jewish state – which takes security precautions to protect itself from hostile neighbors – to South Africa.

The Executive Director of Christians United for Israel, David Brog tells TheBlaze:

It would be a tragedy for Israel to become a partisan issue in American politics.  Yet prominent Democrats continue to take troubling steps away from our embattled ally.  Highlighting former President Carter at the DNC is a big step in the wrong direction.  I’m glad that some leading pro-Israel Democrats have already recognized this.

Alana Goodman of Commentary Magazine obtained quotes from both the National Jewish Democratic Council and the Anti-Defamation League which are criticizing the DNC’s choice. She writes:

“He is flawed, he’s got an obsession with Israel, a biased obsession that borders on anti-Semitism,” said [ADL national director Abraham] Foxman. “So that’s not somebody I think should grace the podium of a national convention.”

Foxman added that Carter probably lobbied organizers for the speaking role, putting the DNC in an awkward position. “I don’t think he deserves to be there, except it’s hard to refuse a platform to a former living president especially when he asks for it,” said Foxman.

NJDC President and CEO David Harris also unloaded on Carter in an emailed statement.

“When it comes to Israel and the Middle East, President Carter has unfortunately embarrassed himself — as his analysis and commentary has been stubbornly wrong, harmful to the peace process, and getting worse all the time,” said Harris. “I’m confident that he won’t be speaking to the Party about Middle East policy.”

Harris added: “I’d like to know if Senator Rand Paul will be spreading his views of the Middle East and foreign aid in Tampa.”

Jonathan Tobin, a prominent conservative Jewish columnist who is Senior Online Editor of Commentary Magazine, suggests the invitation to Carter could backfire on the Democrats:

Given how anxious the Democrats have been to portray themselves as unflinching allies of Israel this year, it is curious that they would allow Carter to speak at all in Charlotte, let alone in prime time. If the Obama campaign was looking to give Republicans an opportunity to highlight one of the most prominent foes of the Jewish State and link him to the president and the Democrats, they can do no better than honoring Carter in this manner. […]

In 2008, Jewish Democrats who were determined to brand Barack Obama as a friend of Israel were pleased by the decision on the part of convention organizers to give Carter as little honor as possible. The short shrift given the former president, was, as the Forward reported in August 2008, widely interpreted as an indication of the Obama campaign’s seriousness of purpose in competing for the Jewish vote.

It’s unknown if Carter will discuss the Middle East, but he will provide “unique insights about President Obama as a global leader,” according to a DNC statement. Carter’s apartheid libel doesn’t seem to be ruffling any feathers at the DNC. In its Tuesday statement announcing Carter’s address, DNC Chair Antonio Villaraigosa said, “President Carter is one of the greatest humanitarian leaders of our time and a champion of democracy around the globe.”

Criticism is coming not only from pro-Israel groups, but also those who believe the Carter choice sends other strong unspoken messages, no matter what he decides to say on September 4th. Townhall News Editor Katie Pavlich writes:

One of the worst presidents in United States history is set to address the DNC convention in Charlotte by video. Jimmy Carter, a president Barack Obama has been repeatedly compared to for failed economic policies, stances on Israel and for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, has been added to the agenda.

Carter was also the last Democratic president to lose a reelection – by a landslide to Ronald Reagan. Pavlich says that highlighting him at the convention “just seems like a really bad idea.”

Comments (65)

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  • kedward
    Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:14am

    Carter stood by, while Americans were held captive 444 days in Iran.This impotent, inaction gave the mullahs the courage to overthrow the Shah who wanted a modern secular nation. Thanks to Carter, Iran enjoys rule by theocracy.

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    • progoyim
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:17am

      Never cared for Carter he was naïve when it came others ,dangerous when it came to dealing with people of lesser virtue .I don’t think he has misspoken about Israel he didn’t seem like one of the whores for Israel
      Unlike the pandering shekel driven Dems and republicans of today
      NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR NOT ONE MORE US LIFE FOR THE SAND Pit AT THE EASTERN END OF THE Mediterranean .

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    • rickc34
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:20am

      Obama is no different than Carter on his feelings for Israel and its people, they just want the money.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:46pm

    My Gawd!!! The DNC must be desperate!!!

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    • RWCT
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:59am

      Yes they are! I hope the peanut farmer speaks for 3 hours, and drives more Jews to vote for Romney. They truly are a stupid lot. are they not??

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  • Creativethinker
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:58pm

    @Quarndo The Bible says that the Jews are Gods chosen people… God renamed Jacob “Israel” God states in the old testament that he is the God of Abraham ,Isaac, and Jacob. God also renamed Abram Abraham.

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    • Verity58
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:12am

      Another Zionist fool. Breakout that Scofield Bible.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:19am

      Amen, God did choose the seed of Abraham through Issac , but to many are ignorant of Gods word and judge others for believing it.

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  • Seede
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:40pm

    What in the world is going on with the American Jews? They continue to be yellow dog democrats yet they knew that Carter was a Jew hater ever since he came upon the political scene. Why bitch about Carter when the entire democratic party has hated Jews forever. To hate Carter is to hate the whole DC gang and yet tomorrow after all the bitching they will vote for Obama. Talk about double minded people.

    The Jews of Israel are strictly socialists and have been since they became Israel. They will always be yellow dog socialists and you will never change that ideology. The American Jews simply follow their brothers in Israel. Why? Don’t really know the connection there but it may be similar to the connection they have for the black race. Don‘t think you will ever change those people one whit but then again don’t really want to.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:28pm

    After Eight, Must Vacate, BUT, in this case, After Four He Did Vacate!

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:12am

      Jimmy is being used to make Sweet Old Barack look good.
      After Eight must vacate, after four out the door for Sweet Old Barack.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:42pm

    Jimmy Carter is a very well known Anti-Semite & anti Israel Socialist Democrat. Jimmy Carter’s hobnobbing with Hamas terrorists proves to be the most troubling. Hamas has not only never accepted Israel’s right to exist, but uses its base in Gaza for frequent rocket attacks on Israel’s communities. Hamas actually sponsors children’s television programming, in the style of Sesame Street, touting the glories of suicide bombing and martyrdom.

    Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would “sell out” the Jews
    Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election

    …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, “If I get back in, I`m going to f— the Jews.”
    Jimmy Carter, March 1980

    …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
    Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003

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    • justangry
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:43pm

      Do you have any sources? He just doesn’t seem the type tbh, and I’ve seen this type of smear on my guy throughout the primaries, and I’m skeptical.

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  • Freedomspatriot
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:46pm

    Have you NOTICED;

    To Anger a Conservative, tell him a Lie.
    To Anger a Liberal, tell him the Truth.

    If a Conservative is caught lying, it is called a lie and reported everywhere.
    If a Liberal is caught lying, it is called a “SPIN” and ignored.

    If a Conservative is caught for sending an inappropriate sexual E-mail, he resigns in disgrace.
    If a Liberal is caught running a homosexual brothel w/ conviction of Principal of an Elem. School it is celebrated.

    If a Conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
    If a Liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns banned.

    If a Conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches the channel.
    If a Liberal doesn’t like a talk show host, they demand it be, silenced, shut down, sponsors boycotted.

    If a Conservative is non-believer, he doesn’t go to Church.
    If a Liberal is a non-believer, he wants any mention of God or Religion silenced.

    If a Conservative intelligently debates Moral, Financial and Criminal harm from Militant Gays with 80M dead, 80M more infected World Wide, Militant Atheist who are really Satanist Bashing anything God, AND Massive Invasion of Illegal Aliens forming 1,000′s of gangs causing 100,000′s Thefts, Murders, Decapitations, Kidnappings & Poison Death Dealers while Depriving Real Citizens the Social Services they Paid for while Bankrupting over 300 Hospitals while others refuse to deliver any babies.. they are called Bigots, Racist, HomoPhobes or Xenophobes.

    If a Liber

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    • dawghowse
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:21pm

      If you don’t mind I need to borrow this. I have some people who need to read this. Well said.

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    • SkiNWa
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 3:58am

      Well said indeed. Bravo, bravo.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:40pm

    Jimmy, you still have the choice to choose the Right Road before yout soul is taken down the Left Road! It is possible that you have chosen the Right Road, and are being Used for a purpose which mankind does not understand? I hope that be the case.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:34pm

    This is always the typical boilerplate response from the Anti-Defamation League:

    Ex-Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni: “Calling People Anti Semitic is a Trick to Stifle Criticism! We Always Use it !”

    The Zionists have perfected this derivation of the race card in order to always to insulate themselves from any criticism that might be directed toward them.

    When Sharpton and Jackson do it, then the critics are always quick to point out the race card……when the Anti-Defamation League does it though, then it typically endures an outpouring of sympathy from practically everyone.

    I hate it when somebody trots out the race card (no matter which side they are on) because its always used to silence critics regardless of whether or not those critics have legitimate arguments to begin with.

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    • Verity58
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:23am

      Well stated, you will not question the Chosen.

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  • Spqr1
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:28pm

    So, the man who stopped the cycle of large Arab/Israeli wars is anti-semetic? Do you people have any concept of how bat-crap crazy you sound?

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:33pm

      How about the man who wrote “Israel Apartheid”?

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Your conflating Likud policies with both Israel and Judism at large, they are not the same things.

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  • pap pap
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:25pm

    This is great. Just keep p!ssing off the Jews Demorats.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:19pm

    I guess I confuse Zionism with Judaism. It is beyond me why anyone of the Jewish faith would remain a Democrat.

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    • Spqr1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:54pm

      Because the Conservative Establishment has spent generations practicing various forms of anti-semitic cultural exclusion. This embracing of Jews by the evangelical right is a recent phenomenon and rooted in cynical “end-times” thinking. Simple as that…..

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    • justangry
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:05pm

      Yeah, I don’t get it either. I thought anti-Semitic meant hating Jews. Now, if you criticize the state (and all states have flaws) you’re anti-Semite too. I mean Jimmy Carter was a horrible president, but he was a president and I have to assume that his knowledge base of what’s happening over there is larger than all the people bitching about him. I guess I don’t understand what he did that would make him anti-Semitic based on this article. Of course I‘ve been called the same thing on here countless times and I don’t understand that either. I’m getting to a point where hearing the ADL cry anti-Semitism carries about as much weight as Al Sharpton throwing out the race card.

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    • Neils60
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:09pm

      As a Jew, it puzzles me, too. The Republican Party, starting with Richard Nixon, who saved Israel’s very existence by rearming it during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, despite some in his administration who felt otherwise, have been nothing but supportive of Israel’s right to exist. Regarding Jimmy Carter, I‘m surprised that the DNC didn’t have him place President Obama’s name in nomination for another term at the convention. I believe that Carter best represents the new Democrats. That’s why I, as a registered Democrat, am voting for Mitt, just as I did for John McCain and George W. Bush in his second term for president.

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  • myway
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:04pm

    Senile! Although him an “O” are pieces of the puzzle!

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  • imsteph
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:00pm

    don’t worry-no one will be watching but other news media outlets…
    regular people can’t stomach the lies anymore.
    fingernails on a chalk board.

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  • voting-for-romney
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:57pm

    Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesar? But it was the Jewish God that said, a flat tax is the way to grow my kingdom? So it was Jesus that was really saying, I already explained to you how to run your financial system, you are are asking me AGAIN? Teaching with sarcasm can be subtle, but the powerful nuances, last a lifetime, and do people really hate Jews if we are all from Adam and Eve, or are we mad at ourselves and redirecting that hate at others in ways meant to deceive ourselves and others?

    Yeah, that was a nutshell of some of the hate towards Jews? Or are they just trying to say that’s past his bed time, we can’t risk the possible health hazards of a fella that old getting all that attention and excitement at that time of the day? Maybe some of it?

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  • voting-for-romney
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:53pm

    Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesar? But it was the Jewish God that said, a flat tax is the way to grow my kingdom? So it was Jesus that was really saying, I already explained to you how to run your financial system, you are are asking me AGAIN? Teaching with sarcasm can be subtle, but the powerful nuances, last a lifetime, and do people really hate Jews if we are all from Adam and Eve, or are we mad at ourselves and redirecting that hate at others in ways meant to deceive ourselves and others?

    Yeah, that was a nutshell of the hate towards Jews?

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  • CONSERVATIVE1
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:32pm

    Jimmy who???….Hoffa??…

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  • steveh931
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:06pm

    Let’s all sit down to a tall cold glass of “Billy Beer” and enjoy the show, don’t forget the peanuts!

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    • CONSERVATIVE1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:26pm

      I’ll drink to that…

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:37pm

      @steveh931
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Let’s all sit down to a tall cold glass of “Billy Beer” and enjoy the show, don’t forget the peanuts
      ***
      After all Carter II is about to flame out the same way jimmy did to a guy of their own choosing, who wasn’t even the 1st choice of his own base! Low salt diet here, make mine unsalted, and a Diet Rite Pure 0 !

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  • Larry E
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:04pm

    I’m sure that Old Crazy Jim will have all the anti-semites (aka Demorats) cranked up with his speech. It‘ll be wonderful I’m sure. I will miss it because I’ll have more important things to do like sleeping or walking the dog.

    Jimmy was pretty much irrelevant 32 years ago, and his value hasn’t increased one iota since then, but that’s the FORWARD thinking Demorats. Just because something has failed time and time again is no reason to not give it another try. Something about insanity I think.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:15pm

      Larry, for your information, Jews play a major, substantial, role in the leadership of the Democrat party. Your anti-Semite allegation is as always, false.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:43pm

      Ah! Larry,
      re : Jimmy was pretty much irrelevant 32 years ago, and his value hasn’t increased one iota since then, but that’s the FORWARD thinking Demorats. Just because something has failed time and time again is no reason to not give it another try. Something about insanity I think
      ***
      He laid the blue print for them. The Savings and Loan debacle happened on his watch, the Ayatolla took power, the supposed peace plan everyone’s trying to use against Israel, and of course the hostages! As far as the economic collapse it was he that put in place the need to make “affordable housing” for clinton to expand upon for our 2008 collapse! Stop and think about it and that twig got a very decided bending from j carter! The left’s turned this nation into a “bonsai” ever since with the help of the lame stream media.

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  • OneTermPresident
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:01pm

    I wonder if it’s dawned on him yet… the fact he was a one term president who got his ass kicked because he was so horse s h i t at the job… but not quite as bad as Obama is. The polls had him ahead at this same time back then and he lost in a landslide. See ya Obama…

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:31pm

      It will make for an easy comparison, won’t it? Thank you DNC and don’t forget to make your support for gay marriage part of your party platform!

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    • OneTermPresident
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:16pm

      @GONZO… It‘ll be hard for them to avoid it now that we have America’s first gay president.

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:52pm

    Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists are secular radicals. Zionism has nothing to do with religion. It is a political movement just like Nazism. Supporters of this movement are no different from those of yesteryear who supported Nazism.

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    • Larry E
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:00pm

      At least you’ve got the correct name, although Moron would work as well.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 3:04pm

      Larry, why write if you have nothing of substance to offer. That’s quite progressive. Attack the messenger when the facts tell the version of history contrary to your fiction.

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:17pm

      @Jerk
      Your definition might be true of LABOR Zionism but certainly isn’t true of Zionism as a whole. One of the major Zionist ideologies is RELIGIOUS Zionism and was started by an Orthodox Rabbi by the name of Abraham Isaac Cook.

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:21pm

      @Jerk
      And as for your “facts”, those are nothing more than half facts. The logic you used to conclude that all Zionists are secular is that because some Zionists were secular and many were socialists, all Zionists must be. I could use the same logic to conclude that all Christians believe that it’s okay to torture someone to get them convert in order to “save” them.

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  • Witness1974
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:42pm

    Quite fitting to have the worst ex-president, formerly the worst president, hand the baton on to Obama.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:29pm

    Jimmy Carter WAS the “Worst US President Ever.”
    Since the Serial Liar Obama became President, Carter has danced a Georgia jig and sipped on iced tea, thankful that Obama now has the title of “Worst US President Ever.”
    The Dems inviting the failure Carter to speak at their convention, along with the philandering Bill Clinton tells a great deal about themselves.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:28pm

    Jimmy is a tool for “in your face” mockery from the left. This is not from true Americans, for we love and stand behind Israel for they are God’s Chosen. All of will not make the cut, but overall these are God’s chosen. He will separate the tares from the wheat in this nation.

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    • quarando
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:49pm

      Who are you or anybody else to decide FOR GOD who is “chosen”. You are one arrogant heretic.

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    • Verity58
      Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:09am

      you are a Zionist fool.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:25pm

    Just more mockery from this leftist group to have Jimmy the ancient jew hater there.

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