Inventing History? Andrew Shapiro, Abe Lincoln, John Adams, Stalin's Collective Farms, and Israel………..
“The unique relationship between the United States and Israel is rooted in common values, interwoven cultures, and mutual interests. U.S. support for the idea of a Jewish homeland dates back to John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and can be traced through the letters of Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. Indeed, when Israel was founded in 1948, the United States was ready to embrace its new partner. President Truman famously extended official, diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel in just 11 minutes……….”
(I had though Joseph Stalin beat Truman to be the first to recognize. He had hoped the kibuttzim would become kholkhoze collective farms).
“I was intrigued by the Lincoln. I have his letters. But I couldn't find any reference to the Jewish homeland, and I asked the scholar David Bromwich, who has studied Lincoln, what he knew. Bromwich said that Shapiro may have been channeling a recent speech by Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele………”
“Ladies and gentlemen, every generation in each century of American history, the greatest of American patriots and leaders - Adams, Lincoln, Reagan - have linked the heart of America to the cause of Israel. Why? What is it about America that so deeply connects us to Israel?...........”
(Really? Every frigging genetration even before the creation of Israel? Now he is out of hisfuckinghypocritical mind)
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