Questionable tactics from American-Jews against Mr.Obama. Opinions please?
As I was reading the news headlines here at Yahoo! World I came across this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_re_us/newspapers_islam_dvd
It's "The Obsession Project" a highly provocative DVD containing photo and sound collage with the sole purpose to show Muslims as bad, or dangerous or even evil.
It was included in almost all Jewish owned American newspapers in the vast majority.
The above article states:
"Clarion Fund spokesman Gregory Ross said the group spent several million dollars in donations FROM INDIVIDUALS HE WOULD NOT NAME (!!!sic), and he said running the ad in swing states was a means of drawing media attention and not meant to influence the election's result, a move barred by federal tax law covering nonprofits."
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/09/25/endowment-for-middle-east-truth-funds-massive-obsession-dvd-distribution/
When I did some further browsing I found out this:
"former Israeli diplomats…are behind the mass distribution"
"EMET’s spokesman, Ari Morgenstern, told IPS. Morgenstern is a former press officer for the Israeli embassy here…
Morgenstern told IPS that EMET was “partnered with the Clarion Fund” on what he called the “Obsession Project” which he identified as “an initiative of EMET”. He declined to name the Project’s donors…"
and it gets more interesting
"Morgenstern also declined to specify the cost of the DVD distribution, but did say, “it costs a great deal — it’s a multi-million-dollar effort.” Outside experts have estimated the cost of the operation, including reproduction and distribution, at between 15 million dollars and 50 million dollars.
Like hard-line neo-conservatives, EMET opposes any land concessions to Palestinians and takes other hard-line positions identified with Israel’s right-wing Likud Party and the ”Settler Lobby” there…"
Of course many democrats protested against this, not for their support towards the Muslims per se, but in their support for the Democrat nominee Mr.Obama himself.
My opinion about this is that it was a totally wrong move since these rabid Jews have tried to divide Americans or even demonize the Democrats as evil and categorize them as Muslim lovers.
These are moves of fanaticism that can never work in Democratic America and I think it is also a very bad investment from the Ultra-rich Jews that form the Jewish Lobby in Washington.
So I want to ask you my dear friend, to give me your clear opinion on that.
I am interested in telling me if actions of this kind are doing Israel any good or damage.
The same applies to the Diaspora Jews of course.
Thank you for your patience
Greetings.
Edit
Thank you my friends for your immediate response. The same applies to the Y mods of course.
@Z
Of course my dear friend. I strongly believe that most of the Diaspora Jews have nothing to do with this, or any other "not so fair" tactics.
I am afraid that the people behind this particular way of thinking is less than 1% of all of the Jewish people. Unfortunately the power of money counts more than the voice of the simple or average democratic person.