Phony Biden Broadcast And Disturbing Palin Church Sermon Raise Alarms Among Jews

While the American media obsess about whether Alaska Governor and aerial wolf-sniper Sarah Palin is ready for prime time and national office, many Israeli political buffs have been scrutinizing the 2008 vice presidential candidates in light of foreign policy issues.

Today, Sen. Joe Biden's photo was splashed on the front page of the conservative Jerusalem Post, which showed no pictures of the Barracuda from Wasilla or her photogenic family.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told Israeli reporters in a phone interview yesterday that Israel doesn't need any green light from the United States in order to attack Iran over its nuclear program.

A broadcast on the official Army Radio station last week claimed that unnamed Israeli officials were preoccupied about the prospect of Biden as number two in the White House because they said he had ruled out an American attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and cautioned them that the region would eventually have to learn to live with A-bombs in Tehran.

Concerns were heightened in Jerusalem after Iranian officials boasted that 4000 atomic centrifuges were already enriching uranium for their nuclear energy program, with an additional 3000 ready for installation. Biden has warned that Israel is less secure now than before the Bush administration's ill-considered Middle East policies shifted the strategic balance in the region.

On Monday, the Obama-Biden campaign had "scathingly rejected" the unsourced broadcast as a partisan lie. "We will not tolerate anyone questioning Senator Biden's 35-year record of standing up for the security of Israel," Biden's press secretary, David Wade, said in a statement.

According to the Jerusalem Post:

"Joe Biden's first trip as a senator was to Israel. He has worked with every Israeli leader from Golda Meir to Prime Minister Olmert, and he takes a back seat to no one when it comes to protecting the relationship between Israel and the US," Wade added. "Senator Biden has consistently stated - publicly and privately - that a nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat to Israel and the United States and that we must prevent a nuclear Iran."

Wade noted that only two months ago, in a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations committee - which Biden heads - the senator reiterated his long-held view on this subject by stating: "Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon would dramatically destabilize an already unstable region and probably fuel a nuclear arms race in the region. It is profoundly in our interest to prevent that from happening."

The Army Radio report asserted that Biden had expressed doubt over the effectiveness of economic sanctions imposed on Iran. The report also said Biden was against the opening of an additional military and diplomatic front, saying that the U.S. had more pressing problems, such as North Korea and Iraq.

Biden has a solid 36-year Senate record of pro-Israel leadership. He has called Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East" and declared himself a Zionist in an interview with a U.S. Jewish television channel last year, saying that "you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."

The controversial Army radio report was issued after a newspaper story quoted intelligence sources from the Netherlands who predicted an American strike on Iran's nuclear program within the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, local business reporters crowed that $35 million worth of security systems for Iran will soon be supplied through--get this-- an Israeli company. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly ordered over 70,000 units from Sonar Company via one of their branches in China. The company's owner, Yaakov Salman, said that it was "impossible" that the Iranians were unaware that the cutting edge system, which identifies hostile elements through radio waves, was developed by scientists in Israel.

Hostilities of the political sort certainly were evident on the convention room floor in Minnesota as Palin delivered her hard-hitting acceptance speech to adoring Republicans. Even though Palin had been sequestered most of the day for last-minute grooming, she interrupted her prep sessions to speak with members of the "frozen Chosen," Minnesota's Jewish community, and met with powerful Jewish lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to reassure them of her full commitment to Israel.

Much has been made of the miniature flag of Israel pinned to Palin's office drapes in the backdrop of widely circulated video.

Most pundits view its display as a sign of Palin's Christian Zionism, and note that the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus actively reaches out for funding and support from the estimated flock of 400,000 Evangelicals in America. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel has become a reliable touchstone for conservative grassroots campaigns for years.

More troubling videos have emerged showing evangelical sermons, attended by Palin and her large family, which blame the Jewish people's rejection of the Christian messiah for the violence visited upon them in Jerusalem for the past 60 years.

David Brickner, of Jews for Jesus, pointed out last month at Wasilla Bible Church how: "a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment--you can't miss it."

Even though Palin was quick to say she does not share these radical views-- in an instant replay of Obama stepping back from Reverend Jeremiah Wright's notorious remarks-- her born-again embrace of End Times prophecies does not play so well in a country which anticipates apocalypse coming from Tehran in the form of nuclear-tipped missiles.

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Comments

[abby4ever]

***More troubling videos have emerged showing evangelical sermons, attended by Palin and her large family, which blame the Jewish people's rejection of the Christian messiah for the violence visited upon them in Jerusalem for the past 60 years.***

The J*ws themselves were taught the above by their own prophets for hundreds of years! Today, it is standard, right-wing, conservative Chr*stian theology, based on narrow interpretations of OT scr*ptures, it's been taught in these kinds of churches since our country was founded, and most educated J*ws are aware of that fact. It will therefore never have the shock value of a J. Wr*ght kind of thing, if that's where some people intend to go with this. Most J*ws, even in Florida, will not be shocked that Pal*n didn't get up and leave when these things were being taught. They don't like this particular teaching, of course, but they are used to it being around. It is taught in many seminaries, too, and they know that. Some of these pastors have scaled back on teaching it because of the recent push for political correctness and, more specifically, concerns about anti-semitic statements etc. But an old-fashioned right-wing Chr*stian pastor will still teach it with zeal and not fear reprisals, even if he should.

abby

[bastalready]

Good Grief...This is all just missionary work for her. Spare me.

[LaColombe]

Reading Anne Kilkenny's critical essay will give the reader a different perspective on Sarah Palin. On August 31, 2008, Anne Kilkenny wrote a frank letter to answer friends' questions about Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The letter, from the viewpoint of a Wasilla native, quickly garnered the attention of media outlets all over the world. The Anchorage Daily News has made the essay/e-mail available to their readers. One can read it at:
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130537

[jane47]

WHY DRILL AKASKA

Palin may prefer to look into why we are not able to have the privilege of FREE ENERGY

I have included the website of a Utube video as shown on Sky news Australia. The inventors on this website are not the only people who have managed to realise Nikola Tesla's invention. If you are interested in the zero point energy I reccommend Thomas Reardon USA (often maligned in the internet- however in my opinion he has the intregrity of Paul Skinner as I have observed in the BBC interviews) to enlighten the relaity of this reality.

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/free-energy-home-generator-zero-point-energy-off-the-grid/

http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/

Australian race car driver, Peter Brock, who died from a freak accident has developed a polarisor which enables a huge reduction in G force on vehicles cornering and stopping... information GMH has secured...

http://forums.thescene.com.au/forums/t/33313.aspx

I have also sent this information to Al Fayed and Mahindra Motors in India, Rio Tinto Chairman Paul Skinner and Prince Charles and if I could find Carlos Ghosn (Nissan Motors ) I would also send this to him

I am only hopeful that someone will be able to investigate why and how we are not able to be afforded this amazing energy source.

Warm regards and many thanks
Jane

[TheSecularist]

Shades of Cold Fusion, Batman! John Christie and Lou Britt have invented a perpetual energy engine down under!

Seriously, John and Lou are either Australia's equivalent of infamous American cold fusion inventors Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons or they con artists. I vote con artists.

[davidly]

The Senator from Delaware knows that innocent civilians have to be sacrificed in order to maintain one's foreign policy credentials. Bombin' Joe also knows that he can't rest on his laurels. People love to scour over what politicians say. We drape the "convictions" of their statements with descriptions like "scathing". We should pay more attention to what politicians do.

[makemusicnotwar]

The Republican machine has adopted the rhetoric of Rove again, a most cynical and devious tactic. It talks to the lowest common denominator of the American people and assumes it is selling Ivory soap. Get a brand and get a logo/symbol (Sara Palin moose huntress/sport shooter) and sell it to us. I just hope that we are not as naive and stupid as they think we are. But we were sold on GWB because he looked like the kind of guy you'd want to drink a beer with and surely, anyone would like to go moose hunting with Sara. The fact that she is fudging the facts of the Bridge to Nowhere, her stand on censorship as well as her hypocrisy regarding abstinence does not necessarily mean that she will be dismissed. Her youth is her asset and her delivery is charming the people and really, after watching TV and American Idol, what more are we accustomed to? We are being sold a bill of goods. I just hope the American people will rise up to the occasion and show some uncommon sense.

[TheSecularist]

What is it with "hard working voters" that they cling to their guns and flag pins and vote to keep the wealthy rich every time? We have got to improve education in this country and teach them how to think for themselves and vote in their best interest.

[duchessdorleans]

And that is precisely why eduction will go underfunded and military recruiters will be sent to the poorest schools to offer health care in exchange for laying down your life in service to the interests of the rich.

[zedthewizard]

i believe alot of people are watching this election around the world. there are countries with varying interests but as more about the candidates become known it would be surprising that they would want america to continue on the same path. mccain may have painted him the reform candidate going to washington, but he hasn't really separated himself from bush on foreign affairs or the economy.

[dadw5boys]

IF MC CAIN WANTED CHANGE WHY DID HE NOT VOTE FOR CHANGE OR PRESENT BILLS WITH CHANGE ?????????

ONLY BILLS MC CAIN EVER SUPPORTS ARE BILL WRITTIEN BY LOBBYIST AND THINK TANKS!!!!


MC CAIN CAN NOT EVEN WRITE A BILL ON HIS OWN!!!!!!

[msieger]

Jan,
I’m a Jewish believer in Jesus. You have quoted just one paragraph of the six-page transcript of David Brickner’s message, giving the false impression that he is saying that a bulldozer attack by a deranged Palestinian is God’s judgment on the Jewish people. Please read the entire message for yourself at http://wasillabible.org/sermons.htm so that you can see Brickner’s remarks in context.

Among other things, Brickner says, “My mother always told me, ‘Be careful when you point a finger at somebody else, because there’s some pointing back at you.’ And really, Israel has not cornered the market on unbelief. Israel is an example of what all humanity has been saying to God since the beginning of time, shaking its fists at the heavens and saying, ‘You’ll not rule over us.’ And so all of the controversy that we see swirling in Jerusalem is really a mirror that the world looks in to see the controversy within . . . . It’s the dilemma of the human heart.”

Brickner is saying that without forgiveness of sins, which he (and I) believe only comes through Jesus’ sacrificial death for us, there will be judgment – not just for Jews, but for all mankind.

Please take a look at the discussion concerning Mr. Brickner’s message at the Jews for Jesus website, http://www.jewsforjesus.org.

[ESerafina42]

Whatever the truth of this particular quote, either before or after going to the Christian website referenced above, you might want to check out http://www.jewsforjudaism.org.

[officewag]

from a Jerusalem perspective

Jesus was a community organizer;
Pontius Pilate was a governor.

[Liberoservative]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186494776&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I am hoping that this is not true..... If we are thinking that the NeoCons can throw this election because we strike Iran???? What the heck are people thinking??????

A strike against Iran would be the most devastating blow to world peace possible.....

Already, Russia is aligning itself with the "would be" nuclear powers...... Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and those disaffected former Soviet States......

For the USA to take a might is greater than right view right now would lead to a war of untold terrors.....

People?????? Do you value your way of life? Do you want it to get better instead of worse? Do you want to plunge the world into a war of devastating consequences not for THEM but for US as well????

There was a foreign policy guy on CSPAN last year and he was talking about the Iran situation.... He said that for the US to attack Iran would be a clear signal to other nations... and it wouldn't be a good signal... he said... Pick a city... ANY city in the USA and then see it wiped out with a nuclear attack.

Right now, Pakistan HAS nuclear weapons and we are doing nothing to stabilize that area.... we are, instead, doing everything we can to destabilize it. I don't understand you warmongerer hawks..... War is not the answer and it never has been.....

[123dee]

I can't believe this, back in March my brother, say Bush is going to invade Iran to
stop the election. I just smiled, saying no way.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

This Nation was begotten on war. the nation discovered crime creates various class levels wage jobs
Sp Court Judges to police car repairman.

Being in Revolutionay War, WWone, WWtwo, Korea War, Vietnam9not named a war), Gulf War, Bosnia,NATO peace keepers) Iraq, and Afghanistan. Each of these wars required a lot of tax payers money. We are still paying off someof the old wars or conflicts. China is loaning us the money for the oil war, so they can get oil contract with having any of their people killed in Iraq. Instead China have them inAfrica so they can get their there too.

The jobs are created for war. That is why we keep sh.t going in other countries. Otherwise dry up for big business on defense and local crims that require prison time

the republicans say if we cannot force them into a military uniform, a prison uniform will do. It is that simple Americans, We need to fight with Obama to get our nation back.

[profoundimagery]

I find it most effective to address issues concerning faiths and culture the same way one would any other issue - BY UNDERSTANDING IT.
Any Christian knows that he or she (despite the rhetoric) must side with the oppressed, the poor and downtrodden. That champion for the last 70 years has been (by far) the Democratic party. Here is some impeccable impartial economic fact evidence: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31view.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
The majority of Republicans betrayed us long ago, and make no secret of their desire to increase their oppression today. Christians are bound by the Bible to support the Jews as "God's chosen people." Those who support an end to Israel would be damned by God for going against him. Ironically the Muslim and Jew were born fraternal twins - Jacob is Jesus ancestor and Esau is Islam's. They were both born of the same womb and seed, (Sarah and Abraham) and have been fighting over the "Chosen People" birth right (stolen by Jacob via his mother) ever since. So for me its not a matter of what they said its what they did. GoBama Biden!!!!!

[MadeinAmericaProud]

I enjoyed reading profound imagery message from the heart and scriptures. Thank you for taking the time.

[scobamagirl]

I think you might be a little confused. Jacob and Esau were Issac's twin sons. The two lines of religion were from Abraham's sons - Isaac (born of Abraham's wife Sarah) is a progenitor of the Jewish and Christian line and Ishmael (born of the slave girl, Hagar) is Islam's. Depending on which religion is speaking, one son was born from a promise or covenant with God, the other was simply born of the flesh and carries no promise from God.

I'm not aiming this at you Profound, but I find the whole thing a rather silly excuse for why we all can't just get along, each with our own beliefs. We'll find out who's right in the afterlife.

[jemiltd]

When I was in corporate, I worked with wonen who fit the Palin profile. When I say her profile, I am speaking of the character, personality traits, Prefacing this with the fact that I am a long-time observer of who people are versus what they say. Folks say I have an uncanny knack. Palin is a woman who disvovered that her looks and willingness to be one of the boys when it sutied her needs. She understands her role in the McCain presidential race is to act as the trojan horse. She has been allowed, this far, to say what McCain cannot get away with saying. She has demonstrated her willingness to drop whatever she is responsible for in order to pursue something with greater benefit, thus trading in Alaska which she promised never to leave behind. Who do I see a beautiful woman who is manipulative, deceitful and charming. By the time people figure out they've been fooled, she will have accomplished her goal and those who see her for who she really is will be dismissed as bitter and envious. She has already shown that she comes with a consistent amount of drama, which is purposed to distract from the real issues, Stay tuned.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

Only way Obama can win, We the people must demand our right to be secure. Products made in America we as American should have always been proud of.

We eat and feed children products that are making them sick, heath care go up and the cycle go on.

Just how brain dead are we? We cannot get a different result by allowing the same election lies to work.

You message is right on but unless we do more than just pay MSM to lie to us or sit at our PC and blog our way out of frustration. NOTHING will change for the good of all Americans. Only the worst.

Stop buying poor quality products, to include MSM, BOYCOTT it also save you money

[SoonerThought]

Biden could be president at a moment's notice. I dare say that in other countries, he is the most respected U.S. Senator for his knowledge, probity and straight talk. Contrast that with what's-her-name.

[demfriend]

Teh "noise" level and attacks is becoming the only way McCain and now Palin can run their campaign as the real issues are avoided at all costs. While we want to hear the level and the thought processes concerning us about OUR country all the GOP can do is to ramp up the noise level. Palin wasn't vetted by those who should have vetted her and the media and citizens concerned about the things we know about Palin now and what comes out daily exposing her to be not a rove-lite as I first thought but a full on writer of the play book equal to his. The MSM has to do what they have neglected to do so far with McCain and fuly bring on the investigations and the truth/reality about what Palin has done and who she really is. Obama has found the key to fighting the GOP favorite word "sexist" by bringing out the strongest women in the Dem party to blow open the doors to all Palin is and how both she and McCain have the same level of desperation to win at all costs with zero concern for the truth and OUR country. In her hands, God forbid, she could bring on a full war while in a snit as shown by her emotional instabilities and the vindictive nature she has that runs through her deep into the soul she might have.

[jacqmac]

Haven't we already been through ENOUGH of this? Didn't we hear "Weaponsof­MassDestru­ctionSADDA­MWeaponsof­MassDestru­ctionSADDA­MWeaponsof­MASSDestru­ctionSADDA­M" or it's variation "Saddam9/1­1Saddam9/1­1Saddam9/1­1Saddam9/1­1" until we were deafened? Didn't the steady beat of the War Drums drown out the people who were saying 'WAIT-we want PROOF. Absolute, IRREFUTABLE PROOF of the existence of these horrible weapons and/or the absolute connection between 9/11 and Saddam"? And didn't the BUSH/CHENEY MCCAIN MACHINE TRY to FABRICATE that evidence? And WHERE are we now? Are WE, citizens of the world, safer? Are all our citizens fed and clothed and housed? Are our children enjoying a greater standard of living than WE did? Now we're hearing 'FIGHTSERV­ICEFIGHTSE­RVICEFIGHT­SERVICE' again and again and again. So now we have the McCain/Palin agenda-FIGHTING and SERVICE mean only ONE KIND of FIGHTING and SERVICE. Forget the TRILLIONS of DOLLARS that the War in Iraq has already cost us-NEXT on the agenda-IRA­N-then-hec­k!--who KNOWS? WAKE UP AMERICA! Do we really want to risk this kind of event happening again? FORWARD or BACK-WHICH WAY?!

[KarlaElisa]

Sarah Palin will be fully exposed in time and that's that.
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=J8uGenNjOAI

[Penetang]

This video has been removed and the the comments are unreadable. What was the video about?

[drzoon]

its still there.

and if it doesn't come up right away... just type in "Palin in church"

you will be shocked!

[Diogenis]

Ooops, no longer...a­vailable!!

[Clavis]

She belonged to a church run by a man who talked about the "End Times" as if they were right around the corner. Does she feel this way, too? Is this a woman who doesn't expect to have to serve a full four years in office, because the Rapture is right around the bend?

I don't think we need a loopy dominionist Christian who wants to enact Christo-sharia law on us.