There was a time when the Senator from New York , Chuck Schumer, used to put on an
act of trembling his body in front of the cameras for a reason. He would do it
while expressing concern about one thing or another in a voice that was high
pitched and made to sound like the choking voice of a terrified soul.
The last time that the Senator put on this act is when the
international Dubai Ports Company had applied to manage a number of ports in America , using
as it was, American employees and no foreigners. Still, Schumer let it be known
that he was terrified because he judged that the company will have divided
loyalties between serving America
and serving its Arab roots. All this, despite the fact that there never was an
Arab fifth column in America
or anywhere in the world, serving Arab interest at the expense of the host
country.
Chuck Schumer is now being called upon by the American
Jewish lobby to stage his trembling act for a reason. The lobby being the fifth
column whose publicly stated purpose in life is to fix the world – beginning
with America – and make it safe for the Jews to live in. That lobby wants
Schumer to tremble this time because the guardians of the American ship of
state are refusing to open the country to Israel , and treat it as if it were
not a foreign country but a part of the “perfect” American Union. All of that
despite the string of revelations about Israeli spying on America , the
Jonathan Pollard affair and the other scandals.
The problem in the eyes of the Jewish lobby is that America treats
the Jews like everyone else when it comes to granting an American citizen the
kind of security clearance that would allow him or her to hold a sensitive
position. Apparently, the lobby discovered this reality only now. It happened
when a Jewish dentist applied for a job, and was denied the necessary clearance
to hold it because of his ties to Israel .
Bret Stephens was the first (as far as I know) to break the
story in an article he published in the prestigious Wall Street Journal under
the title: “A Security Concern Due to Divided Loyalties” and the subtitle: “A
dentist wants to serve America 's
military. But having a mother in Israel can be disqualifying.” It
was published on December 16, 2015. Two days later, the editors of the New York
Daily News wrote a piece under the title: “Anti-Semite or anti-dentite?” and
the subtitle: “Why the Navy doubts the loyalty of a Jewish dentist.”
Normally, I would have ignored a matter such as this. But
what prompted me to take it up this time is the way that the editors of the
Daily News end their piece. This is what they say: “As a mental exercise, make
him Irish and Catholic. Would the U.S. bar such a dentist from
serving? Never.... This is about a special mistrust of Israel and
anti-Semitism. Sen. Chuck Schumer is moving to investigate. Damn right, he
must.”
When stalwarts of the lobbying Jewish fifth column in
America such as Bret Stephens and the editors of the New York Daily News are
joined by Israel's man in the American Congress (the way that Schumer describes
himself) to do Israel's bidding by investigating America for wanting to protect
itself, the Jews demonstrate that they see themselves as a special case. And
they consider Israel 's
interests – however small and trivial they may be – to be priority number one,
trumping America 's
priorities – however large and serious they may be.
In spite of that being the fantasy by which the Jews of the
American lobby operate, it stands to reason that America 's
protectors should want to treat the Jews who have deep ties with Israel , like
everyone else. After all, Israel
is a foreign country that's in the habit of spying on America and stealing its secrets – sometimes
even selling those secrets to America 's
potential enemies.
Now, given that Irish Catholics do not spy on America for the benefit of Ireland , the
Irish can talk to their mothers all they want, and no one will fret about it.
But if it happens that an Irish person is denied clearance for whatever reason,
you can be certain that no prestigious publication will take up his case and
publicize it. And certainly – CERTAINLY – no one will wail that this is a
manifestation of anti-Catholicism or anti-Celticim.
The fact that the Jews are calling their case an act of anti-Semitism,
tells you they could not find a reasonable argument for granting clearance to
every Jew that asks for it. There is, of course, the notion that this would be
the politically correct thing to do – especially that Jewish correctness always
comes with the threat of being accused of anti-Semitism.