I care very deeply about Israel. I became an Israeli citizen when I spent 6 years living there.

Please send this email to everyone you know who cares about Israel. If the embedded links don’t work for you, you can cut and paste the URLs at the email’s end into your browser.

QUESTIONS

1) WHAT ARE OBAMA’S VIEWS ABOUT ISRAEL?

2) WHAT IS OBAMA’S RECORD ON ISRAEL?

3) WHAT DO ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS SAY ABOUT OBAMA?

4) WHAT DO ISRAELIS SAY ABOUT OBAMA?

5) WHAT DO ARABS SAY ABOUT OBAMA?

6) IS HAMAS FUNDING OBAMA?  DOES HE HAVE ANTI-ISRAEL PEOPLE ADVISING HIM?

7) CAN WE TRUST MCCAIN?

8 ) DIDN’T OBAMA FLIP-FLOP ON JERUSALEM?

9) DOES IT BOTHER YOU THAT OBAMA IS A MOSLEM?

10) WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR?

11) WHO WROTE THIS EMAIL?

12) WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES?

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Deborah E. Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. The author of the seminal book Denying the Holocaust, in the year 2000 Lipstadt was sued for libel in British court by Holocaust denier David Irving. In a landmark decision, she won the case by proving that her accusations against Irving were true.

In her wide-ranging endorsement of Barack Obama, Lipstadt writes that she is “firmly in the Obama/Biden camp… as an American, a woman, and a Jew.” Lipstadt discusses many topics, including: anti-abortion legislation and its potential impact on our ability to follow Jewish law; the relationship between the candidates’ proposed policies and the Jewish obligation to give tzedaka; and Obama’s solid support for Israel and the confidence in him expressed by Israeli leaders across the political spectrum.

Click here to read Lipstadt’s endorsement.

By Dennis Ross

It is highly unusual for me to be speaking out politically.

I have worked for Republican and Democratic presidents alike. I was a political appointee during the Reagan administration, serving on the National Security Council staff in the White House. I held a senior position in the

State Department during George H. W. Bush’s presidency. And, I was Bill Clinton’s Middle East peace negotiator — also a senior appointee position.

I have been largely nonpartisan, living the ideal that politics stopped at the water’s edge, and foreign policy should somehow be above politics. So why am I now speaking out and calling on others to support Sen. Barack Obama?

Put simply, because the stakes are so high. For one thing, the financial meltdown has huge implications for our place in the world. We cannot be strong internationally if we are weak at home, with an economy in crisis. Our next president must understand the global economy and financial markets — and be able to inspire confidence at home and abroad. But he must do so at a time when our standing in the world has, at least in my memory, never been lower.

Read more in The Jewish Journal…

September 14, 2008

Dear Friends,

I am writing this letter to you at a time of great urgency for our country and the Jewish people. I have not been so alarmed about the future of America and Israel since I was in college during the Vietnam War and Israel’s wars of survival in 1967 and 1973. I believe the choice of our country’s next president will determine the future of our country’s most fundamental values, including the protection of civil liberties and individual freedoms like a woman’s right to choose and the separation of church and state. Equally important, Israel’s survival may depend on the decisions of the next president. I believe that John McCain and Sarah Palin are the wrong choice to be our new national leaders at this crucial time. I would like to share with you how I reached this conclusion and why I wholeheartedly support Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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Cambridge, MA (October 3) – Janette Hillis-Jaffe, An Orthodox Jewish supporter of Senator Barack Obama who lived in Israel for five years, has released a ground-breaking video (www.JewsObamaIsrael.com) encouraging other Jews who love Israel to join her in supporting Obama.

Hillis-Jaffe, who lived in Israel during the Second Intifada and the start of the Iraq War, knows first-hand the existential dangers that Israel faces. Her fond memories of her life in Israel will forever be marred by fear and violence. “I remember the terror of sealing my son Tani’s nursery against the threat of nerve gas and practicing strapping Tani into his toddler-sized HazMat suit while praying that it would never be necessary,” Hillis-Jaffe explains. “And there were so many suicide bombings near our home that Tani started asking about the explosions, and I had to lie to him about what they were.”

When Hillis-Jaffe heard the anti-Obama rumors circulating in the Jewish community, she was as concerned as anyone. However, when she researched the claims, she found that they were the exact opposite of the truth. “The material on Web sites like JewsForObama.com and njdc.org, and the substantive endorsements by many long-time supporters of Israel, made it clear to me that Obama has always had close ties to Jews and been a strong supporter of the Jewish state.”

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