[Vision2020] Sarah Palin and the Jews

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

This is has just sent the Acme "Stoopid Meter" off the charts.

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From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:39 PM
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Sarah Palin and the Jews

> Greetings:
>
> Even if you have to skim most of this, you must read about the slaughter 
> at the end.  Iranians (Persians), on your guard!
>
> Nick Gier
>
>
> Sarah Palin and the Jews
> posted by Jon Wiener on 09/08/2008 @ 4:25pm
> The Nation Magazine
>
> Sarah Palin took the biblical Queen Esther as her role model when she 
> became governor, according to her former pastor--a report that suggests 
> her ties to Jewish history are stronger than you might have expected.
>
> When Palin took office as governor in 2006, according to the New York 
> Times, she asked her former pastor in the Assembly of God church in 
> Wasilla for "a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what 
> was the secret of their leadership"--that's what Paul E. Riley, the 
> pastor, told Kirk Johnson and Kim Severson of the Times. He recommended 
> the Old Testament story of Esther, the beautiful Jewish queen who 
> persuaded the Persian king to save the Jews from annihilation and instead 
> let them kill their enemies. The story is celebrated by Jews annually in 
> the Feast of Purim.
>
> The parallels are clear. Esther was selected queen in a beauty contest; 
> Palin was runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant.
>
> So Queen Esther apparently provided the role model for the former beauty 
> queen who went to our own king and asked for earmarks for her people.
>
> The Palin/Queen Esther report has sparked a flood of commentary from 
> fundamentalist Christian web sites. One reports that "Sarah Palin, like 
> Esther, was an unlikely choice. Sarah Palin, like Esther, is bold and 
> courageous in the face of fear. Sarah Palin, like Esther, proves you can 
> be loyal and devoted to your family while having a high position. But 
> perhaps, more than anything, . . . we are seeing someone right before our 
> eyes who is capturing the hearts of the American people in a way that 
> defies description" - just like the Bible says, "And Esther won the favor 
> of everyone who saw her."
>
> Another says "Every once in a while a woman comes along who is made for 
> the times. Sarah Palin is such a woman. . . . Another woman, Esther, was 
> brought on the scene by God at just the right time. God's timing was 
> perfect for he used Esther to save the Jews"--and now he is using Palin to 
> save the Republicans.
>
> One problem with this view -that God sent Palin the way He sent Esther --  
> is that the Book of Esther never mentions God. It never says God sent 
> Esther to save His people, or even that Esther's belief in God gave her 
> the power to defeat her enemies. Somebody should point this out to the 
> fundamentalists.
>
> If you follow the logic in the story - as another fundamentalist Christian 
> website did - you find a "major, and creepily precise" parallel between 
> the threats to Jews then and now. In Esther's day the threat came from 
> Persia - and what country is the modern successor to Persia? Iran, of 
> course -- "the same Iran that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map and is 
> well on their way to acquiring the nuclear weaponry to do so . . . . And 
> along comes tough, clear-eyed, plain-speaking Sarah Palin."
>
> The implications for Palin's Iran policy are clear. In the Bible, after 
> the Jews are saved from annihilation, and after the first day of Jewish 
> revenge against their enemies, the King tells Esther the Jews have killed 
> 500 people, and asks what she wants to do next. Esther says she wants 
> permission for a second day of killing - so the king grants the Jews the 
> right "to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish the entire host of 
> every people and province that oppress them, small children and women, and 
> to take their spoils for plunder."
>
> The Bible says the Jews then killed 75,000 more of their enemies. It 
> doesn't say anything about Jewish casualties, which makes it seem like a 
> one-sided slaughter. (This part usually doesn't get mentioned at the Purim 
> carnival.)
>
> The cover of Newsweek this week is a photo of Palin with a shotgun. The 
> Iranians should be worried - and so should the Americans.
>
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Kai Eiselein
Editor, Latah Eagle