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November 4, 2008 | 7:04 pm

Warning American Jews that they’ll be sorry

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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I spoke a little while ago with Omri Ceren, a friend who writes the Mere Rhetoric blog. It’s fair to say we have very different political outlooks—our takes on Dennis Ross’ interview with the JPost were quite disparate—and Ceren has not only been a skeptic of Barack Obama but an articulate antagonist.

He blogged like crazy last night to get in all his final words before, he believes, Americans generally and Jews specifically make a catastrophic mistake in electing Barack Obama. In other words, Ceren warned us: He’s our problem now.

Again, I disagree with his assessments of Obama, but, in fairness to a perspective that gets less time on this blog, I refer you to a post he wrote yesterday under the headline, “70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say “We Didn’t Know” When Obama Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know).”

Here Ceren attacks all the different ways liberal Jews have defended Obama. Some, I think, fall short. But the closing paragraph is worth repeating because it highlights a sentiment many on the right have been feeling for a long time. (In fact, after originally publishing this, I received an e-mail from the California Republican Jewish Coalition that included viewing party details and a link to Ceren’s piece.)

“Any honest person who says that Obama will be anything but a disaster for the US-Israel alliance is either a breathtaking idiot or in willful denial,” Ceren wrote. “If American Jews have any decency, they’ll at least spare everyone their pathetic “we couldn’t have known” hand-wringing when Obama’s foreign policy turns out to be exactly what his top advisers promise. But given their behavior during this election, I’m not hopeful.

I am hopeful—particularly in the likelihood that these words are not prophetic. Like I said yesterday, we’ll know soon enough.

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Couldn’t agree more. The mental and verbal gymnastics that my family and Jewish friends for through to justify and Obama vote are incredible.

Comment by bill Pearlman on 11/04/08 at 7:30 pm

The hoops these paranoid, xenophobic haters jump through to justify four more years of Republican misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance are astounding.

God bless Baruch Obama.

Comment by The Web Guy on 11/04/08 at 8:23 pm

Don’t forget to send him a crocheted yarmulka with ‘Baruch’ on the back.

Sarah Silverman said that if Obama loses she will blame the Jews. Now that it looks like he won let’s start listing everyone else who blames the Jews. Never a dull moment in the wonderful world of Jews-are-news.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/04/08 at 11:28 pm

A fair point, BP. Sad to say.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 11/04/08 at 11:33 pm

Omri Ceren is da bomb. Required reading.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/05/08 at 2:59 am

IMO - folks (particularly Jews) who are interested in reasoned analysis of world events and their true impact on the Jewish community read Omri otherwise, they are “either a breathtaking idiot or in willful denial,”.

Comment by Kae Gregory on 11/06/08 at 3:05 pm

seems to me that this time Ceren is 100% right

Comment by edna on 6/11/09 at 4:34 pm

No doubt American jews playing very important role in America. Many immigrant narratives bear a theme of the arbitrary nature of fate and the reduced state of immigrants in a new culture. By contrast, ethnic family narratives tend to show the ethnic more in charge of his life, and perhaps in danger of losing his Jewishness altogether.

Comment by offshore company on 7/01/10 at 8:58 am

OK, now that we know that Omri Ceron was prophetic (along with every Jew with eyes and ears and a brain), how about reviving the thread?

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/01/10 at 5:44 pm

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