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Titolo: Elie Wiesel's Shocking Stage Appearance With Mad Preacher and  Anti-Semite John Hagee

On Oct. 25, while an overflow crowd of 1,500 poured into the first
convention of the progressive-leaning Israel-oriented lobbying
organization J Street, Elie Wiesel addressed a crowd of 6,000
Christian Zionists at Pastor John Hagee's "Night To Honor Israel."
According to the San Antonio Express News, while Wiesel sat by his
side, Hagee trashed President Barack Obama, baselessly accusing him of
"being tougher on Israel than on Russia, Iran, China and North Korea."
Meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, who appeared at Hagee's
Christians United for Israel summit earlier this year, rejected J
Street's request to speak at their convention, instead dispatching a
low-level embassy official to "observe" the event. Oren then accused J
Street of "impair[ing] Israel's interests."
In blessing Hagee while damning J Street, Wiesel and Oren chose an
anti-Semitic group led by a far-right end-times theology preacher over
a fledgling progressive organization that bills itself as "pro-Israel,
pro-peace." And both Wiesel and Oren seem to be embroiled in yet
another controversy over involvement with the extremist preacher.
In the video below, Hagee warns that the anti-Christ will be
homosexual, German and Jewish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8mdUScZxL8
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
avidly sought Hagee's endorsement, appearing by the pastor's side
during a widely publicized press conference to announce it. McCain was
intent on winning a seal of approval from a figure of the Christian
right, especially since he had lambasted Jerry Falwell and Pat
Robertson in the 2000 Republican presidential primaries.
McCain may have been completely unaware of Hagee's sermon declaring
the Holocaust to be a divinely ordained incident orchestrated by God
to fulfill biblical prophecy; Hagee's accusation that the Jews'
rejection of Jesus was the root of anti-Semitism; or his prediction
that when the Antichrist returned, he would be homosexual and
"partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."
When Hagee's anti-Semitic ravings surfaced on blogs like
Talk2Action.org and eventually gained national notoriety, McCain
renounced the preacher's endorsement.
Video below shows footage of Hagee's notorious Hitler sermon.
p://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFVNrjOpJA
Unlike McCain, Oren and Wiesel cannot claim ignorance of Hagee's anti-
Semitic remarks precisely because of the clamor over McCain's
disassociation.
"My dear pastor, when I hear that Christians are getting together in
order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my
heart," Wiesel told Hagee in a Sept. 3 interview. "And it simply says,
look, people have learned from history." (Hagee is hawking DVD's of
his Wiesel interview for $15 each on his personal Web site, turning
footage of the encounter into a windfall profit.)
On Oct. 26, during an unofficial panel of bloggers and activists at J
Street's conference, I criticized Wiesel and Oren for associating with
Hagee just as I had written about McCain's involvement with the
preacher.
By embracing an anti-Semite, Wiesel appears not to have learned the
lesson he has taught. I said that the last person Wiesel trusted as
much as Hagee was Bernard Madoff. That was a joke, of course,
something of a Jewish joke, and in the humorous comparison I was
granting Wiesel foolish credulity in his involvement with Hagee.
A Nobel Prize-winning writer, Wiesel has based his work and lectures
for decades on the premise that we must learn from the tragedy of the
past, the lesson of the Holocaust, in order not to repeat it. Perhaps
Wiesel is unaware of Hagee's appalling theology in which the violent
destruction of the Jews is essential to bring about the Second Coming;
or perhaps he doesn't take it seriously and feels such nonsense should
not get in the way of Hagee's financial and propaganda support for the
settlement movement on the West Bank that is now at the heart of
difficulty in the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Michael Goldfarb, a former spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign,
who blogs at the neoconservative Weekly Standard, called the blogger
panel "clownish." He reported on my remarks: "Elie Wiesel Mocked At J
Street Conference." Goldfarb omitted the facts I introduced about
Hagee's anti-Semitism. Once again, ideology demanded forgetting
history.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic, also called the panel
"clownish," attacking me for criticizing Wiesel.
"Here's a tip," Goldberg wrote on his blog. "Criticizing public
figures who survived the Holocaust is permissible, of course. But
mocking them is disgraceful. It's also not going to win you too many
Jewish friends." Goldberg also excommunicated me as one of the "anti-
Zionists with Jewish parents."
Why is Wiesel palling around with Hagee? Why did I "mock" Wiesel? Both
Goldfarb and Goldberg refused to address these questions and neglected
to quote the facts I offered on Hagee.
While Goldfarb assailed a J Street donor for controversial statements
on Israel, they have never addressed Hagee's anti-Semitic rants.
Goldberg has not addressed the issue of Hagee either. The two present
their opinions conveniently without the facts.
But the absence of the facts from their blog posts does not allow them
to evade the issue. Do they, like Wiesel and Oren, approve of Hagee?
In defending Wiesel from criticism for his relationship with Hagee,
they are also defending the relationship. Is this what they really
mean to do?
Then they must also disagree with McCain's severing of his ties with
Hagee. What is it about Hagee that Goldfarb and Goldberg find
acceptable, as Wiesel and Oren find him acceptable? Unless, of course,
they don't approve of Hagee or association with him at all and were
using criticism of those embracing him as a cudgel to beat up on J
Street. Send in the clowns.
http://www.alternet.org/story/143589?page=entire

 homosexual, German and Jewish:
L'importante �  organizzare subito un incontro tra Westerwelle e 
Zanardo. Oppure Lapo.
La prossima volta che vado a Berlino mi metto davanti al Reichstag con 
un cartello "BITTE LESEN IT.POLITICA.INTERNAZIONALE"