David Cicilline on MSNBC (Truth Revolt)
On Truth Revolt, the Providence based Congressman defended the Jewish
against attacks of racial bias from left-wing
MSNBC journalist Joy Reid
:I think there’s a recognition that our two countries share values and
that we respect the right and the responsibility of the Israeli government to
protect their people federal an ongoing terrorist act. This is not a conflict
between Israel and the Palestinians. This is a conflict between Israel and
Hamas, a terrorist organization that we’ve identified as a terrorist
organization. So I don’t think it’s a question of Israel can do anything it
wants. But it’s a recognition that Israel has a right to defend herself against
an oncoming terrorist attack, thousands of rockets. But obviously to do so in a
way which reduces the likelihood of civilian casualties but also honors its
responsibility to protect its citizens.
Moral clarity is a stunning rarity among Democratic politicians, and
Cicilline offered some context for Israel’s military actions. Cicilline
also invited Rhode Islanders to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s third speech to a joint session of Congress, which occurred a few
weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections
Despite his party affiliation, the Rhode Island representative should be
commended for supporting the Jewish State. In disgraceful contrast, US
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse declined to attend. The junior Senator
cited Speaker John Boehner’s lack of protocol. In reality, Congress
did nothing untoward or unseemly by inviting the Prime Minister to speak. Lest
anyone forget, the Constitution establishes Congress with the power to sign
treaties, make lies, and join in alliances.
Senator Whitehouse may not understand the full dynamics of Congress, but the
Republican majorities certainly do. And so does Cicilline.
Another question emerges: Why did the Congressman say nothing
about the US Senator’s decision not to attend Netanyahu’s speech? Furthermore, despite
his ethnic background, Jewish as well as Italian, the Providence Congressman
has done surprisingly little to inform voters about Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, his speech, and his recent victory in the March 17, 2015 elections. Re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Truth Revolt)
Cicilline has not even published a press release on Bibi’s electoral upset.
Reports surrounding the final weeks of the Israeli elections attest to state
department officials attempting to influence the election for Netanyahu’s
center-left opponent. The evident rancor between the current Prime Minister and
President Obama is unavoidable. Bibi’s victory further humiliates Obama’s
vision of a complain, left-leaning Israeli government, and also sets back his
declining political influence at home and abroad.
The American President’s open hostility to Israel knows no parallel. The
United States and Israel do share values, as Cicilline instructed the MSNBC
host, like Western Democracy, the rule of law, the inviolability of human
life, the respect for individual freedoms against the state, freedom of speech,
religion, etc.
Why does the former Providence mayor say nothing to promote Israel’s
reassertion of a center-right government? Just because of Netanyahu and his
Likud Party’s domestic ideological views?
More likely, Cicilline has remained silent because of the President and His
party, and their domestic as well as foreign policy views.
A product of progressive academic rearing, which neglects good and evil, and
promotes equality as the one and final virtue, President Obama embraces a
left-leaning worldview, one in which evil belongs only to those who hold power.
Any notion of final authority, removed from man, is a wretched fraud to be
resisted.
Nevertheless, might ultimate rests on right, and power has none of itself
without a recognition of the truth, of certain consequences which either
promote life and liberty or bondage and death. There is no liberty without
life. No one lives free without the healthy, wholesome recognition of a
benevolent Creator who grants rights and opportunities to all. For the Left,
the state and power rest in the arbitrary will of the few, the well-connected,
those who are more equal than others.
Obama’s worldview of global equality and even results stumbles at the
footsteps of the Jewish State, a nation which testifies of a Final Authority, plus
the domains of good and evil beyond the limited senses of mankind, the
certainty that power and truth come together for good. While liberals demand
that the world should work a certain way, the survival and thriving of
the Jewish State put to shame the core tenets of progressive principles.
Cicilline deserves recognition for honoring Prime Minister Netanyahu at the
joint session of Congress His silence on Whitehouse’s absence, and Netanyahu’s
recent victory, deserves rebuke.
