Many of my Christian friends are baffled by what they see as Jewish political ineptitude. How is it, they ask, that the Jews, admired as talented practitioners in so many fields, seem quite – they recoil at using the word — "stupid" when it comes to defending Israel?
My Christian friends are baffled by the ineffectual Jewish response to rhetorical attacks on the world's only Jewish state. Instead of pointing out how unfair, untrue, out of context, and hypocritical these criticisms — and those who make them — are, many Jews act as though these attacks are nothing but legitimate criticisms, and then try to respond as though to reasonable objections to some aspect of Israeli behavior. "How dumb can they be," ask my Christian friends.
LOWELL — Calling Donald Trump a "small, insecure moneygrubber," U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday unleashed her latest blistering attack against the Republican presidential candidate as hundreds of Bay State Democrats gathered for their convention still divided over who will lead their own party into November.
Warren, who has escalated her attacks on Twitter and in recent speeches against the presumptive GOP nominee, has nevertheless remained on the sidelines in the Democratic contest that will drag on at least through next Tuesday.
