The "settlement" is the thing on top of the hill.
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Posted on 11/23/2010 12:12:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Israelis follow American politics as closely as most Americans, and there was a great deal of curiousity when I was there last week about who is the likeliest Republican presidential nominee.
Most Israelis didn't express a strong preference on that subject -- all the leading Republicans have at least generically hawkish, pro-Israel stands -- with a sole exception: Settlers love Sarah Palin.
I heard this from a few people, but most clearly from Yisrael Medad, a Queens-born dual citizen of the the U.S. and Israel who has lived for 30 years on top of a hill in Shilo, deep in the West Bank and inside any future Palestinian state. His is one of the settlements that the Israeli government would have to dismantle -- likely as not by force -- in any future peace deal. Medad had met Mike Huckabee, who has visited and backed both settlements in the West Bank -- though the one he visited is less remote, and more likely to be swapped into Israel, than Medad's -- and controversial Jewish expansion into an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Palin, though, is Medad's favorite.
"I want to get Sarah Palin out here," he told me during an interview at his kitchen table. "She made a very good statement -- even if it was a little factually off."
Aside from a sort of general sympathy between settlers -- who see themselves as frontiersmen of sorts -- and the former Alaska governor, they've also gotten specific -- if somewhat hazy -- encouragement from Palin.
She said in 2009 that "I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is going to grow....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I beleive it was nearly a year ago that it was noted Bibi was awaiting the Palin Administration.
The "settlement" is the thing on top of the hill.
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And we should care who non-Americans support for president... why?
Reading the article will answer the question you posed. Many Israelis are dual citizens of the United States, so they can vote...
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I think that people recognize that the people of Israel will vote Israel’s interests, sometimes that means voting Republican, while their American living fellow Jews continue to vote Democrat.
Wonder how many folks named Juan in the U.S. Southwest are too.
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