Posted on 04/19/2010 4:56:22 PM PDT by SJackson
In a recent Gallup poll, 85 percent of Republicans and only 48 percent of Democrats supported Israel rather that the Palestinians. What to make of it?
The hard Left's multiculturalist furor at Israel has made enormous inroads into the Democratic party, as we see with the current "reset" policy of the Obama administration, while the old blue-blood, country-club Republicans who tsk-tsked Israel have almost vanished. Over the last 20 years the Left has reconstructed Israel from a bastion of the traditional liberal Jewish tradition into a Western, capitalist hegemonic oppressor, all of which shows the power of campus multculturalism when a tiny democratic country of 7 million can be reconfigured into a colonial power.
In some sense Obama's new policy, rather than the wishes of the Democratic Congress, reflects the new Democratic majority, even as it is at odds with the country at large (63 percent of the American people express support for Israel). More to the point, no alliance can long withstand such a marked divide, in which Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-Israel and Democrats quite clearly are not — that divide leads to something like the radical change of heart from Bush in 2008 to Obama in 2009.
Clearly Jewish-American voters are not factoring in Israel all that much in their political decisions and have little problem identifying with a party that has lots of problems with Israel — unless domestic politics have not caught up with rapidly changing attitudes in Washington. Stranger still, the Israeli liberal elite that dominates foreign policy and cultural life in Israel will be finding the U.S. government much more akin to the hostile feeling of Europe; its six-out-of-ten support in America remains mostly rank and file.
All of this, of course, is the stuff of parlor thinking and mercurial polls. The real problems won't arise until there is another shooting war in the Middle East, a flare-up with Iran, or another intifada, in which everything from American resupply to verbal support for an Israel in extremis will clarify things a great deal.
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The American people are allies of Israel; one would have to surmise that the occupant of our White House, the Kapos on his staff, and members of Congress that aren’t.
WE are.
Our alleged president isn’t.
Yes, American people and some in Congress are allies of Israel.
The Rats and Kapos...not so much.
Well , you certainly captured the reason for this thread.
I wouldn’t include most members of Congress in that.
What to make of it?
One party is decidedly unserious in its approach to Middle East affairs. One party digs totalitarianism. One party is anti-semitic.
Guess which one...???
We will always be an ally of Israel. It matters very little what Obama says.
No.
This muslim antisemitic fuhrer will not stop until the plans of the 1930s one are complete and Israel is pushed ito the sea.
Liberal American Jews won’t react until they find doors closed to them. Right now they depend on their wealth and connections to keep those doors open.Israel can go down if they can keep their own positions. But the situation in Europe suggests that they have to give up more than than their purse.
Congress is there to serve at the peoples will. If they allow Israel to be attacked, kick them out immediately. Same goes for the President. Maybe we should ask Israel if they want to become a State?
It could be that on behalf of the Saudi lobby(remember that medallion as well as the bow) and the new administrations oppositional proclivities to past US policies) the administration may be angling toward, in a ME conflict, Israel being taken out by Iran/Syria, as Iran/Syria is taken out by the US and its Arab or NATO allies. Just thinking.
The MIC (muslim in chief) in the White House is no ally of Israel
We’re better off without American “support” right now. All that is is a lever to force more concessions for the Palis, who then spit on them. The piece process has claimed too many lives already. Its main proponent, America, must be stopped before we are forced to make piece some more.
You’re right, do what you need to do. As I’ve noted on other threads, separate, establish borders. Abandon the territory in the West Bank that’s not strategic. Leave the barbarians on the other side, there’s no negotiating partner on the horizon for decades.
The problem is that most American Jews are only peripherally Jewiish in any religious sense. FDR is their Moses, the New Deal is their Ten Commandments, and Hollywood is ther Promised Land.
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