Posted on 04/04/2015 12:08:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
A longstanding alliance between Jewish voters and the Democratic Party no longer appears very durable.
The rift — aggravated by a nuclear deal with Iran and sour relations between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — will likely have political implications in the 2016 elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.
"At this moment in time, many American Jews who have consistently voted Democratic are beginning to waver in that support, because they've felt the bedrock relationship between Israel and this administration has been severely shaken," Rabbi Howard Buechler, of the Dix Hills Jewish Center in New York, told the Journal.
Republicans think the shift in loyalties could influence key Senate races in Florida and the Philadelphia and Chicago suburbs, the Journal reports.
For example, the Journal notes, a new email petition sent out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges people to sign and "tell Obama it's now time to stand with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu."
Alan Kessler, a longtime Democratic fundraiser based in Philadelphia, told the Journal that Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey might have an easier re-election run because he's a dependable supporter of Israel.
"It could make things more difficult" for a Democratic challenger, Kessler said.
Other Democrats worry that Jewish voters may want to punish some Democratic House and Senate members who boycotted Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress last month.
"Many fellow Democrats of the Jewish faith were appalled" that lawmakers didn't show the prime minister "the respect and courtesy of being in the audience," Democratic fundraiser Leonard Barrack told the Journal.
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Why would they vote for Jeb if he’s the nominee, knowing that Israel-hater James Baker will be his foreign policy guru?
Haven’t been introduced to any.
We moved around a bit and I went to a couple of high schools. One was small town America and the other was an urban, predominently Jewish public high school. I have one gay friend from the small town America high school. I know at least 10-20 gays/lesbians from the urban hgih school. Oh, and the urban high school was pretty wealthy. Just an observation......I do have very Conservative friends from the urban high school, but more so from the small town America high school.
Read and study the first five books of the Old Testament (The Torah), 1st and 2nd Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc. and all you will read is God's warnings and punishment of the Chosen.
Not that we Gentiles have done much better but one wonders, how His Chosen have seen the many times and ways He has kept them from being totally wiped from the face of the earth, only to have them shake their fists in His face and spit in His eye declaring that they no longer consider Jerusalem their sacred Promised Land, just as in days of old.
I don't think He is going to allow it to be given to the sons of Ishmael, who consider it their birthright, just because some 21st Century "stiff-necked Hebrews" don't care.
The dems have thrown in with they Ayatollah of Iran. Only mentally retarded Jews would vote dem at this point.
I’m sorry. But that’s self-evident truth.
Israel has no better friend than TED CRUZ!
“Do you know any politically conservative Jews?”
Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Matt Drudge,David Horowitz, Dennis Prager, Jonah Goldberg, Andrew Breitbart, Charles Krauthammer, Pamela Geller, Ben Shapiro, etc, etc.
I know quite a few conservative Jews. They are fiscally conservvative and but are not too strong on the social issues. They tend to feel uncomfortable that is with the Evangelical Wing of the GOP.
I feel sympathy for the JEWs who have been betrayed by so many jews - similar to how I feel sympathy for right-minded conservatives who have been similarly betrayed by their "countrymen".
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