Time for Israel to activate another one of their young female operatives in the states and bring Obama down like they did with Monica and Clinton...snark
No one should really be surprised with this. It was all apparent and obvious during the campaign and for any one who cares about Israel and Israeli security(and these days Israeli security and US security tend to overlap) the evidence was overwhleming as to wher Obama’s sympathies lie and what kind of President he’d be. It was all there.
Given that only 22% of jews voted for McCain I have to conclude that nowadays there is a large segment of jews that just doesn’t care all that much about Israel.
I think the longer we get from the Holocaust and the days of the 67 and 73 wars when Israel’s very existence was at stake and you have a younger genration who have always known Israel and take it for granted that it’s not the issue it is for older jews who may remember a world without Israel or news coverage of the 67 and 73 wars when its fate hung in the balance.
I don’t know if the Jewish vote was broken down by age but I’d bet that if you just took say Jews over 50, McCain did much better than the overall 22% he got, and among Jews over 60 I’d say he did more than much better.
But it’s like in Genesis when there arose a new Pharoah who did not know Joseph...there has arisen a new Jewish population that just doesn’t know or doesn’t care or both.
Sad but True as Metallica might say.
I think you may have that backwards. Pres GW Bush did the best with younger Jews. Older Jews are more likely to be lifelong New Deal Democrats who would never dream of voting Republican.
Young Jews More Likely To Vote GOP Than Their Elders
http://www.forward.com/articles/14481/
Polls indicate that younger Jewish voters are more inclined to vote Republican, with preliminary results indicating that 32% of Jews in the 18-49 age range supported Bush. In addition, the core constituency of the traditional Democratic Jewish base, senior citizens, is shrinking.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/4337.htm