Posted on 06/01/2012 12:18:27 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
Have pro-Israel liberals—at least some of the intelligent ones—finally had enough of President Obama's incompetence and dithering with respect to Israel and the Middle East?
Apparently. First, there was the extraordinary column by well-known journalist Ari Shavit, a man of the left, in Israel's newspaper of the left, Haaretz, last Thursday. Here are the highlights (but by all means read the whole thing here):
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I’ll believe this when I see the exit polls in November.
My take.....
This is politically correct Hard Left lip service toward Israel.
75% of American Jews will never walk away from their Socialist agenda, even if that means harm to Israel.
Agreed. I’ve been to Reformed “Synagogues”, and most attendees don’t believe in G-d. They do, however, believe in the primacy of the Democrat Party.
Chabadniks are maybe 50% R / 50% D. It’s a little more balanced politically, and they do believe in G-d!
Obama could openly take a leak in their Manishevitz and this November? They’ll vote for him.
I was at a Purim festival at a Synagogue in Seattle, Temple Beth El on 35th N.E., in which they literally substituted “Bush” for “Haman” so everyone could Boo appropriately.
For you Christians, that’s like substituting “Romney” for “Judas” at Easter.
What had they been smoking? Haman was bad news for the exiled Jews in Persia. Now somehow George W. Bush was bad news for Jews in the USA? How so?
The founding of modern Israel, in fact, had more to do with Christians than it did with Reform Jews. To be exact, Protestants and evangelicals with a particular theological view which took the Old Testament more literally than their forebears did. And I tend to agree with these Christians. As part of the final acts of the world drama, Jews will once more converge upon their holy land, conquer their mortal enemies, and there will be a brand new temple erected. Then Christians and modern Jews differ on what comes next; Christians insist that Jesus Christ will be recognized by the Jewish people.
Never mind. They’ll still vote or him in the hundreds of thousands.
“Chabadniks are maybe 50% R / 50% D. It’s a little more balanced politically, and they do believe in G-d!”
OHH! A synagogue with only 50% commies/treasonous on two feet!
Be still my beating heart.
Oops, make that “Calm down, gag reflex!”
As time passed, the fact that Obama wrote the speech himself, against the advice of all his advisers, was made public.
Because Obama is a (secret) Muslim!
ping
What can Romney do to reach out to these voters specifically, some of whom have never voted Republican for President before?
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4535
Poll: US Jews favor Obama, don’t consider Israel when voting
New national poll conducted for the Workmen’s Circle, a Jewish activist organization, finds that Obama out-polls Romney by 59% to 27% among Jews • Survey also shows that economic justice is main driver of Jewish vote, whereas attachment to Israel is not a strong factor in presidential voting decision....
So he will only get 60% of the Jewish vote.
“economic justice” = euphemism for marxism.
When someone mentions “ecomonic justice”, have your pistol handy just in case. A mugging is almost surely at hand.
Can you please provide me with a link to that story?
A day or two ago, there was a story to the contrary: a synagogue in Miami had arranged for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to speak in the sanctuary. When a wealthy Republican member of the congregation heard of the plan, he demanded that the event be held in the auditorium with a Republican present on stage to counter Wasserman-Schultz. As of now, the event has been canceled.
If you're talking about pro-Israel voters, Jewish voters for whom Israel is a major concern, Romney need not do anything more than he has been doing: pointing out that he regards Israel as a valuable and reliable ally in the Middle East and bash Obama for his pro-Islamic, pro-Palestinian, pro-Iranian positions which have put Israel at risk.
Obama is generally despised in Israel, for good reason. In 2008, McCain got 3/4 of the votes of Americans abroad in Israel. This year, Romney, simply by being the anti-Obama, will do better than that.
I don’t believe this.
Yes, it is hard to believe.
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