Posted on 08/07/2009 2:21:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Jewish Democrats strongly agree with the Israeli position and disagree with President Barack Obama's on issues such as a Palestinian state, settlement construction, and trading land for peace. Does the president realize he's at risk of a break with an important part of his base?
A phone survey (sponsored by the Traditional Values Coalition and conducted by Global Marketing Research Services on July 22-24) of 500 American Jews who self-identified as Democrats exposes broad disagreement with Obama's Middle East policies.
Asked to choose between the Obama view that "if Israel could settle its dispute with the Palestinian refugees and give them a nation of their own, that the Arabs would live in peace with Israel" and the Israeli government view that "the Arabs will never live in peace with Israel and that giving them a nation of their own will just make them stronger," Jewish Democrats sided with the Israeli view by 52 percent to 20 percent.
On the contentious issue of construction in existing West Bank settlements, Democratic Jews also sided with Israel more than with Obama. The survey asked for agreement with Obama when he "says that it is very important that Israel not expand its settlements on the West Bank so as not to alienate the Palestinians," or with Israel that "it should be allowed to build new homes in existing settlements but not to start new ones" — and got 52-37 backing for the Israeli view.
Democratic Jews still strongly back Obama in general, with 92 percent reporting that they approve of the job he is doing as president. But 44 percent feel that "Obama is naive in thinking he can make peace with the Arabs," while only 37 percent disagree.
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It goes to show you that 48% of American Jewish Democrats haven't learned a goddam thing in the entirety of the Jewish experience.....
If 90% of Jews had voted differently there mught have been a pro-Isreal president in the White House right now. Why a Jew would vote for a Democrat is beyond me.
Jewish Americans give Obama a 92 percent approval rating and yet the headline is “Jews break from Obama”? Something isn’t matching up.
If I recall correctly, Jews make up 50% of the donation base of the Dems.
Ha ha ha!
O has already lost seniors. If he loses Jews, the Democrat party is done.
Yes, but continue to vote Democrat to atone for perceived white guilt, time and time again.
Correction to my past post - It’s Obama who broke away from them. It may seem like a small distinction, but it isn’t.
He was never with them. He’s a muzzie.
‘Coarse’? With all the stuff you see in this world you find what I said ‘course’?
He will not lose the Jewish vote, the best a republican has ever done with them is 45% in 1916.
Even in the landslide of 1984 69% of Jews voted against President Reagan.
They fear Christians far more than they fear Moslems. Christians might convert some of their youth. Moslems only mean to annihilate them.
Of coarse!
Let's see: does this important part of his base realize they voted for their own worst interests, and are they going to change their point of view going forward? Any other question is irrelevant.
The two halves of their brains.
Nutshell. Sad.
Zero is a one term pony which is why the democRATs are in such a hurry. They know they have less than 17 months to subjugate this nation or they will be lost.
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