Posted on 03/18/2010 9:12:12 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
A number of powerful American Jewish leaders are upset with the president over escalating tensions between the U.S. and Israel—and may take it out on the Democrats this fall.
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses some 7,500 delegates to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s Washington policy conference on Monday morning, the moment will be fraught. It’s just possible that Clinton, accustomed to being love-bombed by the powerful pro-Israel lobby’s conventioneers whenever she spoke as New York’s junior senator, will be greeted with chilly silence or, worse, scattered boos—the AIPAC membership’s angry response to the frayed and apparently deteriorating relationship between Israel and the United States.
“Man, I wouldn’t want to be Hillary Clinton going there at this point in time,” says Manhattan billionaire James S. Tisch, chief executive of Loews Corp.—the hotel, insurance and oil exploration conglomerate—and a longtime activist in Jewish causes and philanthropies. “I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets a ‘cold’—a diplomatic sickness.”
The 57-year-old Tisch, a big-money political donor who gives to both Democrats and Republicans and supported John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, is typical of wealthy Jewish supporters of Israel, especially in New York, who are bitterly opposed to President Obama’s Middle East policies and harshly critical of the officials who are carrying them out. Tisch was one of a number of Jewish leaders interviewed by the Daily Beast who were angry at Obama—so much so that they think the issue could affect Jewish donations to Democratic candidates this fall.
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It's obvious that it's a lefty site to begin with, so it attracts lefty readers. Lefty readers, in turn, tend to hate Israel and support Islamists. They are disgusting pigs, but those comments shouldn't be surprising.
BTW, this same Lloyd Grove used to be a DC celebrity gossip columnist for the WaPo (don't know if he's still there), so the fact that he writes for that web site should not be surprising, either. Did you notice that Grove didn't bother to interview a single Jewish Republican for his story?
Yes, a lot of them helped to make the Anointed One, but if hypothetically no Jews had voted in the 2008 presidential election, Obama still would have won in both the popular and electoral vote. The only state which the Jewish vote may have put O over the top would be Florida, and putting Florida in the McCain column wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election.
They get what they deserve. Those that voted for Obama should move to Israel so they can see first hand what they done.
You are painting with too broad of a brush. There are many American Jews, including those here on FR, who detest Obama as much as anyone else, and for good reasons. Just this week, for example, radio talk show host Mark Levin, who is Jewish, announced that he will file a suit challenging the constitutionality of the ObamaCare bill if it should "pass" the House and be be signed by the Anointed One.
True, but Obama can rely on 70-75% or more of the Jewish community to line up and sign on with his liberal goals, with a smile.
24/7/365 Israel-bashing has degraded popular support for the Jewish State, and those who support her. Add in the ever-present dusting of Jew-hatred in the culture, and the current intellectual climate shouldn't be a surprise.
I am getting tired hearing about the LIBERAL JEWISH COMMUNITY. There are many, many conservative Jewish organizations and they are growing.
Agreed.
Unfortunately it’s only the libs that get the attention.
Thank you!
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