Here on the UWS of Manhattan, the very center of Jewish intellectual life in the US, I have seen almost no indicator that we are about to have an election, except a few ads from the essentially communist NY Assembly member, Linda Rosenthal.
I did overhear a conversation at a coffee shop- the man kept saying “...but Nixon hated the Jews...”, and the woman kept saying “Romney’s not Nixon”...
Nixon was a huge friend of Israel.
His decision to re-supply Israel in the Yom Kippur war prevented Israel from having to use nuclear weapons, and really was the start of the great friendship our countries have had until Obama.
Nixon gets his bad rap because he was mean to his enemies, which included secular, liberal, Jewish people who never gave a shekel to Israel and who find observant Jews embarrassing and backwards.
Well, Nixon was right about those JINOS. F-k ‘em.
-— Jewbacca, an Israeli Jew
Well the man knows nothing about Nixon as he has no idea that Golda Meier knew the USA was their ONLY hope of surviving in '73 and called Nixon to help. He did and supplied to Golda everything she needed immediately.
When an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked in October 1973, beginning the Yom Kippur War, Israel suffered initial losses. The US took no action for several days, until Nixon ordered an airlift to Israel (after speaking w/Golda), taking personal responsibility for any response by Arab nations. Nixon cut through inter-departmental squabbles and bureaucracy to initiate an airlift of American arms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon