Why Obama is running into trouble with the Jewish lobby

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Why Obama is running into trouble with the Jewish lobby

September 20th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Russell Cornwell
The Independent
September 19, 2011

In normal times, US Jews, however pro-Democrat, are not single-issue voters; usually the issue of how the man in the Oval Office is dealing with Israel has not been a big factor. For an anxious Israel, however, these are not normal times.

The attack on its embassy in Cairo and the expulsion by Turkey of its ambassador, amid the turmoil of the Arab Spring and its aftermath have left the Jewish state feeling ever more isolated. That sense of isolation will only grow if, as seems likely, the UN General Assembly votes in favour of statehood for the Palestinians this month.

At such moments a country counts its true friends, and no friend has been truer to Israel than the US. It’s not that Obama is anti-Israel; he simply hasn’t heaped upon Israel the unconditional encomia to which the Jewish state is accustomed from its most important ally – a stance reflecting the need to improve the US’s standing in the Arab world.

While we might regard a readiness to criticise Israel as well as the Palestinians as refreshingly even-handed behaviour from an American president, it’s highly disconcerting for many American Jews right now. For Obama, facing a re-election battle next year that looks tougher by the week, the implications are alarming.

In purely mathematical terms, the Jewish vote here is not that important. Jews (some 5.5m) may number almost as many as in Israel, but they account for only 2 per cent of the total US population. In political terms, however, they punch well above their weight. Not only are American Jews are a major fundraising force; no other ethnic/religious group votes so regularly – and as a rule 70 or 80 per cent of them vote Democratic.

That predilection ensures that New York, which has more Jewish residents than anywhere on earth bar Israel, is a banker state for Democrats. In Pennsylvania and Florida, two perennial swing states, the Jewish turnout can decide which party wins the White House.

In Florida, Jewish voters, disproportionately elderly retirees, account for 8 per cent of the turnout; the failure of some of them to understand the “butterfly” ballots used in heavily Jewish Palm Beach may have cost Al Gore victory in 2000. In Pennsylvania, Jews account for 5 per cent of the vote; their disaffection could be disastrous for Obama in a state expected to be very close-fought in 2012.

Not surprisingly, Republicans sense an opening. For years, the changing nature of the party – above all, the rise of the Christian conservatives – has been strengthening the embrace of Israel. “God’s Foreign Policy” is how support of the Jewish state is described by some white evangelicals. Michele Bachmann, a White House candidate, even declared that “Nations receive blessings as they bless Israel”.

Not by coincidence, with the vote at the UN approaching, the The Wall Street Journal and The Jerusalem Post carried an op-ed article on Friday by Texas governor Rick Perry, a front- runner in the Republican race, lambasting the president’s policy on Israel and accusing the Palestinians of undermining hopes of peace by their reckless statehood gambit.

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4 Responses to “Why Obama is running into trouble with the Jewish lobby”

Obama’s projected coldness towards the Jews is a total farce for anyone with at least two brain cells – just watch what he does not what he says. His call for return to the pre-1967 borders is just that – words, his actions are to oppose Palestinian statehood at the UN , continue waging wars on Israhell’s behalf and everything else that has benefited Israhell.
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  Same crap as usual yet the public will eat it up and ask for seconds. It’s all theater and nothing happens without the zionist jews approval. Nice try with this article.
“That predilection ensures that New York, which has more Jewish residents than anywhere on earth bar Israel,”
Outdated stats – LA has surpassed NY by now. Is it a coincidence that LA’s descend into it’s current sewer pit status has directly correlated with influx of the jews? As California in general and SoCal in particular.
The only parts of LA that are filthy rich are infested by the jews while the rest has turned into a third world filthy poor shithole . Just repeats the old pattern wherever the parasites come .
The Zionists wanted this fight however many years ago. At least since the Brits gained control of the Middle East from the Ottomans. Well sow and reap fellas. You can take it now can you hold onto it? The millions of well meaning Jews, worldwide, that simply want to live their lives, like most Earthlings, are dragged through the mud and blood by a nationalistic movement that devalues life through its actions and its public comments. There will be no peace for Israel until they abide by the agreement signed by the Arab states after WW2. Ruthless power is ultimately useless power. A day of reckoning will come. If the US has to borrow money from China to maintain a military presence in the Middle East then our troops are probably going to be put into a situation like Dunkirk. What good is that? We need to come home and rebuild and rethink our foreign policy. We do no one any good if we are unable to fight a just war. Damn the Neocons,Jinsa and PNAC.