YESHA and the US Elections

Note this:

...Obama’s handling of Israel will be a not-insignificant issue in the presidential election, not exclusively among Jews (though certainly among them), nor exclusively among Jews and Zionist Christians (though their footprint is certainly an effective force multiplier), but among everyone. What will happen, I believe, is that the Republican candidate will point to Israel (partly because he or she won’t be able to point to experience, or Al Qaeda, or Iraq, or China, or Cuba) to paint President Obama in the same colors that every Republican has painted every Democrat since the Vietnam War: weak on America’s enemies, disloyal to America’s friends, and out-of-step with American values. That Obama has done a poor job convincing Jews otherwise—as we are soon to see...

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Israel does become a stand-in for a type of foreign policy: An America-focused foreign policy for democracy, freedom, and markets, in contrast to a European foreign policy, which is strongly critical of Israel, but also is in the direction of more deference to the U.N. and in general.

In contrast to the Bush administration, this whole notion that the Bush administration was unilateral (I don’t accept this, but still), Obama’s was that he would be more collaborative; there was the Cairo speech, reaching out to the Arab world.

The supporters of Israel tend to have a very different view of the world, a more American-focused view, pro-freedom, pro-markets, pro-democracy. It becomes a litmus test. Not unlike where you stood on the Soviet Union in the history of the Cold War.

There are mnay thousands of American Jews resident in Yesha.  We need a group like this, that:

views its mandate as the advocate of the rights of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, its historic homeland, is dedicated to the development and enhancement of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel, as based on the decisions of the international bodies following World War I to reconstitute the Jewish national home, that upholds Jewish national Zionist principles and advocates the Biblical, historic and legal rights of the Jewish People to Eretz Yisrael as achieved by the Jewish People throughout the centuries and the success of the modern Zionist movement.

and, to this end, will undertake to present unabashedly the case for vibrant and dynamic Jewish community life in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel under Israeli sovereignty. Its activities will be carried out in the United States, particularly Washington, additional diplomatic contacts and in the international media.

An action-group that

believes that a proud defense of Israel’s rights together with an assertive campaign against Israel’s detractors are in the interests of the Jewish People and the State of Israel as well as its allies and friends across the globe and is a grass-roots association that will coalesce around American-Israelis who live in Israel who are dedicated to presenting their case foremost to the U.S. Congress and Government.

What do you say to that?

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