Jews are beginning to see the light. Voting for for Barack Obama was a major error. Many would not repeat it and not only because of his shameful treatment of Israel. John Mclaughlin survey of Jewish voters finds:
I. A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President.According to the 2008 exit polls, Barack Obama won 78% to 21% among Jewish voters. Now, in the second year of Obama’s presidency, only 42% of voters would re-elect him, while the plurality (46%) would consider voting for someone else.
II. A significant portion of Jewish voters disapprove of the President’s handling of relations with Israel.
Nearly four in ten Jewish voters (39%) disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing handling America’s relations with Israel. This rating is not good for a group of voters who are 59% Democratic to only 16% Republican.
III. Jewish voters do not support President Obama’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state. The majority of voters (52%) disapproves of the Obama Administration supporting a plan to recognize a Palestinian state within two years. The majority of voters (64%) says that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel, while only 13% say that the United States should force Israel to give up parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
Six in ten voters (62%) say that the Palestinians would continue their campaign of terror to destroy Israel if they were given a Palestinian state, while only 19% say they would live peacefully with Israel. More than seven in ten voters (73%) say Israel is right to insist upon the Palestinians accepting Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state before there are any negotiations about a Palestinian state.
It’s a beginning. What remains is a serious increase in activism/noise/protest. In other words, end the silence.
