Comments on: No Disproportionate Decline in Jewish Support for Obama Over Mideast Policies

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:40:24 +0000

Beautiful, tidbits. Well said. Thank you.

By: DLS

DLS — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:33:34 +0000

Obama reportedly gave Netanyahu a signed statement agreeing to support current Israeli nuclear policy, so an ugly leftist threat has been removed (“nuclear-free Middle East” = disarming Israel).

By: tidbits

tidbits — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:16:58 +0000

I won't claim Judaism, though my maternal grandfather was Jewish (go ahead SD call me liberal because of my heritage…I guarantee you I was called much worse growing up in an Italian-Catholic neighborhood). The poll does not surprise me. Jews, both in Israel and America, want peace not confrontationalism. To the extent that Obama holds out a new prospect for peace he will be given a chance by the majority of the Jewish population.

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:28:58 +0000

You're walking the edge with that second sentence.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:24:15 +0000

So what. Jews are one of the most liberal groups in the U.S. Jews will always support the big spending, big government party.

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:18:53 +0000

Be interesting to see what Iran policy does to that support:

Poll: U.S. Jews back Iran strike, denominations split on Obama
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/29/1008202/...

Fifty-six percent of American Jews would support the “United States taking military action against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons,” according to the American Jewish Committee's 2009 Annual Survey of Jewish Opinion. That's an increase of 14 percentage points from the AJC survey taken in the fall of 2008. In addition, 66 percent of those surveyed said they would back an Israeli strike on Iran.

Instead, religious denomination was the true variable, particularly on evaluations of President Obama.

Just 14 percent of Orthodox respondents said they approved of the Obama administration's handling of U.S.-Israel relations, compared to 54 and 59 percent for Conservative and Reform Jews, respectively. And 13 percent said they approved of the president's handling of the Iran nuclear issue, with 44 percent of Conservative Jews and 54 percent of Reform Jews feeling positively about the president. On a potential strike against Iran, however, there is general agreement among denominations in favor, ranging from 61 percent of Orthodox to 53 percent of Reform.

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