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May 20, 2011, 6:01 pm
Posted by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
In case you missed President Obama’s speech yesterday on the Middle East with mention of Israel, Palestine, and 1967 borders, here are some details on how that’s working out.
M.J. Rosenberg, “The Fake Outrage of the Israel Firsters” offers lots of details even though he doesn’t think the speech was all that good. He points out apropos of the WSJ story linked below that the vast majority of American-Jewish voters (78 percent) cast their ballots for Obama; the donors are a very small number.
The Wall Street Journal points to part of the problem: “Jewish Donors Warn Obama.” Oy! the stereotypes!
And the WSJ’s take on PM Netanyahu’s visit to his friend President Obama, “Netanyahu Rejects White House Proposal.”
The notion that Obama will lose a lot of the Jewish vote is an empty notion. Obama in New York and California doesn’t need a big Jewish vote. That Jews in Florida will go TP GOP is even more dopey prediction.
Lest we/they forget:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/05/19/obama-israel-1967/
By Ben Armbruster on May 19th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Obama’s Call For Israeli & Palestinian Borders To Be ‘Based On The 1967 Lines’ Mirrors Bush, Clinton Policy
Oy! the stereotypes!
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What stereotypes were in the article? (I didn’t observe any.)