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[05.10.2010]
Israelis Increasingly Blame Obama For Tense U.S. Relations
There has been quite a bit written about American Jewry's growing opposition to the Obama administration's contentious relations with the State of Israel. Along with trying to force Netanyahu to make concessions that would endanger the security of the Jewish State and to take away control over Jerusalem, there is mountain of evidence that the White House is actively trying to unseat the right-wing Netanyahu government. This is why the attacks on Israel are almost always done by criticizing the Prime Minister. This unseemly behavior, trying to topple a democratically elected government, appears to be backfiring.

A left-wing Israeli group has conducted a survey of Israeli opinion and the results are that Israelis fault Obama with the deterioration of relations and they applaud Netanyahu for his efforts to maintain a friendly and constructive relations with the United States.

The War and Peace Index poll shows:


Assessments of how Prime Minister Netanyahu is handling the issue are relatively favorable: the majority - 56% - give him a good or very good grade for managing these relations (33% give him a poor or very poor one while 11% do not know). President Obama, in comparison, gets a good or very good grade from only 43% of the respondents, while 48% give him a poor or very poor grade on managing his relations with Israel (9% do not know).

The poll also shows that President Obama's very favorable numbers have fallen and are quite low.

 

 
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Good! Netanyahu deserves good grades AND extra credit for the way he's handled himself, Obama, and this entire situation. Obama humiliated and embarrassed US, not the PM. Netanyahu is not my prime minister, and I know NOTHING about Israeli politics, but as an American, I can say that the more Obama and his proxies ranted on, the more respect and admiration I felt for the PM. Prime Minister Netanyahu was an example of "grace under pressure." I'm not alone in feeling admiration for the Prime Minister: I noticed a Facebook group called "Netanyahu for President? Hell, Why Not!".

I completely agree with the previous reviewer. The assault against little Israel is contrived and generated in purgatory.
There are so many Arab and Muslim countries with so much money and a kingdom named Jordan with a king whose monarchy is from Saudi Arabia not Palestine. The latter is a misnomer conceived by the Romans. Those that ignore history... you know the rest.

Until President Obama can control the misfits in his own political party, and the opposition he faces from the /republicans in the Congress, it is ill-advised that he, or members of his admninistration, criticize the sovereign government of Israel.

We have suffered terrorist attacks in the United States on about half a dozen occasions, Israel has been suffering them for for decades on a dailt basis. We certainly lack the experience Israel has in combatting terrorism, and we are hardly in a position to advise them regarding their national security (especially when we cannotm even controlmour own borders.)

We might better learn fro Israel than criticize them. The Muslim countries Obama is appealing to will think no better of the United States, even if Israel were to succumb to their wishes, because they want an Middle /east like Hitler wanted Germany - "Juden frei".

Hi,
Yes, grace under pressure. Something our current "leadership" has no clue about. What else could you expect from foul mouthed Godless Commies?!
Rest assured, these clowns will be history soon.
Keep the faith!
Sincerely,
Tim

Unfortunately, many Jews of my acquaintance, all intelligent, educated, sophisticated and aware, seem mesmerised by Obama's rhetoric and promises, and continue, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, to slavishly follow and support him.

Its time to go. The junior senator with limited world expeience but a definite leaning to the anti Israel (cum Jews ) issue will not survive the second term. He was the wrong person to become the first black president, had no credibility, no statesmanship, no record of accomplishement but hypnotically was able to talk the talk (not walk the walk). It was time to break the color barrier but the choice of this hue was an error of the people looking for their saviour.

Obama has shown himself to be an enemy to Israel and to the United States. When will American Jews wake up and stop supporting the Democratic Party?

Regarding those of our Israelis and Jews who do not yet understand what is going on, I hope this super-clever lot be quicker at it then they were in the nineteen thirties...!

I wish PM Netanyahu could be our (U.S.) president. Sure, he's not a natural born U.S. citizen, but then, is Obama?

The United States is imposing its will on the internal affairs of Israel. a sovereign nation, not the other way around. Jerusalem has been the capital of Judaism for more than 3,000 years, a time when Palestinians were not even in existence, a time when Islam was not even in existence.,

That President Obama, of the United States, has chosen, after six decades of support for Israel, the onlt democracy in the Middle /east, to embrace the bogus claims of the Palestinians, and to do so in an inflammatory way with a condemnation of Israel by the Vice Presidcnt and the Secretary of Statel, raises the qustion of the future foreign policies of the United States.

We, in the United States have been losing many of our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, and what is emaining of our "democracy" is coming to shambles. Who are we to tell others what's wrong with theirs?
If we cannt be honest brokers of peace, it is better that we do not take sides, than to take the wrong side.

Prime Minister Netanyahu displayed superb statesmanship while Obama, as ususal, displayed his complete incompetence. My prayers are with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel. May the Lord Jesus Christ always be their Protector!

I hope the problem is that Obama is incompetent and poorly advised, but I fear that he well knows what he is doing: severely weakening the U.S. in the face of its enemies and giving the Jihadists the green light to destroy Israel.

I am not an American and do not wish to judge the US Administration, but I have been wondering: either Mr. President and his entourage are playing a double role - in front of the international community sympathetic to the Arab world and in the background helping Israel Americas only friend in the Middle East or this Administration is gone completely astray as to what the Muslim world is after. Chamberlain did the same mistake in 1938, story can repeat itself with new players in scene. Just a thought.

I feel that it took a lot of dumb people in America to elect Obama.

Then why did 78% of American Jews recklessly and foolishly vote for Obama? I live in Princeton NJ, and I get sick to my stomach every time I see another "Barack Obama" bumper sticker in Hebrew. Are these leftist Israelis who live in this nutty town or are they just run-of-the-mill leftist American Jews? Does anyone know who published these bumper stinkers in the first place? They are totally offensive and sickening to me.
I publicly disown and condemn all Jews who voted for Obama. I want nothing to do with them. They are all despicable capos who are contributing to the destruction of both America and Israel.

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