Obama leads Romney in recent panel survey of Israeli experts
August 20, 2012 3 Comments
By Melissa Weiss, Staff Writer
President Obama addressing AIPAC in March 2012
Washington, Aug. 20 – President Obama bested presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on topics related to Israel in a recent panel survey of Israeli experts conducted by Israeli journalist Shmuel Rosner. The president garnered a score of 7.4 (out of 10) while the former governor of Massachusetts received a 7.2.
Because the results are based only on the answers of the panelists and not from a wider range of interviewees, the survey cannot be viewed as legitimate polling data, but rather provides an additional voice in the “who is better for Israel” argument being had among American Jews.
The panel is comprised of Israeli experts who were asked questions on issues ranging from Romney’s recent trip to Israel to the situation in Iran. A final question, asking panelists to rate both candidates on a scale of 1-10 (one being bad, 10 being good), the difference between the two was .2, the first time Obama has led over his competitor.
On the question of Iran, the panel was evenly split between whether or not Israel and the U.S. agree with both the policy and the objective behind the strike on Iran – on an agree-disagree scale, the group rated the statement – “The U.S. and Israel are pretty much on the same page – they agree on both the objective and the policy” – a five.
Regarding Romney’s July visit to Israel, Rosner noted that from the standpoint of an Israeli, the visit was an acceptable one, but from an expert viewpoint, the visit was “somewhat problematic” as Romney was “playing politics” and Middle East experts prefer “policy-driven statements, comments and actions.”
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the key, to this red herring, is that rosner was a correspondent for haaretz the most left wing israeli newspaper
One of President Obama’s earliest initiatives was an effort to make the entire middle east nuclear free. As only Israel was believed to possess nuclear weapons, this policy was simply a deceptive attempt to force Israel to surrender her alleged nuclear arsenal. Such an action would be suicidal for Israel. It is very difficult to understand how a president who starts off by trying to get Israel to kill herself, can be considered anything other than a total disaster for Israel.
Looking forward, we must be concerned that President Obama’s long term desire, and if he could, long term plan, is to force a deal, lethal to Israel, in which both Israel and Iran must be without nuclear weapons.
As politically such a deal is currently impossible (though no longer as friendless as it ought to be) it is more likely that President Obama will trade both insisting on a nuclear free Middle East and/or American help in militarily stopping the Iran nuclear threat, for the creation of a new Arab state west of the Jordan River. As this state would control half of Israel’s water supply, would place the vast majority of Israel’s population, commerce, industry and airports within range of simple and cheap missiles and would leave Israel largely defenseless against threats from the east, and ringed by hostile forces in the north, the southwest (Gaza) and the south, (thanks to President Obama throwing Hosni Mubarrak under the bus), the now hostile Egypt, creating an Arab State west of the Jordan River would be exceedingly dangerous to Israel. A president who in one way or another is attempting to put Israel’s very existence in grave jeapardy is simply very bad for Israel.
President Barack Hussein Obama has a considerable well documented history of an unfriendly attitude toward Israel . I believe that he even received a written letter signed by members of congress re the above. The Arab spring he had such enthusiasm about is moving into a potential military conflict with Israel. I do not see him as a past,present or future friend of Israel. He is a brilliant orator. I hope Israel is aware of who her friends are and will act to save the nation. The world has never had a friendly attitude towrds Jews or to their existence or the holocaust would have never occured.