Nathan Jeffay, The Forward: Has Barack Obama become the bane of Israeli Jews?
Talkback
Title:What ABout the Money?
Name:Jeffrey Abelson
City: New YorkState: NY
There`s two very interesting issues at play here - one, Bush is despised by the American public, has been for years, and yet the Israelis see Bush as pro-Israel, suggesting, of course, that Americans and Israelis have different interests and priorities. Unbelievably so - and as usual, there`s no mention of the financial and military aid to Israel that America will hand over this year - increased by the Obama administration by 25 percent over Bush, those billions treated as an entitlement somehow removed from the conversation. Is Obama Anti-Israel? When he stops forking over billions to an ungrateful population that insists upon rubbing their disputed settlements in the face of the world while hiding behind American military, financial and UN Veto power - and who does the world blame for Israeli intransigence? Why, the guys who foot their bill!