Straight Talk

Bill Mehlman – Jerusalem Chapter Chair

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        The Obama Wild Card

    Jerusalem --The American  public’s support of Israel is miles wide, but save for its Jews and  a substantial number of  faith-based Evangelical Christians, it may be only inches deep.

   The largely unrecognized danger inherent in  an Obama presidency is that a rhetorical virtuoso capable of raising masses of people to a state of near frenzied euphoria could dry up that shallow lake in a flash.  A frontal attack on Israel wouldn’t  be necessary to accomplish the task..  “President” Obama would merely have to convince the American people that the Jewish State’s policies – continued sovereignty over an undivided Jerusalem,  the retention of the Golan Heights and critical portions of Judea and Samaria, – were inimical to America’s  interests.  Given his forensic gifts , it might not take much convincing.  An  America mired in the worst economic recession in  70 years, unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and recurring  terrorist threats could come up notably short on further indulgence of Israel’s survival needs, perhaps even of a mind to blame Israel for some of its woes

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