An open letter to Mitt Romney
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But the real problem with what your advisors are telling you are not the facts about U.S.-Israel relations over the past four years—after all, these can easily be distorted and discarded, as so often happens in election campaigns—but rather the facts about American Jews. Two facts in particular.
Fact number 1: Israel is not the top concern of American Jews, not even close. To be sure, most American Jews, roughly two-thirds, care a lot about Israel. They don’t want anything bad to happen to it, and they do want the United States to support it. But Israel is not what’s uppermost in their minds when they enter the voting booth. As long as they are confident that U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israel is not in jeopardy (and they have every reason to be), American Jews will vote according to who they think will be the best president for the United States, not for Israel.
In other words, American Jews vote as Americans, first and foremost. Like other Americans, what matters to them are the economy, healthcare, education and social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion. Only a very small minority cares more about Israel than anything else, most of them Orthodox Jews who are politically conservative and right-wing about Israel.
Which brings me to fact number 2: When it comes to domestic American issues, American Jews are decidedly liberal, maybe a bit less so than they were in the past, but still pretty liberal, especially when compared to those of a similar income level. While the reasons for American Jewish liberalism have long been a subject of debate among political scientists and sociologists - and a cause for much annoyance among Jewish neo-conservatives - the Jewish commitment to liberalism in the United States, which borders on a quasi-religious zeal, has persisted over many decades. Unfortunately for you, there is no indication that it is weakening now.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/an-open-letter-to-mitt-romney.premium-1.454603
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