GOP and Conservative Jews Praise Obama’s Israel Trip

David Streeter — March 25, 2013 – 10:24 am | Barack Obama | Israel | Republicans Comments (0) Add a comment

JTA reported on the praise President Barack Obama has received from certain Republican and conservative Jews following his trip to Israel:

Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor at Commentary, says Obama did/said enough to silence any talk of his being anti-Israel…

Kenneth Bialkin, a veteran lay leader of Jewish organizations and GOP donor/Republican Jewish Coalition board member, issued a statement praising Obama’s performance. To be fair, he offered praise from his perch as chairman of the board of the nonpartisan Israel American Friendship League, not as a private individual. But, still….

And then there was the Zionist Organization of America and its president, Mort Klein. The group, a frequent critic of Obama and U.S. efforts to press for a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority, did indeed put out a statement criticizing the president’s speech to Israeli university students. But, within minutes, it also issued a statement praising Obama’s overall trip.

PJ Media’s Ron Radosh wrote: 

[T]o continue to act as if [President Obama] is an enemy of Israel is both counter-productive and tactically wrong, and will only alienate from both Israelis and American Jews those conservatives who continue to act in such a manner. If Obama makes a wrong move, then call him on it. But encourage him to - as a friend of Israel - do what has to be done to secure the future of the Jewish state.

 

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