Palin Repeats McCain’s False Promise to Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

Aaron Keyak — October 6, 2008 – 5:16 pm | Barack Obama | Election 2008 | GOP Hypocrisies | Israel | McCain Comments (0) Add a comment

In the highly anticipated Vice Presidential debates at the great Washington University in St. Louis (my alma mater) last week, Governor Sarah Palin repeated her ticket's false promise to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Palin said that they will build "Our embassy also in Jerusalem." A few months ago I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post that was recently reprinted in The Philadelphia Jewish Voice titled, "McCain's False Promise to Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem." In this piece I have the following response to this kind of rhetoric:

By making this promise McCain avoids "straight talk" and reverts to "talking down" to the pro-Israel and Jewish communities. The McCain campaign demonstrates a deaf ear when it comes to these voters. Do they actually believe that the pro-Israel and Jewish communities will believe another GOP presidential nominee will deliver on a promise when the previous nominees failed to do so?

Here is the conclusion of the piece:

The U.S Israel relationship is too important - and the pro-Israel community too sophisticated - to be persuaded by such nakedly empty campaign rhetoric. The Republicans may not have noticed, but they and their party's nominees have a record on this issue. In light of their record, this popular campaign season promise doesn't even pass the smell test.

Palin and the Republican ticket should embrace pro-Israel policies head-on and honestly. This kind of empty promise from Palin isn't one that serious pro-Israel activists take seriously.

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