Adam Dickter, at the New York Jewish Week, reports that an Israeli settler helped craft Bob Turner’s speech blasting Obama during Turner’s successful congressional campaign in Brooklyn. (thx to Jeff Blankfort):
Turner’s campaign, which was staffed and assisted by many Orthodox Jews, also sent 5,000 pieces of direct mail to American citizens living in Israel who are registered to vote in the 9th CD, sources said. (That’s more than Turner’s margin of victory of 4,128 votes in his 33,816-win upset over Democrat David Weprin.)
Giving new meaning to Scott McConnell’s view that the special relationship is a transmission belt for bad ideas.
The issue represented by this phenomenon is significant. Israeli citizens,
holding dual, US citizenship ( as a back up in case their extreme rightist
policies create serious, military threats to Israel) reaching into American
politics to insure virtually unlimited financial support to Israel, total impunity as regards moral or international law, as well as an ill-considered mid east foreign policy which is diametrically opposed to US interests. No other foreign power has this “special” relationship. These citizens pay no taxes, hold no allegiance to this country and, particuarly, hold no allegiance to Obama as a result of his ethnic heritage – see Carolyn Glick/Latima production of Obama in blackface as well as Gabrielle Shalev comments on the Obamas and the “black elite”, all of whom attended Harvard, in War in Context. It is clear that these israelis, many of whom are either settlers or share their political orientation, intend to ally with the monied interests of the Kochs, Mellon Scaife, etc in order to definitively impact the next presidential election. Given the Supreme Courts slap down of the campaign funding transparency laws, they can do so, leaving few if any footprints. Since their interests do not align with ours, since their loyalities are only to themselves and since their political philosophy is win at any cost, could they – under cover of “ambiguous” PACS ally with other countries who might also wish to control the outcome of our elections for their own purposes?