More evidence that we will see a divorce between American Jews and Israelis after this election. Mairav Zonszein at +972 reports on the expatriate American exit poll:
iVoteIsrael - the campaign that has worked hard to get American citizens living in Israel to vote absentee in next week’s U.S. presidential elections (and which I have been covering here since June and exposed to be a partisan, right-wing, anti-Obama initiative) – held a press conference Thursday afternoon in Jerusalem to announce the results of what they claim is the biggest exit poll of its kind ever conducted among American expats voting in an American election.
The campaign announced that a record number of 80,000 Americans who registered with them voted in this election, of which 85 percent voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, 14 percent for Obama (and 0.6 percent for “Other”).
Obviously this group is lobbying American Jews the same way Ed Koch is. But it won’t work. These voting results will turn out to be the inverse of American Jewish results. And that will only raise consciousness about the differences between the two communities– leading to a split inside the American Jewish community, between a liberal majority that doesn’t like Netanyahu and the minority that embraces apartheid. Of course, that’s a hopeful reading. For now, our media are not telling Americans about apartheid conditions, so American Jews can keep talking about a Jewish democracy forever.
I would say this is wishful thinking. Obama’s gonna get much less of a percentage of the american jewish vote this time around, no way US Jews provide a complete inverse. No chance. Sorry, Phil, but your guy is going down.
“For now, our media are not telling Americans about apartheid conditions, so American Jews can keep talking about a Jewish democracy forever.”
Wonder what it would take for our media to tell Americans about apartheid conditions long implemented by Israel?
Aftermath of WW3? I can’t think of any other thing.
Also the article mentions that 7500 are registered in Florida and 3500 in Ohio,
as well as commenting that IVoteIsrael managed all of the ballot boxes and then transmitted the votes to the US. I wonder how the citizens of this country will feel
if these swing state votes, by individuals who have freely chosen to live in another
country, determine the election. Particularly the 55 million who will be left with
no health insurance when Romney dismantles Obama’s health care law on the first
day in office. As well as dismantling Dodd-Frank, returning us to the wild west days of Wall Street that brought this country to its knees financially. Unemployment will be exceptionally high as government programs are slashed, jobs are exported over seas and every foreign graduate who has a science or math degree will “have a green card stapled to their diploma” (Romney 2nd debate) and
US workers will face unprecedented international competition for their jobs. But never mind, no one will notice, since Netanyahu will have bombed Iran and the middle east will explode into war with our youth and the not so young from the reserves all on the front lines.
Americans emigrate to Israel and the Occupied Territories in order to act out their white racist fantasies. We export our racism.
I think it’s wishful thinking. People who have made aliyah, especially in the last few years, tend to be orthodox Jews on the right, who would vote Romney anyway.
My prediction is that American Jewish vote will go around 70-75% for Obama. The RJC campaign has made its inroads, but not all that far, and New York, a reliable blue state, may represent most of the shift.