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Poll: Only 31% of Israelis consider Obama pro-Israel
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Published: 18.05.09, 12:31
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1. Obama and US are Pro-Israel
Sayid ,   Sweden   (05.18.09)
not neutral.
2. to #1 is that what they teach you in mosques
ghostq   (05.18.09)
the USA is the second big donar to the palis after Saudi Arabia, so get your facts straight.
3. Okay, And The Arab Population Of Israel Is...?
David H ,   Marietta USA   (05.18.09)
He is a vitriolic anti-Semite. Trust this political aberration at your own risk.
4. Polls don't matter...
DT ,   TA Israel   (05.18.09)
The proof will be in the "doing" and not the "saying "
5. Obama Pro-Israel
Nili ,   Jerusalem   (05.18.09)
Riight--that's why he is bowing to the saudi king and running to all the islamists.
6. Obama & Bush are 2 sides of the same coin.
Joe ,   Ramat Gan   (05.18.09)
7. Obama Pro Israel
jim bob ,   usa   (05.18.09)
Nili, Jerusulem....your a punk. ..Ill be glad when isreal gets of my tax dollar teat as they have no want of peace. More settlements? yeah, thats a big help!... Isreal is always a victim...sorry but they have played that hand out. I hope our new president tells Netanyahu the $ from the US is stopped until they remove the illegal settlements and get serious about a peace process...
8. #7 - Jim Bob - Shux yeah ya'll tell bo
rufusjackson ,   back water USA   (05.18.09)
I terd of em too. Shoot doggies them there Jews don't even believe in Jesus. Gettin all uppity buildin stuff, POTUS bush the Sharrif from the united state of Tex-ass tried stamp down their upitiness but i bet that there Obama'r gonna finish it.
9. The fact that 69% of Israeli Jews don't...
Persian CAT   (05.18.09)
consider Obama and his administration as not pro-Israel is a big feather in his cap. Blind support for Israel Apartheid has inflicted huge damage to the US national interests, and the American people intend to correct their past mistakes by letting Israel take them for a ride, picking their pockets to the tune of 80 billion dollars during the last decade.
10. 31 %? That would be the Arabs, Meretz and Peace Now.
AK   (05.18.09)
11. This article clearly shows the
outtatheloop ,   USA   (05.18.09)
resilience of the Republican Propaganda machine and conservatives in America (i.e. these so called libertarians). Look; - even the Christian Hitler had Jewish "fans" and functionaries. Bush is very simply a "protestant millenarian eschatology aficionado/adherent" and, their doctrine of belief is quite overt and open plus it is clearly articulated (it states that Jew's accept their King (the Jesus) and thus usher in a heavenly kingdom on Earth) What the entirety of the DoD and the Bush administration coveted and very nearly accomplished over 8 years with multiple spurious conflicts and exponential financial expenditure is the assimilation and religious conversion of Israel to what they euphemistically regard as the "51st State of the United States" If Israelis desire a status of dependency and cultural ambiguity then they should continue to advocate for the evangelical republican party. I mean a state can start as a possession or common wealth then evolve into statehood if the electorate wishes. Accurately the only two logical questions are – 1. Does Pres. Obama being an (practicing Christian) secretly share this devotion and adoration to the revelations of “john” like his predecessor Bush/Cheney. 2. Is the Israeli populace prepared to forfeit their cultural uniqueness? http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret P.S. – The Bush administration was also extremely effective as casting the State of Israel as “non-Democratic “ and that concept is also enduring.
12. Parochial narrow-minded
True Zionist ,   Tel Aviv   (05.18.09)
This poll only goes to prove that just like taxi drivers - the real yardsticks of public opinion in this country, together with that bigger sector of the well- informed, the market stall owners - Israelis believe Barack Obama is a Jew/Israel hating Muslim and no good will come of our relations with him. For a people that prides itself on being called the people of the book we are really extraordinarily ignorant - we stopped reading after glimpsing the front page of Yediot Ahronot. And we still think we can hold on to the West Bank, strangle Gaza and decimate its civilian population - for no actual military gain to us - whenever it suits us and no one will mind. Oh yes and then there's the corruption in our politics and finances that is our dirty little secret and finally just to show how high our morals are, there's the little matter of the t-shirts our mighty warriors design, like red indians with scalps. Do you honestly think any one gives a damn what parochial narrow minded Israelis think of Obama? As long as we continue to express our strength by excessive force, so it is clear to everyone else that we are basically a very frightened little people. Making peace - now that takes real strength and courage. We lack both and the kind of leaders we have prove it. Our current apology for a leader is in love with his own rhetoric and is "conspicuously insincere" - to quote an American (jewish) journalist. That about says it all.
13. Make sense please.
ben Ish   (05.18.09)
Everyone except #3 & #5 needs to evaluate their medication. okthanksbye
14. to #2
Marc H. ,   New York, NY   (05.18.09)
Does the US not support Israel by giving billions to it every year? Do we not sell you top grade miltary equipment while selling your neighbors infurior technology and weapons? Are you actually suggesting the USA does not support you? LOL! There is no country in the world that has done more for you little county than the US! I suggest you get your facts right and show some respect, boy! Frankly, you (and your other talkbackers) sound like spoiled children who are used to getting their way all the time. And now that you are not, you are acting out! I hope Obama gives you all a spanking and puts in your place.
15. #14
ben Ish   (05.18.09)
I believe the amount is only around 2.5 billion, and in fact that amount and more is actually returned to the US in various ways. Israel is not taking "handouts" like you seem to think, but rather an investment which the US reaps rewards from. And the US does not hand out money as -charity- anyway, especially to Israel, or are you just politically incompetent or naive? There is no country in the world that pays debt back like Israel. No one. Frankly, you sound like you don't like the facts #2 was pointing out. Originally you could have passed off "...my Muslim faith." as a distracted slip or whatever, but when his FIRST phone call is to Abbas, FIRST press conference is with Al-Arabiya, and he BOWS to the king of Saudi Arabia... well, maybe being from Kenya and the Philippines and having a Muslim name and Muslim schooling DOES have something to do with it. You suggest Israelis should *NOT* be concerned?
16. AGREE 7- USA is tired of Israel
American firster   (05.18.09)
and everything it stands for. America First.
17. #12 - TZ, Who's the parochial, narrow-minded one here?
Joe ,   Ramat Gan   (05.18.09)
I, for one, do not believe that Obama is a "Barack Obama is a Jew/Israel hating Muslim and no good will come of our relations with him." I believe that Obama (as well as the majority of the American public- American Jews included) is woefully ignorant of the political reality in the Middle East and seeks to impose his preconceived "solutions" here regardless of their disastrous fallout. The lives Obama is playing with are not his own. As regards "strangling Gaza and decimating its civilian population", have you looked at Arab birth rates lately? Also, it doesn't look like Ismail Haniyeh ever misses a meal, now does he? If it's systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide, you have to admit that the "Eesraeelee Occubation" is doing a pretty piss-poor job of it. Also, if making peace takes "real strength and courage", why don't we see this from our "honorable" neighbors like Assad and the Saudis, whose idea of negotiations consists solely of listing demands? Are you asking us to martyr ourselves for the sake of Western appeasement? Sorry, too much Jewish blood has been spilled playing that game. I, for one, refuse to blindly follow the "parochial, narrow-minded" path towards Dhimmitude (aka the 2-State Solution). If this is what "True Zionism" is, count me out...
18. Obama Pro Israel?
William C Stuart ,   Clinton Ct U.S.A.   (05.18.09)
Neither the U.S., Russia or anyone else should be pro anything. What is needed is a solution that is fair and just. Any one sided solution is no solution.
19. Who cares what 31% or 69% think or don' t think
American Jew ,   Los Angeles   (05.19.09)
You voted for the government you got. Face the consequences!
20. Israeli views of Obama
Dr Reality Check ,   Irvington New Jersey   (05.19.09)
Until Israel removes all colonies on occupied land and a Palestinian State is established, the billions of dollars in aid to Israel should be stopped forthwith. Obama may be the first president since Carter and Eisenhower to not allow the tail to wag the dog.
21. WHA
J.Johnson ,   Philadelphia   (05.19.09)
I'm American and I am NOT pro-Israel and I would not want my President to be. Israel has been pompous and arrogant and I don't want MY Tax money going to the poor victims anymore.
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