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Israel/Palestine

vdogg

(1,385 posts)

4. Misguided?

Reply to ericson00 (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 5, 2016, 05:15 AM

Nov 2016

All Obama did is take a more neutral stance and call Israel on their settlement bullshit instead of staying silent. He also refused to subordinate U.S. policy to the whims of Netanyahu. This was not a mistake at all. If anything we need more daylight between us and Israel, not less.

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Absentee-voter exit poll: Trump wins Israel by [35] points less than Romney did [View all] ericson00 Nov 2016 OP

Odd that so many of the more religious voted for Trump. LuvNewcastle Nov 2016 #1

Why do they always vote R? gto Nov 2016 #2

because of Obama's misguided "daylight" as well as the GOP did good outreach in '00s ericson00 Nov 2016 #3

Misguided? vdogg Nov 2016 #4

it didn't achieve the goal of making America less hated by Muslims enough to lower Islamic extremism ericson00 Nov 2016 #9

hmmm rtracey Nov 2016 #5

some of it is a reaction to the BDS/blame-Israel-first crowd ericson00 Nov 2016 #8

American Jews favor Clinton by a 3:1 margin over Trump... shira Nov 2016 #10

one can hope rtracey Nov 2016 #11

Trump is bad, but no he is not. ericson00 Nov 2016 #12

we can agree to disagree rtracey Nov 2016 #13

vast majority of American Jews are supporting Hillary vs Trump geek tragedy Nov 2016 #15

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