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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Israel must never be made a wedge issue

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=49&ArticleID=18240&TM=59401.29

10/24/2012
Israel must never be made a wedge issue

By Howard Sumka, Ph.D.
Special to WJW One of the sadder aspects of this largely dispiriting presidential election campaign has been the effort by Republicans, in close harmony with Prime Minister Netanyahu, to make Israel a wedge issue. A recent plaintive appeal for Jews to vote for Governor Romney (WJW, October 4, 2012) encapsulates the Republican position. The arguments are worth a closer look. Their arguments are based largely on distortions of fact and on a "no daylight" foreign policy principal that most Americans - Jews and Gentiles - should reject. In the end, to coin a phrase, this will not be good for the Jews, not those of us in America nor our kin in Israel.

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