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With the mid-term elections only a week away, and many Democrat candidates in serious trouble across the nation, one has to wonder about a usually reliable bloc of voters that may have good reason to abandon the party.

 

Because, although several huge mistakes by the administration are currently making headlines, taking up significant amounts of news-space, such as the ISIS uprising, IRS targeting, hordes of illegals crossing the border and now, Ebola, that doesn’t mean voters are forgetting other horrendous slights directed at formerly ardent supporters: American Jews.  

 

Mcdowellnews.com reprinted an AP column reporting that: “Still miffed over negative comments that Israel's defense minister made about Secretary of State John Kerry's Mideast peace efforts and nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Obama administration this week refused his requests to meet several top national security aides, U.S. officials said Friday.

 

While Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon did see Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, the officials said the White House and State Department rejected Israeli proposals for meetings with Vice President Joe Biden, national security adviser Susan Rice and Kerry on his five-day trip to the United States. The administration had sought to stop Ya'alon from seeing Power but the objections were made too late to cancel the meeting, according to the officials.”

 

It’s been quite obvious for a very long time that this administration has never been as friendly toward Israel as any preceding it, except perhaps for Jimmy Carter’s. But this one seems to go out of its way to employ slights as an indication of its disdain.

 

While Israel’s prime minister has been warning of Iran’s nuclear buildup for several years, getting virtually no support from the US president, “This week's refusals [for high-level meetings] come amid increasingly strained U.S.-Israel relations, particularly over criticism of Kerry by several members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, including Ya'alon.

 

Earlier this year, Ya'alon infuriated officials in Washington with comments accusing the administration of being weak on Iran and questioning the U.S. commitment to Israel's security. That followed reports that Ya'alon had criticized Kerry for being unrealistic and naive in trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal."

 

Therefore, while the administration continues to increase tensions between itself and Israel, Iran moves closer to nuclear weapon development as Palestinian's gain White House support, it doesn’t seem probable that Americans of Jewish persuasion will let these events occur unnoticed.

 

Which suggests that this once totally reliable voting bloc will now likely be added to the continually growing list of those totally mislead and abandoned by a political party that’s no longer worthy of either their votes or trust.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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