Obama's Mideast policies a concern
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/22/2008 10:25:00 AM
Aaron Klein is the Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and author of Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans to a Jew. He says Senator Obama (D-Illinois) will be closely watched by the Israeli media, as well as by Jewish voters in the U.S., during his Holy Land visit.
"There have been a lot of reports that Obama favors the Palestinian Authority a little more than Israel," notes Klein. "He's been tied to people like Rashid Khalidi, who's an anti-Israel professor at Columbia University. And he has relationships with people who are foes of Israel in Washington."
Klein believes the presidential hopeful is concerned about a recent poll which finds that only 50 percent of Jewish voters indicate they will vote for the Democrat. "American Jewish voters traditionally vote Democrat," the journalist points out. "Actually 80 percent of American Jews voted for Al Gore, [and] 83 percent voted for John Kerry -- so the figures that only 50 percent so far support Obama are quite staggering," he adds.
According to Klein, many Israelis are also concerned about Obama's stated policies concerning the Middle East.
