As a footnote to my previous post, exit polls shows Barack Obama won 77% of the Jewish vote – he even did better than Kerry. So much for those who believe American Jews are in the pocket of the Israeli right. The only Jews I know who voted for McCain are Orthodox, who tend to support the extreme right wing positions of their Israeli counterparts. For the most part they bought into the “Obama = Muslim + terrorist lover” equation. What a sweet irony it is that the very first appointment Obama made was — an Orthodox Jew whose father was a member of the Irgun (and from what I have read about him will be a great Chief of Staff)!
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