Sunday Oct 12, 2008
Posted by David Turner
Over the years Israel has tended to favor Republican over Democrat presidents. This is not the place to analyze this phenomenon and I raise it only as backdrop to the present question: which, if either of the two candidates for the US presidency, is more likely to benefit Israel over the next four to eight years? Each was clearly addressing Jewish voters in proclaiming, when refering to the nuclear Iran issue, that he would never allow another Holocaust. But rhetoric aside, how can we assess how each might be expected to exercise the levers of power available to the president should a crisis, such as dealing with a more critical Iranian threat, arise?
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