Why Is Romney So Feverish on Israel When Most Jews Will Vote Obama?

By: Yori Yanover

Published: August 31st, 2012
Latest update: September 1st, 2012

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem in late July.
Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/GPO/FLASH90

Is Netanyahu betting the house on Romney?

Leftist political scientist Yaron Ezrahi told GPB News that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his preference clear this election year.

"Netanyahu has not acted wisely enough in order to maintain Israel's neutrality, traditional neutrality in relation to the American election," Ezrahi says.

The professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University argues that it's clear to anyone who follows the news that Netanyahu would prefer a Romney presidency. But while that might be good for Netanyahu and the Likud government for the moment, it would be bad for Israel in the long run.

"He has brought about consequences that actually damage the vital interests of the state of Israel," Ezrahi says.

If ever there was a demonstration of Netanyahu's clear preference this election, it was when he met with Romney in Jerusalemin late July.

The NY Times reminded its readers in April that, back in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, on the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both served as corporate advisers. They absorbed and shared the same world view. Since then, they had kept a warm friendship, little known to outsiders, that is now rich with political intrigue.

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