Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Comments on Israel's poor decision to back Mitt Romney
Before the past election, in which President Obama had a widespread victory, Israel decided to back Mitt Romney. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but this seems a very poor decision given the widespread support of Obama leading up to the election. Binyamin Netanyahu seemed to have nothing but good things to say about the US and the president before this election, due to our close alliance with training of military personnel to financial aid. However, there may be some backlash for Israel due to this betrayal. I don't know how Mr. Netanyahu thought he could get away with backing the candidate with lower support, knowing he had blown most of his campaign money early on and was liable to gain much more. This seems like an obvious error, and Israel may have to pay for his mistakes. It may be time for Israel to start getting some more sensible leadership who will stay away from backing one candidate or another and jeopardizing their friendship with the United States.
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What many in the united states fail to understand is that the leaders of foreign governments do not in fact represent 100% of that country. Israel is no exception. Most leaders in a parliamentary system are only Voted in with a plurality of the vote, and their party bands together with like minded parties to make a majority Coalition. So in fact, there are many Israelis who do not support Netanyahu, and do not think he knows what is best for Israel. If Netanyahu endorses a candidate, that in no way means that Israel is behind that candidate.
ReplyDeleteYes, but Netanyahu still represents Israel's views, as he is one of their top elected officials, and he needs to be more wise with his endorsements. Also,I think Netanyahu made a bad decision based on his longtime friendship with Romney. And if Netanyahu really had the best interests of Israel at heart, you would think he would ignore this and concentrate on backing the candidate that had supported Israel as an ally for his entire time in office.
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