These polls would be more meaningful, if respondents were required to locate Israel on the map.
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These polls would be more meaningful, if respondents were required to locate Israel on the map.
What's sad is that there are probably a fair share who couldn't locate Canada on map
"Study astronomy and physics if you desire to comprehend the relation between the world and G-d's management of it." - RaMBaM (Maimonides), Guide For The Perplexed
Obama has done a reasonable job to date for someone with little experience.
McCain and Palin would have handled matters differently, but there is no proof that their results would have been better, as they were very close to George Bush and his methods. There is a huge problem with anyone who thinks that "outsourcing" is good for America.
America at this time is in terrible trouble, far worse than in 2002 or so.
There will be no significant Democratic opposition to Obama. Mr. Obama is far from the best President we could have, but he is all we have right now. Many possible 2012 candidates are untried and untested. Obama is a known quantity. It is better to deal with the devil you know than the one you do not. I did not vote for Obama in 2008, but these days I see him as much more palatable than the Republican candidates. They seem only to care about rich people these days, and some are just threatening, with very stark anti-Muslim bias, such as shown by Mr. Herman Cain. It is sad that the Republicans these days are such a far cry from the ones of the heyday of Ronald Reagan.
It is, I agree, dangerous to Israel to rely too much on the United States. To do so threatens Israel with stagnation and a lack of innovation. The public here in America is also fickle. If this economic rot goes deep enough, you will see America's foreign aid dwindle away as there will be a huge taxpayer revolt against giving aid to anyone. At this time a double-dip recession is very likely.
As for Obama, he is not anti-Jewish, but not pro-Muslim either. He does, however, show that America is changing demographically. The new ethnic groups that are coming to power in this country will not have the same viewpoints on Israel as the old ones did. Whether they will be friendly or not to Israel or the Arabs is anyone's guess. The largest ones will be East Asian and Hispanic by origin. These have no significant modern psychological connection to either Arabs or Jews. Hispanics had a historic connection to both but history is not studied by Americans these days except for an eccentric few and those in academia. Their future viewpoint toward Middle Eastern affairs is anyone's guess.
This American demographic change is written in the wind now. People need to get used to it.
Does something about this statement worry any of you? It terrifies me. The fact that we are being dictated to by foreigners in our own countries. People who have different values and do not have a history of democracy. Our own liberalism has made us vulnerable and the weak must move over for the strong.The new ethnic groups that are coming to power in this country will not have the same viewpoints on Israel as the old ones did. Whether they will be friendly or not to Israel or the Arabs is anyone's guess. The largest ones will be East Asian and Hispanic by origin. These have no significant modern psychological connection to either Arabs or Jews. Hispanics had a historic connection to both but history is not studied by Americans these days except for an eccentric few and those in academia.
As for Obama's "achievements", they are very accurately described here.
As for the rest, the most important thing, as far as Israel is concerned, is not so much the coming to power of "new ethnic groups" in the US but the direction that Israel herself is going to take. The "significant psychological connection" of non-Jewish Americans to Israel is not due to ethnic or historical reasons but a shared system of values. Moreover, India and China have no more traditional "psychological connections" to the Jews than American Asians or Hispanics have, yet the relations of both of these countries with Israel are flourishing as never before. In fact, some polls show Indian public opinion as being even more pro-Israel than the US one. Having common enemies accounts only for a part of this and does not account for the increasingly pro-Israeli views of the Chinese. Some of the reasons for this are mentioned here in connection with South Korea, others are simply the fact that Israel is now an advanced modern state, with leading edge science and technology which has increasingly more to offer than its enemies.
Johnvonneumann, this statement of yours shows that Israel is becoming more influential in world affairs, and also more accepted as a nation. Naturally it will seek to cultivate relations with strong polities.
It is almost as if Israel is returning to the position it once held under Solomon, where it was esteemed by many and even admired by those who were present, or former, enemies.
India and China are also in a historic revival. During the last 22 centuries, the Chinese region (even when China was not unified) was for 20 centuries the most powerful economy in the world. The last two centuries when China was weak were an anomaly. China is returning to its natural and historic place in the world. Likewise, during periods of geographical unity, India has been dominant in the affairs of South Asia, and whether India's rulers were Hindu as in Asoka's day, or Muslim, did not matter as much in the larger geographic context.
These are the people the quartet expects us to negotiate with?
source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=229493Only one in three Palestinians (34 percent) accepts two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an intensive, face-to-face survey in Arabic of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip completed this week by American pollster Stanley Greenberg...
Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians’ real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state.
Asked about the fate of Jerusalem, 92% said it should be the capital of Palestine, 1% said the capital of Israel, 3% the capital of both, and 4% a neutral international city....
Respondents were asked about US President Barack Obama’s statement that “there should be two states: Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people and Israel as the homeland for the Jewish people.”
Just 34% said they accepted that concept, while 61% rejected it.
Sixty-six percent said the Palestinians’ real goal should be to start with a two-state solution but then move to it all being one Palestinian state.
Asked about the fate of Jerusalem, 92% said it should be the capital of Palestine, 1% said the capital of Israel, 3% the capital of both, and 4% a neutral international city.
Seventy-two percent backed denying the thousands of years of Jewish history in Jerusalem, 62% supported kidnapping IDF soldiers and holding them hostage, and 53% were in favor or teaching songs about hating Jews in Palestinian schools.
When given a quote from the Hamas Charter about the need for battalions from the Arab and Islamic world to defeat the Jews, 80% agreed. Seventy-three percent agreed with a quote from the charter (and a hadith, or tradition ascribed to the prophet Muhammad) about the need to kill Jews hiding behind stones and trees.
But only 45% said they believed in the charter’s statement that the only solution to the Palestinian problem was jihad.
The survey’s more positive findings included that only 22% supported firing rockets at Israeli cities and citizens and that two-thirds preferred diplomatic engagement over violent “resistance.”
Among Palestinians in general 65% preferred talks and 20% violence. In the West Bank it was 69-28%, and in Gaza, 59- 32%.
Asked whether they backed seeking a Palestinian state unilaterally in the UN, 64% said yes. The number was 57% in the West Bank and 79% in Gaza. Thirty-seven percent said the UN action would bring a Palestinian state closer, 16% said it would set back the establishment of a state, and 44% said it would make no difference.
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither, let my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy." (Ps. 137: 5-7)"
"Any generation in which the Temple is not built, it is as if it had been destroyed in their times" (Yerushalmi, Yoma 1a).
The Palestinians need an Arab Spring from their Hamas and PA oppressors.
source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...244044,00.htmlA poll recently published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) reveals that the majority of Palestinian Arabs believe their government is corrupt, that there is no freedom of press under the Palestinian Authority and that Arabs living under Palestinian rule cannot freely criticize the PA without fear of retribution.
The poll was conducted separately among Arabs living in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. A total of 72.9% answered that there is corruption in PA institutions under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas. Some 61% said there is corruption in PA institutions under the control of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip...
"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither, let my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy." (Ps. 137: 5-7)"
"Any generation in which the Temple is not built, it is as if it had been destroyed in their times" (Yerushalmi, Yoma 1a).
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