OBAMA AND ISRAEL

Obama and Israel (NY Sun)
New York Republicans, according to an article in the New York Post yesterday, are preparing to attack Senator Obama for his supposed lack of support for Israel. "Obama's commitment to Israel is open to question, and that would help us with Jews," the Post quotes a "prominent New York Republican" as saying. We're no shills for Mr. Obama, but these Republicans haven't checked their facts. At least by our lights, Mr. Obama's commitment to Israel, as he has articulated it so far in his campaign, is quite moving and a tribute to the broad, bipartisan support that the Jewish state has in America.

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SEE ALSO: America’s Arab Vote
Parsing the U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on Mideast issues, Ghazzan Rubeiz writes in a Lebanon daily that Arab Americans should vote for Obama, the hopeful visionary. (Daily Star)