A reader writes:
You link this morning to a piece about Haim Saban. Saban was, from the beginning of the 2008 cycle, a Clinton donor who was over and over extremely critical of Obama (also he is not merely a Jew, but an Israeli with a certain political profile). He may have come around at the end but there was no love there to begin with. And you can see that those loudly attacking Obama are the usual left-Israel hawks who always take the Likud maximalist position–Dershowitz, Koch, etc.
I would ask that you take this story with a grain of salt.
It is in reality a Republican line of PR right now, so unless in a few months we see the number of Jewish supporters drop precipitously we have NO idea what is really going on in the background except for the stories being shopped by the WSJ and Commentary about Obama's Jewish doom. Really, you're repeating these stories without skepticism when there is an agenda there? Why not write about the countless Jews who after seeing Netanyahu insult their president on US soil are actually more and more supportive of a Palestinian state than they were before. While this is anecdotal I can tell you that people of my generation–30-45–are disgusted and ready to throw in the towel on Israel, and I'm a hard-core Zionist who lived in Israel, speaks Hebrew and lost friends to terrorist attacks.
Connie Bruck's New Yorker profile of Saban is also worth revisiting.
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