NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn't on the ballot for Israel's national election, yet he's a dominant factor for many American Jews as they assess the high stakes of Tuesday's balloting.
At its core, the election is a judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has won the post four times but now faces corruption charges. In his battle for political survival, Netanyahu has aligned closely with Trump — a troubling tactic for the roughly 75% of American Jewish voters who lean Democratic.
"It's troubling," said Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America."The U.S.-Israel relationship should not be about any two leaders or any two parties. The American Jewish community wants the relationship to remain on a bipartisan basis." New York-based journalist Jane Eisner, former editor of The Forward, a Jewish newspaper, said many American Jews have"Netanyahu fatigue" — even some who supported him in past.
"There is a sense of fatigue having one leader for 10 years," Rosen said."Just as we've had Clinton fatigue and Bush fatigue." "Cordial relations are essential," wrote Yoffie, president emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism."But the sycophantic buddy movie that Bibi has produced with America's unbalanced and unpredictable president is something else altogether ... Bibi's egregious and unnecessary embrace of everything Trump will cost Israel dearly."
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