If the Obama campaign wants to shore up pro-Israel voters they’ve got a strange way of going about it. Indeed, the past day has made it seem that the president’s reelection team are doing everything they can to distance themselves from Jewish and pro-Israel voters.
First, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed that Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren had told her that Republican policies “were dangerous for Israel.” Oren almost immediately turned around and rejected Shultz’s comments.
“I categorically deny that I ever characterized Republican policies as harmful to Israel,” Ambassador Michael Oren said in a written statement. “Bipartisan support is a paramount national interest for Israel, and we have great friends on both sides of the aisle.”
But more troubling, it now turns out that the pro-Israel advocacy organization AIPAC rejects completely the assertion that it had OK’d the Democratic Party platform’s Israel section which doesn’t include any mention of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Is this how Obama plans to win Florida? Ohio? Pennsylvania?