THERE’S A GOOD REASON THAT MAINSTREAM JEWS ARE DEMOCRATS

...The Jewish billionaire casino magnate, Sheldon Adelson

Most American Jews are not fooled by the far-right Republican Jewish Coalition.

First, let me make it clear that I am not of the Jewish faith, nor do I have any negative issues with American Jews.  However,  I do have an interest in following the Jewish billionaire casino magnate, Sheldon Adelson, and his efforts for getting the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) donors out of the Democratic Party, (where they have been for decades), and into the Republican Party.

Today, the center of Adelson’s efforts seems to be for supporting the RJC’s harsh, far-right positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to continue questioning the Obama Iranian nuclear deal.

The focus today with Adelson is the current competition within the GOP for the so called “Adelson Primary”.  This is the unofficial name given to the political competition for obtaining financial support from Sheldon Adelson. Politico has reported that the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has “reached out to Adelson more often than any other 2016 Republican candidate,” even more than the Junior Texas Senator, Ted Cruz.  Also that the casino magnate views Rubio as the “future of the Republican Party.”

But no matter how hard the RJC tries, only a handful of the hard-right Jewish billionaires are as hawkish as Adelson or those in the RJC.  The RJC today doesn't offer any support for the wider agenda that most American Jews actually vote for, which has always tended to be politically more progressive.  The polls have found that 80% of American Jewish voters want Israel to suspend settlement construction in the West Bank or outside core settlement blocs, and 84% supported the outlines of the Obama Iranian nuclear deal being negotiated.

The advocacy organization named “J Street” did exit polling during the 2014 election that found only 8% of American Jews were in support of the far-right issues. The issues that mattered most to this more progressive group of Jews were the economy @ 44%, healthcare @ 31% and Social Security and Medicare @ 20%.

The views of American Jews as a whole are much more moderate than the hawkish positions that the RJC promotes.

The reality is that the American Jewish community simply is not interested in maintaining a hard-right Israel policy. The story goes that this is what motivated Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, to recently start a super PAC called Bend The Arc.  This new PAC focuses on traditional Jewish values such as the alleviating of poverty, protecting the environment, and it never mentions Israel.

So, what does all this mean for billionaire Adelson and the GOP in 2016? 

Apparently, regardless of all the money that Adelson spends on the 2016 elections, it is appearing that it will again all be spent in vain.  This is just as it was with the millions that Adelson spent on the 2012 elections.  Unless there is a serious change in what the mainstream Jewish community supports, Adelson will once again just be throwing his money down the drain in trying to make the American Jewish community into something they do not want it to be.

Let’s hope that the status quo with the American Jewish community continues on the path of reasonableness that it is on today.

Copyright G.Ater  2015