Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again"

[The Magistrate]

42. You Do Not Seem To Have Much Understanding Of Our Politics, Sir

It is a fact most Jews support the Democratic Party, and Jewish donors ( with some conspicuous exceptions like the gambling maven Adelson ) mostly give to the Democratic Party. But this is because their views on domestic policy, on matters of social welfare and personal rights and economic and ecological matters, are best represented by Democrats, and are utterly hostile to the platform of the Republicans. If Jews voted and donated even mostly on the question of policy towards Israel, the most hard-line conservatives of the Republican party would enjoy the greatest degree of support from Jews in the United States, and manifestly they do not. Jews in the United States mostly support a two-state solution to the conflict, mostly do not support Likud and the more extreme right and Orthodox parties which make up its governing coallition, and would welcome stern steps from a U.S. government that produced progress towards a negotiated solution. It is a sad fact that the situation has so greatly deteriorated over a decade and more of rightist rule in Israel that its government cannot be presumed more interested in a negotiated peace than the leadership of Hamas today.