HAS OBAMA ANTAGONIZED, ALIENATED THE JEWISH VOTE ?

Describing Arabs as "fecund," is not demagoguery, it is (in comparison to Western and Israeli birth rates) simply accurate.

Population Growth Rate(2008)

Total population growth rate: 1.8%[19]
During the 1990s, the Jewish population growth rate was about 3% per year, as a result of massive immigration to Israel, primarily from the republics of the former Soviet Union. There is also a high population growth rate among certain Jewish groups, especially adherents of Haredi Judaism.

The growth rate of the Arab population in Israel is 2.6%, while the growth rate of the Jewish population in Israel is 1.7%. The growth rate of both the Jewish and Arab population has slowed from 3.8% in 1999 to 2.6% in 2008 for Arab and 2.7% to 1.7% for the Jewish population. The fastest growing segment of population are Arab Muslims with the latest growth rate of 2.8% for 2008.[19]

According to research culled by Haaretz, between the mid-1980s and 2000, the birthrate in the Muslim sector was stable at 4.6-4.7 children per woman; After 2001 a gradual decline became evident, reaching 3.84 children per woman in 2008. By point of comparison, in 2008 there was a slowly rising birthrate of 2.88 children among the Jewish population.[23]

Infant Mortality 4.3 to 1000 births

Jews 3.1
Arabs 7.7

Orthodox birthrate seen saving Jewish majority in Israel



SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

WASHINGTON — The Jewish birth rate was expected to exceed that of Muslims in Israel over the next 18 years, a report said.


A study by the Washington-based American-Israel Demographic Research Group said Jewish fertility, the highest in the developed world, was rapidly approaching that of Arabs in Israel. The group, in a report entitled "Forecast for Israel 2025," projected a 79 percent Jewish majority as well as long-term population stability between Jewish-Arab population groups in Israel.

The intent of The Right of Return is not to restore some perceived birth right of a wronged people, it is to overwhelm Israelis in their own country.

Your point is?

Israelis will never accept the so-called Right of Return, nor should they. It would be national suicide of the sort Europe is currently flirting with.

You are mistaken if you think the West has coddled Israel.

Two days later, on May 14, 1948, the United States, under Truman, became the first country to extend de facto recognition to the State of Israel, 11 minutes after it unilaterally declared itself independent. With this unexpected decision, US representative to the United Nations Warren Austin, whose team had been working on an alternative trusteeship proposal, shortly thereafter left his office at the UN and went home. Secretary of State Marshall sent a State Department official to the United Nations to prevent the entire United States delegation from resigning.[14] De jure recognition came on January 31, 1949.

Following UN mediation by American Ralph Bunche, the 1949 Armistice Agreements ended the 1948 Arab Israeli War. Related to enforcement of the armistice, the United States signed the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 with Britain and France. In it, they pledged to take action within and outside the United Nations to prevent violations of the frontiers or armistice lines, and outlined their commitment to peace and stability in the area, their opposition to the use or threat of force, and reiterated their opposition to the development of an arms race in the region.

Under rapidly changing geopolitical circumstances, U.S. policy in the Middle East generally, was geared toward supporting Arab states independence, the development of oil-producing countries, preventing Soviet influence from gaining a foothold in Greece, Turkey and Iran, as well as preventing an arms race and maintaining a neutral stance in the Arab-Israeli conflict. U.S. policymakers initially used foreign aid to support these objectives.

Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961)

During these years of austerity, the United States provided Israel moderate amounts of economic aid, mostly as loans for basic food stuffs; a far greater share of state income derived from German war reparations, which were used for domestic development.

France became Israel's main arms supplier at this time and provided Israel with advanced military equipment and technology. This support was seen by Israel to counter the perceived threat from Egypt under President Gamal Abdel Nasser with respect to the "Czech arms deal" of September 1955.

Israel Allies Lobby Against U.N. Recognition Of Palestinian State

Let's face it, Jews have always had political and economical influence that is disproportionate to their actual numbers. It's how they have survived in a world bound and determined to exterminate them, and it is a reason for the animosity they have faced for centuries.

Evangelicals are, in the main, pro-Israel for religious reasons, but this doesn't mean they don't have an affinity or admiration for Israelis that is separate from Biblical influence.

Secular Leftists would like to suggest that Evangelicals only support Israel because of Biblical prophesies that require the state of Israel to presage the End of Days, and that they actually look forward to the Christ-Killers burning in hell.

Their beliefs may tell them that anyone who doesn't accept Jesus as their savior will not make it to Heaven, but anti-Semitism in America and Europe resides with the Left, not the Right.

Orthodox birthrate seen saving Jewish majority in Israel

Can a Democrat candidate survive without Jewish support ?

In the USA, most American Jews will vote for Obama in 2012, as they did in 2008.
However, I suspect that their financial contributions to Obama's campaign for re-election will be reduced.