But Does AIPAC Want to Go to War? Or Stay at War?
Like M.J., I'm watching the AIPAC convention this week, albeit in the news, not in person--for signs of where the politicians think the Jewish vote is. That is, were the Jewish vote monolithic, which contrary to all the recent hoopla about "the Jewish vote", it isn't. but,...then again, trends do show and polls do show, that Jewish voters remain mostly liberal--and that isn't just on economic issues. it's also on international issues, even in the Middle East, perhaps especially there. Contrary to public perception, for instance, the majority of American Jews support a state for the Palestinians alongside Israel, an end to the project of Jewish settlement on the West Bank, and, increasingly, an end to the war in Iraq. That's what VP Cheney discovered when he went to speak to AIPAC today in DC.
