Israel, the 51st State? How the GOP Is Courting West Bank Settlers to Vote for Mitt Romney | World | AlterNet
"The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has partnered with an Israeli group to encourage Israelis who are American citizens--including West Bank settlers--to vote in the 2012 elections. The effort is also being promoted by a group called Republicans Abroad Israel. The partnership, and presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s plan to visit Israel in late July, makes clear that the Republicans will use President Barack Obama’s policy towards Israel as a cudgel to score political points and woo Jewish voters and donors -- though most American Jews vote Democratic. The politicking about how Obama is an “anti-Israel” president obscures the reality that Obama has not touched the sacrosanct US-Israeli alliance and has continued to lavish aid and diplomatic support to the Jewish state."
