Tel Aviv University has conducted a poll of Israeli Jews regarding their preference in the presidential election:
Israeli Jews overwhelmingly want President George W. Bush to beat his Democrat challenger John Kerry in the US presidential election on November 2, according to an opinion poll.
A total of 49 percent of people questioned said they preferred Bush, with just 18 percent wanting Kerry to win.
Kerry was for Jimmy Carter before he was against him. He was against the fence before he was for it. He has never spoken to Ariel Sharon. He met with Arafat after 9/11 — more than one year after Arafat rejected the Clinton parameters for peace, after the Karine-A capture, in the midst of Arafat’s current war, at a time when Bush was refusing to meet Arafat.
He thinks Taba is the key to peace. He says he knows how to move to peace but declines to “lay it all out.” He says his record on Israel is “100 percent,” when it demonstrably is not. He dodged questions about whether he supported Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s leader.
He dismissed George Bush’s landmark June 24, 2002 speech as a “step for the sake of a step.” He now “completely” supports Bush’s position on Israel, and his supporters argue there is no difference between him and Bush when it comes to Israel.
Israelis seem to disagree.