Netanyahu alliance with GOP deep-rooted, reveals historian Medoff

Playing off Republicans against Democrats in U.S. Presidential election campaigns in order to advance a Zionist cause is a gambit first employed at a Republican National Convention 68 years ago by a man called Netanyahu - Benzion Netanyahu.

In an article published recently in the Los Angeles Times entitled “The Jewish vote as a Factor in U.S. Politics” Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, recounts the efforts of the late father of the current Israeli prime minister to use the 1944 Republican Convention in Chicago as a means of pressuring Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration to oppose British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine and to increase its own efforts to help Jewish refugees escaping from Europe.

Medoff portrays this premeditated playing off of Republicans against Democrats as a watershed event for the American Jewish community. “This was the beginning of the "Jewish vote" as a factor in U.S. presidential politics. For the first time, both parties recognized that Jewish votes might be up for grabs, and that Jewish concerns needed to be addressed to attract the support of Jewish voters,” he writes....