Obama and Jews

Nobody can gainsay the proposition that the Jewish lobby wields preponderant role in America's political calculus. Needless to say, it has the cheek enough to tip the scales in the favour of the candidate of its liking in the race for the most powerful job on the planet. If the track-record is anything to go by, it is safe to say that it can massage the election results to the extent of roping the presidential hopeful into doing its bidding and acquiescing in policies aligned to those of Israel. All this is not without any rhyme or reason. The Israeli lobby with its stranglehold over the US financial institutions, media, numerous think tanks and government agencies, not only dictates the US foreign policy but also determines who gets to rule America.
True to form, Obama is also straining at the leash to garner the influential votes of this all-powerful lobby. With this end in view, he is going to the ends of the earth to tickle the fancy of this lobby. He has turned to the Jewish-Zionist society to reassure them that Israel's security is sacrosanct. Over and over again, in his foreign policy speeches Obama has talked about America's duty to ward off the Jewish state against its enemies.
He has over-egged the pudding by heaping scorn on anti-Israel statements pronounced by Lovis Farrakhan, the anti-Israel Chairman of the Nation of Islam. As Israel dubs Iran's nuclear programme as the monstrous threat to it, so Obama has articulated that he does not believe that diplomacy above can deter Iran from going nuclear and that there could be a need for stick to bring Iran to heels. But on having mature reflection, the writer is of the viewpoint that despite bending over backwards to curry favour with the Jewish lobby and pander to its wishes, many Jews would not vote for Obama as they cast doubts on his intentions and policies towards Israel's security. The why and the wherefore for this is that Obama has fulminated against the war on Iraq and spelled out the strategy of withdrawing US troops from there and rolling out talks with Iran and Syria.