A lot has been published on Bush so-called "pro-Israel" policies. In the last few days attention has gone to
Charles Krauthammer's column in the Washington Post on Kerry's "rejoining the international community", in an attempt to paint Kerry as a president that would give up Israel. Bush pro-Israel, Kerry anti-Israel, to put it in a black and white Bushist simplism.
Now reality. If we concentrate on Bush as a friend of the Jewish state, evidence shows us that the opposite is true. Bush "pro-Israel" policies have been to a large extent counterproductive, to say the least.
Jay Michaelson points this out in a
column on Jewsweek. Bush is a president who has dangerously been blinded by oil power, by religious ideology and by his friends of the Saudi royal family.
Texan Bush has made America more oil-dependent, has by going to war in Iraq caused a growing resentment against America (as shown in recent polls in Europe) and its ally Israel, has made Israel into an international pariah and has diverted attention away from Israel's real enemies, most of all world's next nuclear power Iran. Add to this that Bush has created a vacuum in Iraq in which Islamic fundamentalism is flourishing.
Do you feel safer and more secure in the USA? Well, I am in Israel and I don't.