President Barack Obama, speaking to the biggest pro-Israel group in the U.S., sought to bolster his strength among Jewish voters as he challenged Republican assertions that he’ll permit Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.“If during this political season you hear some questions regarding my administration’s support for Israel, remember that it’s not backed up by the facts,” Obama told more than 13,000 people attending the annual Washington conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“And remember that the U.S.-Israel relationship is simply too important to be distorted by partisan politics,” he said.
Obama won in 2008 with 78 percent support from Jewish voters, according to national exit polls. Democrat Obama’s campaign is seeking to maintain that support in swing states with large Jewish populations, including Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Nevada.
As president, Obama’s had public disagreements with the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who visits the White House for meetings with Obama today, about issues such as limiting Jewish settlement construction in Palestinian areas and as to when a strike might be needed to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. The discord has given Republicans a chance to appeal to Jewish voters and spotlight foreign policy and national security, a traditional strength of their party.
Iranian Nuclear Weapons
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, speaking yesterday in Snellville, Georgia, said Obama’s reelection would lead to Iran having a nuclear weapon. “It’s pretty straightforward,” Romney told more than 1,000 voters in a high school cafeteria. “If Barack Obama gets re-elected, Iran will have a nuclear weapon, and the world will change.”
“This is a president who has failed to put in place crippling sanctions against Iran,” Romney said. “He’s also failed to communicate that military options are on the table and, in fact, in our hand, and that it’s unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized Obama’s Iran policy as ineffective.
“We’ve had no evidence that the president is prepared to take steps to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” Gingrich said on CNN’s “State of the Union” show yesterday. “They talk and the Iranians build. They talk and the Iranians build. And we’re being played for fools.”
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, in Memphis, Tennessee, said yesterday Obama isn’t “doing very much” to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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