The Big Difference Between Obama and McCain re: Israel

Lots of "scare" posts and letters are being distributed against Barack Obama insinuating that he'd be much worse for Israel than John McCain. I wonder.

My gut reaction is that they're all the same.

Both McCain and Obama have appointed a special Jewish advisor. McCain has the veteran politician, Democrat-Independent Joe Lieberman, and Obama has United States diplomat and former US Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer.
Kurtzer and Lieberman are both Torah observant Jews who consider themselves Americans first. I've been researching their positions and can only say that they really are just the same in terms of their Israel policy.

The big difference between the two is more in terms of their careers. Daniel Kurtzer is a career diplomat and Joe Lieberman is a politician, even running as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. Also, Lieberman seems more a "policy purist" and did something very unusual for an American politician. He changed party allegiance. After decades in the Democratic Party, he became an Independent and now supports Republican McCain.

None of this can predict the future. But one important thing must be remembered, never forgotten. American politicians never waver on their determination to only do what's best for America in their eyes. They don't go around asking opinions of other countries nor expect others to defend them.

Israel and all Israelis must remember that.

McCain Sans Lieberman Would Be Better For Israel

John McCain, the US Republican Presidential front-runner is already in Israel. He has the nomination already sewn up, which gives him the leisure to travel/campaign abroad as he campaigns for the US Presidency. The Democrats, on the other hand, will be fighting tooth and well-polished nail until their party's national convention. It's a political Murphy sense of humor. The ironic first serious female candidate vs the first serious black one. If someone had written such a screenplay in the 1950's or 1960's, it would have been almost Science Fiction.

But back to McCain, who is as different from Hillary and Obama as a politician can be.

As a strong, experienced US Army veteran, I have no doubt that his gut reaction is good when it comes to Israel. My problem is more with his staff and supporters, especially Joe Lieberman, failed VP nominee, formerly Democrat, now Independent, who sounds Republican, at least most of the time. Yes, Lieberman is not only Jewish, he's the most prominent Jewish Sabbath observer in the United States. When he ran for Vice President, Al Gore proudly reminisced that he had been Lieberman's "Shabbos goy."

Lieberman is a Leftist when it comes to Israel. He supports and strong United States, which is why he likes McCain, but he's one of those in LaLa Land about the Arab danger to Israel.

McCain's trust in Lieberman about Israel's security just strengthens Peres et al.