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Obama presents Egypt and Israel a plan for a two-state solution Jun 09 09 France criticizes Netanyahu for declaring Jerusalem Israel's undivided... May 23 09 Latest News ArticlesIsrael cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Army admits Gaza girl killed by soldiers' fire 05:22 Fri 03 Jul Hamas denies it planned to assassinate P.A figures in the West Bank 04:58 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryIsraelis cheer record number of Jewish legislators in US Friday November 21, 2008 09:58 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
 A number of editorials in Israeli newspapers over the last two weeks have celebrated the fact that the November 5th elections resulted in a record number of Jewish legislators elected to the U.S. Congress. According to the Jerusalem Post, there are now 45 Jewish legislators serving in the US Congress – 32 Congressmembers and 13 Senators.
Jewish legislators have traditionally been strong supporters of the Jewish state, but with the growing movement for Palestinian rights within the Jewish community, analysts report that the traditional uncritical support for Israel may be shifting.
As Israeli commentator Eitan Haber wrote in an op-ed in the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahranoth, “American Jewry is not what it used to be when it comes to its attachment to Israel, and the generation of the children and grandchildren no longer blindly follows Israel’s leadership, its speeches and demands.”
But what the record number of Jewish legislators may actually mean for the Israel-Palestine conflict remains to be seen. |
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