Jews probably make up three percent of the U.S. voting public but they give campaign money like crazy. They also target disfavored candidates for defeat [consider former Congressman Paul Findley; former Senator Charles Percy; and 2002 Democratic primary races in certain predominantly-black precincts of Mississippi and Georgia].

 

Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is making sure not to be one of those targeted for defeat. At least not until the general election.

 

Possible Republican candidate Giuliani would be a virtually sure loser to Hillary Clinton, the probable Democratic candidate for President. So supporting Rudy now gives the election to the Democrats later. Does Rudy know?

 

Does Rudy care?  Probably not, since his lucrative legal practice includes representing the Spanish conglomerate that is set to own and operate the Trans-Texas corridor, leading edge of the North American Union [NAU, a.k.a. SPP].

 

Maureen Dowd is not at her funniest in the article linked below.  But she isn't short on facts.

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Maureen Dowd: Rudy Roughs up the Arabs

October 17, 2007

Excerpt: But there’s also [Giuliani's] bearhug with Israel, so hearty that even W.’s embrace seems tepid in comparison.

But Rudy seems out of the Republican mainstream on even giving lip-service to Palestinian aspirations. He has no patience for buttering up the Arabs, or the Republican men’s club attitude represented by Saudi-loving Bush senior and James Baker that has always favored a more “even-handed” policy in the Middle East.

Mr. Baker once reportedly justified the tough policy of the Bush 41 administration toward Israel with the notorious comment to a colleague: “[Expletive] the Jews. They didn’t vote for us anyway.”

W. blew off the Baker-Hamilton panel suggestions on Iraq that urged the administration to aggressively referee the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, to begin negotiations with Iran and Syria and called for Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria. Imagine what Rudy would do.

Even though he has been closer to Israel than his dad, at least W. held the Saudi crown prince’s hand in Crawford. (Bush senior and Dick Cheney were very tight with Saudi Prince Bandar. At a party at the vice president’s mansion once, I watched Bandar greet waiters like old friends.)

Rudy would probably only take the hand of an Arab leader to throw him down a ravine, or a wadi.

“We need to isolate the terror-funding theocrats in every way possible,” he told the Jewish hawks, during a rant on Iran. “And we must end direct and indirect investment until they change their course.” [more]