Joseph, I can’t speak for all or most frum Jews, I am speaking, or should I say posting based on what I remember the feeling towards Bush Sr was among the people I knew, who were neither Satmar nor MO.
I think that you are forgetting that there are more than 6 million Jews living in Israel (somewhat less than that during Bush’s days), so policies that affect Israel and its safety very much affect Jews, and I would think that a Jew in America should feel that is important whether or not he is Zionist or Anti-Zionist, supports the Medina or does not.
And the loan guarantees were not just a financial matter- (they weren’t even a request for money directly), they were used as blackmail to achieve a geopolitical purpose.
Sometimes people – or nations- agree to something because they are pressured to, and the alternative is worse, but that doesn’t mean the one putting on the pressure is exonerated.
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