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The Israel Factor 09.2014, Questionnaire

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July 16, 2014

1.

Please rank the performance of the US administration on the following issues from 1 (very bad) to 5 (very good). Explain the main reason for the grade you gave in one sentence:

 

Issue

Grade

Analysis

Working with the Israeli government

 

 

Dealing with the Gaza War

 

 

Balancing relations with Middle East governments

 

 

Battling ISIS in Iraq

 

 

Handling Israeli-Palestinian relations

 

 

Please rank the likelihood of the following scenarios from 1 (unlikely) to 5 (very likely):

 

Scenario

Likelihood

Obama and Netanyahu will still have good relations for the remainder of Obama's time in office

 

If Hillary Clinton becomes President in 2016 her Mideast policies will be much different from Obama's

 

The US is going to support a UN mandated evacuation date for the West Bank

 

A crisis in US-Israel relations is to be expected when the US completes its negotiations with Iran

 

2.

Two months before the next midterm elections, I'd like to repeat the questions that we asked 3 months ago:

Thinking about the 2014 midterm elections, which of the following results would be better from an Israeli viewpoint (please rank each option from 1 – very bad – to 5 – very good)?

 

Both houses of Congress under Democratic control

Both houses of Congress under GOP control

Republican House and Democratic Senate

Democratic House and Republican Senate

 

 

 

 

 

Which of the combinations would make the Netanyahu government’s life easier (please rank each option from 1 – very hard for Netanyahu to 5 – very easy for Netanyahu):

 

Both houses of Congress under Democratic control 2

Both houses of Congress under GOP control 4

Republican House and Democratic Senate 3

Democratic House and Republican Senate 3

       

 

3.

Looking ahead to 2016, please rank the following presidential candidates on a scale of 1 (very bad for Israel) to 10 (great for Israel)

     

 1-10

Candidate

 

Hillary Clinton

 

Joe Biden

 

Chris Christie

 

Marco Rubio

 

Paul Ryan

 

Jeb Bush

 

Mitt Romney

 

Janet Napolitano

 

Andrew Cuomo

 

Martin O'Malley

 

Deval Patrick

 

Cory Booker

 

Elizabeth Warren

 

Mark Warner

 

Brian Schweitzer

 

Kirsten Gillibrand

 

Rand Paul

 

Bobby Jindal

 

Susana Martinez

 

Amy Klobuschar

 

Howard Dean

 

Antonio Villaraigosa

 

Mike Pence

 

Ted Cruz

 

Rick Santorum

 

John Thune

 

Scott Walker

 

Mike Huckabee

 

Rick Perry

 

John Kasich

 

John Hickenlooper

 
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