Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s planned visit to Israel in July 2012 will underscore his appreciation of Israel’s enhanced strategic importance. Israel’s unique contribution to American national security is all the more obvious against the backdrop of the increasingly violent, fragmented, unpredictable and unreliable, seismic “Arab street”; the intensifying threats posed to U.S. economic and national security interests by radical Islam and a nuclear Iran; the withdrawal of the U.S. from Iraq and Afghanistan; Russia's and China's rising status in the Middle East; and cuts in the U.S. defense budget.
In addition, Governor Romney’s visit to Israel will reaffirm the critical role played by the Jewish vote in the November presidential and congressional elections. More
