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Despite having brokered Israel’ s first-ever peace treaty with an Arab state, Carter’ s hostile relations with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, exemplified by the American vote for a U.N. Security Council resolu- tion critical of Israel just weeks before the election, were seen as playing a major role in Carter’ s loss of Jewish support. Four years later, Sen. Charles Percy, a moderate Illinois Republican, lost in an upset to Democratic Rep. Paul Simon in part because Percy had pushed hard for the sale of advanced radar aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Illinois Jews were seen as key to handing the seat to Simon. Of course, there are Jews who clearly do rank Israel highly — and some of them have a lot of money. Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who gave mil- lions to Republicans in the 2016 election cycle, has said Israel is his principal policy concern. So has Haim Saban, the Israeli- American entertainment mogul and major donor to Democrats, who has said that he cannot support Sanders in part because of differences over Israel. And in swing states with a substantial Jewish popula- tion — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and Florida, among them — even the relatively small percentage of Jews who consider Israel first can be enough to determine the out- come in a close election. Political action committees associated with partisan Jewish groups are set to spend big to promote their message to Jewish voters in those states. The Republican Jewish Coalition’ s PAC has said it will spend $10 million, and the Jewish Democratic Council of America is ready to spend at least $1 million. A spokeswoman for the Democratic Majority for Israel, the pro-Israel Democratic group launched earlier this year, said it is prepared to spend “millions” to elect pro- Israel Democrats. continued from page 8 online comments Our Facebook followers reacted to the JTA story posted on thejewishnews. com, “ Attorney General Decides Netanyahu Does Not Have to Resign as Prime Minister.” Ruthe Levy: Wrong decision! Leslee Wallach: What is wrong with our world where criminality and corruption are condoned, almost worshipped? Michael Davidson: The indictments against Benjamin Netanyahu are part of a political witch hunt, very similar to what’ s been happening to Donald Trump. God bless Bibi, and may he continue for many years as prime minister of Israel. At thejewishnews.com, we had a comment to the JN editorial “ Addressing Wayne State’ s Board Dysfunction. ” Kim Trent, Chair, Wayne State University Board: I totally agree with this editorial. Every board member should be completely focused on his or her obligation to forward the university’ s mission and protect its brand and accreditation. I stand ready at any time to work to bridge any artificial divide on our board. Our love for the university should bring the board together. The Jewish News welcomes feedback from our readers. Send a letter (300 words or fewer) to letters@renmedia. us and include your na me and city, or comment on thejewishnews.com or on our Facebook page. Correction: In “It’ s a Floyd!” (Dec. 12, page 48), Kyle Hoff’ s last name was misspelled. The JN regrets the error.