Israeli Defense Forces Major General Laughs: "We Israelis, we are sure that we're the center of the world; it's natural that candidates are coming to Israel. And we like it."

In a recent corporate news article about Scott Walker's trip to Israel, several Israeli leaders gave some very revealing quotes regarding the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.
Gerald Steinberg, an American born Israeli professor said that Obama and Democrats are seen as "isolationists" by Israelis.
Dani Dayan, an Israeli settler leader, was quoted as saying "people on the right in Israel feel favorable toward Rubio and, to a certain extent, Bush." He added "We definitely can live with a Clinton administration."
Uzi Dayan, a major general in the Israel Defense Forces who toured Israel with Walker, was quoted as laughing: "We Israelis, we are sure that we're the center of the world.. From our point of view, it's natural that candidates are coming to Israel. And we like it because we think it's very important for us and in a way we think that Israel is a strategic asset."
Excerpt from Buzzfeed:

Uzi Dayan, a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and the nephew of legendary Israeli general Moshe Dayan, spent Tuesday with Walker on the helicopter jaunt. ... "The United States is huge for Israelis. It's the sun out there, you can't ignore it for better or for worse," said Gerald Steinberg, an American-born political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and head of the pro-Israel group NGO Monitor. He is seen as sympathetic to Netanyahu's thinking.
"There's a real division in terms of Netanyahu's embrace of Romney and how deeply Israeli officials should get involved in the American political process,- Steinberg said. "There's a strong view that Netanyahu got too close to Romney, and Romney didn't win - There is a tendency to say, "Let's pull back on this."
... "This generation, Obama in particular and people around him, most of the Democrats in Congress are seen here as isolationists or naive or both," Steinberg said. "The view of the world is hopelessly unrealistic. And Republicans tend to be more realists. They understand power."
[Secretary of State John] Kerry certainly has no grasp of how the world works, is completely lost in the Middle East" you can quote me on that," Steinberg said. "That is the general Israeli view, even among Israelis who are center-left."

Skepticism over the Iran deal specifically is widely shared in Israel, between both the government and the opposition. However, some on the left in Israel are uncomfortable with what they see as Netanyahu's fanning the flames of increasing partisanship over Israel in the United States. ... Dani Dayan, too, doesn't like the fact that Israel is becoming a partisan issue in the United States, he says, and on his trips there he reaches out to both moderate Republicans and Democrats " with more success among the Republicans.
"We do know that there might be a very big difference between different candidates,' Uzi Dayan said. "It's not a big national secret that people in Israel are not thrilled by Obama and by the American policy in this region."
"We can live with a Clinton administration," Dani Dayan said. "We definitely can live with a Clinton administration."
"We Israelis, we are sure that we're the center of the world," Uzi Dayan said with a laugh. "From our point of view, it's natural that candidates are coming to Israel. And we like it because we think it's very important for us and in a way we think that Israel is a strategic asset. The relations between the United States and Israel are a strategic asset for both sides."
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