I'll do a little digging too, but I can answer at least one aspect of your post - the 'Jewish lobby' does support the Democrats to a larger extent than it does the Republicans (as surprising as that might seem).
Last time I looked, they were the second largest contributor of campaign funds to the Democrat party, only behind organised labour. A quite astonishing figure by all accounts.
I get the feeling that the Democrats do seem to follow a less explicit pro-Israeli policy than I've seen in my few years from the Republicans, but perhaps that's why they need so much money? They need more effort to keep them sweet
As for secret deals with the Palestinians at the UN today or yesterday - be sceptical. Firstly because everyone important at the UN is currently wintering in Montreal discussing climate change in a big summit.
Secondly because pro-Palestinian motions tend to be implicitly anti-Israel, they always get vetoed by the US - thus the UN is an unlikely vehicle by which to affect any sort of change to the status quo in the Middle-East.
Finally, the idea that they would put a map up on the wall that was suspiciously missing Israel just seems a bit
too much like ammunition for me. Reminds me of that Target chain-email that we had a little while back.
A further note as well - I really doubt that the Democrats look to the UN for policies as he implies. To be sure, they would certainly take it into consideration more than the current Republicans but the idea that the Democrats follow the trends of opinion in the UN seems a little far-fetched and a bit like Republican banter [img]tongue.gif[/img]
For those that don't know who he is, a search pulled up
this.