Winnie: The President was a friend of the Jews. The only “bad” thing he did for Israel was not provide loan guarantees. And America has no obligation to finance Israel. So that action was not wrong in any way. Nevertheless, America still gave Israel billions of dollars during his administration. And even if someone is a big Zionist, not giving another nation a loan guarantee isn’t the biggest aveira.
Regarding Israel not retaliating against Iraq for the scud missiles, that was a request from the US to Israel. Israel clearly could have declined and said it will exercise its natural and sovereign right of self-defense to hit back at Iraq. America couldn’t stop that. Instead Israel accepted, at its own choice, incentives (military and financial) from America for it to agree to allow the coalition forces led by the US to respond to all Iraqi attacks against it. That was Israel’s choice, one made freely that they alone are responsible for.
Regarding his not being re-elected, I would attribute that to Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy seeping away votes from Bush from many voters who would otherwise never vote for a Democrat. As far as the economy, it started picking up steam at the end of his term but it was too late for him to receive credit for it on election day.