The speech could also give Joe Biden political cover if he feels that he needs to withdraw diplomatic, financial or military support from Netanyahu.
Already a subscriber?Something momentous just surfaced in the evolving relationship between the US and Israel: a credible attempt to reintroduce nuance into one of the many debates corrupted by hyper-partisan polarisation in both countries.
“has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel”. That view, as it happens, is shared by many Israelis, American Jews and other Americans, including me.Not by Netanyahu, of course, who feigned indignation at such US interference and demonstratively reminded Schumer that Israel is “not a Banana Republic”. On cue, Republicans in the US Senate and House lined up behind Netanyahu and against Schumer.
In recent decades, however, the American left and right have diverged on Israel. On the evangelical fringe of the Republican Party, Christian Zionism took hold. It views the return of the Jews to Israel – including the West Bank under its biblical names Judea and Samaria – as prologue to the Second Coming of Christ and the end of time.
In response, a group of smaller lobbies this month formed an alliance called Reject AIPAC. Its goal is to spend money in the other direction, for candidates that AIPAC is opposing. Usamah Andrabi, one of Reject AIPAC’s spokespeople, told me that AIPAC is the new National Rifle Association – another once-palatable interest group that’s morphed into a hyper-partisan attack machine.
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