The Jewish political leadership in the U.S. grows ever more conservative, so as to protect Israel from any criticism. From the Jerusalem Post:
[M]ore important, he [an American Jewish leadership official, anonymous] maintained, was that US
President Barack Obama was squarely behind a peace deal. His early
moves appointing George Mitchell as a Middle East envoy and reaching
out to the Arab world "reverberated in the region, but it also
reverberated on Capitol Hill," where members of Congress "feel more
emboldened" to speak out on the issue.
the American political system. She pointed to gerrymandering which has
increasingly made seats "safe" for Republicans or Democrats, meaning
that the real fight for them takes place in the primaries, where party
views are more extreme.
"You see that we have more of these very liberal members of
Congress," she said. "You have people who are now in Congress who don't
feel accountable to voters of a wider political spectrum, and that's
bad for Israel, because support for Israel is much stronger among
centrists and conservatives than among liberals."
