Daniel Pipes tempers his usual fevers— "How deep runs Obama's antipathy toward the Jewish state?" he asks, in a column that paints the Democratic left as "anti-Zionist" (I wish)– with an awakening or two:
Democrats cooled[toward Israel] in the post-Cold War period (after 1991), when many came to see it as an "apartheid" state that destabilizes the Middle East and impedes U.S. policies there….[Following the Netanyahu/Obama meeting] even a lack of progress toward a Palestinian state can prompt a crisis,
while an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear infrastructure contrary
to Obama's wishes might cause him to terminate the bond begun by Harry Truman, enhanced by John Kennedy, and solidified by Bill Clinton.
Solidified by Clinton: a Democrat, the most philosemitic president in history, who watched the settlements double. Pipes even mentions the lobby here. Thanks to Antony Loewenstein for the headsup.
