Michael Wolff reaches the obvious conclusion, at Newser:
Cutting off Israel is probably more politically doable now than at any time in the last 50 or 60 years. There is the progressive muddying of Israeli virtue, the aging out of Israel’s support base in the US, and the growing political consensus that Israel has become one hell of an intractable geo-political pain in the ass.
And it is as logical: how else do you bend some of the most unbendable people this side of the Arab world?…
Our leverage in the region is with Israel. Our vast and continued support means we are in a position to influence to a greater and lesser degree Israeli behavior…
Arguably, the undoing of our support for Israel has already begun (the Obama administration’s frustration and disapproval has been obvious) and Israel’s overreaction in the case of the flotilla is as much a threatening gesture toward us as it is toward the world’s blockade breakers.
It’s been a new subtext, but soon it may be a new chapter. Our next move—in a sense the only one we’ve got—is the obvious one, the one that dare not say its name, until now: Cut ’em loose.
