Hillary Clinton needs Sheldon Adelson’s money, and Adelson needs a reliable supporter of Israel. That’s why he is passing on the Republican field and, terrified of Donald Trump, is surely interested in Clinton

The press is focused on Sheldon Adelson’s failure to publicly commit to a Republican candidate this year. Speculation is he wants to see if Marco Rubio can win a primary, that his wife likes Ted Cruz, and that he’s already secretly giving money to a Rubio-favoring PAC. But don’t count Donald Trump out. He also courts Adelson with pro-Israel rant on Hannity’s radio show.

The percentage of Americans holding a favorable view of Israel has dropped by 16 points in two years; Donald Trump surely senses this in his avowedly-neutral comments on the conflict, which set him up to run against the Israel lobby in its support for Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton

Mort Zuckerman’s opposition to the Iran Deal was an expression of the “Coffee Party,” Haim Saban wrote to Hillary Clinton in an unclassified email, in a reference to neoconservatives. But Saban is just as strong as Zuckerman on Israel. Why aren’t the media exploring these differences?

Steven Salaita was smeared as anti-Semitic for saying that Zionism is pervasive in the establishment, but his point is proven by the anger from leading law firm Milbank, Tweed at Harvard Law School for giving $500 of its gift to a Palestinian solidarity group, resulting in the withdrawal of the entire gift

Bernie Sanders could make political hay by pointing out the many occasions Hillary Clinton has criticized Obama foreign policy, on ground forces in Syria, on her bellicose comments about Iran, and in her embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu. He could articulate a populist foreign policy. But he’s been reluctant to do so so far.

In 2009, Mike Allen of Politico held an unseemly “secret contest” with White House and State Deparment officials to name the foreign policy column at the publication. Three of those officials have gone on to form a consulting group that sells neoconservative-lite ideas about US policy

Why did a freshman senator with so little seasoning rise as a plausible presidential candidate? Marco Rubio has the backing of the rightwing Israel lobby, and is said to be in contention for Sheldon Adelson’s millions.

Hat’s off to Thomas Friedman. The New York Times columnist states what the New York Times news reporters failed to report to America (notably Jodi Rudoren, the former Jerusalem bureau chief) and that we have reported: The two state solution is over, there will never be a Palestinian state, let us move on to the one state reality.

Hillary Clinton has sided with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over President Obama and even her own husband’s policies. Marco Rubio has also kissed up to the Israeli PM. That’s the definition of being an Establishment favorite these days.