Opinion: Trump and Netanyahu are pushing American Jews to the left on Israel (via latimesopinion)
Such a policy can mean providing Israel with the security to take risks in peacemaking, as was the case with President Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak during the Oslo talks and with President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. But with Trump and Netanyahu, this “no daylight” claim has been politically divisive in both countries.
The public emergence of this middle ground on American-Israel relations could be seen at the annual conference last month of J Street, the progressive pro-Israel lobby that is a competitor to the center-right behemoth, AIPAC. Recent polling shows that Democrats as a whole and Jews specifically are separating opposition to Netanyahu from their support for Israel. A survey in May by J Street of likely Democratic primary voters found that
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