“Like Blockbuster or Kodak, the American pro-Israel community has had a great run. But the Barack Obama years have broken the community’s old model”

THE FEDERALIST
Israel Supporters Need To Realize Obama Has Killed Bipartisan Support For Their Cause
by Jonathan Greenberg
December 8, 2016

…For a few decades now, Israel has enjoyed an unprecedented window of broad bipartisan support. Bolstered by a confluence of backing from, first, the still-powerful (and disproportionately Jewish) old Left that remembers Israel as the country from a Leon Uris novel and, second, the rising pro-Israel religious movement among evangelical Christians, this phenomenon was already well underway when the 9/11 attacks catapulted pro-Israel sentiment to its apogee. This window was always going to close, as all windows do. Now, with apologies to David Bowie, it’s beyond time to turn and face the strange. READ MORE

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