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The pro-Israel political consensus is collapsing in both parties

The U.S. alliance with Israel has gone from a bipartisan consensus to a subject of fierce debate among Republicans and Democrats alike. The remaining strong pro-Israel constituency is over-50 Republicans. The House Republican most outspoken against aid to Israel is Thomas Massie – AIPAC’s super PAC & a group affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition, funded by megadonor Miriam Adelson, are waging a massive campaign against him

“Spitting and humiliation are daily. People are afraid to walk in Jerusalem with Christian symbols.”

Rabbi Michael Henkin, one of the leaders of “the religious left,” whose members are in contact with Christian clergy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, says that a new ethos has developed in Israeli society, according to which anything perceived as different is a threat. Hence, while street signs say “Armenian Patriarchate Street,” some call it “Spitting Street.”

How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World

This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.