The Jerusalem Post‘s Hillary Krieger reports:
Krieger is a left-wing partisan whose reporting should be taken with a grain of salt, but she isn’t making up quotes — and there should be no doubt that this quote reflects the general view of the Israeli election on the American left. Likewise, Joe Klein has a column today asserting that American support for Israel will not withstand a coalition of Netanyahu and Lieberman, though Klein also stipulates that a national unity government, led by Netanyahu and including Labor and Kadima, would be an acceptable alternative. Never mind that that this is an extremely unlikely outcome, more important it is a good enough pretext to force a chance in policy — a shift to a more “even-handed” policy — that the left has long sought. Still, the left’s deep antipathy toward Israel has been further exposed by Tuesday’s elections. Congress, so beholden to the “Israel Lobby,” seems unlikely to insert itself into American policy towards Israel without Obama leading the way. But if Obama does cave to the left-wing of his own party and reduce American support for Israel on the basis of this election, maybe we finally see larger numbers of Jews shifting away from the Democratic party.
