The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the US-Israel relationship

Even Trump seems to recognize that the relationship has become a political liability, and may never be the same On the eve of a midterm election that ended in an unequivocal rejection of his brand of politics, even Donald Trump seemed to recognize that the US-Israel relationship had become a political liability. Trump’s 11th-hour suggestion, on election morning, that he would cut military aid to Israel at the end of the year because, as he put it, “they don’t need it”, was condemned across the board – with pro-Palestinian advocates dismissing it as “desperate” and pro-Israel ones as “unserious”. Continue reading...

美國中期選舉中，多名公開支持巴勒斯坦的候選人獲勝，顯示親以色列立場正成為政治負擔。作者認為，兩黨在以色列問題上的舊共識已經瓦解，民主黨面臨是否轉向反戰立場的選擇。