The Israeli government that was sworn in on Thursday brings with it new challenges for those who care about the Jewish state. And most American Jews are not happy about it.
Can enough of them can swallow their abhorrence for Netanyahu or his coalition partners to avoid the kind of open break between the two communities that would do real, perhaps permanent, damage to the U.S.-Israel alliance.
The answer is that they should, for a number of reasons—not the least of which is that a palpable breach in the relationship will be exploited by the intersectional left wing of the Democratic Party and others who are either anti-Zionist or indifferent to Israel’s fate.
It’s far from clear, however, that mainstream liberal Jewish groups are capable of transcending their ideological differences with the new constellation in Jerusalem.
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