Two recent biographies of ‘Bibi’ pose fascinating questions regarding attitudes to Israel among American Jews
Like abortion and taxes, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel is one more flashpoint in America under Donald Trump. As millennials, minorities, women and liberals don’t readily cotton to the 45th president, their support for the Jewish state cannot be assumed. In the words of a recent Economist/YouGov poll: “When it comes to Israel, American views are partisan.”
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Netanyahu is an unabashed Jewish nationalist whose alignment with the Republican party is an expression of his DNA
Like Trump, who clings to white evangelicals for dear life, Netanyahu has wedded himself to the religiously observant
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