5. USA has traditionally given Israel wide sway on the Palestinian issue but not on wider Middle East (i.e Reagan selling arms to Saudis)
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6. Israel has traditionally depended upon a bi-partisan consensus in USA, which Netanyahu's actions are fraying.
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7. Moreover, by trying to humiliate this president, Netanyahu is alienating a major voting block in Democratic party, African-Americans.
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8. So what's behind Netanyahu's folly? I think makes sense if you realize his close ties with American neo-conservatives like Bill Kristol
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9. The strategy of using Congress to overthrow Presidential negotiations one doesn't like has deep roots in neo-con history: Scoop Jackson
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10. Worth remembering that neo-conservatism as foreign policy formation began in Congress as attempt to derail Nixon/Ford/Carter detente.
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11. Beyond strategy of using Congress, neo-cons like Kristol have longstanding desire to polorize USA politics on Israel.
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12. Thinking behind Kristol's advocacy seems to be that if Jewish electorate in USA sees GOP as more pro-Israel, they will move to the right
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13. Like Godot or the Messiah himself, the much-anticipated Jewish move to the right is something always arriving but never shows up.
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14. Typically in presidential elections, about 70% of American Jews for Dem candidate. That doesn't seem about to change soon.
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15. But as unrealistic as Kristol's hopes are, they seem to have an outsized role in shaping Netanyahu's American strategy.
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16. One factor behind all this is the increasing institutional links between Israel right & USA right: driven by think tanks and media.
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17. Tangentially: the Americanization of Israel, and particularly the Israeli right, is an under-explored topic. Worth future exploration.
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