Pro-Israel: Here and There

The Sunday Times had an interesting opinion piece on the differences in being "Pro-Israel" here in the United States and in Israel itself. As Josh Marshall introduced it at TPM:

The premise will be a familiar one to anyone who's thought seriously and sanely about Israel's future and America's relationship with Israel. The breadth of acceptable opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is vastly greater in Israel than it is in the United States. Indeed, as Goldberg suggests, if Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Barak were running for president in the US, they might not be deemed sufficiently pro-Israel to be acceptable in the American mainstream.

It is worth a read, especially for Joe Lieberman.

20 May 2008