re: #678 garhighway

My point exactly: if a Democrat so much as looks sideways at Netanyahu, we end up with nonsense like “10 examples of why Obama hates Israel”.

I have no idea what the right thing to do is in the Middle East. I have no idea whether Netanyahu is a good guy or a bad guy. All I know is that the willingness to give him a blank check in American blood and gold has become some sort of litmus test on whether any politician, especially any Democratic politician “supports Israel”, which I find weird and dysfunctional.

There’s been a concerted effort to portray Obama and his administration as anti-Israel. I don’t love everything he’s done, but the stupidity of this effort pisses me off.

I wouldn’t say that Israel has ever gotten a ‘blank check in American blood and gold”, blood especially. We give them aid. We also give a lot of other places aid.