Liberal Jews Put Distance Between Themselves & Israel...............by Dan Friedman

Irony. Just as the door slammed shut on the liberal takeover of American Jewish organizations, along came the Arab spring to render their putsch irrelevant. Upheaval in the Middle East has caused an upheaval in Israelis’ thinking. They’re now in the process of re-evaluating their most precious shibboleths while the empty suits in New York are still stuck on stupid promoting damaged goods, Obama and “land for peace.” The upshot? Left-liberal American Jews – big stakeholders in Israel’s Left – are lagging behind the dynamic changes evolving in Israel’s ideology and becoming disconnected from the future of Israel’s politics. Before you know it they’ll be playing catch-up, but by then Jewish history will have passed them by.

Evelyn Gordon writing in Commentary yesterday:

The End of Land for Peace?

Dan Friedman
NYC