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Why Trump’s embrace of Israel endangers it

Three "American" chores await Israel’s next prime minister: explaining to President Donald Trump the importance of the two-state solution, regaining the trust of the Democrats and repairing ties with US Jewry.
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I had not expected that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would comment to US President Donald Trump on his inserting Israel’s name into his tweets, this time, to disparage Democratic congresswomen whom he accused July 14 of attacking Israel. Netanyahu has tied his political fortune to Trump. As he did not criticize Trump for his statement on protesters in Charlottesville two years ago — “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides” — Netanyahu would not consider, after all the gestures Trump granted him, demanding that Trump not include Israel’s name in the political fray between Republicans and Democrats in America.

American Jewish organizations, foremost among them the Anti-Defamation League, did well in roundly condemning the president’s tweets and made sure to note that the president incorrectly ascribed hatred of Israel to all of the four congresswomen he tweeted about: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Presley.

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