Republicans' Israel Problem
Jacob Heilbrunn - The National Interest
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/republicans-israel-problem-12482Former Secretary of State James Baker is discovering who really controls the Republican Party. Baker, who has never had much patience with Israel's settlement policy, appeared on Monday evening before the Washington lobbying organization J Street - which was founded to counter the American Israel Public Affairs Committee -to chide Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for opposing Iran talks and disdaining a two-state solution with the Palestinians ... What this kerfuffle really signals is that the GOP is moving toward a position where even the slightest criticism of Israel is taboo ... [Jeb] Bush's distancing of himself from Baker is a telling sign of the way that the neocons have successfully ensured that their vision is synonymous with the GOP's.
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