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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As others have noted and predicted, US public support for Israel is on the decline.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/07/22/what-russia-and-israel-have-in-common/?hpid=z2

I have no doubt that AIPAC and similar pro-Israel groups can keep buying American politicians, but at some point younger, more politically active and astute voters will demand accountability.  We have many needs in this country, so the last thing we need to be doing is writing blank checks to Israel it can cash in to kill Palestinians.[/quote]

You make an interesting point about a generational divide on this issue. One of my former neighbors, a WWII vet, Jewish and a liberal is sheepish and conflicted about his contributions to AIPAC saying he feels an obligation as a Jew to support Israel because that's what he says he's supposed to do, but is uneasy about Israeli policy/treatment of the Palestinians. I do think millennials of all religions (if they have one) have a very different take. [/quote]

There is a lot of guilt because American Jews have a good life here while someone else takes on the job of building Israel. [/quote]

I wouldn't say it's guilt, so much as shame on the part of many younger and middle-aged Jews that a country that they were brought up to support have behaved so horribly.

These aren't people who are anti-Zionist as a matter of principle on either religious or political grounds.  They are people who believed in the concept of a Jewish state that would find a way to live with its neighbors, not build massive security barriers, promote illegal settlements, and respond when provoked by killing hundreds of innocent civilians.  They are now profoundly disillusioned.  It is not guilt that Jews back in Israel are doing their work for them, but horror at what it is being done, at times in their name.  [/quote]

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