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As tensions escalate between the administration and
Israel, there seems to be growing concern that the American people at
large are getting wise to their own interests; an anxiousness
over whether we will start looking more closely at whether Israel’s
national security interests are in fact, American national security
interests. Mostly because the protracted conflict could be putting our
troops overseas risk. As John Mearscheimer wrote this week, “if that message begins to
resonate with the American public, unconditional support for the Jewish
state is likely to evaporate.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s treatment of visiting VP Biden in
announcing new settlements crossed a line, critics have pointed out across the board. Neoconservative hawks here in the
U.S are playing those implications down, of course, seeming very
sensitive right now to the suggestion that American-Israeli interests in
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