(Tablet) James Kirchick - Condemning the U.S.-Israel alliance is a means to express antipathy toward American exceptionalism. America and Israel are exceptional nations, the only two founded upon an idea. They are linked by shared values and, yes, religious affinity. When Americans look at the Middle East, they naturally see Israel as the polity with which they have the most in common. American support for Israel, then, is not explained by "Benjamins," as Ilhan Omar conspiratorially tweets, but by a deep and widely held conviction that the two nations share a providential fate.
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