Does your hubby still want to wear something with pigs?

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MUL, I’m relieved to hear that we can count on Biden to overrule Zbig, Tony Lake and the rest of the moral equivalencers/realpolitikers when it comes to Israel.

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A good friend is not an uncritical friend. American presidents have pandered so much as to make that distinction invisible, but it exists. If Biden were to be placed somewhere into the Israeli political spectrum, he would probably fit comfortably within the center to moderate left parties, but his sense of Zionism is too sincere to place him anywhere near even the fringe left parties, let alone within a political persuasion that is antagonistic or even equivocal to Israel’s existence.

Too many people have for so long clung to this “with-us or against-us” fantasy (similar to the one that the Bush administration obsessed itself with) to even understand how to get out of that framework, accept others’ acceptance of Israel, build on that and get on with the business of making it safer and strengthening it rather than feeding reductionist fantasies of existential paranoia. There’s a place for that. There’s also a place for getting beyond that and growing forward, though.