Influence of Israel lobby declining in US, opening new possibilities

Influence of Israel lobby declining in US, opening new possibilities

Global Times | 2013-12-3 | http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/829575.shtml By Norman Birnbaum

Despite insistent protests by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, supported by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, US President Barack Obama and his government are persisting in negotiations with Iran. Obama has the backing of a US majority unwilling to start another war in the Near East - and has at least half the American Jewish public behind him.
That is a severe blow to the claims of the leaders of most American Jewish organizations that they represent a community united in unequivocal solidarity with Israel. It is also a rebuke to those in Israel who define Jewishness as requiring that solidarity.