America’s Last Gasp in the Middle East

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by James A. Russell
The annual spring ritual of America’s would-be presidents and politicians parading before the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) declaring their undying fealty to the Jewish state evokes an odd nostalgia in 2016.
All these current and prospective officials parrot the shopworn lines of yesteryear when America’s relations with Israel and its attempts to referee the Arab-Israeli dispute formed a centerpiece of US strategy and foreign policy. Try as they might to pretend otherwise, America’s future presidents will face a very different reality.
Both the Israelis and their American patrons have