Yet no aspiring politician is going to say so in public, or even raise the possibility.
The real reason why American politicians are so deferential is the political power of the Israel lobby.
Oh, christ, let's play "Anti-semite Bingo"! It's going to take 15 nanoseconds on tomorrows blogs before someone shouts "BINGO!!" It goes on to spell it out for you slowwitted repuglicant types.
The trouble, of course, is that the Israel lobby has become a monster with too much power, too much cash and too little perspective. The NYT piece describes it as wanting "U.S. leaders to treat Israel as if it were the fifty-first state", free from the criticism other nations receive, even allied ones, and that "any politician who challenges its policies stands little chance of becoming president."
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