Netanyahu, American Jews and Israel

The Time's of Israel tells us about left leaning American Jews and their hostility to Netanyahu:

There’s been a widening gulf between Israel and the American Diaspora for years now, but with voters heading to the polls on Tuesday, left-leaning US Jewish leaders want to impart a message: The damage Netanyahu is inflicting on Israel’s relationship with US Jews will have lasting consequences on Israel’s security.

This has it exactly backwards. Netanyahu didn't inflict damage on the relationship between Israel and America (and American Jews), Barrack Hussein Obama did.

For liberal American Jews (about 80% of us judging by the 2016 exit polls) this is about loyalty to the Democrat Party in America and the Labour Party in Israel.

Jews were a huge part of FDR's New Deal Coalition and Labour was the Israeli's rough equivalent of the Democrats. Labour was certainly the party of urban, upscale American Jews. Most importantly, Labour bet everything on the Oslo Process and lost badly. It's been 19 years since Labour's last PM, Ehud Barrack. Israel's once de-facto ruling party is a husk looking at 10 seats in the next Knesset.

To be  blunt, a lot of American Jews are Democrats first. These are a secular lot. We suggest watching this Ezra Levant video for an explanation. And if the Oslo Process was a failure of the Labour Party, it was also a failure of the Clintons and the Democrat Party. Clinton had Yasir Arafat to the White House more than any other leader in an effort to broker a deal. The Democrat/Labour failure led to the Second Intifada, hundreds of dead Israelis and war. Again and again in the aftermath of a Palestinian terror attack the Clinton Administration urged Israel to 'exercise restraint', by which they meant shut up and take it.

Which Israel doesn't do anymore. The IDF says 'quiet will be met with quiet', but force is met with dispraportionate force. Israel is no longer a left-secular state but a ethno-nationalist state of right-leaning and religious Jews where everyone serves in the military and has lots of kids. Even in secular Tel Aviv the brithrate approaches 3.0. The government throw out illegal immigrants without question of hesitation. 

It's downright embarrasing for the Liberal American Jew.