The New York Times has the opinion piece Israel’s Fading Democracy by Avraham Burg.

The emotional extortion compels Jews to pressure the Obama administration, a government with which they actually share values and worldviews, when those who love Israel should be doing the opposite: helping the American government to intervene and save Israel from itself.

As a Jewish child you either learn to resist emotional extortion, or …

I guess I don’t know what the … is, because I did eventually learn the lesson.  I hope there are enough Jewish people in this country who were also able to learn the lesson and still want to save Israel from itself.  Of course we might want to save the United States from itself first.