Climate Change Denial, Vaccine Scares, and Support of Israel

By |2015-02-04T16:45:35-08:00February 4, 2015|Politics|

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to make the support of Israel (really the policies of his current government of Israel) a partisan issue in the US is beyond unwise. By accepting Speaker John Boehner's invitation to address Congress without even notifying the President of the United States, Netanyahu has ended decades of bipartisan support for Israel. It's a terrible decision for Israel. His appearance violates diplomatic protocol, if you care about those things (I do).  But, even if you're a scorched-earth, no-manners political Luddite, accepting an invitation that slaps that face of the President, of the Democratic party, and of Americans [...]