Thomas L Friedman poses himself as Israel's friend and defender against bad Trump who wants only Republicans to support him, and by implication, to support Israel, as against Democrats who Trump says, Friedman says, should not support Israel.
So, Friedman accuses Trump of being the first American President to play the Israel card, making support for Israel a wedge issue in American politics, something Friedman says never ever happened before.
Let's just take a short walk off a short dock down memory lane...
As even so even handed a historian as David Kaiser has generously pointed out on his blog, the modern neocon movement itself first arose out of conservative orthodox Jewish (not right wing American, not Christian, not libertarian, not econo Reaganite) disappointment at the lack of enough support for the state of Israel as a strong religious state among American Democrats.
They have never, ever, had, and never will have, enough support from Americans, baby!
As TLF quite accurately puts it: America is Israel's vital political, military, and economic backer (you might say its only backer, of that kind) in the world.
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