{"id":869215,"date":"2026-10-03T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:12:13","slug":"americas-new-relationship-with-israelits-complicated-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869215\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s New Relationship With Israel\u2026It\u2019s Complicated \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261003_Israel-Breakup_2000px.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"A close-up of a man, seen from nose down to mid-chest, wearing a suit and blue tie. He wears a lapel pin with the American and Israeli flags. His left hand is caught mid-gesticulation, as though he\u2019s just made a point.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many US elected officials from both parties have broadly supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s prosecution of the war in Gaza. Voters are beginning to view it as a needless foreign entanglement, if not a livestreamed, US-sanctioned genocide.Pete Kiehart for the Washington Post \/Getty<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations last month, diplomats streamed for the exits. Three years after October 7, when much of the Western world rallied behind Israel in the wake of Hamas\u2019 attack, the political ground has shifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the biggest changes are happening here in the US. Two years ago, Abbas Alawieh helped lead the Uncommitted movement, pressuring Democrats over Gaza. Now he\u2019s running for Michigan state Senate, and Kamala Harris is calling him. Elsewhere in Michigan, AIPAC and its allies spent close to $30 million backing Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s opponent in the Democratic Senate primary. El-Sayed won anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some voters, the prominence of Israel itself is striking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why Israel has become the pivotal point,\u201d said Mimi Price-Miletic, a\u00a0 Democratic voter in Michigan. \u201cThere are so many issues in this country that we should be dealing with, and you\u2019re worried about what\u2019s happening, like, millions of miles away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the divide crosses party lines. Younger Republicans are questioning US support for Israel, even as party leaders advance deeper defense cooperation. Meanwhile, AIPAC faces new challenges to its influence, as younger Jewish political groups, like J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace, offer sharply different visions for what should come next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week on Reveal, reporter Najib Aminy follows the new fault lines forming around the US\u2013Israel relationship and asks: As the old political consensus is tested, who gets to shape what replaces it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many US elected officials from both parties have broadly supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s prosecution of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-869215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}