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About a month ago, something unusual happened. A federal elected official published an op-ed in The New York Times that didn’t induce immediate narcolepsy. Instead, it stuck with me for weeks. Titled The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face, the piece argued that Donald Trump’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had plainly failed, but it also conceded that the Democrats’ strategy had been equally ineffective—and possibly more insidious. For years, the author wrote, Democrats had “provided reflexive and unconditional support to Israeli governments, even as their actions have increasingly undermined American interests and values.”
