Republicans Want to Give Netanyahu a Blank Check

During the 2012 presidential contest, one of Mitt Romney’s signature messages was that Barack Obama had allowed “daylight” to appear between the U.S. and Israel. Then as now, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was doing everything possible to undermine a two-state solution and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. It was a pretty remarkable position for the leader of the allegedly superpatriotic party of “American exceptionalism,”...