Michael Koplow is the chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum. He writes the weekly Koplow Column and co-authored Starting from the Ground Up: U.S. Policy Options for Post-Hamas Gaza. A version of this column originally appeared on X.
Michael Koplow
By Michael Koplow
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Opinion Democrats Are Turning From Israel – Because It’s Tainted By Trump
The latest Pew Research Center survey examining the partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes for unsurprising but discomfiting reading. The decades-old truism about Israel being a bipartisan issue is on life support, with a 52% gap between Republicans and Democrats on sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians. It’s the biggest…
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President Trump this week has a number of big decisions to make that will impact the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. What he does will affect not only his soon-to-be unveiled peace initiative, but also the trajectory of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, more widely. Trump’s moves this week should be judged based on whether he…
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