Israeli Think Tank: Don’t Make Israel a Partisan Wedge Issue

David Streeter — June 21, 2011 – 2:43 pm | Foreign Policy | Israel Comments (0) Add a comment

The Jewish People Policy Institute, a prominent Jerusalem-based think tank, released a report that warned against the use of Israel as a partisan wedge issue in the United States. According to JTA:

The Jewish People Policy Institute recommended that the Israeli government make ‘every possible effort to prevent the Middle East conflict from becoming a point of contention between the Republican and Democratic parties,’ according to a press release announcing a new report from the institute. The press release stated that the institute ‘discourages turning the political debate on U.S. policy toward Israel into a partisan wedge issue.’

It should be noted that Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has been expressing concern over this trend for quite some time. In October Haaretz reported:

Israel is not too happy about this tendency. ‘Israel has become a partisan issue in the U.S., and this political ping-pong is bad for us,’ Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said to Haaretz.

 

 

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