The long knives for Israeli may have been sharpened during the 1967 and 1973 wars, but in the U.S. they didn’t come out until 1977, when Menachem Begin and Likud won election over Labor for the first time in the nation’s history. Labor may have fought the Soviets’ client states, but their social policies were in tune with what liberal Democrats in the U.S. supported. Once Likud with its more free-market policies got into power, the left saw no reason to show any lingering support for Israel.