173 Charles

The point of view I presented regarding the Holy Land is much milder than what you will hear in faculty lounge in Americas 1st tier, 2nd tier, 3rd tier colleges across the US.
The views of students are even more strident.
These are our future leaders
Go to Europe and the views are much, much more strident across the population
Go to the UN countries and increase that stridency by 1000%.
Among my business executives colleagues in the US there is little or no support for the current regime in Israel–main reason– Lieberman is seen as a Russian Mafia thug, he is a convicted child abuser, under indictment for corruption, an ex member of Kach-Kahane–he probably is not even Jewish like 50% of the 1 million Russian immigrants to Israel– he is the only foreign minister in the World who does not live in his country– he lives in the West Bank–
executives do not want to meet with him– diplomats do not want to meet with him–
why would any civilized country hire a thug like that as Foreign Minister?

The Israeli hasbara has been a disaster–Mossad operations in Dubai was a key stone cops operation and alienated Australia, New Zealand,Canada,Ireland, Germany and Poland by stealing passports and the US by currency manipulation.
The murder of 8 Turks and an American citizen on a “peace flotilla” just piled it on.

When you have dug yourself into a hole — stop digging.
American business and diplomacy has a brand and our support of the current regime in Israel harms that brand–
Petraeus said the same thing re our troops.
There are some very intelligent, rational people in Israel– but they are not in the current regime– ultimately people there will vote with their feet.
Meanwhile— time moves on and we have to pursue US best interest for our US citizens.