Choosing the ideal U.S. president for Israel

For us Israelis, and for many Jews around the world, the identity of the president of the United States is understood as an issue of existential significance. We have few friends in the world and our most significant and strategic ally is – and we hope will continue to be – the United States. Without the U.S., our world will be both more dangerous and profoundly lonely.

If we insist that all of our friends adopt but one position, we are creating a standard of loyalty for friends much narrower than the standard we are applying for ourselves. Such a standard will leave us in the near future with no friends and deeply alone.