Richard Haass: Israel Actually Makes It Almost Impossible To Have a Serious Conversation

EXCERPT:

HAASS: "Yeah, this whole phrase, 'pro-Israel,' actually makes it almost impossible to have a serious conversation. The idea that if you’re critical of Israeli government policy, the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, the government, as you said, that for years green-lighted support to Hamas simply to divide and conquer the Palestinian political movement, the government that was asleep at the switch on October 7th, if somehow you criticize them, then that makes you anti-Israel, and what, if you give them blanket support, that makes you pro-Israel, even though, as you say, a lot of what they’re doing is harmful to the relationship between Israel and its most important backer, the United States? So certain terms, like 'pro-Israel' and the rest, let’s put those to the side. I think the real test now going forward, Joe, after the focal is, what do the Israelis take from this?”