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"Republican politicians have growing political incentives to attack Democrats as insufficiently supportive of Israel. It'll play well to both their base & the median voter. That threatens to code support for Israel, once a bipartisan issue, as a Republican one....This, of course, is exactly what we saw when Republicans invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak to Congress about Iran in March, in a clear attempt to embarrass the president & torpedo Iran negotiations. [Note Netanyahu played along]