He really did care, I told myself. Clinton loved Israel in the way, perhaps, that Thomas Jefferson loved France. He would not put the Jewish state in danger. Yes, he felt our pain. But that was precisely what was so insulting.
Real attachments require distinctions.
Clinton did feel Zion's pain at Rabin's interment. Bill Clinton, it turned out, loved an Israel of his imagining, an Israel whose peacemaking would aggrandize him. For Clinton this is an incomprehensible thought. But they do not deserve to govern territories that will make the defense of Israel impossible and the lives of Israelis a nightmare. And that is precisely what our president now proposes.