Clinton has promised these billions and Ehud Barak has yet to understand that only Congress can vote the money. Clearly, Congress does not wish to give billions to Israel, particularly in an election year where there is a call for funding American domestic programs. These surrenders and withdrawals are pushing Israel from being the admired, strong, democratic ally in the Mid East to a vulnerable, costly, liability whose weakness was self-induced. Further, Congress sees that the agreements with the Palestinians have failed and have led into even greater demands by the Arabs. Congress is beginning to draw away from receiving advice from the Jewish leadership although, for political reasons, still greets them cordially.
Somebody needs to be the fall guy.
Fund raising, both for the Jewish organizations themselves and for political contributions will see great difficulties. Congress will feel the heat and blame the Jewish leadership for misleading them. They will be correct since the so-called Jewish leadership allowed itself to be duped by assurances from an Israeli government who had a vested interest in a 'peace process' that has gone bad. Jewish Americans will, indeed, single out and blame their Jewish leaders should Israel come under attack by her supposed 'peace' partners as each withdrawal further weakens her. As most of the Jewish leaders failed to mount a campaign during WWII to rescue Jews from Nazi Europe in defiance of Government policy, so too, they have once again ignored the risk to the very survival of the Jews in Israel.